Sourdough Starters, Banneton Proofing Baskets, Bread Lames, Pizza Pans, and the Tools for Real Homemade Bread.
There's a particular pride in pulling a crackling sourdough loaf out of the oven, or sliding a homemade pizza onto the table. It looks like witchcraft from the outside, but it's really just flour, water, time, and a handful of the right tools. This is where you get the tools.
This collection is a bread baker's starter pack and then some: the proofing baskets, scoring blades, and scales the artisan-loaf crowd swears by, plus the pans and wheels for pizza night.
Rise to the occasion.
- SOURDOUGH, FROM SCRATCH - kick it off with a live Breadtopia Sourdough Starter, proof your dough in a Rattan Banneton for those signature rings, then score the top with a Bread Lame so it opens up beautifully in the oven.
- Mixing and handling the dough - the Danish Dough Whisk blends stiff dough without clogging, and the Digital Scale weighs your flour for the consistent results serious bakers insist on.
- Getting the loaf out and sliced - the Silicone Bread Sling lifts a hot loaf straight out of a Dutch oven, and the Bread Slicer with Crumb Catcher gives you even slices and contains the mess.
- Pizza night, handled - the Stainless Steel Pizza Pans crisp the crust, and the Pizza Wheel cuts clean slices without dragging the toppings.
The sourdough bug bit half of us, so we stock what actually works.
Kooi Housewares is a family-run store in Muskegon, Michigan, and we carry the Breadtopia line because it's the real deal for home bakers, not novelty gear. Insider tip worth its weight in flour: dust your banneton with rice flour instead of wheat flour before the dough goes in. Rice flour doesn't absorb moisture the same way, so your loaf releases clean instead of sticking and tearing. New to sourdough and not sure where to start? Email us at support@kooihousewares.com and a real person will walk you through the starter kit.