Are you looking for the best baking tools for making sourdough bread? You’ve come to the right place. Below, I’ll show you the baking tools that I love to use to make great sourdough bread at home. I’ll also share some of my favorite pizza making tools.
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Plastic Dough Scraper
A dough scraper has the ability to bend itself and take the shape of any bowl, wiping it almost completely clean. It’s a super useful multi-tool for home bakers. I use it for mixing dough and for wiping down the sides of my mixing bowl. Check out the bowl scraper that I use on Amazon here.
Campbell’s Dough Knife
I am pretty sure the Campbell’s Dough Knife is the most popular bench scraper in the world of sourdough. If you’re serious about sourdough and want a bench scraper that can handle any kind of wet dough with minimal sticking, get yourself a Campbell’s Dough Knife.
My wife got me one of these last Christmas and I am loving it! Click here to get your own Campbell’s Dough Knife from Rackmaster Limited.
Simple Digital Scale
Using a digital scale is the most precise way to measure your ingredients. Most, if not all, of my recipes list the ingredients in grams. If you don’t have a digital scale at home, just get one already! They are inexpensive, and a scale will drastically improve the consistency of your bread from bake to bake. Here’s the one I use from Amazon.
Mercer Culinary Millennia Bread Knife
This is the bread knife I have been using ever since I really got into making sourdough bread. With thick, crusty, sourdough loaves, you really can’t rely on your old hand-me-down serrated knife. Better to get a good bread knife from the get-go. Get the one that I use on Amazon here.
UFO Lame
The UFO lame is my absolute favorite bread lame and the one I use most often to score sourdough bread. The main benefits of this lame are its small size (great for scoring intricate designs), and its safety features (you can securely hide the blade inside its holder for storage). Get your own UFO lame on Wire Monkey’s website here.
Baker of Seville Bread Lame
If I could only have one bread lame it would be the Baker of Seville lame. It’s made of 100% stainless steel, so you can wash it in the dishwasher. Plus, you can change the blade back and forth between a curved blade and a straight blade. Get yours on Amazon here.
Oval Banneton Basket
An oval banneton basket is perfect for holding sourdough batards while they proof. Batards are my favorite shape of sourdough bread to bake, so now I have two of these oval banneton baskets! Click here to get the same one I use on Amazon.
Round Banneton Basket
This round banneton basket will hold your carefully shaped sourdough perfectly while it rises, giving it a wonderful round appearance and a decorative design from the wood. This round basket is the same one that I used for the first loaf of sourdough bread that I ever baked. Here’s a link to it on Amazon.
Non-Stick Loaf Pan
For a sandwich-style loaf, you’ll need a classic “one pound” loaf pan. With proper care, my favorite metal loaf pan from USA Pans is essentially non-stick. The bread pops right out after it bakes, and I don’t even need to grease the sides of the pan. Click here to get this pan on Amazon.
Non-Stick Focaccia Pan
USA Pans also makes a great non-stick version of a 9″x13″ cake pan. This cake pan is what I make all of my focaccias in, and it’s also great for making Detroit-style pizza. Get your own non-stick focaccia pan on Amazon here.
Lodge Enameled Cast-Iron Dutch Oven
Bake your bread inside a Dutch oven and you’ll create the perfect steamy environment for your bread to develop a crispy, crunchy crust. This Lodge enameled cast-iron Dutch oven is perfect for bread, but also for soups, braising, and probably 100 other cooking techniques. Get your own Lodge Dutch oven from Amazon here.
The Challenger Bread Pan
The Challenger Bread Pan is a bread baking vessel, developed by bread bakers for bread bakers. It’s got four handles, it traps steam perfectly, and it’s long enough to fit boules, batards, and even two demi-baguettes. If you already are interested in the Challenger Bread Pan, you probably don’t need much more convincing from me. Check out the pan on the Challenger Breadware website here.
Baking Steel
When I make pizza in my home oven, I almost always cook it on my baking steel. I stopped buying round pizza stones after I cracked my third one, and it turns out that baking steels are way better than baking stones anyway! Get one on Amazon here.
Wooden Pizza Peel
This kitchen tool will up your pizza making game a whole lot. Once you’ve got a baking steel or pizza stone in your oven, you need a good way to lauch the pizza onto the hot surface. This wooden pizza peel is my go-to solution at home. Get yours on Amazon here.
Ooni Fyra 12″ Wood-Pellet Pizza Oven
This Ooni Fyra is the portable pizza oven that I use to make amazing Neapolitan-style pizzas on my back deck. The wood pellets get the oven to a roaring 900°F in just about 15 minutes. I love this oven. Order your own from Ooni’s website here (US link or UK link).
Infrared Thermometer
A good infrared thermometer is necessary to check the temperature of your pizza stone, baking steel, or any other cooking surface where exact temperatures matter. Check out the one I use on Amazon here.