Sourdough Starter Baguettes

Baker's blade

Pizza peel

Dough cutter

Flexible dough scraper such as this one

Sea salt

Wheat flour or a mix of flours

Purified water

Rams (7 ounces) ripe "100%" natural starter (see note, plus picture below)

1 tablespoon powdered gluten (optional, but useful if you're working with French flours, which tend to be on the soft -i.e. low-gluten -side; you'll find it in natural food stores)

a linen kitchen towel you will reserve for your bread-making (I bought mine in bulk at the Marché Saint-Pierre fabric store in Paris)

a plastic shower cap (the kind you get in hotel bathrooms)

a square or rectangular baking stone (mine came with my oven and is a 35-cm [13-3/4-inch] square)