Sourdough Starter Culture French Style - Artisinal Dehydrated Sourdough Culture - Homemade Artisan Bread - Fast Activating - Dehydrated Live Culture Bread Mix - Easy Instructions - KOSHER - By LA Trevitt

This sourdough starter is amazing. It’s very active from the first feeding. Very nice smell! The instructions included are not correct though, I’m not a novice when it comes to sourdough, so I’m used to weighing all ingredients and feeding it in equal parts BY WEIGHT, not by volume, as it says in the brochure. I think it will be too runny if you do it by volume. And then there’s a simple error in long-term feeding instructions, it gives different proportions for weekly feedings but also says “just like you would do with daily feedings on the counter”. Anyway, the starter itself is awesome for me, so I feel like it deserves 5 stars.

This was a great starter - I was impressed with how quickly it grew. Also the flavor of the final product was great - very yummy!

Followed the directions to the letter and weighed everything for feeding. Never thrived/bubbled. Tossed it out and purchased a live one from Etsy. Idk if I got a bad batch or what but I wasted a lot of time and flour for it to not become active.

This sourdough starter produces excellent flavor that is so much more authentic than starting with yeast alone. It takes about a week to develop for use but then is available for whenever I want to use it. I store mine in the fridge after getting it started to make a weekly weekend batch. I used for French bread already and the results were fantastic. My bread had good structure, with nice big air holes so the yeast was nice and active. I’m sure using a good quality flour helps with the success. I used King Arthur and had no issues. My last sourdough, I developed the starter myself. This was much easier and a lot more controlled than relying on wild yeast.

It was fairly easy to use. With there were some tips for when the starter gets runny but I figured it out made first loaf yesterday. Needs some work but I’m getting there!

Highly active starter culture. Still growing, will append when I've baked with it.

I followed the instructions completely and things were going ok the first couple of days and it started to look like it was doing what it was supposed to but then when it came to tossing out part of the mixture and adding basically the same amount back in and all of a sudden it just quick bubbling like it was at first and it also went from being a thick substance to being watery and no longer bubbling so I tossed it out. Also, for the price of the starter at least one bread recipe should be included. In fairness to the seller I did ask about a recipe for the bread and they did send me several.

This is a great introduction to sourdough. I would say it doesn’t give a beginner a lot of room and it would be easy to make mistakes by following the directions provided with this starter. The ratio is provided are not going to give you the product you want, but as long as you know that you can adjust using the starter.Note that I purchased both and fed them side-by-side for one week before using, and then continued to feed them for a week while using. The San Francisco sourdough started strong but failed daily whereas the French started slowly, but was so consistent every single day that I threw away the San Francisco.