Sourdough needs surprisingly little — but the few things it needs, it really needs. This is the equipment our kits are written around: no gadgets, no single-use clutter, just the tools that earn their place in a small kitchen.
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Sourdough is baking by grams, not cups — the feeding formula, every recipe, the whole calculator run on exact weights. Any scale with 1 g accuracy and at least 3 kg capacity does the job.
View on Amazon ↗The proofing basket holds your loaf's shape, wicks the skin dry for better scoring, and leaves the classic flour spiral. Cane (Peddigrohr) with a linen liner is the traditional choice — 20–22 cm fits a 750–1000 g loaf.
View on Amazon ↗The single biggest upgrade for home crust: the closed pot traps the loaf's own steam for the first 20 minutes — that's where the shine, the blisters and the oven spring come from. 24–26 cm, with a lid, oven-safe to 250 °C.
View on Amazon ↗Once you shape your first bâtard — the classic oval artisan loaf — you'll want the basket to match. An oval 25 cm banneton takes 750–900 g of dough and pairs beautifully with a single bold slash down the spine.
View on Amazon ↗The metal bench scraper is your second hand for preshaping and dividing; the flexible plastic one gets sticky dough out of the bowl in one motion. Cheap, humble, and used on every single bake day.
View on Amazon ↗One confident cut decides where your crust opens — the Ausbund, a loaf's signature. A lame holds a razor blade at exactly the right angle; replacement blades cost pennies. A very sharp thin knife works to start, but the lame wins.
View on Amazon ↗Two jobs, one tool: dough temperature is the lever behind every fermentation schedule, and 96–98 °C core temperature tells you a loaf is truly done. The upgrade that turns "I think it's ready" into knowing.
View on Amazon ↗That's genuinely it. Everything else — jars for the starter, linen towels, a cooling rack — you almost certainly own already. We only recommend what we bake with ourselves, and the links never change the price you pay.
The Starter Kit teaches you the starter, the rhythm and your first loaf — every tool above has its moment in the modules.
Get the Starter Kit — $16