Pizza Nevo 12' Gas Fired Pizza Oven, Black

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The biggest difference between BBQ and wood-fired pizza ovens is the temperatures reached. Wood-fired ovens can reach higher temperatures. However, BBQ ovens make great ovens, grills, and smokers. Which is the Best Pizza Oven For You? Keep a consistent temperature 400°C is usually ideal for cooking pizza, but it can vary depending on what type of pizza you're cooking. A consistent heat will cook your pizzas evenly and keep them from burning unexpectedly. These ovens are designed for efficiency. Their materials are the highest grade stainless steel and cast iron, with beautiful stone baking boards. Heat retention is impressively high, meaning you can cook faster, better pizza that stays warm until it is on the table and ready to eat. Most of their stoves reach up to 500 degrees Celsius, and some can get there in as little as ten minutes. This is due to clever design and cutting edge construction. How portable do you need your oven to be? If you plan on keeping it in one place, you can go with any pizza oven in terms of portability. However, if you enjoy fresh pizza on your camping trips or want to take it to your friends’ BBQ from time to time, make portability a priority. The smallest gas-powered ovens, however, can do the job in as little as 60 seconds. Every oven is different, but it won’t take long to ‘learn’ its optimal cooking time.

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The size will also be a reflection of the capacity. Some ovens fit up to 3 pizzas while others can only cook one at a time. The benefit, however, is that ovens like the Ooni Karu can cook pizza in a matter of seconds (60 seconds to be exact). This means no one will be left waiting. That’s where we step in to help, with the lowdown on all of the most popular pizza oven models that we've actually tried– whether you’re looking for the authenticity of a wood-fired pizza oven, the ease and convenience of a gas-fired pizza oven, or the best of both worlds in a multi-fuel option. Other considerations include heat-up speed, cooking times and important extras, like in-built temperature gauges and included pizza peels.

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It managed a flawless performance in testing thanks to its low maintenance set-up and cooking process, with the flames it creates achieving that authentic, smoky wood-fired flavour (without burning) Technically, the Gozney Roccbox is also more portable, coming equipped with a strap to help you transport it with ease. With its compact size and easily retractable legs, it might make a good option for the beach as long as you can drive it there, as at 29kg, it's probably a little heavy to carry. Another element of this brand that I love is that there is very little setup to do. Many of these ovens work with a wide range of fuel sources, meaning you can just grab your typical fuel from the grill and get cooking. For a 10-inch pizza with an authentic thin base, roll out a piece of dough just larger than a golf ball, certainly no bigger,' says Digital Editor (and pizza aficionado) Amy Cutmore. 'Also, don’t go too crazy with your toppings – overloading can cause your pizza not to cook properly.'

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These are made to sit on top of a gas or charcoal barbecue, and are usually made up of a simple metal box with a pizza stone inside. They heat up from below using the barbecue grill. This can result in pizzas with very crispy bases and underdone tops. You might need to use a pizza peel to hold your pizza aloft in the oven for a while to help the top catch up with how well done the base is. Electric pizza ovens

When buying a new pizza oven, it is important to look for a few important features. Perhaps the most important is quality construction. The way a device is built can tell you a lot about how long it will last and how prone it is to break. It can also inform you how portable it is, and how it will look over time. Fuel type: some will be gas-fuelled, others need wood, or it may be a multi-fuel. Indoor pizza ovens plug into the mains so don't need any other means of generating heat.

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I love how fast these ovens can heat up. I often use mine at family cookouts where I want to get to cooking as soon as possible. With long preheat times I have to be out in the yard, waiting for the oven to heat up before I can get started. With most Uuni/Ooni ovens, I can get to it right away and start enjoying family time. The Ooni Fyra is a five-star buy for many reasons, and an easy winner of the title of the best pizza oven. The first is that a wood-fired pizza oven is generally going to be the most affordable option in terms of initial outlay, and, as a rule, wood is a cheaper – and potentially more environmentally friendly – fuel type when compared to gas. Safety: Pizzas require incredibly high temperatures to cook so we looked for excellent insulation and safety features to make using the pizza oven easy to use.

The temperature of your oven will peak somewhere between 400 and 500 degrees C, and the better your oven maintains its temperature, the more pizzas you can produce from one ‘firing’. 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. And when we say we've tested them, we don't mean we've just tried them out once - we have these ovens at home for a timescale of two weeks to two months before we come to a verdict.

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Those who want to use charcoal should go for a wood-fired oven and introduce a few briquettes to a mostly wood-based fire. BBQ pizza ovens The best pizza oven for your outdoor kitchen isn’t the most expensive, the prettiest one, or the one with the most features. It all comes down to the individual and what they want.

So, what does the Gozney Roccbox have that the Ooni Karu 12 doesn't? Well, first up are its stylish good looks. The Roccbox features a smart stainless steel cylinder chamber wrapped in eye-catching silicone that also helps to make the oven's outer safe to the touch. If you're looking for one of the most affordable pizza ovens you can buy, then we think the Woody Pizza Oven is a great balance of price and performance. In each pizza oven, we cook three of the most popular types of pizza – margherita, pepperoni and veggie – to see what results we get when cooking with a variety of textures and flavours.