How to Clean the OONI Volt 12 Pizza Stone

In this comprehensive guide, we walk you through the essential steps to effectively clean your OONI Volt 12 Pizza Stone, ensuring its longevity and top-notch performance for delicious pizzas every time. Cleaning your pizza stone properly is crucial for maintaining its integrity and preventing any unwanted flavours from affecting your pizzas. Follow along as we demonstrate simple yet effective techniques to keep your OONI Volt 12 Pizza Stone pristine and ready for your next pizza-making adventure. Whether you're a seasoned pizza enthusiast or a beginner, this video has everything you need to know to master the art of pizza stone maintenance. Don't let residue build-up or stains ruin your pizza experience-learn how to clean your OONI Volt 12 Pizza Stone like a pro today!
As a bonus, we'll show you how to make a delicious Nutella Panuozzo.
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[@KennyTC63]

Mate, just get a damp tea-towel, wrap it around your brush-end and wipe across the stone between bakes. The damp towel will pick up the crumbs very easily. That's how they do it at my local wood fire pizza shop, except they do it with a large towel on the end of a metal peel. Not sopping wet, just damp. It takes seconds so no risk of fire 👍 Ps. pizzas look good.

[@FOODGOOD]

@KennyTC63 thanks for your comment. What you have spoken about works perfectly fine for the wood fired ovens. However for these small ovens with thin stones, introducing water (even via a damp towel) could cause the stones to crack. Wood fired ovens have very thick bases made of industrial refractory material like bricks or concrete. The stones in these small ovens are not designed to get wet or to wipe with wet or damp towel especially when hot. Also the other REALLY BIG reason why you wouldn't do this with the OONI VOLT 12 is that it is an electric oven with an electric element above and below the stone.

[@shawnkay5462]

Try making a Nutella Calzone with powder sugar on top its much better and looks nicer

[@FOODGOOD]

@shawnkay5462 that sounds yummy! I might try that.

[@NM-so8kh]

This is a good example of the faff involved in using this. I was excited to get it as I can’t use my outdoor ooni much due to weather here in the uk but the cleaning of this thing is murder. The residue really negatively affects the pizzas cooked in it. My ooni fyra is pretty much self cleaning (in terms of stone residue anyway)

[@FOODGOOD]

@NM-so8kh thanks for your comment. My experience is a little bit different. I find that they are all messy when cooking, especially since we have a penchant for using lots of semolina/flour when prepping the pizzas that doesn't always get removed when launching. I use the slotted launch peel and slide the pizza back and forth before launching to remove as much of the excess semolina/flour as possible. Not withstanding I always end up with a lot of burnt flour/semolina on the stone as I cook. Hence I use the brush now in-between cooking each pizza. If there is an accident, like chese/toppings spilling or pizzas tearing then I scrape and brush away the excess.
I find that this happens regardless of which oven I use. I have a Volt 12, Koda 12 and Koda 16. I have done videos on cleaning the stones of all three ovens.
The biggest difference between them is that the Volt has electric elements and sensors which mean you just have to be careful when scrubbing the stone whilst the oven is on. With the other ovens this is not really a concern.
In as much as self cleaning is concerned, all three ovens are the same. You can see that in my videos. They all operate at pyrolytic temperatures, so leaving them switched on, and set to maximum, will clean the stones in about twenty minutes.
The thumbnail photos I used in the videos are real. They show a before and after photo. There will always be some staining, but food residue is burnt off. the staining is of no consequence. Again you can see that in the videos and in the thumbnails.

[@nicknick7052]

17 min of video for what? no tricks, just as per OONI instructions.

[@FOODGOOD]

@nicknick7052 perhaps you missed the finer points. The OONI instructions take up about one paragraph and tell you to wait until the stone is cool, brush off the excess and rotate the stone. That's it. In the real world mistakes and minor mishaps occur, just like the two we had in the video. They were unexpected, but they happened. This, I believe would be of use for inexperienced users to see how to deal with mishaps. To have continued on without cleaning the stone in-between making the pizzas would have resulted in a nasty burnt taste on the pizzas following. This is true in any case even without the disasters. The stone needs a frequent sweep at the very least. Also, if there is a build up of food bits and pieces (like cheese) on the base then this just makes it even harder when making the subsequent pizzas. Care must be taken when doing this while the oven is working and if people don't feel comfortable with this then turn it off and wait until the oven is cool. I have done two other videos on cleaning pizza stones and from the comments I am left with the impression that showing people how to do something, even if it is a relatively simple process, gives people more confidence than simply reading a basic instruction and then learning the finer points through trial and error. As the saying goes. A picture is worth a thousand words and a video is worth a thousand pictures. So to answer your question, that's what it was for.