Some products that will help you start your sourdough journey. Sourdough doesn’t need to be as hard as others may make it seem 🩵
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Kitchen Tools for Sourdough Baking
Sourdough Recipes
Kitchen Tools for Sourdough Baking
I use both a 3.5 qt and a 5.5 qt Dutch oven depending on the size of the loaf. When starting out, I tended to use the 3.5 qt more often
Dutch Ovens & Cocottes for Cooking
Essential to get a food scale when baking sourdough. Recipes turn out so much better if you’re weighing your ingredients
Food Scales
Highly recommend!!! At first, I was just using a bread knife for my sourdough, but this machine makes slicing sourdough a breeze. Just wait for the bread to firm up a little and then it easily goes through this slicer
Bread Slicer For Homemade Bread
Being completely honest, it can be a lot of time and effort to try to make a sourdough starter. This starter from King Arthur Baking is a great option if you want to skip that step and get to baking
Classic Fresh Sourdough Starter
A simple dough whisk will help as your mixing your loaves. Doesn’t need to be anything fancy
Bread Dough Whisk
When starting, get a few mason jars to store your sourdough starter. I like to keep one in the fridge as a back up and one on the counter to actively bake with
Mason Jars
Tool to score your loaf and allows you to add pretty designs
Sourdough Scoring Blade
Highly recommended using a dough sling when baking sourdough. Makes it so much easier to transfer your bread in and out of the hot Dutch oven
You can use any bread flour, but this is my personal preference. Sometimes you can find it at Costco
Bread Flour
I use this tool to spread flour in a thin layer when shaping my dough and if I want to add some before scoring the bread. Small tool that helps keep flour from going all over your kitchen
Flour Shaker Sifter Duster Wand
Make sure you have some oven mitts that can handle very high temperatures
High Heat Oven Mitts
Helpful to shape your dough on. I put this mat on my counter to help keep the flour and dough in one place for easy clean up
Silicone Baking Mat Sets & Parchment Paper
Sourdough discard can be used for all sorts or recipes. I use this rolling pin when making sourdough chocolate chip cookies and cinnamon rolls
Adjustable Rolling Pin
Perfect for storing your loaves after shaping. I usually put in fridge, covered overnight in these baskets and then bake in the morning
Banneton
Sourdough Recipes
The best sourdough cinnamon roll recipe I’ve found! If possible, try to use the buttermilk
Sourdough Cinnamon Rolls
My go to sourdough bread recipe. Sometimes I’ll increase the flour to 525g and it comes out perfectly
