You do not need a drawer full of gadgets to bake beautiful challah. These four small tools quietly improve every loaf: a scale for accurate dough, a scraper for sticky work, and a tub that shows you when the dough has truly doubled.
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The short list
Why weigh your flour?
America’s Test Kitchen found that a single cup of flour can weigh up to 20 percent more or less depending on how you scoop it. That is the difference between soft challah and a dense one. Weighing also makes it simple to know when you have reached the amount for hafrashat challah, and every recipe on this site lists grams.
