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.

I bought this product after my first attempt at creating my own sourdough starter failed. I saw several recommendations suggesting that beginners borrow or buy an established starter instead of making one from scratch, and I have to say that was a smart move. The starter was very easy to activate. I probably could have used it after the first feeding, but I chose to feed it twice to make sure it was strong and active. It rose beautifully and was ready for baking. I made my first loaf with it, and while it wasn't perfect, it was definitely edible and had a great rise. Any issues were due to the warm weather and my inexperience as a beginner, not the starter itself. I was really impressed by how active it was from the start, and it continues to be just as vigorous now. I've baked several loaves with it since then, and I'm very happy with this product. I even dried some of the starter myself as a backup in case I accidentally damage or lose my starter in the future. I've already experimented with a few different feeding ratios, and it has consistently produced strong rises every time. I would definitely recommend it to anyone looking for a reliable sourdough starter.

After having ordered this over a year ago, I finally got around to starting my own sourdough starter. I ran 3 tests, one with the culture and two without. After they all reached day 7, I started feeding the culture half AP/half WW, one of the non cultures AP and the other Bread Flour. The one with the culture thrived and survived, consistently doubling/tripling within 4-6 hours, while the all AP no culture did not really rise and ended up dying, the bread flour rose, but not as quickly as the culture. Overall, this culture is great! The instructions were clear overall and after 7 days, my starter went crazy and is doing great! I’ve added pictures of normal bread and cinnamon bread I’ve made with it.

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

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

This is my second purchase of this sourdough starter and its great Super easy !

Got here fast and right as always

I followed the instructions but was having problems with the sourdough starter rising. It’s bubbly and active, just not rising. I emailed the company and the OWNER got back to me almost immediately. She was kind, helpful, and patient. She ended up calling me to troubleshoot and I’m so impressed with the customer service I experienced with KneadAce. The starter is great. The problem was user error. Great product (that is working now,) and AMAZING customer service. Highly recommend supporting this brand.

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

I made sourdough starter a dozen time and the last time it didn't work for some reason (i bet its my flour that just doesn't have the good bacteria or something in it), so i tried this and im impressed. It's been 2 days and tomorrow i am pretty sure it will be ready. If you don't wanna wait 2-4 weeks for a starter, take this It's worth it

Product did not work followed the instructions 100%

I was skeptical to buy a starter online but with all the good reviews I had to try it. I called the customer care and the actual owner answered - the starter is established/ fed daily for over 7 years . It took a few days to rehydrate and have it ready to bake but it's amazing and I definitely recommend !! Bought and tried in Canada .