5 portable pizza ovens for perfectly doughy slices at home

Best for: restaurant-grade pizza

The Roccbox rocks…big time. This dome-shaped Gozney pizza oven is designed to replace traditional pizza ovens in professional kitchens, so you can truly bring chef-quality pizza into your own home. It reaches up to 500°C comfortably on either gas (for convenience) or traditional wood. The propane gas fitting is the default, but the additional detachable wood burner is a must-have for the discerning pizza fan.

Best of all, the Roccbox is fitted with a safe touch silicon jacket (très chic) so you can get the whole family involved without worrying about little hands touching hot metal.

It boasts a 4.8 star-rating from over 2,260 reviews, with one customer writing: “Reinvented what we class as good pizza. Next level pizza game.” Another added: “The oven gets up to temperature in 10-15 minutes and then cooks fantastic pizzas in 60 seconds. What more could you want! I wholeheartedly recommend buying a Roccbox.”

Colours: grey, olive, yellow and black

Key features:

• No assembly required
• Easy to transport with lifting strap
• Retractable legs that fold away
• Detachable burners are easy to switch off/on between wood and gas
• Built-in thermometer
• Comes with professional-grade pizza peel

Best for: quick pizzas on the go

Ooni comes charging out of the gates with its first ever all-electric portable pizza oven. Old hat pizza makers may scoff and wonder, “how can this little electric device achieve the temperatures necessary to replicate a woodfired result?” Well never fear! Reaching 450°C in just 20 minutes, and cooking your pizza in as little as 90 seconds, don’t put Baby in the corner!

This petite pizza maker means business. Featuring adjustable dials to control top and bottom heating for an even heat distribution, the stone base ensures a perfect, bubbly crust every time.

Key features:

• Reaches 450°C to emulate a traditional woodfired oven
• Heat-retaining triple-paned borosilicate glass door for controlled heat
• Lightweight with built-in handles for easy transport
• Innovative boost heat function returns fading heat within minutes

Also available at:

• $1349 (usually $1499) at David Jones
• $1499 at The BBQ Store
• $1499 at Minimax

Best for: family fun night

Constructed from premium steel and complete with its own chic black carry bag, Gourmet Kitchen’s portable pizza oven is a compact, lightweight oven. Quick to heat and with a stone base for even heat distribution, the gas-powered oven will deliver your pizza perfectly cooked in minutes. A viewing window also allows you to keep an eye on your pizza as it cooks, but with a built in timer, you’ll hardly need it.

Key features:

• Foldable legs and carry bag for easy transportation
• Generous oven space for recipes other than pizza
• Comes with tailor-made grilling accessories
• Fast to heat up
• Powered by gas

Also available at:

• $314 (usually $599) at Temple & Webster
• $347.96 (usually $399.95) at Woolworths
• $349.95 (usually $599) at Kitchen Warehouse
• $420.41 at Amazon

Best for: apartment-dwellers with a love of homemade dough

Quick and efficient, the Breville Smart Oven Pizzaiolo portable pizza oven reaches temperatures of 400°C, so your pizza can be ready within two minutes. The oven uses a conductive system for even heat distribution, ensuring your pizza base buffs and chars to perfection while your cheese bubbles and melts. With cooking settings ranging from “New York style” to “frozen”, it’s a versatile option, and you can rest easy knowing the cooking is in smart hands.

“This pizza oven for its size is up there with the industrial style pizza ovens and makes perfect pizza all the time,” said a reviewer who left five stars. “I love how it has a setting for the type of pizza base you would like to cook. I would definitely recommend this pizza oven for whoever wants to make world class pizza recipes. This is better than buying pizza from your local pizzeria. Well done Breville.”

Key features:

• Benchtop sized for easy storage
• Reaches 400°C to emulate a traditional woodfired oven
• Built in head deflection design for evenly distributed heat
• Pre-set and manual cooking functions to customise your experience

Also available at:

• $898 (usually $1199) at Amazon
• $899 (usually $1199) at Breville
• $899 at The Good Guys
• $999 at Bing Lee

Best for: backyard entertaining

In another environmentally friendly, innovative design from Ooni, the Fyra 12 runs on small wood pellets, which are compact and easy to store, and burn cleanly with little ash left behind.

A gravity-fed hopper automatically feeds the pellets to the machine, so all you have to worry about is keeping it topped up and firing. A 3kg bag of pellets will give you two to three hours of cooking, making them a cost-effective alternative to wood. But do the pellets sustain a temperature comparable to traditional wood? Well, how does 500 °C in 15 minutes sound?

“So happy with this little pocket rocket,” wrote a five-star reviewer. “After building our own brick pizza oven and using it for years, we moved house and missed it, however we didn’t miss the work/time involved with heating it up hours prior…”

Key features:

• Extremely lightweight with retractable legs for easy transportation
• Wood pellet fired
• Reaches 500°C in 15 minutes
• Stone base for puffed crust

Also available at:

• $400 at Anaconda
• $439 at Big W
• $479.95 (usually $549) at Kitchen Warehouse
• $549 at Amazon
• $549 at The BBQ Store