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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