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Best Pizza Ovens for 2024, All Tested by Us

Fuel type

gozney oven on table

The Gozney is an excellent oven, but heavier than the average model at 60 pounds. 

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Home pizza ovens run on either gas, charcoal or wood. Propane and natural gas pizza ovens can be connected quickly, ignite instantaneously and heat up in just a few minutes. They also burn clean, with less smoke and little mess to clean up. 

Wood and charcoal ovens, in contrast, need to be loaded (and sometimes reloaded) and take longer to heat up; also, an even temperature is trickier to maintain. They also make a bigger mess, leaving behind ash and soot.

And though you may assume wood-fired pizza ovens would impart a smoky flavor, the pies are not in the oven long enough to absorb much of that wood flavor. 

Someone uses an Ooni pizza peel to slide a pepperoni pizza out of an Ooni pizza oven set up on a metal tabletop. Someone uses an Ooni pizza peel to slide a pepperoni pizza out of an Ooni pizza oven set up on a metal tabletop.

A pizza peel is the most critical accessory for making pies at home.

Ooni

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