The Range With a Real Pizza Oven Inside

Every so often a mainstream appliance does something genuinely new instead of adding another WiFi feature nobody asked for. This is one of those times.

Stone Baked mode: the headline act

Pizza at home fails for one reason: your oven stops at 550 degrees and a real pizza oven starts around 700. Frigidaire's answer is a dedicated Stone Baked Pizza mode that drives the included 15 inch stone past 750 degrees, with the stone, peel, and heat shield in the box. Reviewers who have run it get restaurant-style pies in about two minutes. This is not a "pizza" preset that just cranks convection; it is bottom-driven heat aimed at a stone, the way a pizza oven actually works. The $400 countertop pizza oven your neighbor bought just became redundant.

Air Sous Vide: the sleeper feature

Sous vide is how steakhouses get a perfect edge-to-edge medium rare: cook low and exact, then sear. The catch was always the gear, a water bath and a circulator on your counter. Frigidaire's Air Sous Vide does it in the oven: precisely controlled low-temperature airflow, down near 100 degrees, held steady by a patented PID control system, the same class of control loop used in lab equipment. Season it, bag or tray it, set the doneness temp, walk away. It is the most restaurant-grade thing a sub $2,000 range has ever done.

No Preheat Air Fry: the everyday one

The mode you will actually use on a Tuesday. Total Convection moves enough air that the oven air fries a full sheet pan with no preheat, so wings and fries for the whole family instead of two basket loads in a countertop unit, and one less appliance hogging your counter. The same system does Steam Bake for bread, Slow Cook, and true convection roasting, over 15 modes total.

The tech's take, including the honest part

Here is my honest caveat: this platform is new, which means there is no ten year repair history to point at, and I always tell people that year one of any new tech is the riskiest. So why is it still my new number one? Because Frigidaire built the fancy modes on top of simple, proven bones: a conventional element-driven oven, a standard glass top or sealed burners, no touchscreen-only controls, and the brand's parts network is everywhere. If Stone Baked mode somehow quit, you would still own a solid basic range, and that is exactly the failure profile I want from new features. Compare that to putting your icemaker inside the fridge compartment, which is new tech built on bad physics.

The lineup

Stone Baked Electric (GCFE3070BF)

The value play: launch-priced about $800 off. My new number one electric range.

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Stone Baked Induction (GCFI3070BF)

Induction top plus the pizza oven, currently about $1,100 off. The one I would buy.

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Stone Baked Double Wall Oven (GCWD3070AF)

Two cavities, pizza mode in the upper one, currently $1,500 off at $2,799.

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Stone Baked Oven + Microwave Combo (GCWM3070AF)

The built-in combo with the pizza oven below, $900 off at $3,199.

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So yes: freestanding range, slide-in induction, double wall oven, and the microwave combo. (A gas version is listed but not currently sold online, so it stays off my list until you can actually buy one.) The whole Stone Baked family is real, and most of it is launch-priced right now.