My curated list of must-have sourdough tools, starter gear, and guidebooks — everything you need to start baking artisan-style sourdough at home. Tag me when you bake!
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🫙Starter Essentials
🥣 Mixing & Prep
🔥Baking essentials
📚Learning Essentials
🫙Starter Essentials
Starter gear that makes feeding easy peasy and helps you fall in love with baking!
Perfect jars for feeding + storing your starter. My personal favorite 🤩
Weck Jars
Breathable lids that prevent spills and let your starter rise freely.
Small Silicone Stretch Lids 5 Pack 2.5 inch
Accuracy = better bread. A must for beginners.
Kitchen Scale | Digital Options, 11lb Capacity, Stainless Steel
Perfect for bulk fermentation!
Standard Dough-Rising Bucket - Set of 2
Looking consistent dough proofing. Look no further!
Brod & Taylor Sourdough Home
Your starter’s daily food.
All-Purpose Flour
🥣 Mixing & Prep
Tools that give you better rise + crust
Perfect for autolyse and bulk fermentation
8pc Glass Set of 4 Mixing Bowls with Lids Clear - Figmint™: Microwave without Lid & Freezer Safe, Glass & Plastic
Your main bowl for autolyse + bulk fermentation.
8 Piece Glass Mixing Bowl Set with Lids - Clear
Helps with folding, shaping, cutting, and cleanup
Heavy Duty Dough Scraper
Mixes dough way easier than a spoon (game-changer)
Baker's Dough Whisk
For final proofing/ long fermentation to make a perfect shaped loaf.
Round Banneton, 11"
Perfect for scoring and creating designs on your loaf.
Two-in-One Bread Lame
Helpful for folding, scraping and getting all the stubborn bits.
Bowl Scraper
Keeps starter jars clean, easy to scrape and easy to clean. 🧼
3-Piece Silicone Spatula Set
What you’ll need when it’s time to make bread! It’s higher in protein and will help provide the gluten structure needed for a delicious loaf.
Can be found at several grocery’s stores
Bread Flour
🔥Baking essentials
Perfecting the bake at home or for a micro bakery 🧑🍳
Perfect for open baking!
Bread Steel and Round Baking Shell Set
Creates bakery-style crust + oven spring.
Round Dutch Oven
Perfect for bread and every day baking!
5 qt, Dutch oven
Reusable and perfect to transfer your bread to baking to cooling.
Silicone Baking Mat for Dutch Oven Bread Baking, Heat Resistant, Long Handle, 4PCS
No more second guessing if your bread is at the right temp!
Quick-Read Meat Thermometer - Aqua
To keep your hands safe when handing a hot Dutch oven and loafs.
Oven Gloves, Set of 2
📚Learning Essentials
Books + channels that teach you step-by-step so you can be confident in your bake.
Looking for a perfect bread bundle? This has all the essentials to get you started.
Big Book of Bread Starter Set
The ultimate beginner-friendly sourdough guide.
Flour Water Salt Yeast: The Fundamentals... book by Ken Forkish
A comprehensive guide to sourdough and sweets
The Perfect Loaf: The Craft and Science... book by Maurizio Leo
