Category Archives: Equipment & Gear

Use your sourdough starter to make incredible pizza dough. This slow-fermented recipe delivers complex flavor, better texture, and easier digestion than same-day dough.

Pizza stone or pizza steel? We compare heat retention, preheat time, durability, and results to help you choose the right baking surface for your home oven.

The Ooni Koda 12 and Koda 16 are the two most popular gas-fired pizza ovens. Here is exactly how they differ and which one is right for you.

The best pizza making kits for beginners include everything you need to start making great homemade pizza. Here are the top picks for 2026.

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. You do not need to spend $500 on an outdoor pizza oven to make great pies at home. A handful of solid options under $200 can hit 700-800F and produce genuinely impressive results — they just require aContinue reading “Best Budget Pizza Ovens Under $200 in 2026 (Tested and Ranked)”

Disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. We may earn a commission at no extra cost to you. Two brands dominate the outdoor pizza oven market in 2026: Ooni and Gozney. Both make exceptional ovens. Both have passionate fans. And both will cost you a few hundred dollars. So which one should you actually buy? WeContinue reading “Ooni vs Gozney: Which Outdoor Pizza Oven Is Worth Your Money in 2026?”

A pizza peel is the tool that launches your pizza into a hot oven — and retrieves it when it’s done. The wrong peel makes every pizza session harder than it needs to be. The right one becomes invisible: you stop thinking about the tool and start thinking about the pizza. I’ve tested wood peels,Continue reading “Best Pizza Peels for Home Use (2026)”

By Julius | InsiderPizza.com Affiliate disclosure: This post contains affiliate links. As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases at no extra cost to you. I only recommend tools I use myself. Recommended equipment: Pizza stone | Baking steel Before I owned a pizza stone, I baked pizza on a regular sheet pan. TheContinue reading “How to Use a Pizza Stone (and Why It Makes a Difference)”

If you’ve spent any time researching outdoor pizza ovens, you’ve seen the Ooni Karu 16 come up again and again. At $799, it’s one of the most expensive ovens Ooni makes — and it promises to earn every dollar by running on wood, charcoal, or gas (with an optional burner attachment). I spent three monthsContinue reading “Ooni Karu 16 Review: The Best Multi-Fuel Pizza Oven?”

Affiliate Disclosure: Insider Pizza earns a commission from qualifying purchases made through Amazon Associates links on this page, at no extra cost to you. All reviews are based on real-world testing and independent research — we only recommend ovens we’d fire up in our own backyards. Best Home Pizza Ovens (2026): Tested Picks for EveryContinue reading “Best Home Pizza Ovens (2026): Tested Picks for Every Budget”