BIG HORN OUTDOORS Pizza Ovens Wood Pellet Pizza Oven Wood Fired Pizza Maker Portable Stainless Steel Pizza Grill

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Master the art of sourdough pizza with this method from professional baker, pizza lover, Ooni Ambassador and author of “New World Sourdough,” and the upcoming “New World Baking: 150 Recipes from Central America, South America, Mexico, and the Caribbean,” Bryan Ford. Once launched, we had to regularly top up the wood pellets, and even found that on occasion, fire was shooting out of the two holes in the wood pellet tray as opposed to the cavity.

The Roccbox is the only portable pizza oven we tested that both comes with a peel and has a built-in thermometer. The only drawback to propane gas is the chore of lugging home a 20-pound propane tank (be sure to check local regulations regarding the transport or use of propane tanks). It’s best that you invest in two 12-inch-wide pizza peels: a wooden or bamboo peel for dressing and launching pies into the oven, and a metal peel for rotating and removing the pie. Claiming to cook your pizza in 13 minutes (counting the 10 it takes to heat the oven in the first place), nab this appliance from Haven at Robert Dyas and become a garden-party hit this summer.Since I didn’t have access to fire starters at the time, I used a propane blowtorch to ignite the starter pellets. The Ooni Karu 12 Multi-Fuel Pizza Oven runs on hardwood kindling and lump charcoal for fuel (either independently or combined). The first time I used the Fyra I was scared about getting the pizza off the peel and into the oven, not maneuvering the pie around the oven correctly, or otherwise ruining dinner by having no experience working with a pizza oven before, but the entire process was intuitive. There’s a thermometer included to see when your margherita may be ready and a paddle to easily remove this freshly cooked feast. Moreover, you can use pellet ovens for a wide range of purposes that can be helpful in the long run.

The Ooni Fyra bakes awesome pizzas but requires more attention to fuel and fire maintenance than our top pick—enough for us to add a section below expanding on the user manual, with a few extra tips we learned in testing. And, as mentioned above, it has its quirks: The hopper can be prone to jams, and it’s normal for flames to shoot out the back of the firebox when you remove the door to launch or rotate the pizza. Compared with the Koda 16, the Fyra’s smaller stone and oven opening feels a little more cramped for maneuvering your pizza while it cooks. When tested, our pizza oven came with an additional pizza peel to help slide the pizzas in and out of the oven (as you have to turn them every 20 seconds to get an even cook). Bon Appétit may earn a portion of sales from products that are purchased through our site as part of our Affiliate Partnerships with retailers.We’ll be firing up our picks this summer to see how fast they heat up and whether they can surpass their wintertime maximum temperatures. That said, the Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo bakes up a pretty perfect pizza, and it takes only 15 minutes to preheat. We included gas- and wood-fired pizza ovens, plus outdoor cooking gadgets that double up as pizza ovens, including wood burners and stoves. This isn’t a produce-perfect-pizza-first-time type of pizza oven like many of the others we’ve tested.

While we had to turn many of the pizzas in the other pizza ovens we tested, this Salter model required considerably more attention. The lack of a temperature gauge is a glaring omission to this model, but the instructions for launching your first pizza are clear and accurate, if followed. Nearly all of those models are suitable only for outdoor use (the exception is the Volt 12, Ooni’s recently launched electric oven).

But once cooked, our 12-inch pizza had a pillowy, leopard-spotted crust, a crisp base and perfectly melted cheese on top.

Ooni Fyra 12 streamlines wood-fired cooking for a no-nonsense live fire experience and intense flavors. As with the Koda 16, I cooked a couple of bonus dishes in the Fyra, this time roasted cauliflower and skin-on salmon. If you register your Ooni oven within the first 60 days, they will extend the warranty to five years (or two years for the electric Ooni Volt 12). It’s easy to set up too, simply flip out the three legs that sit flush to the underside, slot in the stone and attach the pipe to a propane gas canister.There are seven preset modes for all styles of pizza (from New York to deep dish or even frozen), plus a manual mode to choose your own cooking method, where you can customise the temperature, timings and even the direction of heat. That’s fine and normal, and it will still last you a long time—but be sure to use a metal peel to rotate the pizzas while they bake. After a couple of runs, I learned that it means adding one scoop about every two minutes until the hopper is full.