These pizza ovens will have you fired up for all the right reasons

Best for: all experience levels

A versatile live-fire outdoor oven, the Gozney Dome pizza oven is also great for roasting, smoking, steaming and baking. You can set the temperature to cook food super fast or low and slow, and enjoy a professional grade outdoor oven engineered to work effortlessly for beginners and exceptionally for chefs. You can create anything from a wood-fired Neapolitan pizza to charred tomahawk steak.

It also boasts an average 4.6-star rating out of over 650 reviews on Trustpilot, with one customer writing: “Great looking oven but an even better performance! It was extremely easy to install and was using it the day it arrived. Was finally able to have a restaurant tasting pizza at home.”

Colours: off black, bone and olive

Key features:

• Multi-fuel
• Digital thermometer
• Innovative air ventilation
• Unbeatable heat retention
• Steam injector
• Premium construction

Best for: large families and gatherings

Coming in as the first and only pizza oven to be ‘Recommended for Domestic Use’ by the Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana, the Ooni Karu 16 oven brings the most versatile Ooni outdoor cooking experience and advanced technology to the pizza party. It has multiple fuel options for maximum cooking versatility and fits up to 16-inch pizzas and other substantial cooks.

“We had our first pizza night using Ooni Karu 16 and it turned out fantastic,” wrote one reviewer who left a five star rating. “The set up was easy, we used the gas burner which gives perfect control of the temperature. I made a Neapolitan pizza dough which cooked to perfection in 2.5 minutes.”

Key features:

• Multiple fuel options
• Reaches 500°C in just 15 minutes
• Large cooking area fits up to 16-inch pizzas
• Cook with wood or charcoal out of the box, or use gas with the Ooni Karu 16 Gas Burner (sold separately)
• Mounted digital thermometer

Also available at:

• $1299 at The BBQ Store
• $1299 at Amazon

Best for: the home-pizza enthusiast

If you’re craving authentic Neapolitan pizza but don’t have the space for a wood fired oven, this Baccarat countertop pizza oven is a great solution. Like wood fired pizza, it heats up to 400°C so you can enjoy perfectly cooked pizzas at home in less than five minutes. It’s also compact, easy to use and made from premium steel with a removable ceramic baking stone for even heat distribution – plus a glass window to check how your pizza is cooking.

“This pizza oven is so easy to use and makes THE MOST delicious pizzas. We love it,” one customer who left a five star review on the Baccarat website said.

Colours: black and red

Key features:

• Dual electric heating elements you can adjust with a simple dial
• Reaches 400°C for wood-fired style pizzas in less than five minutes
• Ceramic baking stone for even cooking
• Lid lifter brackets for pizzas with extra toppings or to warm up other baked goods
• Tempered glass viewing window

Also available at:

• $129.99 (usually $259.99) at House
• $129.99 (usually $259.99) at Robins Kitchen
• $129.99 (usually $259.99) at Big W
• $259.99 at MyHouse

Best for: precise temperature control

With innovative cavity design utilising sensors, PID temperature control and optimised deflector technology, The Smart Oven Pizzaiolo from Breville lets you adjust what heating elements are on and the power of each to ensure your pizza is cooked to perfection.

It also has over 100 five star reviews on the Breville website.

“Easy and intuitive,” one customer who rated it five stars wrote. “Quick to warm up, cook and clean. Our favourite pre-made bases were good in the regular oven but great in the Pizzaiolo, puffing up with little black char marks.”

Key features:

• Uses electric Element IQ technology for precise temperature control
• Features a specialised pizza setting for authentic, wood-fired style pizzas
• Rapidly heats up to 400°C to cook pizzas quickly and evenly
• Equipped with a removable stone for crispy crusts and adjustable settings for different pizza types

Also available at:

• $899 (usually $999) at The Good Guys
• $1399 at David Jones
• $999 at Bing Lee

Best for: ultra-fast cooking

With over 2.6M views related to it on TikTok, the Ooni Karu 12G is one of the most advanced portable pizza ovens, combining a decade’s worth of pizza-making experience into one oven so you can cook a perfect pizza in just 60 seconds. With its Borosilicate glass door, you can keep an eye on your pizza without releasing heat and monitor temperature with the integrated thermometer.

“Pizza oven works great. We bought one [for] a friends 60th birthday and tried it out at his party that night. I then bought one the next day for our house,” one customer wrote in a five star review in 2024.

Another five star review said: “Was totally blown away at how easy it was to cook fantastic pizzas. Gas option is a must. Up to temp in 15 mins and pumping out Neapolitan pizzas in around a minute.”

Key features:

• Can be used with wood or charcoal, or a gas burner (sold separately) that uses over 35% less fuel than previous models
• Borosilicate glass door
• ClearView technology prevents soot and ash build-up
• Maximum temperature of 500°C
• Can cook pizzas in just 60 seconds
• Reaches ideal baking temperature of 450°C in as little as 15 minutes
• Integrated thermometer

Available at:

• $699 at The BBQ Store
• $699 at Minimax