If you really want to pay to make better bread I suggest you save your money and spend a little time researching designing bread recipes instead. I did and I can recreate almost any bread just by looking at it or by person describing what they want to get. It is not at all difficult once you learn how different processing steps and different ingredient ratios influence the result.

The best investment is to learn how to do it right. Every home that has an oven and a weighing scale has essentially everything that is needed to make artisanal breads.

Of the tools that make life easier but are in no way essential:

- pizza stone

- thermometer (to measure water temperature)

- thermometer (to measure oven temperature)

- _a_ razor

- dough knife

- dough whisk

- bread proofing basket