Our Tandoor Oven arrived within a couple of days with full instructions and lots of useful additional equipment (paid additionally, well worth it!) to be used for various dishes (e.g. Cast iron pan, etc.). First we gradually heated up the clay oven to 200* as instructed. We trialled the oven for cooking the very next weekend and were surprised how easy and quick cooking ‘happens’, once it has been properly heated up! My absolute favourite side are seasoned potato wedges cooked in the cast iron pan under shish kebabs - the juices from meat drip over them and add more exquisit flavour! The hairline cracks appeared but this was expected and absolutely normal for clay to be doing that. Overall, extremely satisfied with our purchase: looks stunning in our garden and the food from it is mouthwatering. Highly recommend investing in one!