I totally get the $600 price seems like a lot. I don't really disagree. All based on how much you use something.
The idiots math
I did in my head was, every time I fire up my egg for a single pizza it burns about 6lbs of lump. Lump I've been getting recently is ~$1/lb. So $6 in fuel for 1 cook.
Based on the propane burn rate Ooni states you'll get about 30-35'ish pies off a 20lb tank (read a few Ooni forums where folks had tracked cooks and verified those numbers. Let's just call it 30 because I don't use things efficiently :-D. My last propane exchange was ~$20. So that's $.66 for a cook
Of course if you cook more than 1 pie per cook these numbers obviously get more efficient per price of each pie..................my brain can only take so much :icon_blush:, but you all get the point.
And let's be honest I didn't pull the trigger because I knew over time I'd be saving money. I wanted the oven :becky:.
So eventually it will break even, plus it fires up crazy easy/fast, this thing is portable and the taste so far is better than my egg. So a lot of bonuses if you cook a bunch of pizza.