Pizzas taste at their very best when they have been cooked in a super hot oven. Heat creates the perfect pizza with a crispy crust and deliciously charred top. Any longer than a couple of minutes and your oven probably isn’t hot enough. While this used to mean visiting a specialist pizza joint, you can now get great outdoor pizza ovens that are portable enough to take camping or just use in your backyard.
There are several different types of oven (which can also be used for bread, roasting, and baking). Wood-fired ovens have been flash baking pizzas for hundreds of years and give food a delicious smoky flavor. Some ovens sit on top of your current barbecue grill and use its heat, adding variety to any barbecue. You can also use ovens that have dedicated gas burners to reach the 700°F needed for the best pizzas you’ll ever taste.
BIG HORN OUTDOORS Pizza Oven
Wood-fired portable oven for an authentic smoky taste
Coming up to high temperature in 15 minutes, this portable wood pellet-burning oven will cook you a great pizza in just 90 seconds. It’s easy to assemble in minutes and has four stable foldable legs making it fully portable and ideal for campsite or backyard pizzas. Wood pellets give your food a smoky flavor that works for meat, fish, and veg as well as pizzas.
Camp Chef Artisan Outdoor Pizza Oven
Fits on a stove with a ceramic pizza stone inside
This open faced pizza oven fits all Camp Chef 16” stoves. Cooking like a traditional wood-fired oven but with adjustable heat, it means you can cook different styles of pizza, including frozen. The ceramic stone will give you the perfect crust and a built-in temperature gauge will show you the heat generated up to 700°F.
BakerStone O-ABDHX-O-000 Original Box Kit Pizza Oven
Classic pizza oven that fits on a bbq grill
This pizza oven couldn’t be simpler. Fitting on most three-burner and larger gas or charcoal grills, once up to temperature, it will bake your pizza in two to four minutes. You can also bake bread and roast meat, vegetables, and fish inside. The kit includes a pizza oven box, wooden pizza peel, and metal pizza turner.
BakerStone O-AJLXX-O-000 Portable Gas Pizza Oven
Gas-powered pizza oven with folding legs
Powered by a 20lb propane gas cylinder (not included), this oven reaches over 800°F so cooks perfect crispy crust pizzas in under two minutes. It includes the pizza oven box, firebox with regulator, and folding legs. The oven is easily removed for cleaning and transport. Optional extras include griddles and grills for cooking other types of food.
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Being able to make perfect, restaurant-quality pizzas at your camp, outdoor event or backyard barbecue feels like a culinary superpower. Once the oven is up to high temperature, each pizza takes just a couple of minutes to bake and the results are so delicious that everyone will be talking about them afterward. We recommend the BIG HORN OUTDOORS Pizza Oven. Using wood pellets means you get that unmistakable wood-fired taste but from a fully portable oven, which you can take anywhere.
If you want to be able to rely on gas for cooking your pizzas, the BakerStone O-AJLXX-O-000 Portable Gas Pizza Oven is a good choice. This dedicated portable oven gets hot quickly thanks to bottled propane and feels very well constructed and stable. This makes it ideal when you need a reliable pizza oven with an adjustable temperature.
