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In this video, we're going to talk about what are the best supplies that you need in order to make

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a beautiful, rustic sound of bread.

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So here are a few different things that you're definitely going to need in order to make the best looking

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sourdough bread possible.

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The first is a Dutch oven or a cast iron combo cooker, a scale.

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Alarm for slicing the bread, mixing bowl, bread, flour and whole wheat flour.

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So why is a Dutch oven or a combo cooker necessary in order to get the best possible bread that you

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can?

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The reason is that a traditional baker's oven will inject steam while it is baking the bread and unfortunately,

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home ovens don't allow you to inject steam.

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So by using a Dutch oven or a cast iron kombucha, it's going to help you capture that steam, which

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is going to give you a really beautiful oven spring.

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Another benefit is that you can pre-heat fees for an incredibly long time, you can put them inside

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the oven for an hour, set this way while it's preheating the Dutch oven, Ricardo Cooker is also preheating.

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When you drop the bread into these devices, the bread is going to be hitting an extremely hot surface,

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which is going to cause all the yeast to use and bacteria start activating and they're going to release

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more gas, which is going to cause that beautiful oven spring that you're looking for.

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Another beautiful thing is that it's just it's not as messy as using some of the other tools.

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You can put everything inside that one container or vessel and everything is contained inside there.

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And I also think it's just safer.

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I think it's safer to use these items rather than some of the other options that are available for cooking

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your your bread.

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The second thing that would be really helpful is a scale, and it doesn't have to be digital scale,

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but you definitely want something that can weigh out in grams.

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Most bakers, when they give out their recipes, do it in what's called the baker's percentage, and

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they always do it in grams.

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So the great thing about a scale is it gives you precise measurements so you can easily scale up or

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scale down a recipe because you have that scale and they're all in grams.

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The next thing is alarm, so alarm is just a slicing tool that will allow you to easily cut the surface

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of the bread, the scoring that you do on the bread by cutting it allows for a better oven spring,

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which gives it that nice rise and also gives it the look that people are looking for in the rustic bread.

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Now, the Double-Sided razor works better than, say, a knife because it's very thin and very, very

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sharp.

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So there are some other tools that you can use, but this would certainly be the best to use.

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Of course, you're going to need a mixing bowl just to make sure that you have all your ingredients.

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Doesn't matter what kind of mixing bowl you have, but definitely need to have some sort of mixing bowl.

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The next is bread, flour, when you're making a high hydration bread, you really need to make sure

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that you're using bread flour.

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If you're just using a low hydration bread recipe like our first or second loaf, then using All-Purpose

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Flour will certainly work.

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But as you get into the higher hydration dose, you're going to want to use bread, flour.

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So in future videos, we have examples of trying to make a high hydration dough using All-Purpose flour

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and then doing the same recipe, but then using bread flour to show you the difference between the amount

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of water that both the All-Purpose Flour can hold while the bread flour can hold and you'll be able

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to see a difference in the dough to the last thing is whole wheat flour.

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OK, so the thing that we like about whole wheat flour is that it's its whole grain, which means that

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you get the whole of the green and the whole of the green.

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That's each ukelele hole that contains the majority of the nutrients that are necessary for the bacteria

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and yeast.

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So it's really important to have those included.

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Also, it has a high protein content.

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So the higher protein content allows for you to absorb more water as well as to create a stronger gluten

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network.

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So here are just some of the best supplies that you have.

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We'll go ahead and take a look at other possible alternatives that you could use if you don't have these

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available to you.