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Sourdough Starter Kit
Essential Tools for Creating and Maintaining Your Sourdough Starter
Sourdough Starter
The living culture of wild yeast and bacteria that ferments your dough and gives sourdough its distinctive flavor and leavening.
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Sourdough Starter Kit
Here are my #1 favorite and preferred tools for Sourdough Starters. These are the winners of three years of comparison shopping, research and testing.
Sourdough Bread Kit
Here are my #1 favorite and preferred tools for baking Sourdough Bread. These are the winners of 3 years comparison shopping, research and testing. This is everything I use from start to finish.
Kitchen Scales
Here are my Top picks for kitchen scales
Ingredients
Here are my Top picks for ingredients in each category. A more detailed explanation can be found here
Mixers
Here are my Top picks for stand mixers. As a busy mom, with a very little kitchen, I need my mixer to be multipurpose. A more detailed explanation of the best mixer for bread dough can be found here

KitchenAid 8q – 4 loaves (what I have)
Proofing Boxes
Here are my Top picks for folding containers (where you will fold your dough while it proofs)
Proofing Baskets / Bannetons
Here are my Top picks for proofing baskets (for maintaining dough shape as it goes through its final proofing)
Scoring Tools
Here are my Top picks for proofing baskets (for maintaining dough shape as it goes through its final proofing)
Bread Art Tools
Here are my Top picks for making decorative art on my sourdough bread
Dutch Ovens
I prefer to bake sourdough bread in Dutch Ovens. Here are my top picks
The Best Dutch Oven (knockoff)
Baking Pans
Here are my favorite baking pans
Misc. Must Haves
Don’t forget these useful and helpful tools that are often overlooked
Bread Cutting Tools
Here are the best bread cutters I’ve found

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Flour Bins
Here’s what I use to hold my flour (I buy in 50-80lb bags)
Temp Control
(to control and manipulate starter or dough temperature)








































































Hi, Roselle,
I bought the Cuisiland cast iron baker. I saw a reel months ago that talked about how you had to prep your Cuisiland to make it usable. I think you had to sand part of it down? Do you still have that reel available, or could you let me know here?
Thank you!
Sandy
Thank you
what flour do you buy at costco?
Thanks for sharing
Hi, what would be the best way to bake without the dutch oven? thank you!
Thank you for being generous to share this list!
Thank you for your kindness!!!
Tools that I hadn’t even thought about (or, at least felt that they were luxury items!) thank you 🙏
Thank you for taking time out of your busy schedule to share your knowledge. The list of tools is most helpful. I am just getting started in making sourdough. Much appreciated!
What do you call those bread bags/ totes you were talking about from Amazon?
Thank you! 💜
Thank you so much for sharing all your tools 😊🙏❤️
Thank you so much for sharing the list. That is so kind of you ❤️🙏🏻
Thank you so much! I love your social media sites & so grateful for your generosity with sharing your knowledge,your tools & supplies you use,it’s so helpful & leaves out all the guess work for us newbies, thanks so much🙏
Thank you! This is awesome, much appreciated!
Thank you so much! Great list of needed items