Rescue Your 2025 Family Budget Through At-home Gourmet Pizza Nights

Are you sitting at home on this National Pizza Day (February 9) wondering what strain continued family pizza nights out might put on your household budget?  Families across the UK are feeling the same, thanks to their own pressures, including higher mortgage payments, plus hiked menu prices, as eateries respond to higher wage bills and food costs.

If this strikes a chord, isn’t it time you started to seriously think about firing up your own wood-fired pizza oven and serving up gourmet pizzas at family pizza nights at home?

Orchard Ovens is behind you, if you are.  We’ve done the sums, worked out what you are paying for your family of four, every single time you eat out for a pizza night.  We estimate it’s setting you back about £20 per person.  That £80 could be contributing to a pizza oven that will last you decades, paying you back big time.  The cost of the ingredients you need for a pizza is negligible – flour, water, sauce base and whatever topping you then want to add.  If you too do the maths, you will soon see that pizza nights at home make sense. 

You can also use wood logs, so you don’t need to eat into your electricity or gas energy bills.

For this reason, and as a real UK woodfired pizza oven champion, Orchard Ovens, has set about making the decision to switch to home-cooked gourmet pizza nights as easy as possible for you.  And we’ve done that by developing a new oven.  We’re not expecting you to instantly make the move to a top-of-the range Valoriani pizza oven, either mobile or built-in, but we do want you to recognise that a lot of pizza ovens on the market are just not worth your investment.  

Quite simply, many will fall apart within a very short period of time, because they are not built from resilient materials.  Many are just symbolic of a throwaway society.  That’s not what you want if you’ve done the sums.  You want to be able to turn out gourmet home-cooked pizzas for decades to come and that way your investment in a no-brainer.

So, we’ve taken the key ingredient of a top-of-the-range Valoriani oven – the exceptional oven floor – and incorporated that into a brand-new oven that matches your family needs and far exceeds your expectations.

Our new Fornino 50 oven comes at a price of £1299, meaning a family of four only need use it around 20 times or less, to have paid for their at-home asset.  From there on in, you can save huge amounts on your family’s favourite food, for the long lifetime of this oven.  

Having the Valoriani floor is a massive differentiator from any other ovens priced within this sort of price bracket.  But there is more.   Because not every pizza night can be outdoors, given the British weather, Orchard Ovens has made the top-quality floor removable, so it can be used within your indoor oven, if things need to move inside.

This should become a real game-changer for families who don’t want to give up the fun of pizza night but just evolve it.  Utilising this opportunity,  we know that mums and dads can make sure that the family can continue to eat together, but have enormous fun in the process, with all getting involved in the pizza-making and cooking process.  

They can help their kids cement new friendships by inviting ‘new best friends’ round.  They can keep their kids off the streets and safe at home, by giving them something entertaining to do instead.  They can bond the family and social network circle over pizza, as Italian families have done for centuries.

“Cooking a pizza the wood-fired way is engaging, fun and able to deliver a real sense of accomplishment – something you don’t get by just having pizza served up on a plate.  Yes, it requires a bit of effort but it’s definitely a year to focus on the savings, not have kids feeling shortchanged by not going out to eat, and view pizza night differently,” says Orchard Ovens’ managing director, Andrew Manciocchi.

“I introduced pizza ovens to the UK well over 20 years ago, so families could have this experience.  The growth in eating out has deterred some from enjoying home-cooked woodfired pizza and others have had their fingers burned by investing in sub-standard pizza ovens that just don’t last.  The time for the at-home pizza night experience, cooked outdoors and with heaps of family fun, seems to be now.  The time has finally come.”

To grab your oven that can help you to start paving the way to pizza night savings, call us on 07743 847647.  

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Editors notes

Orchard Ovens is the domestic and commercial pizza oven supplier in the UK of Valoriani, based in Reggello, Tuscany - the manufacturer of Italy's hugely respected Valoriani pizza ovens, known as the Maserati of pizza ovens and the kings of clay. These ovens are made from superb refractory clay - cotto clay - found in the family's quarry and unique, thanks to having just the right alumina. This allows Valoriani ovens to heat up quickly and retain heat superbly, bring huge advantages to homeowners, as well as restaurant owners, hotels, pubs, mobile caterers, pizzerias, takeaways and more.

Orchard Ovens supplies some of Britain's best-known restaurants and chefs, whilst it is also a specialist creator of outdoor kitchens and wood-fired oven builds for the rich and famous, as well as everyday homeowners wishing to add value to their home and enjoy an outdoor lifestyle to the full.