Artisan Sourdough Starter Culture | Dehydrated Starter for Bread Baking | Unbleached Rye Flour | Perfect for Beginners and Experienced Bakers | Gluten Sourdough Culture | Cultures for Health

Followed the instructions included in this packet and everything worked perfectly. The first 5 days (Steps 1-5) with daily feeding and the jar placed on the countertop at room temperature yielded a bubbly starter but no growth. It wasn't until day 6 (between Steps 5 and 6) that the starter actually doubled in size. So don't be discouraged if you your starter doesn't double initially -- it didn't happen for me until day 6! Since then, I've had a very healthy sourdough starter. I now keep my starter in the fridge and bake weekly (using the Sourdough Bread Recipe from natashaskitchen.com and modified to be open-oven method since I don't have a Dutch oven) with consistent results.One thing to keep in mind is that since this is Artisan Sourdough Starter and not San Francisco Sourdough Starter, your bread will be less tangy/sour. I don't mind that since I can adjust the flavor as needed by adding rye flour or citric acid into the dough (not into the starter).

I learned how to make sour dough bread with this starter culture.I followed the directions but my friend told me my starter was too runny and should look more like bubbly dough.I used less water and more flour and it worked perfectly.After the couple of weeks, I tried my first sour dough loaves.My bread turned out nicely and tastes exactly like san francisco sour dough! Perfect!Tastes so good.I've been keeping my sour dough starter in the fridge now for quite a few moths and it's working out. I bake a few loaves every few weeks. I feed it each week, and throw out some if it gets too tall in my jar, or I make pancakes.I recommend this culture as bread made from it tastes exactly like the sour dough from San Francisco and makes yummy bread.

Worked really hard to do everything perfectly. Followed instructions exactly. Didn’t work.

Was wonderful made starting so much easier and the instructions are easy to follow thank you

It’s my first time to try a starter. Did not end well did better with my own version of a good flower and water.

The media could not be loaded. I bought this with tempered hopes after seeing the mixed reviews. I followed the directions (I used a 50/50 mix of white and whole wheat on the first two days) and after seeing lots of bubbles I switched to all white for the third day and first discard. It was watery the first two days but I know now that was actually HOOCH because starter was hungry. Once you do your first discard and true feed it springs to life and doubles in record time. This is my starter on day five I did a few text runs with her and after she doubled after a 1:5:5 feeding in 6 hours I decided to graduate her to the fridge. I’m excited to welcome our newest family member 🥳🥳

Nothing really special about this unless you want to jump start your starter. Otherwise it’s not really needed.

held up well and worked great