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Essential Sourdough Tools for Beginners
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items Sourdough can be an intimidating thing to start, but once you get going it is very relaxing and rewarding. This is a list of products I love for sourdough baking! And no, you do not need a le creuset dutch oven 🫢.
Lodge makes high quality and heavy duty kitchen tools. This dutch oven is perfect for many things, but I use mine for baking sourdough bread. It comes in a ton of colors, and goes on sale often. I have the purple one! 💜
Lodge Dutch Oven - Amazon.com
Perfect for mixing to get that initial shaggy dough 👌🏻
Danish Dough Whisk - Amazon.com
The perfect wide-mouth jar to grow your starter in! These jars have a removable seal, so you can keep your sourdough in the fridge or on the counter. It is much easier to stir during feeds compared to jars with narrower lids.
Weck Jars - Amazon.com
This is another great option for growing your starter! Keep the lid on loose when its o the counter, and add the seal when tucking her away in the fridge.
Mason Jars - Amazon.com
This is my favorite flour for my sourdough starter. She is strong and hungry, and I attribute it to this flour. You can also use unbleached All Purpose flour.
King Arthur Whole Wheat Flour - Amazon.com
These bowl covers are perfect for keeping your dough moist. Great if your bowls don't have lids. Using a kitchen towel can expose your dough to too much air which gives it a dry crust. You do not want this! Always use a damp kitchen towel, a cutting ...
Reusable Bowl Covers - Wild Clementine Co.
I use this bread sling with my lodge dutch oven to bake perfect sourdough loaves. The sling is washable and reusable. This will save money rather than using parchment paper. I find it incredibly easy to score my bread on this and transfer it to the p...
Silicone Bread Sling for Dutch Oven, Non-Stick
This is the perfect bread lame, especially if you have small children. The blade is retractable. It remains hidden away unless you are using it. The lame is magnetic, so you can put it high on the fridge out of reach of small hands. The handheld desi...
CLUEAPOP Magnetic Reusable Bread Lame
A digital scale is helpful in the kitchen, but it is essential to baking sourdough goodies. This one is affordable and accurate!
Mainstays Tempered Glass Slimline Digital Scale, Black - Walmart
These loaf pans are perfect for making sandwich bread with your sourdough. I also love them for banana bread! PS- Lookup a recipe that uses sourdough discard for incredibly moist banana bread!
Lodge Loaf Pan - Amazon.com
Essential for taking a piping hot dutch oven out of the oven!
GORILLA GRIP BPA-Free Silicone Oven Mitts
Even if you already have mixing bowls, get some more. Sourdough bread making is a long process, and you might need your bowl for something else. This is very important if you plan on making more than one kind of load at a time. You need the bowls, tr...
Colored Mixing Bowls - Amazon.com
Cutting sourdough bread can be a pain because of the thick crust. This bread slicer is perfection because you get perfectly even slices every time, and you can adjust it to get the thickness you want!
Adjustable Bread Slicer - Amazon.com
Catching your starter at peak and getting bulk fermentation timing right can be a pain in the butt. A temperature controlled proofing box makes both of these steps 10x easier.
Proofing Box - Amazon.com