Electric heat plus a handful of real wood pellets. Smoke flavour on a balcony where live fire is banned.
The pizza-focused Woodfire: electric with a real wood-pellet drawer for genuine smoke, hitting around 370°C for a fast pizza and doubling as a smoker and roaster. For a balcony with no room for a fire.
The larger Pro with a built-in thermometer and more capacity, for people sold on the pellet-plus-electric idea who want to cook for more than four.
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The Ninja Woodfire and units like it are electric outdoor cookers with a small pellet box that burns real wood to add genuine smoke on top of electric heat. They exist to solve a permissions problem: if your building bans charcoal and gas, this is the closest you will get to barbecue flavour legally.
Be clear-eyed about what they are. The smoke is real but light, the capacity is small, and they will not sear like charcoal. Within their brief, for a flat, a balcony or a small patio, they are genuinely good and far better than a bare electric hotplate.