Sourdough Starter
$10.99
A no-fuss sourdough starter that is easy to activate, ferments quickly and is no trouble to maintain.
Bacillus Bulgaricus Sourdough Starter makes an amazing sourdough bread of exceptional quality with great sourdough flavor, texture and taste.
You should get this sourdough starter if you are looking for starter, which is super easy to activate, ferments quickly and is no trouble to maintain. Our starter helps your sourdough rise fast and is always consistent and very reliable.
You should get this sourdough starter if you would like your sourdough starter to have colonies and colonies of beneficial probiotic lactic acid cultures and wild yeasts. Our starter contains strains isolated from natural sources in ecologically preserved areas in Bulgaria (including the famous Lactobacillus Bulgaricus), which your own locally grown sourdough starter won’t naturally have, simply because those strains don’t freely grow where you are (unless of course you are in Bulgaria). So by using our starter alone, or adding it to yours, it will enrich the healthy gut microbe fauna and contribute to the health benefits and the nutrition of your own starter. It will help your sourdough activate and ferment quickly and must importantly provide you with a boost of gut-friendly bacteria.
You should get this sourdough starter if you need a starter that gives you a reliable fast, strong and steady rise during proofing and produces an excellent oven spring, yielding a superb sourdough bread with lots of air pockets, great open crumb, nice crust, just the perfect texture, and heavenly taste.
The starter activates very quickly – because of the live active cultures and yeasts in it, it is ready to bake in as little as 1-2 hours after you feed it for the first time. You can of course feed it and let it ferment for as long as you need (to develop more strength and flavor) before using it, as you would do with your regular sourdough starter.
Once activated you can keep your sourdough starter going for as long as you’d like. You can also pause maintaining it at any time by storing the active sourdough starter in the fridge. See below for activating, feeding, and keep going instructions.
The starter is very sturdy and forgiving which makes it a great no-fuss, reliable and stable go-to sourdough starter for everyday use that is easy to keep going for as long as you need it.
Make sure you always keep some packs in the fridge and use them when you feel the spontaneous need to bake.
The starter is organic and fully natural with no preservatives, additives, artificial colors or flavors. It contains no GMO ingredients and it is gluten free.
It is universal, which means if can be used with any flour – AP, bread, whole, rye, spelt, even specialty flours. So there is no limit of the type of sourdough bread you can make with it.
Produced and packed in Bulgaria.
Ingredients
Live active lactic acid cultures incl. Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus bulgaricus, and yeasts incl. Saccharomyces Boulardii.
Storage
Store the starter packs in REFRIGERATOR.
Do not freeze!
Use by the date indicated on the label.
The starter packs have 2 years of shelf live. Use by the date indicated on the label.
See more storage instructions on the Sourdough Starter product information page.
Product Information
Additional product information is available below and on the Sourdough Starter product information page.
| Ingredients | Lactobacillus Brevis, Lactobacillus Casei, Natural wild yeasts, Saccharomyces Boulardii, Live active lactic acid cultures, Lactobacillus Bulgaricus |
|---|---|
| Starter Strength | > 30 billion CFU/g, 100% potency guaranteed |
| Starter Type | Universal., Use with all types of flour. |
| Details | 100% natural, No additives, No preservatives, Gluten free, Soy free, GMO free, Halal, Kosher |
| Pack Size | Universal – 6g |
| Origin | Made in Bulgaria |
| Shelf Life | 2 years in the refrigerator |
| Storage | Store in REFRIGERATOR |
Ingredients
Live active lactic acid cultures incl. Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus casei, Lactobacillus bulgaricus), yeasts (incl. Saccharomyces Boulardii.The starter is fully natural and organic with no preservatives, additives, artificial colors or flavors. It contains no GMO ingredients. It is soy, nuts, and gluten free.
Activity and Strength
1 gram of starter contains at least 30 billion colony-forming unit (3.0 x 1010 CFU/g) of lactic acid probiotic bacteria strains.
100% potency guaranteed. 100% viability guaranteed.
Contents
This is an heirloom starter with freeze-dried live active bacteria.
Each sachet contains loose powder mix, in perfect proportions, of the strains required to make excellent live active sourdough starter (levain).
The Sourdough starter comes in 6 gram packs.
More information about various pack sizes and their contents can be found here.
Sourdough Making Instructions
It is super easy to make sourdough bread using our sourdough starter!
All you need is a pack of our starter, some flour and water.
Bacillus Bulgaricus sourdough starter is an universal starter, which means you can use it with any type of flour — all-purpose, bread, white, whole wheat and rye, it always works!
How to make Sourdough instructions.
Why get the Bacillus Bulgaricus Sourdough Starter
You should buy this sourdough starter if you are looking for a no-fuss sourdough starter which is easy to use, performs consistently and reliably and makes absolutely delicious sourdough products.
When you make your own sourdough bread and other products you are in control of all the ingredients so you know what you are putting in your body. Sourdough bread made with Bacillus Bulgaricus starters is full of gut-healthy probiotics that are great for your health. Our sourdough starter is heirloom which means that you can make endless batches of sourdough bread saving a ton of money while eating healthy – an absolute win-win!
Read this long list of reasons why our starters are good for you.
Usage
The packs are packaged and labeled with the grams they contain and the volume those grams make when used entirely in one go.
The packs are intended for single use, or their contents could be split for multiple use (with the exception of the Sourdough starter which should always be used in one go).
When you split the pack, take out as much as you need to make your yogurt, then reseal and refreeze the remaining starter for later. Make sure you store the sachets in a way that prevents moisture from getting in, i.e. well closed in a Ziploc bag or wrapped around and fastened with a rubber band.
When you split the contents of the pack and use less starter amount to make smaller volumes, keep in mind that you are also reducing the total amount of yogurt that you can make from the pack (read more on that here). Refer to this page to see the gram to Liters (gallons) chart and to find out how much starter to use for different volumes of milk.
Help
Bacillus Bulgaricus starters are easy to use and are strong enough to make sure that the fermentation process completes naturally and smoothly, under the right conditions.
If you ever need help with using our products or troubleshooting your fermentation method, simply contact us with any questions and we’ll be happy to help.
You can also fill out this help form and we’ll get back to you in no time.
FAQs
If you’d rather read than write us an email, then check out this list of frequently asked questions and answers and Help and How-To articles for some more helpful information.
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Murray & Grace Poidevin –
Hi Ivo
Why we eat yogurt – for the probiotic properties ! We live in a situation where we are exposed to a wide gamut of GI “bugs.” Eating a yogurt with a high live culture count of numerous strains, significantly improves our healthy. Yes, indeed we have developed a taste for a good creamy yogurt, but that is a bonus!
We found you on line as we googled for a legacy Yogurt Starter. Your product is superior in numerous ways to any that we had previously tried. The milk available where we live is powder skim & whole…….so yes, we make our yogurt from powdered milk and your cultures work great!
Looking forward to getting the sourdough started! Was very interested to learn about your cream cheese starter.
Keep promoting your awesome products!
-Murray & Grace Poidevin
Hanne MT –
This is the best starter ever! I have been baking with sourdogh for many years, but this starter gives a fantastic result. I have only used it for a week or so, but it is so fun to make bread and other things that I have used it every day since I received it. 🙂
Luciano –
I love everything fermentation, from yogurt, to kefir, kombucha, sauerkraut.
I am myself a sourdough baker, and that’s what I do for a living.
Luciano
Sibylle –
The sourdough is my favourite at the moment because it is so versatile. I am using it almost every day and my breads are getting better and better. Even my fussy husband askes for it now! I also use it in buns and waffles which are the kids favourites.
Sasha –
Last week, I finally got around to trying your sourdough starter that I’d received months ago.
Your website instructions made it seem quite complicated to get on with making sourdough bread – which is why I kept putting off making sourdough bread. After just one attempt, I found it’s quite straightforward – just need to have some time to do it properly! I’ve made a few loaves and I’m getting better results each time. I’m adding more levain than the suggested 100g and playing with times for the 2 rises etc. By the end of August, I should be getting close to the San Francisco sourdough bread that I love!
I make sourdough bread using a Dutch oven. I use the bread maker for yogurt & kefir and pizza dough 🙂 Maybe I should try using your sourdough starter for pizza dough instead of store-bought yeast. That’s a project!
Pauline –
I have been reading up on sourdough being good for gut health .(Main reason for eating sourdough). I like making my own homemade breads etc and like to find a way of making sourdough and I stumbled on your website .
Michele –
Hi Ivo,
The sourdough starter worked great and I am still using it. No need to reorder.
Thanks again for your email.
Michele
Dianne Malmberg –
Thanks Ivo, and I’m very happy with the sourdough…. Haven’t got it quite right yet, it’s improving every time, but I’m really enjoying experimenting, and I recommend it to everyone, including Mungalli Creek Biodynamic Dairy, an A Grade Certified Biodynamic Dairy in a pristine part of Queensland, which has won many awards for organic dairy products. They were interested, & told me they had been in touch with you as to whether your culture was organic….(I wasn’t sure), they got back to me & said it certainly was. I hope that pans out.
JuanJo –
Hey Ivo, that was fast ! … the envelope made it to my mailbox today! now I’ll find you some other argentinians bulgaricus fans =)
Noel Iverson –
I’ve always liked sourdough, a healthy and tasty food, which my Russian mother always preferred, and recently I decided to resume making my own (the last time I did was 1964!). In searching the web, I stumbled across your Bulgarian variety, which reviewers appear to like.