The Original Sourdough Starter

Name: The Original Sourdough Starter
Brand: GetSourdough
SKU: SS-OR
Price: 15.00 GBP
Availability: InStock

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The Original Sourdough Starter (150gr) - this is a versatile and mild flavoured sourdough starter that is suitable for all baking applications.

Made with 100% Organic British Wheat, Spelt, and Rye Flour

12-14% Protein Content

Shipped at 40% Hydration to ensure it travels well.

Comes with first refresh (feed) included as well as full instructions on feeding, using and maintaining your sourdough starter.

♻️ We package your starter in a reusable glass jar and wrap and ship in fully recyclable packaging. ♻️

Ingredients

90% Organic British Stoneground Wheat Flour

5% Organic British Rye Flour

5% Organic Spelt Flour

Filtered Water

Shipping & Returns

We ship on Monday - Thursday (Thursday 12noon cut off) to ensure that your product arrives within 48hours to your door.

Your sourdough starter is shipped in a glass jar with your first dose of flour for refreshing and instructions on how to look after your sourdough starter.

Size

We ship 150gr of sourdough starter as a standard. This comes in a 500ml glass jar.

Care Instructions

Ensure you feed your sourdough starter, as per the instructions in your shipment, as soon as you receive the sourdough starter package.

Further instructions on how to keep your sourdough starter alive and get it ready for baking are also sent to you with your sourdough starter package.

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Love that they include instructions and first feed in the jar!

The starter is excellent. However, as a complete novice I found the instructions very sparse and a little confusing. As I said in my email to you, it would help to add the following points -
Prepare in a warm temperature - if kitchen is below 20 deg. fermentation slows drastically. Bring the starter out of the fridge and feed at warm temperature.
Keep dough consistently warm 24-26 deg. during bulk fermentation. Warming oven?
Water should be around 28 - 30 deg. to create dough at 24-26 deg.
If in fridge, either reduce fridge time or make sure fridge is genuinely cold 3-5deg.C

Use rice flour in proving basket not wheat flour as it sticks less. Do not use detergent when washing banneton liner. Allow any excess dough to harden then brush off.

Before baking, poke dough - should spring back slowly but not fully if it’s ready.
Watch dough, not timings.

Incredible! I have struggled so much with creating a starter and sadly a very cold home. I’ve tried fermentation boxes I’ve tried sourdough start jars I’ve used bottled water. I’ve used a variety of flowers and I followed instructions to the letter, but nothing has worked until now.

Great active, established starter and a generous amount. Mine went in the fridge for a couple of days before I used it. I dehydrated half the amount to keep in the freezer as a backup.
Several delicious loaves made since with nice oven spring and crumb.
It would be good to know the exact flours used in this starter so I could continue with the same blend.

Did exactly what it said it would do - will buy here again.

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What to expect when you Buy our Sourdough Starter

24H before shipping: Test and feed mother starter.

Day of shipping: We prepare your sourdough starter by creating a low hydration dough. It is covered in flour which acts as your first feed.

24H after shipping: You receive your sourdough starter and need to feed it immediately. Instructions included.

48H after shipping: Sourdough starter ready to be baked with.

Free Shipping (48hr Royal Mail)
We ship Mondays-Thursdays to ensure that your sourdough starter is in transit for no longer than two days.
Hassle-Free Returns
If you are unhappy with your sourdough starter, please get in touch with us at care@getsourdough.co.uk as soon as you can.

Sourdough Accessories

Essential accessories to make your sourdough baking experience much smoother. We use these tools in our test kitchen to make sure they stand up to the highest standards. Our current collection includes: metal bench scrapers, plastic dough scrapers and bread lames, dough clean up cloths and bannetons.