Discounted Ninja outdoor oven pizza is 'better than takeaway' say shoppers

The sun is out, the grass is cut, and outdoor living has returned to Blighty. There’s just one thing missing and that’s authentic-tasting pizza cooked in your own garden oven.

Ninja – having taken air fryers by storm – is doing the same thing with pizza ovens. The is a pizza maker, smoker and roaster – and it’s equipped with a unique Woodfire system to add that smoky flavour to your food. There’s also , so it’s now £328, while it’s sold out on Amazon.

As it’s electric, you just have to plug it and preheat it, so you won’t struggle to get it up to temperature like you might do with a wood pellet pizza oven. Instead, you’ll put a scoop of wood chips in the side hopper to burn and add flavour, while the electric does the cooking.

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As this is a Ninja device, it offers loads of cooking functions and it comes with the pizza stone to make sure that you get the crispy base that you crave. Capable of reaching temperatures of 370 degrees, you’ll have pizza cooked in minutes, with no need to rotate it, as the hot air inside the oven is circulated.

Aside from the pizza stone, you also get a roasting rack, so you can slip a whole chicken into this Ninja oven and have that authentic wood smoke flavour – like you’ve cooked it on a charcoal BBQ – but with no mess. The downside, of course, is that you’ll to plug it in outside.

The offers easy controls, with a dial on the front to set the cooking style, temperature and the time. If you’re using the Woodfire system, you just tap that button too, and while it goes through the pre-heating cycle, it will also ignite the wood chips to generate the smoke, which is great fun.

have taken the UK by storm over the past couple of years, with the likes of a popular option. , this model offers wood chip or gas power, so it will also give you a smoky flavour to your pizza.

But it’s less versatile than the Ninja alternative, with less control over what you cook and how you cook it. If you only want pizza than it might suit you just fine – and for the simplest option, the is cheaper still, but as it’s just using gas, you won’t have the option for that smoky flavour.

Neither models offer the wide range of functions that you get from the Ninja Woodfire Electric Outdoor Oven and while it’s discounted, it’s not the cheapest that it’s been. During the price was less than £300 – but with the sun shining, you’re unlikely to want to wait until November to buy it.

“I have had nothing but pizza perfection with the cooking - crispy and well-cooked all round,” raved one Ninja shopper, while another said: “Once you get the hang of making your own dough, the pizza this can produce is better than takeaway.”

The oven comes with two sample packets of the flavoured wood chips, so you can test the system and decide which you prefer before buying more, but even if you decide not to use the smoke function, the Ninja oven is still a great outdoor cooking system.

Its frying and grilling functions are also well raved about in shoppers reviews, and many say it cooks meat 'perfectly. Although while raving about its ease of use and how well it cooks meat, some shoppers have shared they've had small issues with the wood chip pellets, which proved fiddly but didn't stop them from cooking outside.

As one person said: "The grill works fine but the smoke pellets make barely any difference on short lengthed cooking items. This product is more of an outdoor grill rather than an electric BBQ." While another said: "It's great as a air fryer, Grill, to bake and roast, but not good for smoke flavour."