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The domestic pizza oven revolution began a few years ago and shows no sign of stopping. These versatile ovens can be found in gardens across the UK, delivering fresh, delicious pizza to the masses – usually after a little bit of trial and error.
A few years ago, the market was dominated by two brands, Ooni and Gozney. However, there’s now plenty of choice across a whole range of price points, including those fuelled by wood, gas or a combination of the two.
While takeaway pizza has a place in our hearts, if you want to take your slice of Italy to the next level – we’re talking piping hot and as fresh as can be – you’ll want to invest in one of the best pizza ovens on the market.
In this year’s list, we’ve added all the new ovens we’ve tested since our last slice-fest - and removed those that have been bested by more recent innovations. Keep scrolling for our pick of the best pizza ovens to buy in 2025.
How we tested
We’ve been testing pizza ovens since they first started appearing, and we’d like to think we’re getting good at producing classic Neapolitans, with their delicious puffy crusts, flavoured with charring (known as leopard-spotting), which only serves to complement the simple mozzarella and tomato topping.
We also decided to expand our testing repertoire to include some calzone (where an oven’s chamber size allowed), which is a real test of a pizza oven’s controllability and versatility.
Pre-heating is incredibly important, unless you like gooey undercooked pizzas, so we timed each oven to see how long it would keep you waiting before cooking, and then kept the stopwatch handy to see how long each one took to cook the ingredients.
We also looked at the ovens’ levels of heat retention – an important factor if you’re cooking multiple margheritas and don’t want to wait too long for the oven to get back up to temperature after the first cook.
Why you can trust IndyBest reviews
Jon Axworthy has been a feature writer since 1996 and has been contributing reviews to IndyBest since 2017. He specialises in the outdoors and has tried and tested myriad products, from gas barbecues to camping stoves and much more, offering his honest opinions to help you find the best products. He’s been reviewing pizza ovens for years, updating his list of the best as new models are released.
The best pizza ovens for 2025 are:
- Best overall – Zanussi pizza oven, ZGP01PC: £199, Currys.co.uk
- Best budget buy – Zanussi pizza oven, ZP01BC: £149, Amazon.co.uk
- Best for different pizza styles – Ninja woodfire electric artisan pizza maker: £329.99, Ninjakitchen.co.uk
- Best large pizza oven – Ooni koda 2 max: £899, Ooni.com
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