The rotante will save you the hassle, because, with the flick of a switch, the pizza stone will start revolving to ensure even cooking every time. To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average.

In our eyes, a pizza peel is an essential, but some brands don't provide these as standard, and this will be an additional cost.There are seven preset modes for all styles of pizza (from New York to deep dish or even frozen), plus a manual mode to choose your own cooking method, where you can customise the temperature, timings and even the direction of heat. But, we were very happy with both pizzas; the crust was well sealed, with evenly cooked, melty toppings.

No more than 90 seconds of cooking gave us a 12in pizza with the perfect blend of oozing cheese and crispy toppings, as well as lovely charring around the well-puffed crust. We spoke to the reviews experts at Gardeners' World who said, "it’s best to place your pizza oven wherever you’ve put your social areas, to save you carrying pizzas up and down the garden. The lack of a temperature gauge is a glaring omission to this model, but the instructions for launching your first pizza are clear and accurate, if followed. The cylindrical shape of the oven is unusual, however, it means it is a very compact oven that is also fuel efficient and makes the most of the wood it’s fed.The Gozney Dome is the sellout, big spend pizza oven from Gozney, a brand that makes a range of professional ovens, alongside their classic Roccbox, which is one of Ideal Home's favourite picks. If it's a wood-fired pizza oven you will need to make sure the door of your pizza oven and the chimney smoke control vent are both open when lighting. Due to this, we would strongly advise against pre-booking/making payment for third party trades to build/install your item until you are in receipt of and have inspected the goods.

Some of the larger models we've tested will need to be kept outside in all weathers, in this case, a cover is an absolute must.Pizza ovens – particularly clay or brick ovens – can be VERY heavy and tricky to manoeuvre without equipment or a team of helpers. Some of these ovens cook on gas and some on wood, so we make sure to try out both to see if there's a cooking mode we would recommend over the other. Thanks to its folding legs, this simple pizza oven was safe to use on a standard garden table and compact when dismantled for storage.

To keep a consistently high temperature, simply keep the pellets topped up and your pizza oven will stay nice and hot. A single dial at the front of the oven controls a linear burner at the back, which got the oven up to cooking temperature within 10 minutes and created a very even heat throughout the chamber.This guide is regularly updated with new models that have been tried and tested by BBC Good Food reviews experts. The Dome sits somewhere in between, with a modern look that's unlike many of the pizza ovens on the market, and a large enough internal capacity to keep the pizzas flowing. The fuel is at the back of the chamber, like the ones you see in pizzerias, and the pizza goes in the front.