Baking bread in the back yard barbeque!

Hankering for authenticity? Curious about 'sole' baking? Thinking about embarking on the wood fired bread oven journey (in the back yard)?

Before diving in with the brick oven and all that fuss, why not get started with a backyard BBQ oven? It's actually a truly viable (and valuable, if you've purchased one lately) piece of baking equipment, which can produce amazing bread.

If you want to get the really incredible crust that 'hearth' or 'sole' baking can achieve, this is a relatively cheap (and instant) shortcut.

You might already have a BBQ with a lid and a pizza stone, and been keen to see how this contraption would work as a bread oven. Well, save some time (and possibly money) before diving in, and read this! In a nutshell? If it's done right, a BBQ oven for breadmaking works BRILLIANTLY!

How to Use an Oven Properly

Baking bread is trickier than the recipe books will tell you! With a bit of understanding, you can turn a well made and formed dough into something special via expert use of the oven. But there is very little information about how to get to that point, and you'll need to try a whole bunch of different techniques to get there. And, given the inconsistent nature of most home breadmaking, to actually sort the wheat from the chaff in terms of good technique can be very difficult.

That's why you need to read this to understand how to get the results you want.

But first, I strongly recommend that you cover the article on domestic ovens in this website, so you understand the differences between ovens, and how to set them up properly.