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From-Scratch Bread Baking: 16 Tools for Real Homemade Bread
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items Good bread takes flour, water, salt, yeast and a few tools that make the job easier. These 16 well-reviewed picks cover mixing and measuring, shaping and proofing, and baking, slicing and keeping your loaves, whether you bake sandwich bread in a pan ...
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Mix & Measure
Shape, Proof & Score
Bake, Slice & Keep
Mix & Measure
Weigh it, mix it and keep the counter clean. The basics for any loaf.
Bread turns out the same every time when you weigh the flour and water instead of scooping. Reads grams and ounces, with a tare button to zero out the bowl.
Amazon Basics Digital Kitchen Scale
The old-fashioned way to mix a stiff bread dough. The open wire loops cut through the dough without it balling up the way it does on a spoon or a regular whisk.
ORBLUE Danish Dough Whisk
A flat steel blade for dividing dough, shaping loaves and scraping the counter clean afterward. Has measurement markings along the edge.
Amazon Basics Stainless Steel Bench Scraper, 6"
Unbleached, high-protein bread flour gives a loaf more rise and a chewier crumb than all-purpose. A good place to start.
King Arthur Organic Bread Flour
A full pound of instant yeast costs far less than the little packets if you bake every week. Keep it sealed in the freezer and it lasts a long time.
SAF Instant Yeast, 1 lb
Shape, Proof & Score
Proofing baskets, a scoring blade, flour sack towels and two good books for learning the craft.
Two 9-inch round baskets, so you can proof two loaves at once. The basket holds the dough's shape while it rises and leaves those rings on the crust.
Superbaking Sourdough Banneton Basket 9" Set of 2
A razor on a handle for slashing the top of the loaf just before it goes in the oven, so it opens where you want it to. Comes with 10 replaceable blades.
SAINT GERMAIN Bread Lame with 10 Blades
Plain cotton flour sack towels, the kind Grandma used. Cover the bowl while the dough rises, line a basket with a floured one, or wrap a warm loaf.
Aunt Martha's White Flour Sack Towels
The book a lot of home bakers learned crusty Dutch-oven bread from. It walks through the fundamentals of artisan bread and pizza step by step, with plenty of photos.
Flour Water Salt Yeast: Artisan Bread & Pizza
More than 125 recipes, from everyday sandwich loaves and rolls to sourdough and flatbreads. A good all-round bread book to keep on the kitchen shelf.
The King Arthur Baking Company Big Book of Bread
Bake, Slice & Keep
A Dutch oven for crusty loaves, a pan for sandwich bread, and what you need to cool, slice and store it.
Bake a crusty loaf in a covered pot and the trapped steam gives you a bakery-style crust at home. Six quarts is roomy enough for a good-sized round loaf, and it does soups and stews too.
Amazon Basics 6-Qt Enameled Cast Iron Dutch Oven, Light Pink
For everyday sandwich bread and quick breads. A plain nonstick loaf pan that releases the loaf cleanly.
Amazon Basics Nonstick Bread Loaf Pan
Homemade bread is hard to slice evenly by hand. This hand-crank slicer has an adjustable thickness setting, so you get even slices for sandwiches and toast.
Vanerepok Manual Bread Slicer Adjustable
A long serrated blade saws through a hard crust without squashing the soft loaf inside. Every bread baker needs one good bread knife.
Orblue Serrated Bread Knife 8-Inch Blade
Let the loaf cool on a wire rack so the bottom crust doesn't go soggy. Two racks are handy when you bake more than one loaf.
2 PCS 10x15" Silver Cooling Racks
For keeping a loaf fresh or giving one away to a neighbour. These have a clear window to show off the bread, and come with ties and labels.
Bread Bags for Homemade Bread, 50 Pack