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Commercial Pizza Oven Buying Guide

Buying Guide

Commercial Pizza Oven Buying Guide

Deck or conveyor? How to choose a commercial pizza oven for your crust and your volume.

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Deck ovens for craft crust, a conveyor for volume. Tap a model to jump to the range.

A pizza oven is bought on one big decision — deck or conveyor — and then how many pizzas an hour you need. Choose the wrong type and you either can't keep up at peak, or you've bought a machine that flattens the craft you're selling. This guide settles it.

Every figure here is from our own range.

Deck oven or conveyor?

  • Deck oven — pizzas cook directly on a hot stone or refractory base inside a chamber. It gives the crust and char of a traditional pizzeria, and it's what you want if the pizza is the product. It needs a bit of skill — the operator manages placement and timing — and comes as single or twin deck.
  • Conveyor oven — pizzas ride a belt through a heated tunnel and come out the other end, cooked to a set time and temperature. Consistent, high-volume, and needs almost no skill — ideal for a busy takeaway, a franchise, a pub kitchen or anywhere throughput and consistency beat artisan crust.

Quick sort: craft pizzeria, quality crust → deck. High volume, consistency, minimal skill → conveyor.

Deck ovens — single or twin?

  • Single deck — one chamber, around 4 × 12″ pizzas at a time. Cafés, small pizzerias, moderate volume.
  • Twin deck — two stacked chambers, around 8 × 12″ pizzas, doubling output in the same footprint. Busy pizzerias.

Both are available with a stone / refractory base, which holds and radiates heat into the base of the pizza for a proper crisp crust — the reason a deck oven beats a domestic oven for pizza.

The range — models

Deck ovens for crust quality, a conveyor for continuous volume. Tap a model for live pricing, full specs and stock.

Model Type Capacity Notes
PIZ-SD450 Deck — single 4 × 12″ Café / small pizzeria
PIZ-TD450 Deck — twin 8 × 12″ Busy pizzeria, double output
BOR-SDPOAS Deck — single Single chamber Stone / refractory chamber
BOR-CSDOAS Deck — compact Compact chamber Stone chamber, small footprint
PIZ-CON Conveyor Continuous belt High volume, set-and-forget

Match to your peak: count the pizzas you need out the door in your busiest hour, not your average.

What to look for

  • Stone / refractory base — for crust quality on a deck oven; the whole point of buying one.
  • Independent top and base heat (deck) — lets you balance a crisp base against a cooked top.
  • Belt speed control (conveyor) — sets the bake time for consistency across a shift.
  • Insulation and outer temperature — a well-insulated oven wastes less heat into a hot kitchen.
  • Ventilation — pizza ovens run hot; plan extraction and clearance.
  • A stand or bench — deck ovens are often mounted on a matching stand or a stainless bench at working height.

Frequently asked questions

Deck oven or conveyor?
Deck for traditional crust and craft pizza where skill and quality matter; conveyor for high-volume, consistent output with minimal skill.
How many pizzas can it cook at once?
A single deck fits around 4 × 12″, a twin deck around 8 × 12″; a conveyor runs continuously by belt.
Do I need a stone base?
For proper pizza crust, yes — a stone or refractory base radiates heat into the base for a crisp finish. It's the reason a deck oven beats a standard oven.
Can I make pizza dough as well?
You'll want a spiral dough mixer to knead it and often a dough roller to sheet the bases.
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