This recipe is great if you are just starting your sourdough-making experience. Once you’ve mastered it, then you really won’t need a recipe to follow — you’ll know what to do at each step. Ingredients 500 g / 17.64 oz flour (see notes on flour below) 325 g / 11.46 oz warm water (see notes […]
What is a sourdough stater? Simply put a sourdough starter is a live culture made from flour and water at its basic form. Once combined the flour and water mix will begin to ferment, cultivating naturally occurring lactic acid bacteria and wild yeasts that naturally live in the flour, in the air and everywhere around […]
Use a container that can be closed with a lid (I like to cover mine with a cloth but in both cases 1L glass mason jar works best). Make sure it is clean or simply wash it out well with hot water and a little soap. Allow the container to dry and cool down if […]
18
Jun
Jun
it is not a secret that Bulgarian yogurt has medicinal effect on the human body. It has existed and has been used by the Bulgarian people for thousands of years. It has originated in the Rhodope Mountains region in Bulgaria. There, many centuries ago, the indigenous population started making yogurt by souring milk using nothing […]
Every now and then I get asked the same question so I decided to write a quick explanation about it. Sometime clients will email me saying “Hey, there is something off here — if the 1L pack contains 1 gram of starter, how come I didn’t get a pack of 50 grams with my 50L […]
Kefir Starter Culture is made of freeze-dried bacteria, similar to our yogurt starter culture. It is a powdery substance that you activate when you use it, in order to make kefir. Kefir grains are clumps of live kefir bacteria, colonies of yeast and bacteria, held together by kefirin, a polysaccharide substance. They are soft and rubbery […]
It is super easy to make yogurt using our Bacillus Bulgaricus yogurt starter culture. All you need is a pack of Bacillus Bulgaricus starter and milk. You can use a yogurt maker of course but it is absolutely not required. Here is how to make yogurt using just items you find at home. First, find […]
When it comes to buying the right pack size of Bacillus Bulgaricus yogurt starter, the most important thing to know is how much yogurt you will be making and how often. Our packs have a great shelf life, they can be stored in your freezer for 2 years without any effect on the bacteria power […]
Bacillus Bulgaricus starters are very powerful so your yogurt will easily catch. However, if you need some help in figuring out how much starter to use for how much milk, here’s a quick guide to make it easier for you: Use 1 gram for a liter/quart of milk. Use about 1.5 grams to make half […]
It is super easy to make yogurt. Yogurt is a natural product made from fermenting milk by a lactic acid bacteria, so it will always naturally set when given the right conditions. However, sometimes you might need some practice before you make the perfect yogurt. Especially if you had not made yogurt before, or, say, […]
Bacillus Bulgaricus culture is super strong, so strong that it makes the so-thick-it-doesn’t-fall-off-the-jar-when-upside-down kind of yogurt even when using skim milk. Yogurt thickness, in general, does not depend on the culture you using. Of course if you are using super weak culture you won’t get good yogurt but today’s cultures that are available on the […]