The dad cooking for the household on weeknights who wants zero setup, and not the entertainer feeding a crowd, who will outrun the stone.
What it is
A gas-only outdoor pizza oven for 12-inch pizzas, running on LPG from a standard gas bottle and supplied with a 10mm cordierite stone plus gas hose and regulator. It reaches 500C, preheats in about 15 minutes and cooks a pizza in 60 seconds. Unboxed it measures 62 x 39 x 29cm and weighs 9.2kg with folding legs; Ooni state a 1-year warranty extending to 5 years on registration within 60 days.
Why we picked it
This is the no-excuses option: turn the gas on, wait fifteen minutes, and he is cooking 60-second pizza without ever having to manage a fire. At 9.2kg it is the lightest oven Ooni make, which matters more than it sounds, because a heavy oven lives in the shed and gets used twice a year while a light one comes out on a weeknight. It solves the precise problem of a dad who likes the idea of pizza night but will not tolerate faff. The 10mm stone is thinner than the pricier models, so back-to-back pizzas need a recovery minute, which is fine for a family of four and limiting for a party of twenty.