Volta Series: The Smart Outdoor Oven

A smart outdoor oven is a real oven—stone floor, live heat, and Italian-style construction—enhanced with digital controls that actively manage cooking temperature. Instead of manually adjusting flame output throughout a cook, you set a target temperature and the oven regulates itself to stay within a narrow range. This allows you to cook with fire and stone while enjoying far greater consistency.
In a home backyard setting, that difference matters immediately. Outdoor cooking often involves stepping away to prep food, serve guests, or manage multiple dishes. A smart outdoor oven holds its temperature so the cook stays on track even when your attention shifts. Volta adds dual food probes, digital monitoring, and app-based control, turning outdoor cooking into a calmer, more predictable experience without removing the hands-on nature people enjoy.

The best smart pizza oven is one that delivers true pizza heat, recovers quickly between bakes, and remains easy to manage in a residential environment. Many ovens can reach high temperatures, but fewer can hold them steady after repeated door openings or while cooking multiple dishes. That’s where Volta separates itself. Volta is built in Italy and designed first as a premium outdoor oven, not an electric appliance adapted for the patio. It uses a smart gas valve and control system that regulates temperature automatically, keeping your smart hybrid outdoor oven within a few degrees of your target even as conditions change. With 68,000 BTUs on the Volta 70 and 75,000 BTUs on the Volta 90, it has the power to heat quickly and recover fast—essential when running multiple pizzas. The two formats—Volta 70 and Volta 90—allow homeowners to match oven capacity to their available outdoor space. If you’re looking for a smart outdoor oven for sale that fits naturally into a high-end backyard kitchen, Volta delivers both performance and control without sacrificing traditional stone cooking.

Yes. Volta works perfectly without Wi-Fi or Bluetooth. You can operate the oven entirely from its onboard controls, set temperatures, and cook normally without connecting to any network. Connectivity simply adds convenience. When connected, Volta becomes a Wi-Fi outdoor oven, enabling app-based monitoring and remote control. When it’s not connected, it remains a fully capable smart outdoor oven that holds temperature and cooks consistently. This flexibility is important for outdoor spaces where signal strength can vary.

The Wi-Fi interface displays live oven temperature along with readings from both food probes. This lets you see exactly what’s happening inside your smart pizza oven without opening the door or standing next to it. You’ll also receive alerts when food reaches its target internal temperature. Bluetooth provides short-range connectivity when you’re nearby, while Wi-Fi extends control across the yard or inside the house. From the app, you can also turn the oven off remotely. Typical connectivity ranges are approximately 50–165 feet for Wi-Fi and 30–100 feet for Bluetooth, depending on outdoor conditions and obstructions.

No. Volta is not an electric oven. The oven cooks with gas—propane or natural gas—or with wood when using the hybrid kit. The standard 110V plug powers the digital display and the smart gas valve only. This design preserves the performance of a traditional outdoor oven. You still get fast heat-up, strong recovery, and stone-based cooking. The digital system enhances control and visibility without replacing fire with electric heating elements or requiring special electrical service like 220V.

A smart outdoor oven is designed for far more than pizza. In addition to high-heat pizza baking, Volta excels at roasting meats, cooking seafood, baking bread, preparing vegetables, and finishing casseroles and desserts that benefit from stable heat. For roasting and baking, around 500°F is an ideal temperature. Volta holds that temperature without adjustment, which is ideal for longer roasts, bread, and steady bakes. It’s a simple way to get indoor-oven consistency outdoors.

The Volta remote-controlled outdoor oven is designed to operate across a wide temperature range, from low-and-slow cooking to extreme pizza heat. It can reach 750°F in about 25–30 minutes, roughly 25% faster than prior Fontana Forni models, thanks to upgraded burners and insulation. At the top end, the Volta smart hybrid outdoor oven supports authentic pizza temperatures. At the lower and mid ranges, it maintains steady heat for roasting and baking without constant flame adjustments. The Volta is the first outdoor oven with a smart gas valve that allows precise regulation from 300°F to 900°F, giving you control across the entire cooking spectrum.

Volta is built in Italy using steel construction engineered for outdoor use, a refractory stone cooking surface, and layered insulation designed to heat quickly and retain heat evenly. These materials are selected to support performance and durability in outdoor environments. This digital outdoor oven has been tested to perform reliably from -20°C to 80°C (approximately -4°F to 176°F), which means it’s suitable for year-round use in most climates. While wind and weather always affect outdoor cooking, Volta is designed to operate consistently in both cold and hot conditions.

An infrared thermometer is one of the most useful tools for pizza, allowing you to confirm stone temperature before launching. A quality launch peel and turning peel improve workflow and help maintain consistent bakes, especially during busy cooks. Food probes are essential for getting the most out of a smart-controlled outdoor oven. They allow you to cook meats and larger dishes to precise internal temperatures and receive alerts when targets are reached. For wood cooking, the hybrid kit enables wood use without sacrificing cooking floor space, preserving the oven’s full capacity. Volta can be installed directly on a countertop or paired with a matching Fontana Forni cart, giving you flexibility when planning your outdoor kitchen layout.

Many competitors rely on electric heating or partial digital features that don’t truly control the cooking environment. Electric ovens often lack the power to recover heat quickly or require special electrical service. Others may include screens or probes but still leave you managing flame output manually. Volta is different. Its smart gas valve and control system regulate temperature automatically, keeping your smart hybrid outdoor oven within a few degrees of your target—even after opening the door or cooking multiple dishes. Add dual food probes, rapid heat recovery, Bluetooth and Wi-Fi connectivity, and full phone-based control, and you get unmatched precision. Volta includes a two-year warranty on all parts and components, along with lifetime coverage on the stainless-steel dome. Combined with Italian construction, premium materials, hybrid cooking versatility, and true durability, Volta delivers a level of performance and control that sets it apart in the smart outdoor oven category.