Wrote off the $22 dough scraper for years, then my bench knife started tearing my sourdough
Finally spent the $22 on a bench scraper after 6 months of mangling wet dough with a butter knife, and shaping went from a 10 minute fight to about 90 seconds. Anyone got a shaping tool they held out on way too long?
Ok so mine is a lame one but a dough whisk. I kept using a fork for mixing wet starters and it was always a clumpy mess stuck in the tines. Bought the whisk for like 8 bucks and now everything mixes smooth in half the time. Sounds dumb but the little things add up when you bake a lot. Your scraper story is spot on though, a butter knife for wet dough sounds like pure pain.