Happy Birthday, you little minx!
Cute as a button.
What does one get for the starter who has everything?
A bread lame (pronounced “lahm”).
So, ok… it’s a treat for me, but it’s pretty great. The razor blade is thinner than a knife, so it slices through the dough better. And it’s curved so it gets in at an angle. AND, being curved and thin, it reaches down into the 500° sides of the dutch oven without me burning my arm to a crisp.
A bread lame is used for scoring the dough before it goes into the oven. This let’s the gas escape a bit (rather than popping out where you don’t want it), and gives a nice appearance to the bread when it’s baked.