POPULAR MECHANICS GOLD MEDAL

Made in Italy, the Alfa Nano had authenticity going for it, both in pizza-making and flair in its design. The shiny enamel finish seemed a little precious and luxurious at first, but we found it durable and easy to clean. While the Nano is portable, it does weigh about 65 pounds and is a little awkward to move. You’ll want to set it up on an outdoor, built-in counter or table unless you get the optional color-matched cart as we did with our test model. The cart made the Nano easy to move from the porch to patio, with large, rubber-wheeled, locking casters.

The Nano is a very nice oven if you’re invested in pizza making and want to get an appliance you’ll have for years. While the Nano we tested had a propane burner (with a kit to convert to natural gas), it is also available as a wood-burning oven.

Let The Fireplace Shop and Grill Center at West Sport in Sudbury help you design your Outdoor Kitchen and when you add the ALFA Pizza Oven we'll take $500 off the price! 

Only ALFA has Heat Genius, a trifecta of tecnologies that allow you to consistently bake perfect pizza at home.

1 - Authentic HeatKeeper Firebrick vs ordinary lava stone or ceramic

Alfa uses an authentic firebrick in every pizza oven they make. This HeatKeeper firebrick, which they make in their factory in Rome, Italy, the home of pizza, absorbs and stores heat far better than the lava stone or ceramic used in other pizza ovens. This is crucial to baking a crispy, moist crust at precisely the right temperature, quickly and without burning.

2 - DoubleDown Ceramic Superwool ® Insulation vs ordinary rock wool insulation (or no insulation at all)

The space between the two stainless steel walls on an Alfa Pizza Oven is filled with DoubleDown Superwool® insulation. This European ceramic fiber offers up to twice the heat resistance of the rock wool insulation used in other artisan at-home pizza ovens, which maintains the heat and allows you to consistently bake perfect pizzas. It also allows for faster heat recovery between pizzas and dramatically lowers the temperature of the outer oven wall.

3- Patented Full Effect Full Circulation Flue System ® vs ordinary “up and out” chimneys

Other pizza ovens exhaust precious heat out the chimney at the top of their oven. Up and out! Not Alfa. The chimney may be at the top, but, thanks to the patented Full Effect Full Circulation Flue System®, hot air circulates fully around the chamber and is driven back down to where it can heat the firebrick and pizza. This is key, as it ensures the proper temperatures required to bake both crust and toppings. The circulating heat then hits a deflector at the top of the oven and travels up an escape where it finally exits out the chimney. Around and down. Then up and out. Clever!

Let The Fireplace Shop and Grill Center at West Sport in Sudbury help you design your Outdoor Kitchen and when you add the ALFA Pizza Oven we'll take $500 off the price!

Only Alfa has Heat Genius™ technology that allows you to cook the pizza base and toppings at different temperatures, just like in professional wood-burning ovens used in pizzerias.

Let The Fireplace Shop and Grill Center at West Sport in Sudbury help you design your Outdoor Kitchen and when you add the ALFA Pizza Oven we'll take $500 off the price!