When deciding on the best oven for your family, it may be tempting to consider a cheaper alternative. However, it's essential to recognise that the performance of a genuine compressed fire brick oven will provide a better experience, enable you to cook more food using residual heat, and last longer. In terms of quality, durability and performance, it's hard to find anything better.

Typically, ovens available online are designed for use in short bursts and cool down quickly, preventing people from truly enjoying a shared meal. Ours are built to last and look stunning even after years of intensive use. Because baking a pizza takes only two minutes, your friends and family eat together. You can leave our oven unattended to return and find it still ready to bake another pizza or tomato wedges.

At Kiwi Pizza Oven, we don't employ a factory or outsource the build of our pizza ovens. We maintain complete control over the construction process, ensuring that our pizza ovens meet the highest standards throughout New Zealand. This approach allows us to keep our operational costs low, providing our customers exceptional value for their investment.

We manufacture all pizza ovens in Christchurch.

Give us a call at 022 074 1442 to organise a viewing.

Certainly! We take pride in producing premium wood-fired pizza ovens which can be personalised to enhance your surroundings. You can choose the exterior colour and the brick entrance archway to suit your preferences.

The pizza ovens take 100 hours to construct, and the production process spans 2-3 weeks. In times of high demand, it may extend further. It also depends on what custom specifications you would like for your pizza oven. To secure your place in the queue and tailor the specifications of your pizza oven to your unique preferences, we encourage you to contact us promptly and place a deposit to reserve your order. 

It's best to get in quick!

The cooking area accommodates 2-3 pizzas simultaneously, with an impressive oven performance of 60 pizzas per hour. Even for smaller gatherings, our oven exceeds expectations, ensuring the capability to prepare more pizzas than required.

Thanks to our unique oven design, temperature retention is optimised, allowing you to cook a batch of pizzas, step away, and return later to continue cooking.

The weight of our residential oven is 480 kg.

The benefit of our Pizza Ovens is that they all have a self-supporting base. This means they don't need a bench top to be placed on, only a frame. You can build a pizza oven stand with timber, concrete blocks, or bricks. You can buy a wooden stand from us - either assembled and painted or a flatpack. 

What works quite well is creating a U-shape structure to store the wood underneath. As the floor heats up, the stored firewood can be completely dry for optimal wood-fired pizza oven use.

Yes, the pizza oven is portable. Its structure has been designed with a self-supporting base. You can take your oven with you when moving house.

Beneath the pizza oven, the maximum temperature is a safe 80 degrees, making it suitable for placement on any material without concern. The external temperature of the pizza oven ranges between 40-50 degrees, which may increase on sunny days. 

The inside is 500 degrees. The construction process has had safety in mind, and our pizza ovens can retain very high temperatures on the inside while only feeling warm on the outside, emphasising safety.

Because of the low outside temperature, it is safe anywhere.

Due to the high temperature in the oven, the pizzas take 1-2 minutes to cook.

The pizzas come out perfectly cooked with a crispy base.

If you're interested in a customised oven, please get in touch with us.

Either give us a call at 022 074 1442

Or email us: info@pizzaoven.kiwi

We will happily discuss meeting your preferences and provide an accurate quote.

Our pizza ovens offer remarkable versatility, allowing you to prepare a wide range of grilled dishes with exceptional taste. Baking in a pizza oven enhances efficiency, ensuring dishes are cooked simultaneously from all sides.

This unique cooking method allows the food to retain more juices and acquire a subtle, delightful aroma of firewood, resulting in an exceptional and flavorful culinary experience.

They are approximately 1m x 1m x 1m

Wood-fired ovens are heated by setting wood on fire. The heat is stored in the walls and floor of the oven (thermal mass). Our pizza ovens are well insulated so that once the dense mass is heated, the pizza oven takes a long time to cool down. The pizza is cooked from the heat stored in the thermal mass, not from the fire directly. 

A pizza oven equipped with a dense thermal mass and robust insulation not only minimises wood consumption for extensive cooking but also has a long heat retention time, distinguishing it from the cheaper options available.

We employ an advanced construction method for our pizza ovens, incorporating up to 10 walls using a sandwich technique to ensure optimal insulation and prolonged heat retention. The walls and floor of the pizza oven effectively store the heat, serving as the essential element that cooks the food. 

If our pizza ovens were lighter, we wouldn't have an adequate thermal mass or insulation to retain the heat. This would see you using more fire food to maintain the temperature and a quicker cooling time, which wouldn't allow you to utilise the oven fully. The outside would be much hotter from lack of insulation, which would be a safety concern.

Metal pizza ovens are known for their lightweight nature and ability to heat up quickly. However, their thin thermal mass results in quick cooling once the fire diminishes, demanding constant attention to sustain pizza production.

In contrast, our authentic pizza ovens are meticulously crafted for longevity and versatility. With a substantial thermal mass, they offer a prolonged heat retention that efficiently cooks a diverse range of foods throughout the cooling period.

We minimise the risk of cracks in pizza ovens by using carefully chosen and in-house materials. 

Pizza ovens made of various materials may crack, as each material has different thermal expansion properties. 

Our innovative solution - a dome consisting of four distinct sections - reduces the risk of cracks forming during thermal expansion, which can be a concern when working with bricks due to the numerous joints involved. We manage thermal expansion through strategically placed expansion joints, minimising the likelihood of structural cracks.

Our pizza ovens are made in Christchurch. Reach out and come take a look!