Are you a truffle and parmesan aficionado, or a smoked salmon and crème fraîche toppings kind of person? Either way, a portable pizza oven will take your entertaining to new heights.
When shopping around for a pizza oven, consider whether you want to cook pizzas outdoors or indoors and your preferred method of fuel (electric, charcoal, wood, or gas). There’s an option for all pizza connoisseurs, whether you’re craving that smoky, wood-fired flavour or you want to recreate a cheesy, Chicago-style pizza pie.
Read on to shop our foodie-approved edit of the best pizza ovens in New Zealand, and turn your home into the neighbourhood’s hottest pizzeria.
The best pizza ovens in NZ, according to Your Home and Garden
- The best indoor pizza ovens (here’s why)
- The best outdoor pizza ovens (here’s why)
1. The best indoor pizza ovens in NZ
Wonder Oven
A stylish benchtop oven for perfectly crisped pizza
Craving pizza or flatbread? The Wonder Oven is the stylish addition to your kitchen benchtop you never knew you needed. For the perfect balance of melted cheese, flavourful toppings and a crispy base and crust, utilise the oven’s steam infusion technology by adding two teaspoons of water to the steam inlet after preheating on bake mode.
Available in four eye-catching colours, the retro-style oven is more than a pretty facade. Its parts are free from synthetic chemicals commonly found in appliances, so it’s a safe, non-toxic choice for your family.
Power type: Electric
Cooking functions: Air fry, bake, roast, toast, broil, reheat
Maximum temperature: 232°C
Pizza size: 30cm
Colours: Spice pink, Charcoal grey, Blue, Steam beige
Key features:
- Cook meals up to 30% faster than a traditional oven
- Comes with wire rack, bake pan, air fryer basket and crumb tray
Cuisinart Pizza Oven
The best pizza oven for carb lovers
Craving an authentic thin-crust Margherita, Chicago-style deep-dish pizza, calzone or focaccia? The Cuisinart Pizza Oven’s ceramic stone ensures high, even heat, while the adjustable temperature control gives you the precision to achieve your desired result. Perfezione!
Power type: Electric
Maximum temperature: 380°C
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Comes with pizza peel
- 3-year warranty
MasterPro Indoor/Outdoor Pizza Oven
The best pizza oven for indoor and outdoor use
Cook pizzas in just two minutes with this efficient pizza oven. The automatic rotating pizza stone ensures evenly-cooked results, slides out for safe pizza retrieval, and is detachable for easy cleaning.
With this oven, nothing can stand between you and your pizza – not even the weather, as it’s designed for indoor and outdoor use.
Power type: Electric
Maximum temperature: 450°C
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Digital timer and temperature control panel
- IXP4 weather resistant rating
- Comes with pizza stone and rain cover
- One year manufacturer’s warranty
Cozze Electric Pizza Oven
The best pizza oven for family pizza night
This indoor pizza oven cooks a 13-inch pizza in just 120 seconds, a quick way to feed many mouths. You can plug it in on your benchtop or use it on the patio or balcony.
The pizza oven’s removable stone makes cleanup easy, and it’s built to last, so it’s sure to be the family’s favourite food gadget for years to come.
Power type: Electricity
Maximum temperature: 450 °C
Pizza size: 33cm
Key features:
- 2-year warranty
- Cook pizza in just 120 seconds
The Smart Oven Pizzaiolo
The best pizza oven for customisable creations
Replicating the heat of a brick oven, the Breville Pizzaiolo offers a variety of presets to cook your pizza just the way you like it, from wood-fired and thin & crispy to reheating from frozen.
You can customise your ideal heat configuration in manual mode, including a ‘crust only’ setting to achieve the classic leopard spotting effect on Neapolitan pizzas, or use the ‘even heat’ setting for all-round browned toppings, cheese and dough.
With temperatures reaching 400°C, you can cook a wood-fired pizza in just 2 minutes. So, what are you waiting for?
Power type: Electric
Cooking functions: Manual, wood-fired, New York, pan pizza, thin & crispy, frozen
Maximum temperature: 400°C
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Comes with pizza peel and pizza pan
- Two-year replacement warranty
- Free shipping
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2. The best portable outdoor pizza ovens in NZ
Woodfire Outdoor Oven
The best outdoor pizza oven for an authentic, smoky woodfired taste
It’s almost insulting to refer to this gadget simply as a pizza oven. It’s a complete outdoor kitchen that can roast, smoke, bake, dehydrate, and more. It comes with a pizza peel and stone, ensuring you have everything you need to create artisan pizzas at home.
The best part? Add a scoop of wood pellets to the oven’s smoke box for an authentic, earthy, wood-fired flavour.
Editor’s note: Since the Ninja Woodfire Outdoor Oven is powered by electricity, you’ll need to plug it into a power outlet. Depending on your setup, you may need an extension cord.
Power type: Electric
Cooking functions: Pizza, max roast, gourmet roast, BBQ smoker, bake, top heat, dehydrate, keep warm
Maximum temperature: 370°C
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Cook meals up to 40% faster than an indoor wall oven
- Comes with pizza peel, pizza stone, pro heat pan, roast rack, pellet starter pack
- Weather resistant
- 2-year warranty
- Free shipping
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BBQ Pizza Oven with Pizza Stone
The best method to cook a pizza on your barbeque
This attachment transforms your BBQ into a pizza oven – no assembly is required. Place it on your BBQ, and enjoy piping hot, evenly cooked pizzas courtesy of the thick stone base and stainless steel housing.
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Removable pizza stone for easy cleaning
- Built-in temperature gauge
- No assembly required
Karu 2
The best portable pizza oven for the beach or campsite
The Ooni Karu 2 is the world’s most advanced portable domestic pizza oven, even winning an award for its design. It runs on wood, charcoal, or gas (with a separate attachable gas burner) and is constructed from premium materials, including borosilicate glass that’s safe to touch and doesn’t release heat.
With the ability to reach 500˚C, the Ooni Karu 2 can cook pizza in just 60 seconds. Portable and ready to join you at the beach, campsite, or neighbour’s backyard, fold the Ooni pizza oven’s legs, detach the chimney, put on the carry cover, and take it with you. Life’s too short to live without good pizza – or steak.
Fuel type: Wood or charcoal (for authentic wood-fired flavour), or attach a separate gas burner
Maximum temperature: 500 °C
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Integrated thermometer for monitoring temperature
- Five-year warranty
Jumbuck Portable Pizza Oven
The best portable pizza oven for affordability
Powered by gas, the Jumbuck pizza oven’s high temperatures and cordierite pizza stone deliver restaurant-quality pizzas.
No assembly is required, and the pizza oven includes a pizza peel for easy sliding in and out, a pizza cutter, and a carry bag for transporting or storing when not in use.
Power type: Gas
Maximum temperature: 482°C
Pizza size: 30cm
Key features:
- Comes with pizza peel, pizza cutter and carry bag
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