Before the baking and bread-breaking season begins, you'd be wise to make sure your kitchen arsenal is looking sharp. If your old bread knife, for starters, has seen better days (or better decades ...

Just before placing your sourdough in the oven, it's time to score. Make a single score across the center of your loaf using a serrated bread knife, a razor blade, or a bread scorer.

And while a sharp knife can do the trick, this Baker's Bread scoring knife ensures you're only cutting the top layer of your dough. It comes with 10 additional blades so you don't have to hunt ...

Scoring bread dough allows you to control where the dough will split open when it rises, but skipping this step can yield gloriously chaotic loaves. Here’s how to do it right.