What do you need to make or bread here are all the basic necessities of what you need in order to make
bread, the first and foremost is all purpose flour pay all purpose.
Flour is great for making breads as well as other things.
Some people will tell you that you have to have bread, flour.
But look, I'm telling you, I've made the delicious breads with just the regular All-Purpose Flour,
and no one can tell the difference between that or the bread flour.
You might after many, many years of working with the flour and but really in the beginning when you're
first working, just got all purpose flour.
I find it to be a little bit easier to work with in the beginning and also need some all purpose flour.
You also need some salts.
I like to use these salts, but any any sort of salt will work.
One of the most important things you need will be a scale.
We are going to measure everything rather than do things by by volumetric measures.
I do have a measuring cup here just to kind of show that we are going to need some sort of container
to pour water from.
But really we're going to do all of our measuring on the scale.
A scale is absolutely required.
If you want to get consistent, delicious results, all the recipes that we're going to give are given
in grams and they're going to be using what's called a baker's percentage.
You also will absolutely need a starter.
This is a starter that I just fed.
So it's not ready to use quite yet.
But you will need your starter.
You can get some for free or you can buy some online.
We have a video on that.
You will also need an alarm, which this is basically just a double sided razor that you can get pretty,
pretty inexpensively.
And I just took a little popsicle stick that I cut down and I just put that razor inside the popsicle.
Be really, really careful.
This is super sharp.
What this is used for is just before you cook your bread, you'll slice the very top layer of the bread,
which will allow some of the steam and gas to evaporate from the inside the bread.
And it will give it a really nice, beautiful rise.
And it gives it that really interesting crust that you see in those bakery type breads.
And that package looks like that if you wanted to take a look.
So it's just a double edged razor.
You probably don't have a bench knife.
This might be something you need to buy.
I bought this, I think, in my local dollar store for a dollar.
You don't need anything that's really fancy.
This is really useful for cleaning up the surface of your countertops as well as lifting and flipping.
So this is also another really useful tool.
The other things that you will probably will need or that you probably have in your house that you can
use is a crockpot.
So this crockpot here is is really, really great tool to make sure that your bread rises consistently
and gives you that beautiful caramelization that you see on the outside.
This is how you can replicate what a professional bakers oven does at home.
So this is going to allow you to capture the steam, the water that's already inside the dough and then
use that to help you cook a oven that Baker uses will actually inject steam while it's cooking.
So this is probably the closest thing you can get to do that.
And then what I also do is I like to use parchment paper and I use this just as a way to help lower
the dough inside my crockpot because I don't want to burn my hands and also makes it really easy to
pull out as well.
And there's one more type of crockpot that I will order and purchase and show you that I see a lot of
other people using.
I think it might be a little bit better than this, but this is what I've been using for years.
So, you know, that's that's what I'll show you when I get the other one in.
I'll show you how to use that one as well.
Of course, there's one more thing that you'll need, which is, of course, a mixing bowl.
If you have one that has a cover, great.
If not, then you can just use some cellophane to cover your bowl.
So that's really all you need to get started.
So why don't you get all your all your utensils out and let's get going?