Sourdough Starter (Live)

$9.00

This sourdough starter is taken directly from our batch in its live form and not dehydrated.

Note: As a living culture, your sourdough starter should be fed upon delivery. If this is purchased as a gift and may not be tended to within a day or two of delivery, or if you live outside of the US, please order our dehydrated sourdough starter instead.

See instructions for reviving your starter HERE.

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This sourdough starter is taken directly from our own batch in its live form and not dehydrated. It is the same starter we use in all our sourdough baking. A hearty strain of wild yeast, fed exclusively organic bread flour, that has served us well for many years.

You will receive a healthy, moist ball of live sourdough starter along with detailed instructions for how to quickly build up a sufficient quantity of active starter to begin baking. With regular feeding, your starter can be sustained indefinitely.

For thousands of years, sourdough starter has been used to healthfully and naturally leaven bread. Containing naturally occurring wild yeast and friendly Lactobacillus bacteria, sourdough starter also adds its own unique flavor profile to baked goods.

You’ll find a selection of sourdough bread recipes here. For details on sourdough starter management, visit breadtopia.com/starter/.

Guaranteed healthy delivery within USA.

Ingredients: Organic wheat flour and wild yeast culture.


CBS Best Reviews calls this the best starter you can buy online.


Note: As a living culture, your sourdough starter should be fed upon delivery. If this is purchased as a gift and may not be tended to within a day or two of delivery, or if you live outside of the US, please order our dehydrated sourdough starter instead.

This Live Starter is Truly The Best! I am so glad I purchased this item. I’m now wondering why I didn’t get one of these Live Starters earlier! So vibrant and healthy! Makes my old “from scratch” sourdough starter (which I accidentally destroyed) look pathetic. No wonder I was having such problems with oven spring! Attached is a picture of my new starter. I got this starter late in the afternoon on Dec 15th and followed the instructions provided to a “T.” It’s now the evening of Dec 17th and look how much it’s grown already from the feeding I gave it earlier today. Fantastic! I’ve got my no-knead sourdough dough proofing right now and will bake it tomorrow. I expect great results….finally! Thanks, Eric, for such a wonderful product!

Patti, verified owner

Hello Eric, I just made my first loaf of no-knead sourdough, and you are right, your sourdough starter is very vigorous! I had a fantastic oven spring! I have a rye bread rising as we speak. Thanks again.

Marty
Berkley, Michigan

Just a note to say a massive THANK YOU for the wonderful sourdough starter. With it, I made near-perfect SD loaves.I have struggled for a year to come up with a good from-scratch starter and had endless problems. Yours worked like a dream, the texture of the dough was fabulous, and the loaves delicious.Why did I wait so long??Thanks again.

Margaret McGurk

I have been making sour dough bread for 50 years—best two starts I ever had: One that my pioneer ancestors brought across the plains and another that a friend from Alaska shared with me. We moved often—military! Three overseas moves would somehow result in the loss of these starts— The one that I ordered from you — a live wad of dough in a plastic bag— is GRAND! I love it. really strong from the moment I first fed it. Thanks so much—how I love making sour dough bread again.

Nancy P. Anderson
Lawton Ok

 


 

Our sourdough starter comes packaged in Biotre 2.0 pouches. Biotre is made from renewable plant based resources and is 60% compostable.

Sourdough Starter (Live)

  1. Alex Jordan (verified owner)

    I tried culturing my own starter from scratch over the last couple of weeks with moderate success. I babied the thing–optimized the pH at the beginning, controlled the temperature with a thermocouple-controlled heat mat, careful regular feedings of a blend of rye and bread flours, etc. I even set up a camera to watch it while I’m at work to make sure it wasn’t peaking while I was gone. At best, I’ve gotten it to grow 2-2.5x over a 12-hour period.

    I was getting frustrated so I ordered the live starter from Breadtopia. It came in the mail yesterday. I popped it into a mason jar, fed it 1:1:1 (AP only), and watched as it quickly ballooned to 3x over the next 6ish hours. I fed it again last night @ 1:2:2, and it tripled again overnight. I fed it this morning @ 1:3:3, and it had already grown ~50% by the time I left for work. This starter is so impressive, and I am very excited to build a levain with it this weekend.

    Save yourself the hassle and just buy this. I can’t recommend it enough!

  2. Sharon Tempke (verified owner)

    This starter is phenomenal! I have tried many starters over the years and had mediocre luck with some, but I was able to start a loaf of sourdough bread later on day 2 and enjoyed the following day for dinner with a pot of bean soup. Have also made sourdough waffles on day 4 and am currently waiting for my rye berries to start a couple loaves of bread. You will not be disappointed with this starter. Everything has tasted wonderfully delicious. So much so, that my husband who does not care for store bought sourdough bread has been enjoying the items made using this starter.

  3. rechelebrooke (verified owner)

    Best sourdough starter, hands down! I recommend it to all my friends and family who want to make sourdough but don’t live near me (otherwise I would share some of my starter, that was started with the Breadtopia Live starter!)

  4. mwgroth (verified owner)

    Shipping took about 4 days in cool weather and arrived when we were out of town for the weekend. So, I was a little nervous about my box with the starter having sat on my porch for two additional days. But when I opened the package the starter looked beautiful and healthy. I followed the instructions and started my first loaf with the new starter on day 2!

  5. Rick

    Great starter, within 1.5 days it was looking good, will be starting a SD pizza dough and just finished a SD peanut butter cookie.

    Thank you,

    RTN

  6. Vickie Myers

    Your live starter is amazing! I was making my first beautiful loaf 🍞 of sourdough bread with it within 24 hours. It is a very active/lively starter and produces beautifully tart sourdough. I highly recommend!

  7. Kcarey

    Kristy
    1/15/23
    My son just learned from a Chief how to make sour dough bread and it was so good I had to learn. By surprise my husband got me the starter and even though I didn’t feed it right away it turned out amazing to my surprise. I am addicted!!

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