We like: Rotating pizza stone for even cooking | Boost burner for crispy crusts | Rapid cooking time. You've seen the adverts and heard them butting into your podcast, but Ooni offers a versatile range of built-in and portable pizza ovens that heat up quickly, burn efficiently, and always deliver the tasty goods. This means you can use wood or charcoal for a smokey or traditional flavour, cutting down on costs overall, offering more versatility, and also becoming more cost-effective, as it can use a gas burner as well to reduce fuel consumption by 36 per cent over previous models.

Borrowing the classic design from Ooni's other successful pie bakers, the Karu 12G is a multi-fuel oven. All that efficiency does absolutely nothing to slow things down when it comes to cooking though, with this particular model rocketing up to 500 °C/950 °F, so you can rustle up a pizza in as little as 60 seconds if you so wish. The Karu 16 is a solid choice for most people looking to step up their pizza game, combining a compact size (while still remaining roomy inside), super-hot temperatures, and a handy glass door for keeping that all-important heat in.On the cooking front, it's supremely well-equipped with a cyclone heat distribution tech that pumps the hot air evenly over your pizza and through the stone underneath for perfectly baked pizzas in less than two minutes. Unbeatable heat retention - 30mm double-layer stone floor and dense cavity insulation means it can reach higher temperatures, faster – and stays hotter. The wood burner clips on in the same way as the gas burner and you feed in pieces of kiln-dried wood. Don't overdo it with toppings Less is definitely more as too many toppings will leave you with a soggy base and watery top. Of course, the Fyra is more effort than a gas-fired alternative, and it will need one person’s (almost) undivided attention for the best results, especially if you want to cook multiple pizzas for a large group when you’ll need to get the oven back up to temperature between bakes.

It can be difficult to gauge exactly how much space you need to set up a pizza oven, especially if you're new to this type of outdoor cooking. You can't keep track of the temperature, as there's no in-built thermometer, so you'll need some tactical nous and a healthy dose of patience to get the perfect results consistently.It's not particularly portable, granted, but if you're just after a massive pizza in your garden, then ditch the Domino's and step towards an Ooni Koda.

Easily the best-looking offering on this list, its curvy, minimal design propels it well beyond the realms of a merely functional piece of cooking equipment.Manage the temperature on the body of the oven itself – which admittedly does require a bit of finessing – but if you like pretending you look like you know what you’re doing while baking pizzas, this is a top choice. It's got ample space for 16-inch pizza dishes and also looks rather slick, with a low chassis on short legs that keeps things tidy and not too difficult to place in the garden. Top world chefs and restaurants use the Gozney Roccbox on a regular basis and highly recommend it to pizza enthusiasts.