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Artisan bread-making is an extremely rewarding and traditional craft using natural leaven to raise the dough and create fantastically tasty sourdough breads! So how do you get started?

Starter-Kit

As a guide, here is a list of items you may like to consider to get started in artisan baking:

Essentials:

1. The Handmade Loaf – this book contains easy-to-follow basics to get going making great artisan bread.
2. Dough scraper – an essential for moving the sourdough around since it is wetter than yeasted doughs
3. Grignette – a specialist handled blade for scoring dough before it is baked for crust patterns
4. Proving baskets – sourdough is proven over a long period and baskets provide support to give the loaf shape. The round 500g cane baskets are the most popular.

Nice to have:

1. Baker’s Peel – for quickly bringing dough/loaves in and out of the oven without causing it to cool excessively.
2. Baking stone – pre-heated in your oven, it gives the dough under-heat which adds to the oven rise (or “spring”).

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