- Proofing Baskets for Sourdough Bread Making, Dough Proofing Bowls Kit with Cloth Liner + Scoring Lame + Scraper for Professional & Home Sourdough Bakers (Round,8.5 inch,Set of 2)

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This item is awesome. I love that it includes all the essential tools necessary for bread baking. The baskets are sturdy and really effective. The bread lame is beautiful! The bench knife is sturdy and handy. Overall, I am very pleased with my purchase.

There are a lot of reviews that say, more or less, this item is smaller than expected. That was my initial impression and I almost returned it for that reason until I realized that return shipping would cost $6 for a $12 item to begin with. So I decided to try it, sized as it is, with an average modern bread dough recipe (2 loaves, 1,000 grams flour, overnight slow rise) to test whether it was properly sized in fact.I found that this size is correct for a good size loaf, half of the average two-loaf recipe, because it's only a rising basket, not the container the bread is baked in, nor the final size of the loaf. After rising, you dump it out onto parchment paper or a peel and the dough expands in all directions from gravity after the support of the wicker is gone, and more importantly it expands from "oven spring," the size increase that happens in the oven. After baking, if you have a larger loaf, your bread knife won't reach all the way across the loaf.Otherwise, the quality of the wicker is the same as the other, circular bannetons I have. I can't figure out what you're supposed to do with the cloth cover. I have several and never use them. The cloth quality, elastic and sewing seems about the same as all the others. It's a decent banneton, properly sized unless you like giant loaves. You need two for a 1,000 grams of flour bread recipe.

I like the proofing baskets and the danish wisk.

Not flimsy for the price paid, which is what I was somewhat expecting. You can pay twice the price, right here on Amazon, but you won't find better. Already made sourdough. Everything is sturdy and as described. If I had to find a negative, it would be that the blade on the scraper is cut off square. I'll be putting it to the grinder to taper it out a bit. But a very sturdy tool none the less.

Works nicely when well floured, sized right for a mid size 1 1/4 pound loaf.500gm bread flour, 12gm salt, 1/3c fed sourdough starter, 325gm water. Autolyse for 4-16 hours then add the starter and salt. Preshape the dough after the bulk ferment, rest it a bit and then shape it a little to get some surface tension, then do the final rise in the brotform for a couple hours. Turn it over gently onto some parchment paper and slowly lift the basket; the linen peels off easily. If you do a retarded ferment (in the fridge overnight) the cold dough will just about fall out. A couple artistic slashes with your lame, and then into the oven. You get a pretty loaf every time, enough for 4-6 people to share with dinner.I've got two of these now, because I'm baking more than ever. I bake one for us, and one to give away.

My daughter in law wanted one so I ordered it and had it delivered to her. It was too small for her usage as it would only accommodate a small amount of dough to rise properly. It would probably be fine for a small loaf. Nothing wrong with the bowl.

Great starting kit for sourdough making!