Which Wood is Right For My Pizza Oven?
Cooking in a pizza oven is an experience like no other. Building your fire to hit 500ºc, watching that cheese bubble, hearing the unique sizzling sound and smelling an incredible, freshly cooked pizza as it comes out of the oven.
But your wood-fired oven is only as good as the wood you put in it, so make sure you have the right fuel for your appliance!
The Love Logs team are proud owners of twelve different pizza ovens, so we know what we're talking about when it comes to the best wood to use in your pizza oven.
Which type of wood is best for pizza ovens?
You should only ever use hardwood in your pizza oven. Softwood will burn through too quickly with a lot of smoke, and leave your oven covered in ash.
What species of wood should I use in my pizza oven?
We've tested most species of hardwood and found that for bigger pizza ovens which take larger logs, ash and beech are best as they light easily, burn red hot and leave a great bed of embers.
When you're using smaller logs or hardwood kindling, the species doesn't make much difference as long as it's hardwood! Oak, ash, beech and birch all work brilliantly as long as they're dry enough.
If the wood is dried to less than 20% moisture content and cut to the right size and thickness for your oven, you can easily start a fire that gets your oven hot enough to cook pizzas!
What size wood do I need for my pizza oven?
With so many different models out there, it can be hard to know which wood you need to buy for your pizza oven. The first question to answer is whether your pizza oven need pizza logs, thicker logs, kindling, pellets or even a mix of two or three?
We've done the hard work and created fuel kits for every type of wood-fired pizza oven. Find your brand and model in the table below and we'll tell you which wood is right for your pizza oven.
Pizza Oven |
Type of Wood |
Love Logs Product |
| Ooni 3 or Ooni Fyra | Wood Pellets | Pizza Oven Wood Pellets |
| Ooni Karu 12 | Hardwood Kindling | Pizza Oven Hardwood Kindling |
| Ooni Pro | Pizza Oven Splits | Ooni Pro Logs |
| Gozney Dome | Gozney Dome Shorties | Gozney Dome Fuel Kit |
| Burnhard Nero | Wood Pellets | Pizza Oven Wood Pellets |
| Clementi (all models) | Pizza Oven Splits and Pizza Logs | Steel Pizza Oven Fuel Kit |
| Delivita | Pizza Oven Splits and Hardwood Kindling | Delivita Pizza Oven Fuel Kit |
| Fresh Grills | Hardwood Kindling and/or Wood Pellets | Pizza Oven Wood Pellets |
| Gozney Core | Pizza Oven Logs | Brick/Clay Wood Fired Oven Fuel Kit |
| Igneus Classico | Hardwood Kindling and Logs | Steel Pizza Oven Fuel Kit |
| Skillcraft Inferno | Hardwood Kindling and Logs | Steel Pizza Oven Fuel Kit |
| Skillcraft Myti | Hardwood Kindling | Pizza Oven Hardwood Kindling |
| Self-Built Pizza Oven | Pizza Oven Logs | Brick/Clay Wood Fired Oven Fuel Kit |
Can't find yours in the list? Drop us an email info@love-logs.com and we'll help you find the right product!
All of our pizza oven logs and kindling are guaranteed to contain less than 20% moisture content and our pizza oven wood pellets are less than 10% moisture content.
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