It seems only natural as the big bonus of kamado cookery has always been that the ceramic, which is what it’s traditionally made from, ensures that the wood fire gets the oven up to temperature quickly, insulates and maintains the heat. Through the activation of external content, you agree that personal data may be transferred to third party platforms. Rob Clymo has been a tech journalist for more years than he can actually remember, having started out in the wacky world of print magazines before discovering the power of the internet. It comes with detailed set-up guidance and cooking tips, and its user-friendly design means you can pop the pizza in and leave it to cook, with no rotating required.

Producing a pizza oven was obviously a natural progression for this Danish manufacturer, which established its reputation making high-end bio fireplaces and has drawn on this expertise to come up with the gas-powered turtle. Hannah is also interested in sustainability in the home and has completed a course with the University of the Arts London in sustainable textiles, so she can help cut through the noise on what’s green and what’s not. It’s double-walled building and construction, specialty heaters, and also ventilation style all interact to raise temperature levels to the extreme. The oven works with standalone gas bottles and you can get different fittings so that it’ll work with just about any one of these.Perfect for transforming your BBQ into an outdoor oven, the BBQ pizza oven comes fully assembled and is fast to heat up. The rotante will save you the hassle, because, with the flick of a switch, the pizza stone will start revolving to ensure even cooking every time. DiaVolo is a top brand when it comes to cooking pizza and the company has a brace of new units to help you do it. The oven consistently made moreish 10in pizzas with the stone drawing out enough moisture from the dough to give a nice crisp base and chewy crust to each one. Our Neapolitan base was delightfully light and crispy every time with puffed cheese and well-cooked toppings.

A single dial at the front of the oven controls a linear burner at the back, which got the oven up to cooking temperature within 10 minutes and created a very even heat throughout the chamber. Our pizza crusts rose well but there were a few spots where it could have benefitted from longer in the oven. As well as the obvious, you can use them to cook meat, breads, fish, roasted vegetables and even desserts. It delivers the delicious flavours of the Mediterranean and will bring some Italian sunshine into your own home. It still gets our vote as one of the best portable ovens out there, with easily retractable legs and a detachable external gas or wood burner, and the silicone outer layer stays cool to the touch.Thanks to the fibreglass shell, it’s surprisingly lightweight, just under 30kg, so can easily be moved around a garden.

Ooni Koda 12 is compatible with large propane tanks (normally used with barbecues), as well as 1lb propane tanks along with a suitable adaptor. You can also equip it with one (or two) stainless steel side shelf(s) (optional) as well as a warming box that also allows you to cook at low temperature (optional). To keep the outside of the oven looking its best, smudges and fingerprints can be removed from stainless steel with a damp cloth, before being polished with a microfiber cloth. I know it's not wood fired but since the pizza is only in my wood fired oven for a couple of minutes I doubt that it's much different from a gas fired oven. Made of stainless steel, the oven is a piece of long-lasting cookware that will impress you and your guests.Given the unpredictability of the British weather, this indoor pizza oven will appeal if you’re after properly cooked pizza, come rain or shine. Dragging it out and chopping it up a bit meant my remaining pizza was a lot smaller, but the cooking continued. It’s fueled by a one-pound disposable propane bottle and is little enough to take a trip with you any place you go. There’s a temperature gauge on the oven that allows you to monitor the oven temperature easily while baking, which is the key to baking food. It reached the lower end of its optimum heat range in 14 minutes and peaked at an impressive 450 degrees.