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Whether you have an alfresco entertaining area or a balcony, the smell of delicious pizza cooking in an authentic pizza oven can take your outdoor space to the next level.
I’m actually speaking from experience here – I got a pizza oven this spring and my household has been spending a lot more evenings on our deck and in the backyard. Not to mention having a great time making pizzas just the way we want them.
A pizza oven can also transport you from Australia to Italy in moments, whether you use ready-made bases or make the dough from scratch. Many of them can also be used for other dishes or sides, so they’re great for entertaining.
With design, function and affordability in mind, here we’ve rounded up some of the best pizza ovens currently on the market that’ll make a statement in your alfresco entertaining area, balcony or even your kitchen. Even better, some of them are on sale.
2025’s top pizza ovens
- Best for authentic pizzas: Ooni Karu 2 Pro multi-fuel pizza oven, $1299, Ooni
- Best for even cooking: Gozney Arc XL pizza oven, $1499, Gozney
- Best for levelling up your pizza game: Ooni Koda 2, $749, Ooni
- Best for smoky flavour: Ninja Woodfire Outdoor Oven, $699.99 at Amazon
- Best for indoor or outdoor electric cooking: Breville The Smart Oven Pizzaiolo, $749 at Amazon
The best pizza ovens in Australia in 2025
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Ooni Karu 2 Pro multi-fuel pizza oven
$1299, Ooni
Best for: authentic pizzas
Ooni is an approved supplier for the international authority on authentic Neapolitan pizza, Associazione Verace Pizza Napoletana – so it’s a great brand if you’re after authenticity. The Karu 2 Pro is designed to cook large, 16-inch restaurant-quality pizzas in as little as 60 seconds. The large size of the oven and its advanced design also means you can use it to cook a whole roast chicken, other meat, seared veggies and fresh bread. Plus you can choose from wood, charcoal or gas for your cooking fuel.
“Love the pizza oven. It heats up quick and pizza are yummy. We also tried cooking chicken, veggies and pita- all came out really nice,” one customer shared in a five star review. Another customer shared: “Kids would only ever eat one type of pizza from the local. . . they eat anything that comes out of the Ooni!”
Pizza capacity: 16in
Fuel type: Wood, charcoal or gas
Key features:
- Multiple fuel options for versatility – cook with wood, charcoal or gas
- Reaches 500°C in 15 minutes
- ClearView glass door technology to monitor cooking progress
- Mounted digital thermometer and app
- 17-inch wide cooking surface ideal for cooking large, 16-inch pizzas
Also available at:
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Gozney Arc XL pizza oven
$1499, Gozney
Best for: evenly cooked pizza
This pizza oven from Gozney features an innovative design where the flame curves from one side of the oven to the other in an arc – a design feature that also gave this oven its name. The result is a flame that makes even cooking easier without as much turning off the pizza. Fuelled by gas, and with a built-in digital thermometer to give you the exact temperature, the Arc XL creates restaurant-quality 16-inch pizza in around 60 seconds.
“In two weeks I’ve made 25 pizzas. I’m still shocked that it takes a little more than 60 seconds to cook a pie. The video introduction to making pizza was also super fun. I couldn’t be a bigger fan,” one customer shared in a 5-star review via Trustpilot, where it has a 4.7-star average from over 210 reviews.
Pizza capacity: 16 inch
Fuel type: Propane gas
Key features:
- Precision control lateral-flame that arcs across the inside of the oven
- Double-layer stone floor and dense cavity insulation for optimal heat retention
- Reaches 500°C for authentic style pizza
- Precise temperature control so you can make different styles of pizza, from Neapolitan to New York and Detroit
- Five-year warranty
03
Ooni Koda 2 pizza oven
$749, Ooni
Best for: levelling up your pizza game
The Ooni Koda 2 is a powerful, lightweight, portable outdoor pizza oven with a proprietary, patent-pending, tapered flame gas burner that directs heat where you need it for restaurant-quality pizzas. It’s designed for easy use straight out of the box – all you need is an LPG gas bottle to connect it.
Better Homes & Gardens Australia shopping writer and deals editor, Amy Bradney-George recently tested this pizza oven and has called it a “game-changer”
“It’s easy to set up, reaches 500°C quickly and cooks pizzas in as little as 60 seconds. Although, as a novice at making homemade pizza with fresh dough, I’ve found it usually takes around 2-5 minutes. The adjustable flame is great for helping get both the top and pizza base cooked (the stone needs to be piping hot for the base), and it’s very easy to clean.
If you’ve never made Neapolitan style pizza, I would happily recommend the Ooni Koda 2 as a starting point. I also think it’s great for anyone who wants to level-up their pizza-making skills.”
Amy Bradney-George, Shopping writer and deals editor
Pizza capacity: 14 inch
Fuel type: LPG gas
Key features:
- Tapered flame burner design
- Reaches 500°C for authentic style pizza
- Side-mounted gas control panel with electric spark ignition
- Folding legs with rear lock
- 14 inch cooking stone
- “Great Pizza Guarantee” gives you a 60-day money back period
- Five-year warranty
04
Ninja Woodfire Outdoor Oven
$699.99 at Amazon
Best for: smoky flavour
This compact woodfire oven packs a punch, delivering smoky flavour to your pizzas – and anything else you make with it – using just half a cup of wood pellets. With temperatures from 25°C to 370°C, you can also use it as a BBQ smoker, and to bake, roast, dehydrate and more.
One Australian on Amazon went as far as calling it the “Best pizza oven ever, so quick” – and it has an impressive 4.8-star average rating from over 1650 customers on the Ninja website.
“Fantastic product! Highly recommended if you enjoy a good pizza. Looking forward to cooking more food in it,” one customer shared in a five star review.
Buon appetito.
Pizza capacity: 30cm
Fuel type: Electricity with wood pellets for smoky flavour
Key features:
- 8-in-1 functionality: Pizza, Max Roast, Gourmet Roast, Top Heat, Bake, Smoker, Dehydrate and Keep Warm
- Five pizza settings: Artisan, Thin Crust, New York, Deep Pan and Calzone
- Makes no-turn pizzas in as little as three minutes
- Temperatures from 25-370°C
- BBQ foods low and slow with authentic smoky flavour
Available at:
- $599 from Ninja
05
Breville The Smart Oven Pizzaiolo
$749 at Amazon
Best for: easy indoor pizza nights
All the thinking is taken out of the mealtime equation with this Breville’s pizza oven, which is packed with intuitive features for a smooth-sailing pizza night. According to Breville, it’s the first benchtop home pizza oven to reach 400°C – and at that heat it can create pizzas similar to traditional wood-fired ovens. Plus, you can use it indoors, making it ideal no matter what the weather.
As far as the results go, one Australian customer’s 5-star review on Amazon, summed it up with: “For 7 years been trying different oven and different methods to make pizza. This just works. Consistently. Perfectly every single time. I’d buy more if I could. Chefs kiss.”
Another customer on The Good Guys said: “This pizza oven for its size is up there with the industrial style pizza ovens and makes perfect pizza all the time. I love how it has a setting for the type of pizza base you would like to cook. I would definitely recommend this pizza oven for whoever wants to make world class pizza recipes. This is better than buying pizza from your local pizzeria.”
Pizza capacity: 30cm
Fuel type: Electricity
Key features:
- Conductive heat for base char control
- Convective heat for base toppings
- Pre-set pizza functions including iconic New York, woodfired, thin and crispy and more
- Customisable manual mode
- Free delivery
Also available at:
- $799, The Good Guys
- $1199 from Breville
- $850 from Bing Lee
- $999 from David Jones
- $1399 at Myer
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Ooni Volt 2 electric pizza oven
$1499, Ooni
Best for: a high-heat electric pizza oven
If you live in an apartment or in a home without a large outdoor area, this electric pizza oven from Ooni Australia is one of the best choices for small spaces. It’s ready to use straight from the box and can cook Neapolitan-style pizza in just 90 seconds. It also has a temperature range of 40°C to 450°C, so you can use it for a whole lot more than traditional pizzas.
“The Ooni Volt 2 is an absolute dream for anyone who loves making pizza at home. As an electric oven, it’s so easy to use—just plug it in, set your precise temperature, and it holds it perfectly. No more guessing with flames! It bakes a stunning, bubbly, Neapolitan-style pizza in just minutes. The large glass door lets you watch the magic happen. It’s a fantastic investment for effortless, year-round pizza nights,” one customer shared in a five star review.
Pizza capacity: 12in / 30cm
Fuel type: Electricity
Key features:
- Adaptive heating system that adjusts the oven’s temperature for speed, accuracy and baking consistency
- Three pre-set pizza modes, a dough proofing mode and two custom pre-set modes
- Reaches 450°C in 20 minutes
- Ready to use out of the box
- Two-year warranty
- Free shipping and returns
07
Everdure Kiln R Series 2 burner pizza oven in Terracotta
from $999 (was $1056), Appliances Online
Best for: perfectly-cooked bases
This stylish pizza oven from Everdure is designed to make it easy to cook pizzas just the way you want, without the need to rotate them by hand, with a battery-operated turntable. It also has a burner under the stone, as well as a u-shaped burner on the sides, so both the crust and base are cooked evenly.
Once it’s heated up (around 15-18 minutes), your pizzas will cook in under two minutes each. Plus you can use it to sear, bake and roast a variety of other dishes.
Customers also rate this pizza oven highly, with the Google product listing showing a 4.7-star average from over 30 reviews.
“The experience when using the oven is great, the smells and seeing the pizza cook in a minute or less is just very exciting. the rotary platform is so good too defintely very happy that we decided on this oven instead of one without the rotaty platform, lets you enjoy the process more and not have to worry about burning anything,” one customer shared in a detailed review.
Pizza capacity: 16” (approx. 40cm)
Fuel type: Gas
Key features:
- Heats to 400°C in just 15 minutes
- High-performance u-shaped burner
- Battery-operated rotating turntable for even cooking, with up to 50 hours of use from 4 AA batteries
- Two-year warranty
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Gozney Dome outdoor pizza oven
$2999, Barbeques Galore
Best for: versatility
Make restaurant-quality pizza – or roast, smoke, steam or bake other dishes in the comfort of your own backyard with this Dome professional-grade outdoor oven. It gives you a choice between using wood for that authentic wood-fired pizza flavour, as well as a built-in gas burner, which you can switch between and reach up to 500°C at the turn of a dial.
“Game changer,” one customer wrote in a five-star review. “There is clearly a focus in engineering and design. The oven was easy to set up, cure for first usage, and operate.”
Another review noted the versatility of the oven: “One thing that should be stressed more, in my opinion, is that it isn’t just a pizza oven. We’ve cooked chicken, beef roast, shish-kebabs, and even hamburgers in it! Of course, we’ve also made several pizzas and flatbreads… Being able to fully cook a pizza in less than 2 minutes is so awesome, because you can cook 3 or 4 before the first one gets cold!”
Pizza capacity: 38cm
Fuel type: Propane and wood
Key features:
- Digital thermometer
- Innovative air ventilation
- Double-layer stone floor and dense cavity insulation for heat retention
- Steam injector
- Quick-connect accessory port
- Water-resistant and UV-stable ceramic bonded outer coating
- Five-year warranty
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Tefal Pizza Pronto outdoor gas oven
from $299.95 (usually $699.95), Tefal
Best for: an easy-to-use pizza oven
This pizza oven from Tefal makes it easy to cook your pizzas with an open flame, with a rotating base you can control from a knob on the side. This means you don’t need to reach in to rotate the pizza like you would with a traditional oven, but can still have some control over when the pizza is turned.
It also comes with an included pizza peel to get your pizzas in and out, and is one of the lower-priced gas pizza ovens on the list.
“Feels really solid and premium. Will definitely last a really long time. It was really easy to set up too, but most importanly the pizzas cooked very quickly and turned out amazing even for a first try. Like proper restaurant quality pizza with crispy base and bubbly crust,” one customer shared in a 5-star review on the Tefal website, where it has a 4.8-star average from over 19 reviews.
Pizza capacity: approx. 12 inches
Fuel type: Gas
Key features:
- Reaches 400°C in just 15 minutes
- Rapid cooking in as little as 90 seconds
- 360° inner rotating cordierite pizza stone that you can control from the side
- Includes pizza peel, plus gas hose and connector
Also available at:
How to find the best pizza oven in Australia
There are lots of factors to consider when you’re shopping for pizza ovens, from the type of fuel used to the size and portability, and everyone has different ideas about what’s best. So, rather than looking for the best pizza oven Australia has to offer, here are 4 questions to keep in mind that will help you get the right one for you:
- How often will you use it? While the idea of having pizza every week (or even every night) will appeal to most people, it’s not necessarily practical or realistic. So consider how much effort you want to spend on making pizzas, as well as how much you want to spend on the oven, to help choose the best pizza oven for your home.
- Where do you want to put it? A pizza oven is arguably one of the best functional features to add to your outdoor area, but if you don’t have the space (or are worried about rain), you could focus your search on ovens that can be used indoors.
- What type of fuel do you want to use? The best pizza ovens in Australia give you a choice of fuel options – typically wood or charcoal and gas or electricity. Thinking about what’s most important both in terms of flavour, cooking time and convenience will help you choose one that’s ideal for you.
- What accessories do you need? As well as the price of the pizza oven, you may need to factor in the cost of practical accessories, such as a pizza peel to get your pizza in and out of the oven. Some of the best pizza oven brands in Australia sell these separately, so it’s worth factoring in the cost before you decide on an oven.
The best pizza oven in Australia is one that lets you make tasty pizzas whenever you want. But just like pizza topping preferences (pineapple, anyone), everyone has a different idea of what’s best.
As a general rule of thumb, if you want authenticity and specialised cooking, a pizza oven is the way to go but if it’s convenient, a convection oven also does the trick. When it comes to individual pizza ovens, brands such as Ooni and Gozney are widely considered to make some of the best pizza ovens in Australia. But there are plenty of other options out there, so it really does come down to finding that right mix of features at the price you want.
Wood-fired pizza ovens are best for the distinct and authentic flavour that comes from using wood as the source of fuel. But that doesn’t mean it’s always better than other sources of fuel. An electric pizza oven, for example, could be better if you want to make delicious pizza quickly – and both electric and gas heating can give you more control over heat distribution and charring. Charcoal, on the other hand, is popular because it can get hotter and stay hot for longer than wood, and can still give you a delicious, smokey flavour.
But the best pizza ovens in Australia all include features that help you produce that authentic, charred crust and rich flavour thanks to their high cooking heat and exceptional design. So as well as fuel, it’s important to consider other factors that will make a pizza oven ideal for you.
Pizza ovens can reach higher temperatures than regular ovens, which allows them to cook pizzas with a more authentic texture and smokier taste. They also tend to have more even, high-heat distribution and faster cooking times.
How we select the best pizza ovens on this list
The Better Homes & Gardens team has collectively assessed and tried a range of pizza ovens to develop a clear set of criteria for our top picks. We regularly review the range of pizza ovens on the market in Australia, then narrow it down to ones available with our partners and consider the following criteria:
- Type of cooking fuel or fuels
- Temperature range, including highest maximum temperature
- Performance and performance-related features
- Efficiency
- Design and capacity
- Warranty coverage and maintenance
- Reviews, including our own hands-on experiences when possible
- Other notable features or elements, such as safety features, portability and the ability to cook more than pizza
We also consider different price-points, sales and availability of stock to help ensure you can get a pizza oven that suits you.
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