KneadAce Sourdough Starter Culture – Fast-Activating Natural Wild Yeast for Homemade Bread – Dehydrated Sourdough Starter for Baking Artisan Loaves, Easy to Use & Perfect for Beginners

This worked well. It produced a strong and active starter in just a few of days. I followed the instructions with a little twist - I used 1/2 bread flour and 1/2 rye flour to ensure it had a bit more energy (the US takes away a lot of the nutrients from wheat flour for some reason). To get the starter established, I used the ratios suggested in the instructions, and within 3 days I had a strong active starter. I did a daily maintenance for two additional days just to be sure that it was established before using. For maintenance/feeding, I shifted away from the 1:1:1 ratio suggested in the instructions to a 1:2:2 ratio using 25 g starter, 50g water, 50g of flour mix (25g wheat flour+25g rye flour) for the weekly feeding and after use recovery and it is thriving. The resulting bread was well-formed with a good crumb, nice crust and a mild sourdough flavor.

Amazing sourdough starter for beginners! It was my first time making sourdough and I followed the paper instructions it came with exactly for activation and the rise has doubled on the third day. Easy and foolproof, thank you!

Great communication all around. There was a hiccup with the shipment (an Amazon mix-up), but KneadAce made it right without any fuss. That kind of integrity still means something. The starter itself was simple to get going, with clear, straightforward instructions. It took to feeding just like it should, growing steady and strong. We’ve kept it going, using even the discard in other recipes. Nothing wasted, the way it should be. Seems to be a good, honest product and company. I’d recommend it to any beginner or just someone looking for the easier button.

This starter is extremely forgiving and perfect for the beginner! I made a couple of boo boos (like accidentally using cake flour vs bread flour) and it was unphased and remained lively and more than worth the money. I was torn between this one and one I saw on tt and went with this one due to such great feedback - to which I must add :) The product is in it's own separate, 2nd pouch within the one that needs torn open and the instructions are in there - make sure, also, to pay attention to the conversion chart because (if you're like me!) things (dry vs liquid) don't always convert as you expect.

At first, a funny smell. Day two it was gray looking and did not smell like sourdough starter. Third day it had some mold growing on it so I threw it out. I hope the seller can refund me or possibly replace it. I don’t know if The other pack that I got with it is of the same quality. . Not a very good starter. Probably will try the 2nd pack, Then move on. Here’s the review update. They sent me another package of this to try. I haven’t as of yet, but I can change the review some and up the number of stars. Thanks for sending again

The only starter out of three that actually worked!

Easily made very active starter that made great tasting sourdough bread with the tang I was hoping for. Before buying, and some questions and the company's CEO was the one who responded quickly and was a great help with my followup questions too. (A similar company had no answer, said they're find an answer, but I never heard back.)

I wanted to come on here and leave a REAL review to follow. I am a complete newbie with sourdough and have been wanting to test my hand at it. I went through and bought everything I needed and the recommended tools to have on hand. I even bought the kneadace pro jar. I bought this dehydrated starter instead of making my own to make things easier and so I wouldn’t lose hope if my starter didn’t make it. Anyway this arrived Friday, once I got it I immediately dove it. My advice keep a small journal to write each day down, what you do/changes, USE A SCALE and throw out the cloth cover and only use the silicone!! Day 1 I started the starter around 2pm mixed with water. STIR STIR STIR. keep stirring. Make sure the room isn’t too cold. I put mine in the warmest spot of the house and it was around 75 degrees the whole time. So directions say wait 3 hours. Don’t do that, wait until there’s no more flakes and they are all dissolved. ONCE all flakes are dissolved do your first feed of flour. I use King Arthur organic. Stir well and Cover with silicone lid and wait 24 hours. Day 2 after 24 hours feed your starter again this time with both 90 grams of flour and 90 grams of water. Use a scale for all measurements!! Mix good and cover again with the silicone lid. Wait 24 hours. After this feeding my starter was sitting at the 250ml line. Day 3 I woke up to check my starter and holy heck she had already rose to 500ml and still going strong. She smelled amazing and had lots of bubbles. Let it continue to rise. A few hours later, I checked and she was up to 750ml the highest peak and super bubbly. It more than tripled!! I waited and let it fall back down. Once it was fallen, I transferred all of the starter into a new jar and washed my starter jar thoroughly. Then I discarded all but 90 grams of starter into the clean jar. Then fed 90 & 90 of water and flour. Stirred and covered. The discard was about 200 grams. You can put it in the fridge and use it for discard recipes, throw it out, or turn it into a second jar of active starter. If you do choose to keep it as a second starter make sure to feed it before you put it in the fridge. You’re going to cover your starter jar and let it sit out on the counter continuing to feed it and discard until your ready to bake. I will say last night when I fed it again, my starter rose much faster, it more then doubled and had already fallen when I woke up this morning. It’s So bubbly, healthy and thriving. She smells great. I can’t wait to bake with her. Once I do bake I’ll come back and update my review with those results. But I have a feeling everything will turn out great and delicious. PS make sure to name your starter! Mines named Dumbledough lol

I gotta give it to them, their customer service is great. But it’s been over 12 days since i started the process and still dont have an active starter. I really have followed all the recommendations to the tea but still no luck. Im upset i paid so much money for nothing. Definitely not fast activating as they say.

Honestly very impressed I did not expect it to rise day 3 I thought it would take a couple more days but not only rose but it doubled! I tried the breadtopia one as I used that before to make a 'quick' starter but this time around it failed. Even with the breadtopia one it did not rise or smell correctly for a couple days. Will try to not forget about the starter in the fridge this time but if I do I know which one I am trying first! Also note I used warm water idk if I call it hot or Luke warm to dissolve stuff since people said it is hard to dissolve. And I just kept it by my rice cooker as it was keeping left over rice warm at a constant 25-26 which probably helped. Did do the same thing for the other brand as well but did not take off and buttery bacteria took over UPDATE: it still is good but the smell like a young starter like acetone so can't use right away. But it doubles very quickly so probably still need a couple days before baking

Love this and it worked so well.

Great way to start a starter! Easy instructions to follow with QR code to follow video instructions. Worked the first time and my starter is going strong!

Great starter