The New York Times - Gather ’round the … pizza oven

In the depths of winter, it can be easy to romanticize warmer months, lamenting that everything good happens five months from now: golden tans, beach trips, frozen pops, not needing 10 layers to go outside.
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But trust us, there’s plenty of fun to be had in the winter, too. And yes—even in the backyard. Take, for example, social video manager Katie Quinn, who braves these frosty temps to, without fail, throw a weekly pizza night. 
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Previously restricted to the confines of her kitchen, those pizza parties now see the great outdoors. A few months ago, Katie shot a video of the Ooni, Wirecutter’s top-pick pizza oven, and immediately knew she would get one to gift her husband (read: herself). Because the Ooni can do what home ovens cannot: reach the blistering-hot temperatures required to bake up the perfect pie.

It’s the most convenient, portable, and user-friendly pizza oven we’ve ever tested. And it’s also incredibly efficient, baking an obscene amount of pizzas on just one tank of gas.

On purchasing one in the dead of winter, Katie says: “You might be wondering: Okay, are you really making pizzas outside right now? Yes. Yes, I am. Even as snowflakes fall around us. It’s sort of like standing around a very delicious fire. And I daresay it has morphed this gray, cold slog of winter into a yeasty, chewy, toasted delight.”
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