About Kiwi Pizza Oven
Kiwi Pizza Oven began in Christchurch, where we spent years building and refining our wood fired ovens.
Today, we manufacture the current Kiwi Pizza Oven kitset ourselves in Australia, in small batches. We cast the major refractory and cementitious components in moulds, finish them by hand and prepare each kitset ourselves.
The product has evolved, but we still make it ourselves, test it and work directly with the customers who use it.
The people behind the oven
We both build the product and run the business. When you buy a Kiwi Pizza Oven, you are dealing directly with the people who make it.
Pawel
Product design, production & customer support
Pawel has been developing and building Kiwi Pizza Ovens for years. He works directly in production, leads much of the technical development of the oven, and has long been the main point of contact for Kiwi Pizza Oven customers in New Zealand.
He knows the product from both sides: how it is made and how customers actually build and use it.
Monika
Production, marketing & business
Monika works directly in production alongside Pawel, casting and finishing the components that make up each kitset.
She also leads much of the marketing and business development, from how the product is positioned and sold to how Kiwi Pizza Oven reaches customers in New Zealand and Australia.
Pawel
Product design, production & customer support
Pawel has been developing and building Kiwi Pizza Ovens for years. He works directly in production, leads much of the technical development of the oven, and has long been the main point of contact for Kiwi Pizza Oven customers in New Zealand.
He knows the product from both sides: how it is made and how customers actually build and use it.
Monika
Production, marketing & business
Monika works directly in production alongside Pawel, casting and finishing the components that make up each kitset.
She also leads much of the marketing and business development, from how the product is positioned and sold to how Kiwi Pizza Oven reaches customers in New Zealand and Australia.
Built from years of making ovens
Early Kiwi Pizza Ovens were built and finished in Christchurch. Building oven after oven showed us what mattered most: enough refractory mass to store heat, effective insulation to keep that heat in, and a construction method that could be repeated reliably.
Over time, we refined the materials, insulation and construction. The aim was not simply to make an oven hot enough for pizza, but one that would store enough heat to keep cooking as the temperature gradually falls.
That same principle sits behind the current kitset.
Made by us, in small batches
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Hand-cast components
The major refractory and cementitious components are cast by us in moulds, then finished and prepared by hand.
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Small-batch production
We produce a small number of kitsets each week, keeping production close to the people who design, build and support the product.
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Built as one system
The dome, cooking floor, self supporting base, insulation and outer shell are designed to work together as one complete oven system.
Where it began: Christchurch
These photos are from the years when Kiwi Pizza Oven was built in New Zealand. They show some of the hands on work, testing and refinement behind the ovens that led to the kitset we make today.
See the current Kiwi Pizza Oven
The oven has evolved over the years, but the principle behind it has stayed the same: store heat in a well insulated refractory oven so one firing can do much more than cook a few pizzas.