Alfresco 30-Inch Built-In Natural Gas Outdoor Pizza Oven Plus - AXE-PZA-BI-NG

This pizza oven will barely reach 400 degrees even after an hour of pre-heating. And don't use the bottom burner under the pizza stone because the pizza bottom will burn in literally 2 minutes while the pizza top has not even begun to melt the cheese. I called the service line and was told I didn't know how to use it. if you don't use the bottom burner to pre-heat the oven it will barely even reach 300 degrees. Plus for even a relatively small pizza you have to constantly turn it because the edge of the pizza near the back burner will burn long before the pizza is done.

I've had to replace a fragile starter filament twice. When it gets too hot and cools a few times, the fragile grid that surrounds it, cracks. Once cracks, it will not fire up and you cannot light it with a fireplace lighter. Gas is turned off as a safety issue. Even when working, the top does not get hot enough. We find our regular oven does a much better job than this pizza oven. Top of pizza will not cook. Only the log in the back will cook a few inches of the top and you can spin the pizza three times, but it takes 20 minutes to cook a pizza. Oven will hold two at a time, but you are not going to have a group pizza party. If the oven actually got to 900 (400 - 450 is more accurate), it might cook a pizza in a few minutes.

Aflresco claims this oven can get to 900 degrees, but I've never been able to get it above 550 and that is with keeping the bottom element on full blast which makes it unusable for pizza (burns the bottom before the top is close to done). Also, the back burner (log) stopped working after 3 years so it is now useless. Controls are impossible to see (poor design). It looks great in my outdoor kitchen, just wished it worked.

I am like many people that started making pizza in our home oven where you try to get the oven as hot as possible (ours would get to 550). This one will get to 500 but you do NOT want it that hot as it will burn the bottom of the pizza. Follow the directions, turn but both burners on MAX for 15 minutes. At that point turn the bottom burner down just above MIN, but leave the flame in the back 1/4 below MAX. Put your pizza in and watch it and once the section by the flame turns brown the way you like it, rotate it 1/4 and do the same until it is browned on all four sections. Also I use a pizza screen under the pizza and after my first two failures (trying to get it too hot), it works GREAT! The proof is in the pictures, ENJOY!

I bought to make great pizzas. This thing only gets to 450 max. So disappointed.

We purchased this pizza oven almost two years ago. Use it every week without any issues. Easy producing pizzas to perfection that we do not go out to eat for pizza anymore. Now buying another one for our vacation retirement home as do not think we can live without it. Love it.