Certified Organic Live Sourdough Starter, Very Old and Mature - 46 year old Lake District Starter, Bread Starter - 80g for all types of flour with printed instruction by Kombuchaorganic®

Update: 3 months later: starter still going strong, alive and well. Feeding once a day now or even less and it’s continuing to make fantastic bread!Wanted to try making sourdough after baking my own bread using my Panasonic bread machine for the past 8 months or so. I did not have the energy or time to cultivate my own culture so I bought this starter from Amazon.It arrives in a small plastic sealed bag, as other reviewers have mentioned. Its quite watery on arrival. When opened, the intense smell of sourdough bread made me realise that this is the real deal and the bread would turn out with amazing flavour!Instructions could do with a bit of improving. Searching online I fed the starter with 100grams of Wholefood Earth Organic Wholemeal/Dark Rye Flour and 100 ml of boiled and cooled down to room temperature water and stirred into a plastic container. Within 2-3 hours the starter had almost doubled in size and retained its volume for a good 12 hours or so. I then used the first 100grams to make a sourdough bread with white bread flour in my bread machine which turned out amazing! Used its sourdough programme, removed 50 grams of water and 50 grams of flour from the base bread recipe and replaced with 100 grams of starter. It has a bit less rise than yeast but the flavour and texture was out of this world and a massive step up from the yeast type. Good open air bubbles in the bread, chewy and a very crunchy crust.Fed the starter again on the same day with another 100 grams of flour and water and it doubled again within a few hours and retained its strength. The culture is certainly very active and eats up the flour at an astonishing rate. Now I will split the culture in two and have one as backup in case I do something wrong and kill one of it.Have just prepared also a couple of pizza's to try tonight! Looking forward to tasting them and see whether they are like the Franco Manca sour dough pizza which I love!Highly recommended, the flavour, smell and rise is excellent!

First time I’ve ever made a successful sourdough loaf. Failed multiple times after making my own starter previously, so I had stuck with instant yeast for years to avoid flat rock-like loaves. I fed this as instructed for a couple of days first to build it up, and boy did it build. Let’s just say this is very much alive! I shall be looking after and feeding this diligently, though there isn’t much to do as it seems very forgiving. Currently it is my favourite pet so my cat will be disappointed. I spend far more time scouring the web or my book supply for new recipes to use it in, this will keep me happy in my kitchen for ages. Also, the flavour of this loaf is fab. Not too sour, and the texture is very good. I used my usual ‘no knead’ recipe (3 cups flour - 1/2 spelt and 1/2 white bread flour, 1 1/2 cups water, 1 1/2teas pink salt, 1/4teas instant yeast), but added 1 and 1/4 cups of fed starter instead of the 1/4teas yeast, and added 1tbls runny honey. I added the salt after 20mins of the dough resting to give the starter time to get going. I mix in the evening then leave it overnight to rise before shaping, but this one spilled out of the bowl. I use a Dutch oven to cook mine in to get the crisp rise. I didn’t follow the given instructions for how much starter to add to my loaf, probably because I have had horrid sourdough result before, but I think I could easily get away with only using 1 cup. The instructions are good and clear by the way, but I haven’t checked out the website yet. Can’t be more pleased with the results. Sourdough garlic and coriander naan breads next...Update: 3/4 cup of starter is plenty for my recipe. Also does a beautiful half and half whole meal sourdough with 1/4 cup of vital wheat gluten added.

Great starter this is , I followed the instructions added 150g flour and 110ml/g water and within 4 hours that’s how it’s grown and full of bubbles . Awesome !!!

Customer service is excellent, initial bag split in delivery and was replaced within a few days.Very active starter, followed the instructions and the started had good growth almost doubled in size and settled down. Lots of bubbles and healthy smelling.Did my first bake using a new method. Sourdough rose steadily and slowly during first proof, and held shape nicely in second proving.The bake rose beautifully albeit a very wonky bake, I normally bake in a dutch oven and tried an open bake.Flavour is lovely and bread has a good crumb.Very happy with the starter and will always be in mind for when I need to order more. My last batch lasted about 2 years.

This is my first time having a sourdough starter, but it looks clear that this is a good sourdough starter. A few hours after feeding it it's already almost doubled in size It comes with instructions that are easy to follow and now I guess its more experimenting and seeing what would be the feeding schedule that works for me. Happy with this purchase :)

I was very disappointed, when I opened this package. There was an, almost flat, plastic bag, with a sticky mess from top to bottom. Needless to say, when I transferred it to a jar, quite a bit was left behind, stuck to the plastic. As it's shown, as being in a jar or pot, that was what I was expecting. I would definitely not buy this again, nor would I recommend anyone else to do so.

I can not give any star as I don’t like how was delivered in a plastic foil. Not sure if I want to eat plastic. Many people love it so must be good, but this bag doesn’t look attractive and there is no instructions how to keep it no expiry date, bit confused.