BreadtopiaSourdough Starter | Made from Organic & Non-GMO Ingredients | Easy to Follow Instructions | Make Homemade Sourdough Bread | Sour Dough Starter

Just what I needed! Got my starter going strong, even had enough to share. More great products at Breadtopia as well.

The media could not be loaded. I’m a new beginner to the sourdough world and This honestly worked out so well for me! I just made my FIRST ever loaf after only 9 days of having my starter, once I received this dehydrated starter in the mail I scanned the barcode and followed the instructions and just kept feeding every single day. I didn’t start discarding until about three days in. It became active after the second day and it just got stronger and stronger until I felt like it was good enough to make my first loaf! I kept my jar in the back corner of my kitchen on the counter at room temperature this whole time. I used all purpose flour for my whole loaf I was so worried that it wouldn’t turn out as well, but it actually came out amazing!

Works great. I have tried other starters and had disappointing results. I found this one to be consistently active and it makes great sour dough bread.

I have been making sourdough for a few years now and I actually sell it. This was my very first starter I ever tried. It worked for about a week or so before it finally died. It’s good for beginners to give yourself a trial run, but honestly, it’s much easier to just make your own. I’m not saying it died because of the product itself because I was definitely new at it when I bought this. As far as the taste, it’s pretty good, but definitely not sour enough for me. It is fresh and you get a good sized amount for what you pay for. I really don’t have any complaints about this. I say make it yourself because it’s easy enough, but this is a good place to start.

Finally a starter brand that worked. I was originally debating getting this due to the price given that the last three I’ve tried (different brands) didn’t work and didn’t want to keep wasting money but convinced myself this was the last time. SO worth the $$$. This was my forth brand, to attempt to get a starter to grow and it WORKED. Packaging is small size of a sandwich bag was a fair amount inside it. The QR code once scanned brought me to the website where it had super EASY follow along step by step directions. Recipes I’ve made oatmeal cream pies, breads, crackers, baguettes, cinnamon rolls and so much more. Love how my house smells of fresh bread when I bake it off in the morning. Everything tasted DELICIOUS, I get that nice crisp texture outside and soft slightly dense inside , freshness of the bread keeps for few days if left out longer if kept in the fridge once baked. I’ve had it going for 3 months now, it’s still thriving. If trying to grow a sourdough starter get this one

I used their detailed, yet easy, instructions to make a new sourdough starter after my old one developed an "off" smell. My sourdoughs are coming out nicely with this new starter. I am very happy with this product.

There are really only a few questions that need to be answered for this product: (1) is it easy to get going and maintain, (2) did it work, and (3) does it taste good. Overall, I am very pleased with this sourdough starter. Before I give a more detailed review, I will give a quick summary addressing the main points:(1) It was easy to activate and is easy to maintain(2) Works just fine, with the caveat that I'm still trying to get a good rise out of it. This is not a biggie because I am using flours and grains that normally result in a fairly dense bread. The starter can get quite active and bubbly, so I think I'll be able to do better. I will update this review if needed (I will be making some experiments with stone ground whole wheat soon). Edited 9/20/12: it really does seem to be me--I tried using regular bakers yeast as the leavening (using the starter just for savor) and actually lost ground.(3) It is yummy--I've gotten really good tastes from mixing oat bran and rye into the base barley feed I give it. Edited 9/17/12: I got this starter during a Summer warm spell--under those conditions, which seem to have favored the production of lactic acid, it had a very fruity smell and taste, now that things are cooling down, it's developed a more vinegary taste and aroma. I've also experimented with adding some chickpea flour (besan) into the feedings and that resulted in an interesting tang too.I have had a fair amount of experience with sourdough starters, including making them from scratch, but recently when I decided I wanted to do some baking with rye and barley, didn't have any on hand, and definitely didn't want to go the DIY route, so I was happy to see that it was so easy to find online sources--though it should be noted that this particular starter is not advertised to be suitable for grains other than wheat. Breadtopia sends a package that contains enough dried starter crumbs to make three attempts to get a starter going (or to keep around as a backup if you lose one through neglect or it goes bad). There are also instructions included--I was relieved to see that unlike some other starters I've used, this one did not have a complex activation process or feeding cycle. In this case, I chose to see if I could activate the starter using the same barley flour I was going to use for baking and it worked just fine, with a few deviations from the script Breadtopia provided-- I added at least twice the water, possibly this was necessary due to the fact I was using a different kind of flour and grain, but I think Breadtopia's bakers prefer a spongier texture for their starter, while I made adjustments to reflect my experience that starters do best with a slurrylike consistency. The main difference was that the timing was accelerated--in my kitchen and with the Sustagrain barley flour as a food, everything happened in about half the time stipulated in the instructions. This could well have been due to the fact that my kitchen was fairly warm, ranging from the low 70s to low 80s. You can tell that it's activated because it bubbles almost to the point of simmering, but it does take some time or a few more feeding cycles to get a good sour flavor. Also, regarding taste, I preferred the flavor when I added some rye or oat bran into the feed.

Culture wasn’t live. I made an expensive brick. No instructions in package. Just a QR code.