Ooni has unveiled a brand new oven - and it's big enough to cook two pizzas at once

The Ooni Koda 2 Max has space for 20" bases or two smaller pies - which will make for some serious summertime pizza parties

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Ooni is adding a new release to its range of award-winning pizza ovens, and it's set to be the largest and most advanced from the brand yet. 

24 inches wide, and with a digital temperature hub that you can connect to your phone, the Ooni Koda 2 Max is sure to attract attention from the brand's huge customer base. After all, this is the brand that surged in popularity during the pandemic and has been a staple in gardens up and down the country ever since.

Since we've reviewed and loved every Ooni pizza oven out there thus far and ranked the excellent Ooni Fyra as the absolute best pizza oven on the market, it seemed only right to take a first look at this new release.

Ooni Koda 2 Max |

Ooni Koda 2 Max | £799 from Ooni from May 2024

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Ooni Koda 2 Max first look 

It's certainly set to be a big summer for pizza oven launches, with the recent arrival of Gozney's Arc and Lakeland getting in on the action with its brand-new gas pizza oven.

So what makes Ooni's new launch different from the rest? Well, it's massive for starters, with space for 20-inch pizzas. For context, average pizza sizes (and ovens) range from around 12 inches to 18 inches maximum, so 24 inches is a huge space indeed. 

Ooni new pizza oven

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Ooni calls this a 'supersized 24" cooking area' perfect for side-by-side cooking, meaning that you could squeeze a pizza and a cut of meat in there at the same time, or an additional skillet with a side of potatoes or greens.

As well as the zone being supersized, it also has two separate cooking zones with independent temperature controls - so you could even cook two different types of pizza (like deep dish and Neopolitan) simultaneously. That's not a feature I've ever seen before, and will most definitely make catering to a crowd easier.

Image of Ooni pizza oven line up in promotional image

(Image credit: Ooni)

The addition of a digital temperature hub means that this oven has plenty in common with one of its predecessors, the Ooni Karu, with the ability to get instant temperature readings from inside the oven to your phone thanks to Ooni Connect, so that you can multi-task making your salad while still keeping an eye on your pizza. 

All of these new developments with the Koda 2 Max will make it trickier to decide which Ooni to buy, but hopefully, we'll be testing out this new release to let you know how those new features shape up. 

Molly Cleary
Kitchen Appliances Editor

Molly is Ideal Home’s Kitchen Appliances Editor and an all-around baking and cooking enthusiast. She joined the team in September 2022 as an Ecommerce Editor after working across Real Homes, Homes & Gardens and Livingetc. She's been reviewing products for 4 years and now specialises in weighing up kitchen essentials' pros and cons, from air fryers to bean-to-cup coffee machines.

She's always been a keen reader, so after graduating from the University of Exeter in 2020 she was thrilled to find a way to write as a full-time job. Nowadays, she spends her days at home or the Ideal Home test facility trying out new kitchen innovations to see if they’re worth a space on your worktop. Her most beloved and hard-working appliance is her Sage coffee machine though she also takes the title of Ideal Home’s in-house air fryer expert after writing about them religiously over the past few years.

When she's not thinking or writing about kitchen appliances, she loves getting around London exploring new places, going for a dip at the Ladies’ Pond and consuming every bit of pop culture she can get her hands on.

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