Here are three new tools to help you make the perfect sourdough boule

Temperature control is key for the sourdough making process.

New, recent, and forthcoming products that help coddle your starter and dough might just be enough help for people on the edge.

Sourdough Sidekick is available for preorder and is due out early in 2026 .

Brød & Taylor's Sourdough Home can hold starter anywhere between 41 and 122 degrees .

The DoughBed is a pill-shaped glass bowl that fits over a heating pad and under an insulated cork lid.

SourHouse , which came out with the starter-coddling Goldie a few years back , just released the DoughBed .

But if you are new to the game, like the process, want to keep some uncertainty out of it, and are perhaps on a bit of a schedule, you might want to take a closer look at them. They will take some of the guesswork out of your baking and get you to better bread sooner. In your inbox: Will Knight's AI Lab explores advances in AIFood writer Joe Ray (@joe_diner) is a Lowell Thomas Travel Journalist of the Year, a restaurant critic, and author of Sea and Smoke ... Read more.