What Is a Kaslove Danish Dough Whisk? First things first: What is this goofy looking whisk anyway? A Danish dough whisk (sometimes just called a dough whisk, Danish whisk or even a brodpisker) is a specially shaped tool very much unlike your classic balloon-style whisk. It’s made of stiff looped wire and is designed to […]
Why do you actually use baskets to proof your bread?
A proofing basket lends support and shape to the dough during proofing. Baskets or ‘bannetons’ made from cane and baskets made from wood fiber with a spiral pattern leave behind a beautiful spiral shape as a print on the crust, a popular characteristic of rustic, hand-made loaves. Cane baskets also absorb a small amount of […]