Soviet Rye Sourdough Starter Culture for Baking, Fresh & Versatile, 3.5 Oz

It's been a year or so since I've made sourdough so I needed a new starter to get back on my bread making journey again. This sourdough starter is wonderful! It was packaged well and came with thorough instructions to help guide me on getting it fed and ready to use for baking. Upon the first feed, it blew up in size and came alive quickly. Within just a few days I was able to use it for baking. The bread turned out great (perfect amount of tangy flavor)! It's also very forgiving if you're like me and occasionally forget to feed your starter. I can't wait to make more delicious sourdough goodies!

This starter was super robust, it didn’t take long for me to feed and get it active to make a loaf of bread. I used this both in a wild yeasted and in an augmented commercially yeasted dough, and both of them had an amazing texture with a deep and complex flavor. The instructions were very clear for an amateur sourdough baker like me, and I think even for a beginner this would be a great product to try!

You NEED this starter! I bought two different starters from this seller and they both were and still are great!! I fed the starter just like the detailed instructions said and they just exploded literally and metaphorically. I bought the Soviet Rye and the Dutch and they are both still doing great. I thought that I would have a couple of days for the starter to spring back into action but I was wrong it arrives strong and healthy! The pictures attached are after the 1st feeding, 2nd feeding just exploded overnight and the 3rd feeding and they were just doubling and tripling within hours I had to add jars. Great product, strong starter and highly, highly recommended. I will definitely be buying from Living Dough again and trying new "flavors"

Ordered on the 27th, it arrived 4 days later. I stuck it in the fridge til the next afternoon, when I fed it according to the directions and left on my counter. 24 hours later it had already come back to life and over doubled in bubbly gloriousness. Directions say it can take anywhere from 1-6 days to come back to life. I got lucky and it was only 1 day. I absolutely cannot wait to make a loaf with this quality starter! Jar is breadtopia.

I am new to sourdough baking and I don’t know anyone that I could get starter from so I figured I’d try this. It came with detailed instructions which I greatly appreciated since I’m a beginner. I fed the starter the day I got it and within a couple days I was ready to bake. I made my first loaf of bread and it came out great. The bread had a nice crust and very soft inside. I can’t wait to try some other recipes, like maybe pizza dough or cinnamon buns!

Today is my fifth day feeding this starter. I am not passing judgment yet, and will update this review as time goes on. However, at this point, there is no bubbling and it is very thick. When feeding it each day the feed is very thick , added to the thick starter.... Just not sure if i'm impatient or if this is not working? I have followed the directions meticulously. I'm hoping at some point in the near future to be able to upgrade this to a 5 and happily report I have a live starter. We shall see...

Do not waste your money on this company or product. Terrible customer service and very rude.

The starter culture itself is good when revived (and the fact that it was able to revive tells me of its quality). However, giving the seller 3 stars for the choice of the delivery carrier - USPS. USPS notoriously suck, sending anything with it is like throwing a bottle with a message into a river and hoping that eventually it may wash ashore at the right location. The same happened this time: the container with the culture spent God knows how long in USPS truck and then despite the request to leave mail in the container at the door, they left it in a metal mailbox, so it's spent most of the day at 102F. This is the day 10 since I started feeding it and it just started showing the signs of coming back to life. Please either change the carrier and send packages with "perishable" sticker or send in an insulated containers - foam insulation isn't expensive.