Kitchen gizmos

I finally treated myself to a couple of bread baking tools I've wanted for a long time.. I ordered a set of bannetons (one round, one kinda rectangular), which also came with a really nice lame and extra blades. Today, I received a French linen couche, which really looks nice. I have yet to season it, but it'll happen tonight or tomorrow. Like many people, I've been baking up a storm, but I can't get near Costco, which is where I get my bread flour.

We're on the same path. Baking up a storm without some of the same. The lame was my first gizmo and still learning how to use it. Bannetons followed. I've never had a stick problem with dusting a 50-50 mix of rice flour and AP flour. I am still lusting for a beautiful linen couche. You probably have some plastic dough scrapers and a metal bench scraper. Still the most important gizmos I have for bread.
Bread making has been very theraputic for me. Otherwise a free wheeling cook using recipes as a bare framework I have been taking notes on what I did and how I did it when making bread.

I saw the most useless piece of kitchen equipment in a grocery store: a banana slicer.

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[Jenise]

That makes me laugh. I similarly smirk at avocado slicers.

And hard-boiled egg slicers!

And hard-boiled egg slicers!

That one I disagree with.

How about this?
(Gave up trying to find an image that would post here)

https://www.amazon.ca/Paderno-Cuisine-4 ... B005QINMNI

One of my brothers-in-law had one of those for a watermelon.