Category: Food

  • Ooni Koda 12, two years after (pizza oven review)

    Ooni Koda 12, two years after (pizza oven review)

    AFTER TWO YEARS, my Ooni Koda 12 pizza oven is looking good and performing really well, just as a new one. It is worth the investment!

  • Baguettes

    Baguettes

    My first ever (also sourdough). They look like batards though. Shaping and scoring need work. Although I was careful not to use lot of flour for dusting the dough still didn’t roll nicely – it was sliding at the ends so I could not apply little taper. Maybe will try increasing hydration just a little…

  • Kitchen machine, #1

    I also own a kitchen machine from December 2021. I bought it mainly because of bread/pizza making but I also used it for making pastry dough. First lesson learned when kneading bread dough – if the dough does not cling to the dough hook after running for few minutes then check the dough quantity and…

  • Ooni Koda pizza oven

    A year ago I purchased an Ooni Koda pizza gas oven. Since then I have been baking pizzas with it almost on a weekly basis. I am really happy with it because it takes baked (Neapolitan-style) pizzas on a completely new level compared to a traditional home ovens, with or without baking stone. In this…

  • Lodge combo cooker cast iron

    Lodge combo cooker cast iron

    For the past six months I have been using Lodge combo cooker cast iron for baking my usual loaf of sourdough bread and I am loving it! Compared to my previous favourite way of baking bread using pizza steel, it makes baking routine simpler because in the first half of the bake I do not…