20 Best Wood Pellets For Ooni Pizza Oven (2023 Updated)

Delivery was later than suggested upon order. Only once the order was placed did it become clear delivery would take 3 days. I offered to pay for expedited delivery, was told this wasn’t possible. I was then told it had dispatched, waited in, nothing arrived.

It then didn’t arrive and when speaking with the courier, it hadn’t actually dispatched till the following day. The longer paddle ordered is too small to be of use, is extremely flimsy, arrived bent and in no way justifies the cost charged.

An alternative paddle ordered to replace, is far superior, for a 3rd of the cost. This made all the difference to being able to use the oven successfully and turned a very frustrating experience into an enjoyable one.

I have asked Ooni to take back their paddle of lies – no response. The oven itself is very cool, it arrived covered in a film of oil, this is understandable from the metal work etc, but it wasn’t warned anywhere.

I made the mistake of unboxing indoors, so got this oil on some up upholstery which is now marked. I may have been foolish for unboxing an outdoor appliance, indoors, but a little warning on the box or the bags the metal parts are in, would have been helpful.

The first time you use it you have to burn off this oil, which didn’t take long but was noticeable. The product output, after a few trial and error goes (in my case!), is great. You do need to give the oven the chance to come back up to temperature before you make the next pizza.

So if you have a few friends over; you may need two on the go at once. This is exactly what I did with some friends, with three setup, we had a make your own pizza buffet and everyone loved it. There’s a lot of fun to be had with people spending ages selecting their ingredients, laying it all on, only to become distracted whilst it’s in the oven and produce an incinerated black disk.

We should never waste food, but it is inevitable – and does add to the shared experience – who can make the best one etc. The only improvement I could think of; aside from the paddle of consumer betrayal, is a temperature gauge.

Yes you can buy a superior model with a digital temp gauge. But given the low cost of flu gauges, remote thermometers etc – wherever it is the temperature should be recorded, it would be good to have the option of requesting this as an ‘add on’ As it is, it’s easily bodged with a remote thermometer or meat thermometer, just check it has the range.

Does it heat up to the promised temperatures? Sort of, like mpg in a car, it can do, but won’t in normal use. It’s clean and simple to operate. Buy the ooni pellets, they just work. Stay away from the long paddle of disappointment.

Have had lots of issues stemming from one area of my Ooni. Have had the product for a couple weeks and even though it has been alot of fun prepping for pizza the actual cooking has been Meh. My issue stems from the lack of oxygen needed for combustion and continue flame within my Fyra oven.

I have to let the fire start with the pellet grate 30-40% open and the front open to let in enough oxygen in. This presents other issues as pellet grate can easily fall and hurt someone as well as low heat to start due to flame.

Once the flame gets going I will push the whole grate back in to start heating the stone. As previously mentioned the lack of oxygen gives off a small flame and takes a bit longer to heat the stone to adequate temperature.

I continually have to take out the grate for the flame to reignite all while white smoke blows through the Fyra unit and causes a bad smoke taste in the pizza. Once the flame has burned through a substantial amount of the pellets and new pellets are introduced through the not so automatic pellet hopper the flame is extinguished.

Again, this is caused due to no oxygen to continue the flame. At the end I am left with a top burnt pizza due to the constant high temp flame and low stone temp that taste horribly like smoke caused by the ever extinguished flame All in all this has been a negative experience I loved the idea of making pizzas with a wood fired flame but.

We are very pleased with the Ooni Fyra. It has been a learning curve for sure, but we are up to the challenge! We didn’t have any experience making our own pizza, but my husband loves to grill and loves to make flat bread pizza creations, so this was a the perfect gift for him! We started with whatever flour we had around the house, but finally got the 00 flour and it made a huge difference.

We started with just a metal peel (highly recommended Ooni brand as it had both grooves and holes) and later got a wooden peel which loads the pizza much easier. (Mix flour and cornmeal & sprinkle on the peel to help slide off also) Also a hi-temp infrared thermometer is great so you can check internal temps safely and easily.

Make sure you watch YouTube videos for the technique. We are very proud of our pizzas even though they are probably still amateur level to some. Before buying, price the accessories such as pizza peel, pellets (depending on which model), thermometer etc as these things can add up to the total cost.

We have been pleased with the quality of Ooni accessories but it’s not mandatory to use them. Finally, Ooni customer service was top notch. I submitted an email question and a real person got back with me promptly! PS Another thing we have learned is not to pile on too many toppings; better to keep it simple.

This is the second time I have purchased these pellets from Lowe’s and am very disapointed. They are not storing the pellets properly. I have had a Traeger grill for years and have never had this issue with pellets except with Lowe’s.

They made it so difficult for me to get a refund (which I never received!!) the first time that I eventually gave up because my time trying to get my $22 plus dollars back wasn’t worth it. I emailed all the info that was requested of me and I would get an email back saying that someone from the store would contact me.

This NEVER happened. I went through this process multiple times and just kept going around in circles. Because of the COVID-19 I again (foolishly but thought what are the chances this would happen again) ordered these pellets again.

Guess what same problem! The pellets have absorbed moisture and have dried and literally gone to dust, no longer in pellet form. Don’t get me wrong, there is nothing wrong with Lowe’s as a company, I will continue to shop here but now realize that they have thier strengths and weaknesses.

Traeger pellets are great! And I do recommend the product but would only buy in store so I can see the condition of the pellets.

I smoked a 10# bone-in Prime Rib Roast on my pellet grill. Decided to try the Charwood Charcoal Cherry Blend pellets from Camp Chef. Simply the best thing I have ever tasted! As an added bonus – It only took about half the pellets than expected.

I had smoked a spatchcock turkey the week before with a different brand of pellets and it about emptied the hopper. Thanks guys – Keep it up!.

I just started using the bag I got, they heat evenly and create a nice smokey flavor. I have a Traeger Grill/Smoker, wife got it for my birthday in January, have used several different brands, these create the most smoke of all.

Can’t beat the price and free shipping.

The pellets are good and work great in my smoker my only problem is how big the bags are. each flavor is in a small bag so one will do a few burgers or a meal for two but for big smokes its just not enough but great for sampling different types of smokes for different foods like chicken fish ect.

ect. So if you are getting started in the pellet smoker it’s not a bad way to start.

So far I have only tried the applewood pellets, the wonderful scent filled the air. I love that!

I loved the variety pack. Was able to sample many different pellets without buying a giant bag of each. Each one was excellent.

I watched a video comparing different brands of cooking pellets. This guy compared the taste of porkchops grilled with 6 brands of pellets. Bear Mountain’s Hickory pellets ranked at the top in taste.

I thought I would give them a try since you can buy them at TSC. The guy in the video was right. As I was looking for the Hickory pellets, I found this gourmet blend and bought a bag of those too. I liked them so well that they are now my go to blend.

Bear Mountain pellets are way better quality and have a much better smoke taste than similar priced pellets you can get at other stores. My only gripe is my local TSC doesn’t carry them in the winter months.

So, I have to stock up.

I have tried several brands of pellets with good luck, good smoke and good flavor. I was not impressed with these pellets, they do not put out much smoke much at all, and added very little smoke flavor.

The smoke flavor it did add was not quite distinguished, definitely didn’t taste or smell any bourbon barrel, but couldn’t tell what wood it was like you can with say Cherry, oak, hickory, mesquite woods.

Only positive is the 5 hr smoke I did on Chicken, ribs and sausage used a bit less pellets than the other brands I tried and they maintained heat well. May be better for heating purposes rather than smoking/cooking.

This s the 10th bag of pellets i have purchased from this company. The quality is the Best i have ever used. I have purchased all the flavors however I like the black cherry the best for all my protein choices.

The flavor is slightly sweet and the smoke ring is a sight to behold. I Highly recommend this company for other reasons also. Can’t praise these pellets enough. And I cook with a pit boss smoker.

Smoking chickens before cooking gets a true taste of smoked hickory brings out the natural flavors. I love this product because there are no fillers or subsitutes. This product is all I purchase for my traeger grill.

First time using these pellets and I am very happy with the results. The pellets are very uniform in color and size and have a sweet bourbon aroma. I will be buying them again. You may experience a little more ash due to the bits of the charred bourbon barrel in the individual pellets.

I will buy these pellets over any other pellet brand out there. The Jim Beam pellets have a one of a kind flavor that is good on everything.

I’ve used several types of pellets. These by far are my favorite. They offer a nice distinct flavor to anything you might be smoking.

I used them to do pizzas during a summer fayre at school; the oven started well and got into temperature as expected, but after the first pizza the exhausted pellet started accumulating on the burner and there was no chance the oven would keep a decent temperature.

I tried all possible options, like drop feeding the burner, waiting for the oven to get back into temperature, manually clearing off the excess pellets, etc. but nothing really worked. As a side note, I was running the pizza stall with a friend and we had two ovens: his ooni 3 and my ooni Fyra, both of us have experienced the same problem whilst both of us are quite experienced in their use.

While it was fair to say that it was a windy day (but overall ok in UK standard) the reliability of the oven + fuel has been extremely poor and the summer fayre was for us a terrible experience, trying to catchup with a list of orders which at the end forced us to deliver pizzas that were not properly cooked.

Certainly not a good advertisement for the Ooni brand. Regards, Fabrizio Colangelo.

I tried these pellets after suspecting my Ooni Fyra was producing excessive soot and smoke with some other pellets. There was quite a difference, with the Ooni pellets burning cleaner for sure and possible “hotter” since they disappeared faster through the burn chute.

I have since read that instead of a blend of hardwood pellets it is preferable to go full oak, which Ooni pellets are. I don’t know if I can find all oak and try them or if I should stick with what works and buy more Ooni pellets.

Overall I cannot find anything bad about the Ooni pellets except that they are a little expensive.

We have only got around to opening these as they were bought for keeping in reserve until previous stock of pellets was used up. Pellets tend to absorb some moisture in outside storage, so the Ooni pellets burned “better” (with more smoke) than the last of the pellets kept from the previous year.

Wood burning makes better pizza but wins few plaudits from the environmental lobby?.

Texas style beef brisket starts with a USDA Prime whole packer brisket. Add a generous amount of kosher salt and cracked black pepper. Then a LONG, SLOW, Smoke over pecan, mesquite, and oak wood. The Traeger Texas pellets dont just make this cleaner, easier, and more reliable than other smoking methods, they duplicate the best results.

Perfect bark on the outside. Bright pink smoke ring on the inside and incredibly flavorful! Accept no substitute!.

Obviously these are what make my Trager Grill go. I bought them because they said they worked with all meats and vegetables. So far, so good. Lovely taste enhancement.

This is the first flavor I have tried so far and I can’t wait to try the rest. Our hamburgers, hot dogs and steaks taste so good. I believe the pellets help a lot with the taste of food.

Smooth amazing smoke flavor for just about any meat. A-MAZE-N is a awesome company to deal with. Online order through Tractor Supply was easy and quick.

I use these in a tube-type unit from A-MAZE-N to cold smoke fish filets, mainly salmon. (Set The Masterbuilt Smoker at 160 degrees, lay fish fillets on a smoking mat on the middle rack, and the smoldering smoker tube on the bottom shelf.

let it do its thing for 5 hours. ) These pellets stay lit, and smoking better than other brands. none of these type of pellets get 5 star, because they have to be re-lit occasionally. but these are ok.

Worth the price for your A-Maze-N smoker tube. I love the smell of this Pitmaster Choice pellets. Burns slower and better. Tastes great!

Pellets won’t light!! I just had my electric start pellet stove serviced and cleaned and put a brand new bag of these pellets in the stove. The stove was doing what is was supposed to do, but the pellets would not ignite!! Emptied the hopper and put pellets in from ACE.

GUESS WHAT IT STARTED RUGHT UP! DO NOT WASTE YOUR MINEY ON THESE PELLETS!.

approx. $30 for twenty pounds. these are about twice as expensive as most name brand pellets. I can’t comment on the quality, but they are not cheap.

I purchased a new, high quality pellet smoker in the spring and it came with 100 lbs of pellets. This gave me a chance to see how this smoker/grill/oven worked at different settings, temperatures and meats.

Well, just this month I started looking for an alternative pellet fuel that I could buy locally. I wanted to try different flavors as well. I did try to be careful not to get a punctured bag to avoid pellets that have taken on moisture, or a bag that had been mistreated on the store shelf to avoid crushed pellets.

Well, once I had the hopper clean and ready for just the new pelltets, I loaded it up and started the cook. Unfortunately I had some of the same problems I read about. The grill seemed to have more trouble keeping a consistent temp.

Even though I tried to be careful not to get a bag of crushed pellets there seemed to be an extremely large ratio of crushed to full sized pellets. Once the smoking was done and I tried to raise the temperature to get a sear on my chicken I had a very hard time getting to temperature up to 400 degrees or higher.

Plus the flame was not as large as I am used to and it barely reached to under surface of grates to help create the expected char. The taste was fine though. I really would like to give these pellets another try as I am a Kingsford charcoal diehard fan and only buy their charcoal.

I’m sorry I didn’t think to take photos to show what my bag looked like once I got it open and into the hopper.

Have always been in a dynamic “search” for the “best” wood pellets. Mostly had settled on “LJ” brand, as they are great quality and consistent. Having tried these Kingsford pellets, I may be “sold” on these.

They are high quality, burn excellently and make great flavor. A massive percentage of folks don’t understand “smoke science” and are misled in thinking that lots of white smoke is a good thing, when it’s absolutely not (research clean vs dirty smoke).

These make good smoke, which means flavor! Pellets are lower in moisture content vs natural wood pieces, but they can come close with a lot less “effort”. Have tried the classics, signatures, hickory and cherry.

This is my favorite hickory pellets to use in my pellet smoker/grill. The hickory flavor seems to be pure without any other wood blends. I’ve had zero feeding issues even when used when the humidity is very high.

This is my absolute go to for hickory pellets right now and the only downside is they don’t stock these at my local Walmart in Oxford, Alabama. I’m not brand loyal and for pure hickory pellets you should definitely give these a try!.

The Traeger wood pellet grill is a great addition to my outdoor cooking arsenal. In fact, it will probably replace my 2 bigger Weber charcoal grills entirely. The costs of charcoal keep going up, and it is messy to light and subsequently clean up and dispose of.

For brisket or other long-cooking items, charcoal has to be added as you go. So far, after a couple months of experiments, I’ve found the Traeger grill easily makes charcoal obsolete. (Except in power outages or camping with no power, where charcoal cooking would be handy or necessary.

) In an emergency, you could run your Traegers small power needs via a generator, or a simple cheap car operated power converter. I am going to measure how much power the Traeger actually needs to operate, but from my electrical experience, once lit, it is likely under 225 watts.

While the Traeger DID cook a rib eye steak, and it was still pink in the middle as I prefer them, it didn’t do it quite as nicely as my little Smoky Jo Weber charcoal grill, that is small and made for one or two people’s meal.

The more immediate heat source right under the meat sears the meat better and is overall still the preferred method of cooking a steak for me, especially at the cost of steaks today. If you like steaks well done, or are not concerned with the searing and resultant flavor this produces, the Traeger is just FINE for steaks.

It’s only dent in the armor is that it is not designed to “sear”. What it does do is BETTER than charcoal in every way. In summary, the Traeger replaces my charcoal grills of all sizes, EXCEPT for steaks – and costs me less to operate than charcoal or similar costs compared to flavorless propane.

I will still keep the propane grill for emergencies or quick hot dogs, but not for routine grilling. That spot goes to the Traeger. Final note, were I at Traeger, I would have designed a way to easily swap wood flavors as different meats “take” the smoke differently.

You cannot just decide to cook with apple wood when the hopper is full of something else. I will add that this is a minor nitpicking, as I’ve found the Hickory to be a very good overall choice, and it has not overpowered my food at all.

Thus I just buy Hickory now. Learn to use just the smoke setting for a few minutes to give big boosts for smoke flavor if desired for some items.

I can’t find oak pellets anywhere local to buy and found these. They mix perfectly with other kinds of pellets. The shipping was fast and reasonable.

For this cook I was using an a smoke table top smoker. Something happened this time that has never happened before. My smoker created a ton of ash within the first two hours and covered my igniter causing my smoker to go out.

I vacuumed out the chamber, started the smoker again and two hours later had the same result. This was with the hickory pellets. I initially thought it was a problem with my smoker but after reading some reviews I have found that this has occurred with other customers as well.

I don’t know if the pellets are just not compacted enough or what but they definitely burn differently than other pellets.

I had to buy one of those ‘torch like’ lighters from a cigar store to light the pellets. Make sure to watch the YouTube vids on how to light it. I love the smoke flavors!