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Sourdough Making Supplies
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items Sourdough baking is as much about patience and craft as it is about having the right tools. This supplies list brings together the essential items every home baker needs to create beautiful, flavorful loaves from scratch. From the foundation of a rel...
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Tools and Supplies
Proofing Sets
My Go-to Flours
Baking Books
Dream Tools
Tools and Supplies
These are the workhorses that make sourdough actually enjoyable instead of stressful. I started with just a bowl and my hands and slowly built up this collection. You don't need everything all at once- I'd start with the scale, dough whisk, and scrap...
A top choice for sourdough because their heavy cast iron holds heat evenly, while the snug lid locks in steam for a tall rise and crisp crust. Built to last a lifetime with durable enamel finishes that look as good as they bake. Though pricier than o...
Dutch Ovens Shop
The best starter jars! Keep one for starter and one for discard
Weck Tulip 1L Jars
A kitchen scale is the secret weapon for sourdough. Flour packs differently by cup, but grams are exact—so your hydration, salt, and starter ratios stay consistent every bake. That means predictable fermentation, better gluten development, and fewer ...
KitchenAid KQ908 Glass Surface 11lb Digital Scale
Gives you that gorgeous spiral patterns and helps maintain shape during proofing. The liner is clutch and prevents sticking disasters!
Oval Banneton Basket - 100% Handmade Natural Rattan
Dust lightly—just enough to prevent sticking without sealing the dough; for bannetons, use rice flour since it doesn’t absorb and clump like wheat flour.
OXO Good Grips Baker’s Dusting Wand
A silicone baking mat gives you a reusable, truly nonstick surface for sticky doughs
Non-slip Silicone Pastry Mat 28x20 Red
A razor-sharp scoring knife lets you control oven spring and prevent blowouts—score swiftly at a 30–45° angle for a good ear
SAINT GERMAIN Hand Crafted Bread Lame with 10 Blades & Leather Cover
Brod & Taylor’s sourdough starter jar is a wide-mouth glass jar with measurement marks and a movable silicone band to track rise, plus a vented, two-position lid that keeps airflow right without drying your starter.
Brod & Taylor Sourdough Starter Jar w/ Marker & Lid
A Danish dough whisk slices through thick batters and shaggy doughs to mix fast without overworking gluten—fewer lumps, less sticking, and super easy cleanup.
Brod & Taylor Dough Whisk + Bench Knife (Bundle)
This is THE upgrade that took my loaves from good to people wanting to buy my bread! Cleanup is easy as well!
Le Creuset Enameled Cast Iron Bread Oven 9.5"
Dutch Oven for Batard
Signature Oval Dutch Oven
A flexible bowl scraper hugs the bowl’s curve to scoop sticky dough, clean sides in one swipe, and transfer for folds/shaping with minimal waste—cheap, durable, indispensable.
Bowl Scraper
Proofing Sets
Getting your proofing game right is literally the difference between Instagram worthy loaves and sad pancakes.
Sourdough proofing kit bundles a natural rattan banneton with liner, a Danish dough whisk, scoring lame (with extra blades), dough scraper, and cleaning brush—plus a starter recipe and care tips—so you can proof, score, and bake with one cohesive set...
Sourdough Bread Proofing Kit: Banneton Basket, Liner, Whisk & Lame
This starter set has everything all in one.
Sourdough Bread Proofing Set: Wicker Basket, Lame, Whisk & Scraper - Baker Gift
My Go-to Flours
You'll spend of time and effort making sourdough, so you should use the best ingedients you can!
Hayden Flour Mills is my go-to for fresh-milled, Arizona-grown heritage grains—real flavor you can taste.
Heritage Bread Wheat
Most consistent gluten-free flour on the market
Gluten-Free All-Purpose Flour
Baking Books
With these books, you'll go from basic loaves to bakery-quality breads that will make your whole house smell incredible.
This book changed how I think about bread! His overnight fermentation method produces the most incredibly crusty loaves with practically no kneading.
Flour Water Salt Yeast: Artisan Bread & Pizza
Peter Reinhart’s The Bread Baker’s Apprentice is a foundational, step-by-step guide to preferments, fermentation, and shaping—clear formulas, smart science, and process photos that reliably level up both sourdough and yeasted loaves.
The Bread Baker's Apprentice, 15th Ed.
Dream Tools
It’s 100% a “want, not need” - but if you are baking bread a lot, which is daily for me, the Ooni Halo Pro mixer definitely deserves a spot on the kitchen counter.
Halo Pro Spiral Mixer