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Monday Open Thread 1/24/22

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Monday Open Thread 1/24/22

Favorite Baking Tools

Andrew Janjigian
Jan 24, 2022
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I’m working on an upcoming post about my favorite baking tools, equipment, and supplies, one of which is the humble metal kidney clay scraper pictured above. Normally used to shape pottery, I inherited a couple of them from past cob oven-building projects. While they aren’t useful for making bread directly, I discovered that they are extremely effective at removing recalcitrant, crusted-on dough from mixing bowls and containers. The thin-gauge metal is flexible enough to conform to the shape of the container closely, and just soft enough that the scraper won’t leave scratches or generate that nails-on-a-chalkboard screech when metal usually meets metal.

For this week’s open thread, why don’t you share some of your favorite and most-used bread and baking tools, obscure or otherwise?

—Andrew

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Cindy
Jan 24, 2022Liked by Andrew Janjigian

May sound odd, but one of my regular baking tools when needing my dough to rise, is an old-fashioned heating pad. I bake on stoneware so while I’m prepping everything, the stone sits on the warm pad, slowly warming up. Dough rises great.

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Sharon Frye
Jan 24, 2022Liked by Andrew Janjigian

Challenger Bread Pan! And, cambros, dough whisks, baking steel. I've collected a lot of different tools since I started baking bread, it's been a lot of fun!! And I just got some of the baguette specific tools so once I watch the video I'll be trying them!

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