Ben Keough/NYT Wirecutter But with a lame, you can control your bread’s scoring and thus its ... these are the tools we recommend to make holiday cookie baking fun and stress-free.

BBC Good Food baking expert Barney Desmazery shares the must-have best bread-making equipment, tools and kits, plus his 10 top tips for baking perfect loaves.

This creates a bread that’s not only tangy and complex in flavor but also easier to digest and lower on the glycemic index. Optional tools like a lame (a tool for scoring the dough) or a baking ...