Customer reviews from Ooni
Ooni - Halo Pro Spiral Mixer - Charcoal Gray
Average customer rating
4.7
(192 Reviews)
Rating breakdown 192 reviews
5 Stars
163
4 Stars
16
3 Stars
7
2 Stars
1
1 Star
5
Customer Reviews for Ooni - Halo Pro Spiral Mixer - Charcoal Gray
Customer Rating
5
Love, love, love
on October 12, 2025
Posted by: Jennifer M.
I love my new Ooni! My breads turn out so much better and makes things go quicker! Great purchase!
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
5
Excellent
on October 13, 2025
Posted by: Adelina R.
Great quality and it gets the job done beautifully! It creates a well desired extensibility into the dough, unlike mixers like Kitchen Aid that make the dough too tight and elastic.
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
5
Worth the price
on October 15, 2025
Posted by: B Y.
I primarily make sourdough bread, bagels, and English muffins. I am amazed at how much better my baked goods taste. There is a small. learning curve for reading the dough. I wish I had this mixer when I first started baking breads
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
4
Overall good product
on October 19, 2025
Posted by: Clifford B.
The mixer is a good option for those looking for a spiral mixer but don’t have the space or interest for a dedicated spiral mixer.
The only negative that I have experienced thus far is that the minimum capacity of 1kg is not accurate for higher hydration doughs. In my experience, I have found that it has trouble adequately mixing high hydration doughs under 1400 grams. As a result, you need to make a larger batch or knead by hand if making a high hydration dough under 1400 grams. Otherwise, the mixer will not efficiently mix the dough and it will result in dough temperatures that are too high by the time the dough is sufficiently developed.
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
4
be careful when holding underside of bowl
on October 22, 2025
Posted by: Manfred P.
I love the Ooni Dough Mixer but have a design flaw to report . . . the underside of the mixing bowl has perforations in it to lock the bowl into the rotating base. These perforations in stainless steel have metal burrs that are very sharp— sharp enough to have given me quite the cut in one of my fingers when holding the base of stainless steel bowl while transferring the dough to another bowl. This could be remedied by better quality control in the manufacture of the bowl.
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
5
Been using this at least
on October 23, 2025
Posted by: Eric W.
Been using this at least 1x per week since purchase about 6-7 weeks ago.
Machine has been amazing. So much easier than mixing and stretching sourdough by hand. Completely skip the autolyse process.
Same goes for pizza dough. The dough is so much stronger and a better more even stretch than mixing by hand.
So far, I love this machine.
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
5
I absolutely love my Ooni!
on October 24, 2025
Posted by: Terrie T.
I absolutely love my Ooni! This mixer does an outstanding job mixing my sourdough. I could not be happier.
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni
Customer Rating
5
Great Mixer.
on October 30, 2025
Posted by: Greg M.
Before buying the mixer, I watched tons of video reviews. The same thing they all had in common, and the only complaint, was that the mixer is loud. The first thing I wanted to check was how loud it was. Many people said they got used to the noise, but I had to see for myself. I got the mixer unboxed and plugged it in. I ran it empty and gradually increased the speed. I really didn't notice it being that loud at all. If I had to make a phone call, I wouldn't walk away from the mixer to escape the noise. Actually, it is quieter than my older mixer. Granted, when you do turn it up to 100%, it is louder, but still as bad as everyone in the video reviews that you can watch.
The first loaf I made was a jalapeno and cheddar, sourdough loaf. I was trying to get advice from some sourdough groups and the consensus seemed to be is to add the jalapeno and cheese at the very end of mixing the dough, about the last two minutes. That was wrong. Granted, when I was adding it in by hand during stretch and folds, It was a real pain. Cheese was always sticking out or jalapenos would just give up and be laying on the counter by themselves.
I went ahead and added them for the last two minutes and the mixer incorporated them quickly. But it actually mixed them too well. I used sliced jalapenos and quarter inch cubed cheddar cubes. I was watching everything blend in and was amazed. I could hardly see any of the additions. I started to think that the mixer just pushed them all to the bottom and when I removed the dough from the bowl they would be laying there on the bottom of the bowl.
I pulled the dough out and could only see specks of cheese and jalapenos. I was impressed and went ahead and finally cooked it. After baking I decided to cut one of the loaves I had made. My first thoughts were, "Were's the cheese and jalapenos. As was with the outside of the dough, there were just specks of the additions. The mixer somehow had "ground up" the cheese and jalapenos. I still don't know how they got ground up. The spiral mixing tool was so smooth and shouldn't have torn them apart. The only thing I could think of was that the cheese and jalapenos must have got cut when the dough hook pushed them onto or into the breaker bar. Next time, maybe thirty seconds.
Round two. The next try was rye bread. With AI being a thing now I decided to ask AI, I have no experience with the Ooni and an amateur at sourdough baking. I thought AI should know what to do.
"Give me a recipe for sourdough rye bread using my Ooni spiral mixer pro. " If you haven't tried it, give it a try. Not only does it give you the recipe, but at what speed and how much time you should run the mixer. I was impressed with my first venture into AI. But AI also gives you suggestions on how to improve your recipe. "Need some extra gluten because of the rye content? Try adding some vital wheat gluten. Want a darker color? Add some malt. " Other than doubling the Caraway seeds it recommended, I follow the recipe to a tee. I was quite impressed with the results.
In conclusion, this was a tough decision to make. The Ooni isn't cheap, but it's the cheapest spiral mixer you can buy. Everything made in Europe is at least double the price, if not more. Granted, it does have its limitations. The one thing that is mentioned is difficulty whipping up egg whites. I have a cabinet full of other appliances that can do that job. But this will mix dough and build gluten like you have never experienced. When the dough starts forming that "pumpkin" shape, it is amazing. I'm sure that wears off after a while, but the first few times it's still a thrill. My old stand mixer does a good job, and has it place in making other items. But if you are an amateur baker or have a small cottage bakery business going, you have to look really hard at the Ooni.
Written by a customer while visiting Ooni