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🔴 Fire, fuel and your safety

The comparisons and guidance on Outdoor Pizza Oven Guide are buying research, not operating instructions. Every specification here comes from published manufacturer data and retailer listings, and real units vary between revisions and regions. Always follow the manual that shipped with your oven where it differs from anything written here.

🔴 Never run a fuel-burning pizza oven indoors, in a garage, in a tent, or under any enclosed roof. Gas, wood and charcoal ovens all produce carbon monoxide, which is odourless, colourless and has killed people who believed they had enough ventilation. “Outdoor” in a product name is a safety instruction, not a marketing word. Electric countertop ovens are the only category here designed for indoor use, and only where their own manual says so.

These ovens run to around 900°F. Stone, shell, door and chimney all reach temperatures that cause immediate burns, and they stay dangerous long after the flame is out. Keep children and pets away from a cooling oven, use a peel rather than your hands, and never move an oven that is still hot.

For gas models, check the regulator and hose for damage before every use, connect and leak-test outdoors, and never store a propane cylinder indoors or below ground level. Where the stakes are structural, electrical or gas-related, get a qualified professional rather than a website.

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