How do I set up and light my Ooni Fyra 12?Updated 7 months ago

**Click on the link below for our interactive guide to help you get started

with your new Ooni Fyra 12! **

[Getting started with Ooni Fyra 12](https://uk.ooni.com/pages/getting-started-

tools/ooni-fyra)

To set up your Ooni Fyra 12, follow the steps below:

1. Wearing protective gloves, unpack your oven, unfold the legs, and insert the stone.

2. Attach the chimney, fuel tray, flame keeper, pellet hopper, and door.

3. Place your oven on an outdoor surface made of stone, metal, or wood. Tables made of glass or plastic are not recommended. **Do not use your oven indoors.**

4. Allow your oven 3 feet/1 meter of clearance on all sides and 9 feet/3 meters of clearance above.

5. Remove the chimney cap/pellet scoop from the chimney. 

6. Open your chimney baffle is open and secure the front door to the oven

7. Remove the fuel tray from the back of the oven and fill it with two scoops of [wood pellets](https://ooni.com/products/premium-wood-pellets-100-american-oak?_pos=1&_sid=6492d15d0&_ss=r).

8. Place a natural [firestarter](https://ooni.com/products/ooni-firestarters?_pos=4&_sid=6492d15d0&_ss=r) on top of the pellets and light. **Note** : We recommend avoiding firestarters that contain kerosene or other chemical additives.


9. Wearing protective gloves, slide the fuel tray back into the oven. 

10. Use the viewing hole on the oven door to make sure your pellets are fully lit (and not just smoldering). 

11. Once your pellets are fully lit, gradually add more pellets 'little and often' until the hopper is full. Your oven will be fully preheated in 15-20 minutes Avoid adding too many or forcing pellets into the hopper

12. Gather your pizza peel, dough, and toppings - your oven will be fully preheated in 15 minutes!

13. Keep an eye on your fuel levels as you cook and top up little and often. A full hopper of pellets will last about 15 minutes.

When using your oven for the first time, let it run at a high temperature

(750°F/400°C) for 30 minutes, then cool it down completely to season the oven

and ready it for use.

If you find your Ooni Fyra 12 isn't getting hot enough, follow the advice in

this article: [Ooni Fyra 12 isn't getting hot

enough](https://support.ooni.com/en_us/ooni-fyra-12-isn-t-getting-hot-enough-

ByoKGRQb6)