Here are some great gifts for your favorite bread baker! These items make wonderful presents for birthdays, Christmas & holidays, anniversaries, Mother’s Day, etc. These tools are also fantastic as “Sorry honey! I screwed up” apology presents!!
Digital Bread Thermometer is an Inexpensive & Useful Gift
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- Bread Slicers – Bread slicers help to create perfectly sliced bread. They allow you to make similar-sized bread slices versus making a slice too big, too small, lopsided, etc.
- Bread Thermometers – These inexpensive digital tools are used to measure the internal temperature of your homemade bread & baked goods. A great way for determining if your bread or baked good is fully baked.
- Sourdough Bread Kits – These kits often have all of the tools & instructions needed to create delicious sourdough bread. They usually include things such as sourdough measuring jars, lames (dough scoring tools), proofing baskets, etc.
- Zojirushi BB-PDC20BA Home Bakery Virtuoso Plus Breadmaker – This is a large premium bread machine with tons of bells & whistles. It creates large 2 lb loaves that look more like traditional sandwich loaves (versus the usual “brick” shape for many bread machine loaves). Best for families who eat a lot of bread.
- Dutch Oven – This bread tool is often used for making artisan no-knead bread. A Dutch oven bakes & “steams” the bread in your oven. This usually results in a bread with a crispy outside and soft interior.
- Cookbooks – Bread Machine Recipes – Many of Bread Dad’s visitors own (and love) bread machines. These cookbooks have tons of wonderful bread machine recipes.
- Cookbooks – Bread Making Books – These books provide tons of lessons on how to make easy beginner breads and/or advanced artisan breads.
- Cookbooks – Sandwich & Panini Recipes – These cookbooks help you to turn your homemade bread into amazing sandwiches & toasty paninis.
- Cookbooks – Sourdough Bread – Want to make sourdough bread but think it is too difficult? Then try out sourdough cookbooks as they have lots of tips & recipes for beginners.
- Sourdough Starter – Need an inexpensive but interesting gift for a home baker? Then take a look at dry sourdough starters. These small packages help you to “grow” sourdough starter at home.
- Baguette Pans – These bread pans help you to shape the perfect baguette (French bread).
- Bread Boxes – An attractive tool for keeping fresh bread protected from dust & pests.
- Kitchen Scales – One of the biggest problems in making bread is inaccurate ingredient measurements. Kitchen scales help to solve that problem (if the recipe provides ingredients in grams or ounces). This tool is used by many international bakers because they want greater ingredient accuracy (versus using volume-based measuring cups & spoons).
- “Mom” Cutting Boards – These cutting boards are dedicated to all of the fantastic Moms out there. Great for Mother’s Day, birthdays, etc.
- Bread Lame – A specialized (but inexpensive) tool used for “scoring” the tops of bread. Scoring helps to prevent uncontrol bread “bursts”, etc.
- Panini Presses – These amazing grills turn your homemade sandwiches into warm & toasty paninis.
- Buttermilk Powder – Buttermilk helps to create softer bread by “tenderizing” the gluten. However, fresh buttermilk can be hard to find in stores. Therefore, you should take a look at powdered buttermilk. It helps you to create liquid buttermilk and it has a longer shelf life than fresh buttermilk.
- Bread Mixes – Artisan bread mixes are a relatively inexpensive gift. These mixes contain the ingredients needed for home bakers to experiment making different or unique breads.
- Hamburger & Hotdog Bun Molds – These specialized trays allow you to create uniform-sized hamburger & hotdog buns. A great summer barbecue gift!
- Grain Mills – These tools allow you to grind your own homemade flour, cornmeal, etc.
- Oven Thermometers – This is a very inexpensive tool used to make sure your oven has been heated to the correct temperature. Great for determining if you have preheated your oven to the right temperature. Using a fully preheated oven helps to prevent underbaked breads & baked goods.
- Bread Slippers – Get something fun & crazy for your favorite bread baker! How about baguette slippers! 🙂
- Bread Pillows – Fun “bread” gifts that can be used on your couch, bed, etc.
If you are looking for recipes, please visit these Bread Dad sections:
- Bread Machine Recipes
- Bread Recipes – French bread, bagels, etc.
- Banana Bread Recipes
- Quick Bread Recipes – Baking soda-based recipes
- Panini & Grilled Cheese Sandwich Recipes