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Digital Food Scale
Bread baking is done by weight and ratios so using a digital scale creates accurate measurements. This small investment makes bread baking easier, especially for multiplying or reducing recipe size.
Dough Scraper
Having a plastic dough scraper is an essential part of a bread baker’s toolkit! This helps you with dividing dough, shaping, and moving shaped dough more easily.
4 qt. Dough Bin
This size container fits one large batch of dough. It is perfect for your bulk ferment, especially for a long cold ferment in the fridge.
Dutch Oven Combo Cooker
A standard home oven takes all the steam out of the environment, which creates a dense, hard crusted loaf. Adding steam is critical! The best way to bake a sourdough boule (round loaf) at home is by using a large cast-iron Dutch oven like this one. Look for at least 3.7 quart capacity or 10-inch diameter pots.
Bread Lame
You can score your dough before baking with a serrated bread knife but a bread lame makes scoring much easier! A bread lame uses a straight razor to make sharp cuts easily.
Proofing Bowl/Basket
Using a proofing bowl creates a beautiful round boule of dough by allowing the dough to rise without losing its shape due to the breathable material of this proofing bowl.
Parchment Paper
I use parchment paper in nearly every bake I do. From lining loaf pans to helping pizzas and calzones transfer easily in and out of the oven. This brand is especially durable at higher heats as compared to others.
Baking Steel
This baking steel is excellent for baking pizzas in the home oven! I use the 0.25″ version.
Cooling Rack
I use this cooling rack as a place for my freshly baked bread to rest and cool so that steam doesn’t accumulate on the bottom crust.
Sourdough Starter
If you don’t have a sourdough starter or a friend who can share, buying a sourdough starter online is an excellent option! Breadtopia offers a live starter as well as a dehydrated starter. Cultures for Health is another great company that sells a dehydrated starter that can be rehydrated and revived for making wonderful naturally fermented breads.
Rocking Pizza Cutter
I love using a rocking pizza cutter to make clean cuts through sourdough pizzas.
Digital Heat Thermometer
Use a digital heat thermometer to measure the temperature of your baking stone before baking pizza, baguettes, and other breads.
Ceramic Baking Stone
A baking stone is perfect for baking pizza, baguettes, fougasse, and other artisan breads that improve from a direct heat source.
Mesh Shaker for Flour Dusting
A mesh shaker is a great addition to your baking toolkit. Fill it with some white flour to use for evenly dusting a work surface, the top of a loaf for shaping, or before doing detailed scoring.
Bread/Pizza Peel
This tool is perfect for moving baguettes, pizza, calzone, and other breads in and out of the oven.
Proofing Bin
If you are proofing balls of dough, pizza dough, or a bread in a freeform flat shape, this proofing container is perfect! I love it for balls of pizza dough. The side clamps and handle allow it to travel well.
Baguette Flipping Board
A baguette flipping board is used to flip baguettes from the baking couche to a baking sheet or bread peel for baking.
Everyday Bread Baking book
Written with the beginning baker in mind. There are 8 master recipes and each subsequent recipe uses one of the master recipes as a starting off point, making it easier to get started with making lots of different kinds of breads!
Celebrate with Bread Baking book
This book is for beginning bakers as well as intermediate bakers looking for something new. Go through the seasons of the year for seasonal breads as well as many different holidays from various cultures.
Flax Cloth Baker’s Couche
This flaxcloth linen baker’s couche is used for long breads like baguettes.
