The 6 Best Outdoor Pizza Ovens of 2024, Based on Editor Testing and Reviews
With top picks like Ooni, Gozney, and even a few you haven't heard of.
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As summer approaches, we're prepping our outdoor spaces to spend more time outside — getting the grill in tip-top shape, making sure the fire pit is ready to go, and maybe buying a few new pieces for our backyard setup to really help savor the season. The afternoons and evenings of dining al fresco are more and more commonplace, and few foods beg to be enjoyed on the porch like homemade pizza right out of the oven. After all, pizza night is so much more fun when everyone can customize their own pie with their favorite toppings and then pop it into the oven themselves!
If you've ever tried making homemade pizza in a conventional or convection oven, then you know the results are nowhere near as tasty as the restaurant-style pies cooked near open-flame in a true pizza oven. That's because most household ovens can't reach the extremely high temperatures needed to quickly cook pizza. A typical pizza should cook in 60-90 seconds, meaning that the oven will need to reach at least 700 degrees F, a far cry from the 500-600 degree F max most household ovens can reliably reach. In short, you need a true pizza oven to get a truly restaurant-quality pie.
Pizza oven popularity has skyrocketed in the last few years, so there's more than a few options on the market. And while this might seem great for consumers, it can make it difficult to narrow down which oven is the best for you. You'll most likely be spending $200-$500 on a pizza oven, so you want to be sure that what you're getting is not only the best quality, but also that your oven is suitable for your needs. For instance, you may want to splurge on the best-quality, stand-alone pizza oven if you never plan on moving it from your backyard. But if you want to take your pizza game on the road, then portability should be top concern.
Lucky for you, we've researched and tested more than a few pizza ovens on the market right now, and we've narrowed down the best of the best for every different situation.
The Best Outdoor Pizza Ovens
Hannah Jones is the Commerce Editor for Country Living. Her eye is always on the next up-and-coming products to include in gift guides and she's ready to test everything from dog beds to garden tools for product reviews. When she’s not scoping out the latest and greatest items on the market, you can find her hanging with her two rescue dogs.
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