There are a number of ways to bake your bread. One of the best is ways is to bake it on your grill. Baking on the grill does require you to know how your grill works, once mastered though it will provide results equal that of your oven.

The grill is of course much easier to move around than your oven, so the use of the grill means you can enjoy fresh baked bread almost anywhere. The grill can provide that aroma of the freshly baked bread outside whilst you are camping or even out in your back garden when you have friends and family around.

In the hottest days of summer, you won't have to be cooped up in a stifling kitchen to get your favorite bread recipe cooked. What's more if you ever suffer from a power cut, you could well be the only person in the neighborhood with fresh bread.

A covered grill is one of the most useful items a cook or baker will ever have. The cover is of course the important part; it will turn your simple grill into the equivalent of an oven. So if your grill doesn't have a cover then try manufacturing one from an overturned pot, it will turn a useful tool into a vital one. In a covered grill, the heat will circulate as it rises up around your food. The heat, of course can come from any number of sources; gas, charcoal or wood, are all suitable fuels. The fuel source is a personal preference although many people prefer to use gas as it will not impart that charcoal taste on your bread, which comes from charcoal or wood burning.

If cooking on a grill always remember that it is hottest nearest the fuel source, even if the air does circulate. To avoid uneven baking or burning make sure your bread is held above the flame. Many people have a shelf built into their grill for just such a purpose, be it the baking of bread or potatoes. If your grill doesn't have one, it is important that you improvise a shelf or else your baking experience may not be all you hoped it would be.

The easiest way of baking on a grill is to buy those ready mixed products available in many stores. Many bread mixes will have recipes and instructions on the packaging, from these instructions it is possible to produce excellent bread, as well as hamburger buns and any number of rolls.

In baking using your grill there are two basics that need to be controlled to produce perfect bread. The temperature and time are all important. Now some modern high-end grills come with a built in thermometer which makes it a lot easier to gauge the temperature. If your grill doesn't come with a thermometer then don't panic, with experience it is possible to judge the temperature of your grill, through looking at the flames from your fuel. Cooking outside does come with its own set of variables, temperature fluctuations as well as how hard the wind is blowing will impact on your grill.

It is of course pointless getting the temperature right if you then totally forget about how long you are going to bake for. A bread loaf is likely to take anywhere between 20 and 30 minutes to bake to perfection, this time will vary depending on the temperature of your grill as well as the size of the loaf. Smaller items, like rolls and buns, will take less time to bake, probably in the region of 15 to 20 minutes, although this again will depend on grill temperature.

A kitchen timer will allow you to keep an eye on how baking is going without continually lifting the lid of the grill. Occasional viewing of your baking is permitted but do it too often and it will impact upon the finish of the bake.