Haven Outdoor Wood Fired Pizza Oven with Ceramic Pizza Stone, Built-in Thermometer, Pizza Paddle & Rain Cover

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We've extensively reviewed every single one of the pizza ovens in this guide, as part of our commitment to how we test products at Ideal Home. Not available for AB, BT, DB99, DD9-11, EH35-46, FK18-21,GY, HS, IM, IV, KA27, KA28, KW, KY9-16, PA, PH, PO30-41, TD, TR21-25 and ZE postcodes.

The oven itself is also a marvel: it's spectacular to look at thanks to the array of colours available (ours was a lovely olive hue that felt very suitable for cooking Italian food) and thanks to great insulation, it can go on any surface; we put ours on a plastic table at the end of the garden and it was completely unmarked. This is not intended to be a full statement of your rights under the Consumer Contracts Regulations. Gas ovens are usually safer and more energy efficient because they're easier and quicker to turn off and on. This hand-crafted oven from the Netherlands is shipped flat-packed, so you need a little investment in time and effort putting the corten steel parts together, but you don’t need to be super practical to get it up and running, thanks to the well-thought-out design. If you move house, it’s unlikely you’ll be able to take it with you so that’s worth bearing in mind, too.In fact, we’ve become so confident that we’ve been expanding our dishes beyond pizza, to trays full of fajita mix – which come out of the oven wonderfully smoky – and even moist and juicy steaks. Each pizza we pulled out had a wonderfully even bake and the oven ensures all the hard work you’ve put into your prep doesn’t go up in smoke. Though you can use a pizza oven all year around, maintenance does admittedly get a little trickier in winter. Once lit, we needed to refill the wood pellets tray twice before the pizza oven got up to the right temperature for cooking and we kept a close eye on the pellets for regular top-ups. Discover the best gift ideas with Groupon: check out great deals for Black Friday, Gifts for Him, Gifts for Her, Gifts for Couples, Birthday Gifts, Gifts for Mothers and Affordable Gifts.

Brands including Gozney, Ooni and Firepod dominate this market and have some impressive ovens in their ranges. The portable Ooni pizza oven will heat up to 500°C in around 15 minutes and can make a 14-inch stone-baked pizza in just 60 seconds. To make things fair, we went to our tried-and-trusted Neapolitan recipe, to see how well each oven cooked the classic base – crisping the bottom but keeping a slightly chewy texture to the crust, while imparting the sauce and cheese with the definitive smoky flavour that you would get from a trattoria’s oven in Naples. It cooks on a traditional firepit or round barbecue and consists of a double-sided cast iron plate, with a pizza stone placed on top and a double steel cloche with the outside rotating around the inside. Once the fire is going, you’ll need to wait just over half an hour before you can start cooking, but the pizza quality is consistently delicious, with beautifully smoky, flavourful dough, bubbles of cheese and well-cooked toppings.inch grills and comes with a stainless steel kettle converter, a 15-inch Cordierite pizza stone, a 13-inch folding aluminum peel and a charcoal fence. Helen also tried her hand at a range of other foods in the Koda, finding fajita mix, chicken, and assorted greens came out perfectly when cooked in a cast iron skillet in the oven.

However, if you have the budget and your heart set on a gas-fired model, this is an excellent choice for fail-safe homemade pizzas every time. Launched in April 2021, the dome is essentially a scaled-down version of the ovens that grace professional kitchens and are installed by Gozney. If you can't make up your mind or you like the sound of what both fuel-types offer, then opt for a multi-fuel model.Not that it’s an eyesore – Ooni has done its best to retain the sleek stylings of its purely outdoor ovens, with its steel and powder-coated shell housing a top and bottom heating element, so you have instant control over where the heat is coming from, which is handy if you’re keen on producing a variety of pizza styles, not just Neapolitan. The Sage Smart Oven Pizzaiolo is an indoor bench-top pizza oven, claiming to provide ‘brick oven performance at a fraction of the cost’. Our Neapolitan was ready to go in 90 seconds with the oven producing a base and crust with a lovely bite and aromatic, evenly melted mozzarella, time and time again.

On the other hand, a smaller oven may be more suitable for personal use or for cooking smaller pizzas. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Finally, an honourable mention has to go to the new Ooni volt 12 for its mains-powered versatility, which means kitchen pizza doesn’t have to come out of the freezer any more and you can combine fresh dough and fresh ingredients to produce pizzeria-grade food. It’s a game-changing idea, brilliantly executed, and consistently produced the best fresh pizza we’ve eaten all year at home. With the ability to be operated using either wood, charcoal or gas (although the gas burner needs to be bought separately), this oven offers flexibility to suit you, plus potential to cook more than just pizza.The newest release from popular brand Gozney, this gas-powered model is a serious piece kit for pizza enthusiasts. This oven also comes with a pizza peel, stone, and deep dish included, which earnt another tick from us. The Danish brand released its pizza oven to the UK market earlier this year and we were immediately impressed by the look of the rotante, with its wide-opening encased in a matte finish of either white, black, stone or orange. So it may be worth playing around with base thickness and toppings to find a cooking method which suits you. There’s a kind of alchemy involved in watching the raw ingredients turn into mouth-watering, smoky slices before your very eyes.