Who doesn’t like pizza, woodfired pizza to boot?

Our final exam at TAFE was to build a pizza oven. My teachers were highly practical, like that time we had to make our girlfriends a rose holder and water jug for Valentine’s Day. Good times.

Back to the pizza oven. It’s had a pretty good life. Normally I ran it on BBQ heat beads and it could cook a pizza in 3 minutes; any longer and I was treating my guests like gods, presenting them with burnt offerings… but after ten years it had rusted out, considering it was only made out of 1.6mm mild steel that was a pretty good run.

We’ve always wanted to share it with you guys and over covid experimented with multiple designs that didn’t take two full grown men to move like the original, have you checked out the cost of shipping lately??

The design had to be flat packed and 22kg max as that’s Australia Post’s limit.   It had to fit a 330mm pizza stone and reach temperatures of 455-543 degrees Celsius to cook a pizza in 3 minutes, the optimal temperature for woodfired pizza cooking.

We’ve tested this baby for 9 months, the growing period for an optimal baby, and it’s ready to meet the world. 

We found within our circle of friends some wood fired pizza connoisseurs, from those who had travelled Italy trying a new pizza everyday, to some sourdough warriors, and we left it in their capable hands to put our pizza oven through it’s paces.

The greatest compliment we received was from Mike who owns a $2,000 dome pizza oven, who said that it would take 2 hours of preparation with just the fire to get his brick dome style pizza oven up to temperature before he could even start cooking, which meant he simply didn’t use it as often as he would like to.  With ours he found that within a matter of fifteen minutes, he was able to start cooking a pizza and achieve the same results as with his big one.

Our Australian made wood fired pizza oven body is constructed of 2mm mild steel, with a stainless steel top and base. In our testing we discovered that the top of the pizza oven made a fantastic hotplate and to capitalise on that we decided to make that part stainless steel.   Pancakes and even steaks can be cooked directly on top, with the oven also able to accept a skillet or tray of mac and cheese achieving a smokey flavour.

Our aim was to bring an affordable pizza oven to the market within Australia that’s big enough to be useful and small enough to be portable, you might even find space to bring it with you on your next camping trip.