Wire Monkey is a small veteran-owned workshop in Fairfield, Connecticut that makes bread lames and little else. The UFO is its original circular scoring tool, roughly 46 mm across, cut from black walnut or maple with stainless hardware, ambidextrous, with a retractable blade so it can live in a drawer safely. The line grew to the Goose, the Arc for tight curves and the Poco, the smallest handle the shop builds. Astra blade five-packs, a brass wire brush, leather pouches, a wood pulp banneton and scoring kits round it out, and the UFO has been named a top pick by America's Test Kitchen.
Fits bakers who score decorative loaves and want a tool that holds a blade properly instead of a taped razor. Not a one-stop shop: no flour, no starters, no ovenware. Production is small, so popular handles sell out, and a hardwood lame costs several times what a generic import does.
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