bought this because my son loves pizza, first try came out perfect, we did 8 pizza one after the other and part from one(mine typically) they were all perfect! every one that ate them said how well they'd cooked, easy to light and maintain the fire. only burnt one, but that was me not letting it heat back up between 2 pizzas. bought a laser thermometer to check the stone, that helped with temp control. very happy with it and didn't use loads of wood pellets either