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The Ooni Koda 16 is the strongest starting point here — it handles pizza at high heat, but also drops low enough for bread and roasting, and the large 16-inch mouth gives you real flexibility with different cooking vessels. Gas-powered means instant heat control, which matters when you're shifting between a 500°C pizza bake and a slower roast. If wood-fired flavour is important, the Ooni Fyra 12 is cheaper but smaller and less versatile for bread and roasting. For genuine multi-use across all three, the Koda 16 wins. One thing worth knowing: are you cooking for 2–4 people or larger groups regularly? That might shift the size conversation slightly.

Fair challenge. The Koda 16 runs extremely hot at its floor — brilliant for pizza, but slow roasting large vegetables at 180–200°C requires careful throttling of the gas, and it doesn't hold that low range as consistently as a convection oven would. Heat retention in the stone is excellent for high-heat cooking, but the open-mouth design means it loses ambient heat faster than an enclosed convection unit at low temperatures. A dedicated countertop convection oven will beat it on slow roasting precision every time — fan-assisted even heat, programmable temps, no babysitting. The honest answer: if slow roasting large vegetables is a frequent priority, the Koda 16 is a compromise there. It excels at pizza and high-heat bread. The multi-use case is real but leans toward high-heat cooking.

Honest final answer: the Koda 16 cannot match a convection oven at 180–200°C stability. Throttled low, it becomes inconsistent — the burner cycles unevenly, stone temperature drifts, and recovery after opening is slower than a sealed convection environment. For large vegetable roasting done regularly, that matters. My confident recommendation is the Gozney Roccbox. It runs hotter and holds heat better than the Koda 16 at mid-range temps due to its insulated dome design — that insulation is the key difference, it genuinely retains ambient heat at lower settings better than Ooni's open-face architecture. It delivers serious pizza and high-heat bread, and handles moderate roasting more reliably than the Koda 16. It's the best single outdoor oven for all three uses this person named.