Best Pizza Ovens

I bought the Cozze 13" pizza oven from Bunnings and have been really impressed so far. For the price, it feels premium and produces excellent pizzas… Read more

at home.

Context: family of 4, decent backyard space, family loves good quality home-made pizza, I've been using the kitchen oven for 2-3 years now and pizza is good, but I was ready for the upgrade. I have been a long-time lurker trying to find the best value pizza oven, and I think I found it.

Pros: 1) The 13" size feels roomy and comfortable to work with. I compared it side-by-side with other models in-store and preferred the larger cooking area. 2) Build quality and packaging feel premium for the price. 3) Door design makes setup and heat retention easy. 4) Stone reached around 420°C in about 15–20 minutes with the door closed. Very fast cooking time; pizzas cook in roughly 1–2 minutes compared to 10–12 minutes in a regular oven. 5) Pizza results were excellent: crispy base, bubbly crust, leopard spotting, and evenly cooked toppings. 6) Easy to clean: once cooled, I simply used my ozito blower to blow away food debris. No washing needed. 7) Great for family pizza nights; everyone loved the experience.

Cons (imo): 1) No pizza peel included, so you’ll need to buy one separately. 2) No turning peel, which i highly recommended for easier rotation during cooking, so the pizza doesnt burn. 3) Requires an LCC27 (“black valve”) gas bottle; worth checking before setup if you’re new to gas appliances. 4) You’ll want a sturdy outdoor table or bench for safe use. 5) Cooking large batches for parties takes some practice, especially managing stone temperature between pizzas.

Overall: Excellent value for money compared to premium brands out there. Perfect for pizza lovers, families, and anyone wanting proper restaurant-style pizza at home without spending a fortune. Highly recommended if you’ll use it regularly.

Better than expected (first impressions) – The quality of the oven and its accessories is better than I thought it would be. The oven and its accessories have a nice, premium feel and weight… Read more

to them. The display is readable and backlit. The function panel is user-friendly and simple and it also beeps. The fan isn't loud. The oven can be stored upright to save some space I guess. Fit and finish is more than acceptable.

You can watch a short video using this link to check out the oven https://youtu.be/c0lTt1pjP1A?si=82sChDNpK6l-Rxka

I am very impressed with the Ziola pizza oven. Being electric it can be used inside, and it heats more quickly than gas ovens. The internal… Read more

temperature and the stone temperature is predictable, with maximum heat to the rear and minimum heat to the front of the oven. This means that baking the pizza is relatively simple-bake the pizza for approximately half the allotted time then rotate it 180 degrees for the remaining time. Much simpler and requiring less skill than for gas and woodfired pizza ovens. The maximum temperature is 500 degrees celsius which was a big selling point for me, as competitors in a similar price range tend to have 450 degrees celsius as their maximum. From video reviews I have seen they only have Cordierite stones which burn the pizza bases at top temperature. Argheri have solved that problem by having both Cordierite stones (for temperatures under 450 degrees celsius) and Biscotto stones which burn (for temperatures above 450 degrees celsius) available for the Ziola. I had never made a pizza before purchasing the Ziola but have found it quite easy to produce pizza of a good standard. The Ziola is also I think, a lovely thoughtful design, with its curved rear and soft corners, with a slight bulge to the top. It looks like a pizza oven as opposed to just an oven. Chris from Argheri has also been more than helpful with questions (more about pizza dough than the Ziola!). I highly recommend the Ziola.

Good alternative to an expensive pizza oven – After trial and error of making pizza 3 times we’ve finally perfected our pizza making skills. Didn’t have the room to build a wood fire pizza oven,… Read more

this was a considerably cheaper option. This oven sits on top of an ordinary gas bbq. It has a temp gauge on the top stating if oven is warm, ideal or hot. Make sure it stays in the ideal mode other wise pizza will cook too fast and burn. Sometimes the gas has to be turned off to regulate temp. Depending on thickness of base cooking times vary. With this oven we tend to have pizza quite regularly. Not the same taste as wood fired but better than using stove oven, we just love it. 5/9/2023 victorias basement has oven for $89 with free postage. Would recommend.

What a great pizza oven. Yes, this 10amp electric pizza oven can reach temperatures of 450°C (842°F) for that Neapolitan Pizza you've always wanted… Read more

to cook but can't because of the limits on a regular house oven. This oven delivers even temperature all round so saves having to constantly turn the pizza like you would in a gas oven. It is a well presented oven with LED lights and rotational nobs for ease of use. It has a triple glass door which helps keep even temperatures and prevents heat loss. It also has a stainless steel interior. This oven takes 15 to 20 minutes to heat up and you can alter the heat to make the stone hotter or the top of the oven due to having both a top element and another under the stone on the bottom. With pre-programmed cooking modes for Neapolitan, New York, Detroit style, Thin & Crispy, even Frozen pizza and if you prefer to take control there is a manual mode that lets you customise the temperature and top/bottom heat balance for flawless results. You can also air fry and bake in the oven but I am yet to try these options. This oven is made for indoors and outdoors and for under $600 (at the time of writing) you really can't go wrong.

Well, we have only used this pizza oven once having bought it from a large retail store. 20 mths later we tried to use it again and it has no… Read more

ignition lighting at all. We have troubleshooted everything that we know. Everdure referred a local appliance fixer who I would not recommend in the area and that is my only option! I spent an extra thousand dollars to get the cabinet and only used this pizza oven once. Would certainly not recommend it again. I buy everything from this large retail store but the last couple of times I have been in there I have not had a very good Customer experience. Where are all the good Customer service people? It still is not fixed and will go out of its warranty shortly. Extremely disappointed.

Wow awesome pizza oven and amazing customer service – The next best thing to building a pizza oven in your back yard. Better in my view. Multi-fuel - gas flame or wood burning (NOTE! gas requires… Read more

additional spend for a gas burner accessory) My review is based on using gas. I haven't tried wood burning yet.

If you want to get a little more serious with your pizza making and cooking skills this is a pretty good way to step up your game. At least the cooking part. This doesn't make pizza dough. This oven's design emulates how a traditional pizza oven works. Stone cooking surface, shaped to make the flame flow over the top of the pizza and heat up the oven properly, all clothed in a modern, great looking design that's reasonably portable. The glass door and the oven thermometer are additional modern touches to enhance the experience. Once up to heat this oven cooks pizza beautifully. Read the instructions carefully. Watch videos of the oven in use. These will help you to get a great cooking experience. If you don't and just bung in a pizza you're not going to be very impressed. This is not an automated, no-brain experience, you need to understand how the oven cooks and the cooking process and be patient. If you can't be bothered, don't waste your money, just call Dominos. Ooni recommends getting an infra-red thermometer gun to check the stone temperature. You can get by fine without one. Once the thermometer reaches recommended temperature, keep heating for another 10 mins that will ensure stone temperature has caught up, as the thermometer only records ambient temp, not stone temp. Ooni advertises that the oven can cook a pizza in 60s or so. That's largely true when all the temperatures are at recommended but like any cooking process variables such as your pizza dough, etc play a part - in a nutshell though, this cooks a pizza very quickly. With practice you can get a pizza out that looks like restaurant quality. Puffy crust, perfectly cooked base, bubbling cheese and the 'leopard spot' charring. Again, your dough making skills play a bit part here.

The oven is heavy, fully assembled. If you need to move it, take the stones out first, that makes it much easier to move. The top and side surfaces get real hot but there's not much heat emanating from the bottom (can quite safely put your hand/arm under the oven gap with the table) which means you don't need to sit the oven on a heatproof surface. Just something solid is fine. The gas burner accessory fits into the back of the oven. It's easily removable for wood-burning. A less than ideal design choice was to make the burner control at the back of the oven making it somewhat awkward to manage heat control by having to walk around to the back, and you then can't see the flame level from back there - unless you lift up the rear hatch. There's some serious heat coming out of the chimney so if you set up on a covered porch/deck, be aware of how much heat is hitting your porch ceiling. You might need to set up out from under cover. Although it's an outdoor unit, consider buying the cover - yes, more money but it will help protect the unit from the weather when not in use, after all this isn't cheap oven. Customer service - excellent. We purchased directly off the Ooni website and accidently purchased an extra gas hose and Ooni customer support resolved that quickly and nicely. We then had a problem with the burner not staying alight. Again, excellent service and the issue was resolved quickly. NOTE it looks like there's a new model out which appears to replace this model with very similar look but updated touches. Not yet available on the AU website.

The perfect way to cook pizza in less than 2 minutes! – I purchased this pizza oven from Stonex Tools during covid lock down in 2020 so I had plenty of time to practice. Lots of burnt pizzas to begin with… Read more

but now I have perfected amazing pizzas. We have a Facebook group called Ooni Koda Community Australia to support other owners. There are also other groups on Facebook. You do need support because with only 90 seconds to 2 minutes to cook your pizza, you can easily burn them! You will NEVER buy pizza again - takeaway or at a restaurant. I paid $488 with free delivery.

Great pizza oven at price point – Great pizza oven for backyard wood fired pizza. Heats up quickly. Holds heat fairly well, does need a re-stoke to get heat back into the base after an hour or so. Extremely happy with oven for the price. Cooked pizza perfectly. Show details

Poor design = burnt pizza – This review is referring to the LPG version. Tricky to use. Base gets too hot on full flame and can only be used to heat up the pizza oven. Very hard… Read more

to juggle flame to get the top cooked before the base burns. Have tried this several times (nearly 20 pizzas so far) but haven't been satisfied yet. Also you will need an adapter for your aussie gas bottle.

Based on this I would not recommend. Posted this on vevor but they only publish 4 & 5 star reviews. Go figure.

Useless – The top lid crushes the pizza. The dough cannot rise and the topping gets totally mashed by the lid. The resulting pizza is awful, overcooked on the… Read more

bottom and the topping either burnt or disappears stuck to the lid. The whole design is flawed and makes this device a total waste of money.

Messy,Messy,Messy Hard to know where to start. Had zero luck making pizza. I used a pre-made aldi dough and put minimal ingredients on the pizza. You… Read more

have to use the 'paddle' to get the pizza on the pizza stone, but there isn't much room to get it in the oven. The dough got stuck to the paddle and would not 'slide' off into the oven. The whole experience was messy and not what I expected. There are important safeguards to follow , cleaning instructions and heating instructions but there are absolutley no instructions on how to prepare and cook the pizza. They do say put the pizza in the middle of the stone, which is pretty near impossible. When I did get the pizza into the oven the top burnt very quickly and the bottom was still doughy and was really hard to move off the stone. Eventually the bottom cooked, but the top was black. Also when I did get the pizza off the paddle and onto he pizza stone, some of the ingredients on the pizza fell onto the stone and they burnt quickly and filled the kitchen with smoke. I couldn't do anything as I had to wait for the pizza to finish burning, I mean finish cooking. i.e. you cant remove the stone to clean up while the oven is on or the stone is hot. This one is going in the bin as it just does not work very well. I tried to call customer service at Lennox, but that was another wasted non-answered customer service call. Overall, my suggestion is DONT buy this type of oven as they are not fit for purpose.