Certified Organic Live 46 Year Old San Francisco Sourdough Starter - UKAS Lab Tested with Printed Instruction from Kombuchaorganic®

Good quality product

Really good starter, reacted well to feeding and produced a perfect loaf

The 5 star rating is for the quality of the product and NOT for Royal Mail who took 4 days to deliver it. I expected it to have died but it came to life very quickly after only 2 feedings which shows the authenticity of it and it is much stronger than my previous starter. Very impressed!

This is a rye starter and not what it really says it is. I do bake rye sourdough loaves so will use it, but it’s not really what you want as your main sourdough starter to love and nurture as rye doesn’t behave like wheat what so ever and it’s a lot harder to manage a rye starter. They should be clearer. Or did I receive the wrong product?

It looked unprepossessing when it arrived, and had virtually no instructions. In fact it worked beautifully - after I found good instructions on the King Arthur flour site (a US site). I managed to make two magnificent sourdough loaves on my first try: am a fairly experienced bread baker, but never tried sourdough before. Don't be put off by its appearance when it arrives: would give 5 stars except for the lack of instructions

Made great bread. I followed the Clever Carrot directions online to make bread. I also used her discard sourdough recipe to make sourdough pancakes which were great. I will try her sourdough scones with the next discard.

I've had a few sourdough cultures, both done it myself from scratch, and a donated culture from someone else. I always manage to poison or kill them eventually. This is an excellent idea: a sample of a proven live culture, in a plastic envelope, that just needs a home and feeding.So far, so very good. I didn't have any rye flour when it arrived so fed it first with some strong white, but since then it's had organic rye - and as the instructions suggest, that is what it really thrives on.I've made a couple of loaves so far, and the first was over-dense (rye+spelt+wholemeal). It needed a much longer proving time, The second was strong white - this got ~18hrs @ 18C and was much better. This culture seems more robust and easy to keep than the previous DIY ones. It comes with good instructions on how to look after it, so fingers crossed I'll be able to keep using it for a long time.

Very disappointing. I followed the instructions. I did everything right and absolutely nothing- it didn't raise, no bubbles, lifeless.