Cultures for Health, Sourdough, Whole Wheat, 1 Packet, .13 oz (3.7 g)

This starter worked great and I am now successfully baking whole-wheat and einkorn sourdough bread and sourdough pizza. It took about a week to get active because my kitchen is on the cool side (18C). When I saw it was slow I resolved by placing a bottle of hot water in the same cupboard of the starter and keeping a towel around the starter itself to keep it warm. Great product!

This works as advertised and gives a nice tart sourdough bread. After a while, the natural yeast cultures that favor your environment will over power this and the flavor of your bread will change, but this will get you started. This particular culture does not seem to raise as well, but it gives a very distinct tart sourdough flavor. It is an excellent way to get your own starter growing without worrying about it turning green and eating the cat or whatever botched cultures do :). For those interested - there are bazillion natural yeasts floating in the air, and different yeasts will grow best in varying environments. The flour you use, the water you use, the temperature you keep it at, will favor some yeasts more than others. The yeasts that grow best in your environment of flour and water and temperature will eventually overpower this culture. Over the course of about 25 feeding cycles, I found that each batch would raise better and faster, but had a milder taste. It is now stable, and I have a moderately fast rising (6-12 hours for classic sourdough bread) that has a nice faint yeasty sourdough flavor.

This so never became active. I followed the directions perfectly. I am a baker. I’m so discouraged this so did not work. By two weeks and it’s still barely made bubbles never increased in size when you fed it and overnight turned gray. Definitely would not recommend this product.

Finally dipped my hand into the sourdough making and I am so happy with the results! The bread tastes amazing and the process was overall super easy. It can be intimidating at first, especially not knowing the terms discard, feed, ratios, etc. but now I feel like it’s a breeze. The packet is perfectly sized to start out small but get mighty. The baked product turned out so yummy, now to master the scoring!

Good starting culture.