Choose Alfa ovens for the perfect pizza every time
Cracking the code for perfect pizza at home
We all know what we want from a pizza. Light, crispy crust. Perfectly cooked toppings. Easy to wish for, but much harder to achieve.
To make a perfect pizza, the floor of the oven needs to impart heat quickly enough for the crust to be crisp before the dough is overcooked, but not so quickly that it burns. The air circulating the oven must be fiercely hot, allowing the toppings to cook in the short time available.
The challenge is to solve this thermal puzzle in a format that is practical for the home. Across four decades of obsessive development, that’s what Alfa’s Italian designers and engineers have managed to achieve. After perfecting the brick, and the commercial oven, we’ve cracked the code for making perfect pizza at home.
Created by family
Founded in 1977 by two friends, Marcello Ortuso and Rocco Lauro, Alfa Forni remains a true family business. Marcello and Rocco are still the soul of the company, but they’ve now been joined by the next generation of the Ortuso and Lauro families.
Handmade in Italy
Our ovens are entirely handcrafted in Italy by skilled artisans who take great pride in their craft. Based in the historic town of Anagni, located between Rome and Naples – the heart of pizza tradition. We have been perfecting the performance of our ovens for over 40 years.
Honouring tradition, while looking to the future
At Alfa Forni, we have a deep love for traditional Italian pizza, but we’re also leading the way in technological innovation, engineering, and material science to perfect its creation.
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Advanced technology for superior pizza oven efficiency
The performance of our pizza ovens is driven by Alfa Forni’s patented innovations. The three-layer ceramic fibre dome insulation allows the oven to gain heat quickly and retain it efficiently while keeping fuel consumption low. The steel structure is specially designed to withstand thermal and mechanical stress caused by the high temperature of the oven.
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Engineered oven floors for extreme heat and durability
Our oven floors are constructed from our own Authentic HeatKeeper® firebrick made from a special ceramic containing high levels of alumina (aluminium oxide) – a substance with high insulating capability, low electrical conductivity and strong resistance to acids. A typical brick might start to break apart at 650°C, but our refractory brick will handle heat up to 1,000°C.
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Innovative flue system for optimal heat circulation
Our Patented Full Effect Full Circulation Flue System® has been painstakingly engineered to circulate hot air back down to the cooking surface rather than allowing it to immediately escape through the chimney.
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Durable, lightweight design with patented materials
By combining high-grade steel with our patented refractory materials, we’ve been able to make the oven structure and dome both highly durable and remarkably lightweight. The materials we use are also easy to clean and highly rust resistant.
Pizza ovens that turn meals into memories
Cooking food outdoors over fire then sharing that food with friends and family is among life’s most enduring pleasures. We don’t build pizza ovens just to make pizza; we build them to be a social hub, a reason to gather people around you to eat, drink and be happy.
Alfa commercial ovens
As well as building ovens for the home, we also build larger models for commercial kitchens, including some of Italy’s best pizza restaurants. Please contact us for a brochure and bespoke consultation.
