THE FIRST FIRE
Cure it gently.
The very first time, burn a small fire for two hours and keep the oven below 200 °C. From then on, heat it with the chimney choke valve and the door open.

Al Fresco Pizza OvensPizza Ovens
A Moroccan mosaic dome and a wood fire, for two large or three regular pizzas.
From: R35,100.00
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Rows of Moroccan mosaic wrap the Grande's dome, and inside sits a cooking floor 775 mm across. Heat it with dry hardwood, the door and the choke open, and bake pizzas straight on the floor at 280–300 °C. Later, close the door and the choke valve, and the oven holds its heat for slow baking without a direct flame.
SLOW MORNINGS ON THE STOEP
Light the fire while the coffee brews, and by lunch the oven is hot and the first pizza is in. Two large or three regular pizzas bake at a time. When the crowd has eaten, close the door and the choke and let the stored heat take care of something slow for supper.
The rendered masonry base, firewood and basket, table, food and plants are not included. The oven needs a solid base of your own, or the optional mobile stand.
A LITTLE PRACTICAL THINKING
THE FIRST FIRE
The very first time, burn a small fire for two hours and keep the oven below 200 °C. From then on, heat it with the chimney choke valve and the door open.
THE FLOOR
Push the coals to the side or back with the coal rake and bake directly on the oven floor. The door opening is 470 mm wide and 235 mm high.
THE CLEAN-UP
Scrape spills off with the coal rake, sweep out the ash and wipe the floor with a damp cloth. No cleaning chemicals on the oven floor.
MEASURE THE WHOLE SETUP
Confirm the footprint before you build.
The Grande stands 700 mm from its base to the top of the neck and weighs 120 kg. Ask us to confirm its outside width and depth before you build a base, and have an independent installer check the support and safe clearances.
GOOD TO KNOW
Before the first fire, read the instruction manual.
The Al Fresco Grande in the Moroccan mosaic design, with removable handles, its door, a standard stainless-steel chimney, a thermometer, a pizza lifter and a coal rake. The Grande mobile stand is an optional extra, and the slide-out stainless-steel table goes on that stand. Add them on this page if you want them.
Two large or three regular pizzas at a time, on a cooking floor 775 mm across.
Yes. For slow baking without a direct flame, close the door and the chimney choke valve, and the oven holds its heat.
Dry hardwood. Do not burn laminated, painted or treated wood, and do not heat the oven with charcoal.
We recommend 280–300 °C for pizza and a maximum oven temperature of 350 °C. The thermometer that comes with it shows where you are.
Burn a small fire for two hours and keep the oven below 200 °C. Every time you heat it after that, keep the chimney choke valve and the door open.
No, it is optional. Without it, the oven needs a solid base that carries its 120 kg. On the stand, lock the wheels before you fit the chimney or use the table, remove the chimney before moving over uneven ground, and do not overload the table.
The oven is 700 mm high from its base to the top of the neck, without the chimney. Ask us to confirm the outside width and depth before you build a base or plan a tight space.
Yes, a standard stainless-steel chimney. Its 800 mm is the nominal length of the part, not the height it adds to the oven.
Ask us for the current Al Fresco guarantee terms, and we will send them before you order.
Yes. Send us a photo and the measurements of your space, and we will help you plan the oven, the base or stand and the chimney. We do not install: arrange the building work with an independent installer.
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