You’re standing in your courtyard with the tape measure out. Maybe it’s a narrow strip behind a townhouse, or the paved square outside an inner-city terrace. Every pizza oven photo you’ve seen shows a sprawling outdoor kitchen, and you’ve written off the idea.
Don’t. You can fit a pizza oven in a small backyard. The JA60 Dome was designed for exactly this. It’s our smallest wood-fired oven and a genuine small pizza oven, not a compromise version of a bigger one.
The JA60 Dome can sit on a tapered stand with a footprint of around 1,000mm by 870mm or it can go straight onto your benchtop. That’s about the same as a four-burner BBQ. If you’ve got room for a BBQ in your backyard, you’ve got room for a JA60.
You’ll want enough space in front for the cook to stand with a pizza paddle, plus somewhere nearby for dough trays and plates. A small outdoor dining table eats more room than that.
Worth noting: not every JA60 customer is short on space. Some have plenty of room but already run a BBQ in their cook zone and don’t need a second large appliance. The JA60 is a deliberate choice for households that want a wood-fired oven without the footprint of one.
The JA60 is a traditional wood-fired dome, sized down. Australian-designed and built for backyard cooks rather than restaurants.
The specs:
There are two arch options. The plain arch starts from $2,250. The PVD arch (a polished metallic finish) starts from $2,450. The tapered stand is $250 and is the only stand that fits the JA60. Pricing may shift if a sale runs, so treat these as current figures.
If you want a portable pizza oven you can pack into a car or take camping, the JA60 isn’t that. It’s a permanent fixture once placed. For most small-space buyers, that’s the right trade-off: a real wood-fired oven, not a transportable pizza oven that compromises on heat and build.
One pizza at a time, around 90 seconds each. That works out to six or seven pizzas every ten minutes, which is faster than most pizza shops.
For a family dinner or four to six guests, that’s more than enough. Most home cooks aren’t running a production line anyway. You cook one, talk to a guest, cook the next, and people are eating as they come out.
If you regularly entertain ten or more people, the larger JA70 (which fits two pizzas at a time) is the better fit. For everyone else, the JA60 cooks for the table comfortably.
Two things to check before you commit.
The size question is hard to settle from photos. Photos flatten dimensions, and what looks compact online can feel substantial in person.
If you’re in Melbourne, visit our Preston showroom and look at the JA60 Dome alongside the larger ovens. Bring measurements of your space and a photo or two. If you’re elsewhere in Australia, find your nearest Jalando retailer through our stockist network. Half an hour with the oven in front of you settles the question faster than another week of online research.
