Bench scrapers and dough tools
There I was, flour dust settling on my apron like fresh snow, staring down at what looked like a crime scene across my marble work surface. My beautiful sourdough dough—the one I’d been nurturing for three days—was stuck. Not gently clinging to the counter. Stuck. Like it had formed an unbreakable bond with that marble … Read more
For the first two years of my sourdough journey, I used a cheap plastic scraper I grabbed from a dollar store. It warped after three months, slipped constantly on my wooden board, and left bits of dough stuck to the…
I still remember the evening I tried to transfer my first properly fermented sourdough loaf from the counter to my Dutch oven using nothing but my bare hands and sheer optimism. The dough stuck, deflated, and landed in the pot looking less like an artisan loaf and more like a sad pancake. That was the … Read more
