Alfresco Pizza Oven Plus AXE-PZA-BI - Built-In Gas Pizza Oven, 456 Sq In, LP or Natural Gas

The Alfresco Pizza Oven Plus is a built-in, gas-fired outdoor pizza oven that preheats in 15 minutes and cooks a true Neapolitan pizza in about three minutes. A fireplace-style gas log drives heat up into a 3/4" ceramic ceiling slab for intense top-down heat, while a ceramic infrared hearth burner keeps the floor of the oven hot enough to cook the underside of the crust just as fast as the top. It is built for pizza, but it also bakes, roasts and iron-skillet sears.

Key specifications

• Cooking area: 456 sq. in.
• Hearth and ceiling: 3/4" thick ceramic slab, both surfaces, for even radiant heat
• Burners: high-performance tube-log burner plus high-heat ceramic infrared hearth burner
• Preheat: 15 minutes; approximately 3-minute Neapolitan pizzas
• Maximum temperature: over 1,000°F
• Opening: full 8.5", with stainless steel-framed glass doors
• Construction: all 304 18-8 heli-arc welded stainless steel, double-walled removable top
• Exhaust: countertop rear exhaust
• Lighting: halogen oven light
• Control panel: Alfresco natural air-cooling plenum keeps it cool to the touch
• Fuel: natural gas (AXE-PZA-BI-NG) or propane (AXE-PZA-BI-LP)

What you can cook in it

The combination of a stored-heat ceramic hearth and top-down radiant heat is what separates this from a covered grill with a pizza stone in it. Neapolitan pizza is the headline use, but the same heat profile handles flatbreads, rustic breads, roasted vegetables and proteins, and cast-iron searing. Doors and hinges are removable, so you can run the oven open for high-heat pizza work or closed for baking and roasting.

Built-in AXE-PZA-BI or countertop AXE-PZA?

Same oven where it counts: identical 456 sq. in. ceramic hearth, same burners, same 8.5" opening, same glass doors. The difference is how it is installed, and that decision is usually made for you by whether you are building an island.

This AXE-PZA-BI is designed to drop into an outdoor kitchen island, venting out the back at counter level. Choose it when the masonry is going in around the oven and the oven is part of the design.

The countertop AXE-PZA sits on an existing counter, or on the AXE-PZA-CART-01 rolling cart or the AXE-PZA-PPC deluxe prep cart. Choose it when you are adding pizza to a patio rather than building a kitchen around it, or when the oven needs to be able to move.

Installation and clearance

This is a built-in countertop oven, not a freestanding unit. It vents out the back at counter level, so your outdoor kitchen layout needs both counter space for the oven and clearance behind it for the rear exhaust. Order the fuel configuration that matches the gas supply at your island, natural gas or propane.

Still laying out the island? Call us at 843-212-7209 and we will confirm the cutout and clearances against Alfresco's current installation drawing before anything gets framed or poured.

Pairs with

• Alfresco 32.5" Metal Pizza Peel - long enough to load and turn pizzas at the back of the hearth without reaching into the oven.
• Alfresco 30" Countertop Gas Pizza Oven AXE-PZA - the same oven in countertop form, if the island is not happening.
• Alfresco Glass Door Conversion Kit AXE-PZA-GD KIT - retrofit glass doors for pre-2017 ovens only; current ovens already have them.
• All grilling accessories
• The full Alfresco range

Why buy from Northwoods Grills

We are a family-owned outdoor kitchen retailer in Charleston, South Carolina. Free shipping on this oven, no credit card fees, and a real person on the phone at 843-212-7209 who can talk through fuel type, cutout planning and accessories before you commit to an $8,000 appliance.