Dellonda Portable Wood-Fired 14" Pizza Oven and Smoking Oven, Stainless Steel - DG11 [Energy Class G]

Fantastic oven well worth the cost

Great product, everyone should buy one

SEE UPDATE AT BOTTOMWe wanted to purchase a pizza oven for a family get together the following weekend. We chose the Dellonda pizza oven due to the price and generally good reviews. I ordered through Amazon and it arrived on the Wednesday before the weekend. It was nicely packaged and not much assembly was required. However the bolts to secure the chimney support to the main body would not screw in straight and became cross threaded. It appeared that the holes were not aligned. Despite several attempts I was unable to secure it. I went through Amazon to return it and found out that I had to return directly to the seller. The return instructions stated that the buyer was to pay the cost of returning the item and Dellonda would refund the postage cost with the item refund if they were at fault. I arranged the return through Parcel Force. Pick up from home, next day delivery and fully insured for an 18kg package cost me £27. I emailed Dellonda to inform them of the return and when they would receive it. They acknowledged receipt and a few days later I received a refund for the item through Amazon but no refund for the return cost. In the 2 months since I returned the item I have contacted Dellonda several times but still no refund.By the way we decided to opt for the Ooni Karu 12 which arrived in time for the weekend and I must say that the superior quality was obvious. If you are considering buying a portable pizza oven then do yourself a favour. Pay the extra and get an Ooni.Update 28 September : Received refund for return cost. Credit to Dellonda for resolving the issue.

No problem excellent 👍

It hurts to write this, but it's absolute junk and you should stay well clear.First of all, the oven has a 'double shell' -of sorts- BUT it has zero insulation, so it is simply not getting to pizza-baking temperature.Second, the door has massive holes because of the lettering (it is cut-out from the material), and that draws in cold air from the front end, which does not help either.Third, even if the door was solid without holes, it is not sealing against the oven face properly, so there's even more cold air being drawn in.Fourth, with all that cold air coming in from the front and not the back where the fire is, the chimney is losing drawing power, and draws very poorly compared to other brands' ovens.After wasting a load of pellets and waiting for over half an hour, I finally managed to get a roaring fire, kept feeding as the pellets were being consumed, and the temperature never went above 250 Celsius, which is simply nowhere near close enough for making a real pizza (you want to be over 350oC) and I could have used my kitchen oven instead.Please, do yourself a favour and buy an Ooni, or a Burnhard, both of which I own in other places and they are spot on. I am very sorry I bought this one, and even more so for firing it up and not returning it straight away after realising it's not insulated, not sealing properly, and with all the cut outs on the door.Basically, if you buy this, you are wasting £179.99 for a pizza peel and a pizza stone, which are the only useable things from this pile of junk.

*Do heed the warning, to use gloves when assembling!*I had a little trouble with the assembly, as the firebox had become jammed at the rear of the oven, but resolved this with a bit of juggling and cut hands.What a fabulous little Pizza Oven, well made (apart from very sharp edges), cooked my first Pizza, and it was on the button.Well worth watching the 12 minute video, gave some really good tips for bringing the oven up to temperature, you do need a Laser Thermometer for the Pizza Stone, around £15.I used softwood kindling and a couple of firelighters to bring the oven up towards Temperature and to get rid of the 'New' Smells, then used Oak and Oak pellets for cooking with excellent results.The video recommends little and often to feed the fire, and I would whole heartedly agree.Overall, a very nice piece of kit, that does what it says on the tin, very happy with my purchase

Was looking forward to using this as we’d had homemade pizza at a friend’s and they are gorgeous. We decided to get a bigger size oven as the ones we had were a little on the small side. It was very difficult to get the correct temperature for the bigger size oven and the temperature gauge kept sticking which made it worse. We made some excellent pizza’s but unfortunately the wooden handle on the fuel tray burnt off which looks like a problem for this oven as seen in other reviews. We got in touch with Dellonda to ask for replacements but they accused us of using it in windy conditions (we used it during the heatwave with no wind or breeze) they eventually replaced the temperature gauge but it took about 3 weeks, terrible customer service. You definitely can’t heat this oven on wooden pellets alone and it’s very difficult to keep the temperature up. I’d go for a smaller oven in future.*update* the replacement temperature gauge also sticks, the photo I’ve submitted is the new gauge 48 hours after using it.

Really easy to set up, fab pizzas but took trial & error to find a dough we liked & for it not to stick to the paddle. First one was a pre made dough from the supermarket just because I wanted to use it straight away & bought some in advance. Don’t recommend this! It stuck to the paddle & when we finally freed it, the base burnt very quickly before toppings cooked/ cheese had barely melted! Tried a homemade deep pan dough which was lovely (in the photo) but v filling. Have since used a thin base recipe which seems to work really well. I’ve found I need a good covering of flour on the paddle & be fairly quick at putting toppings on then there’s no issue with the dough sticking to the paddle.Make sure the stone is really hot before beginning to cook, we’ve left it burning a good half hour before putting a pizza in.All in all really pleased with this oven & love garden pizza nights!