Living Dough - 900 Year Old Sourdough Starter Culture - Active & Live Organic Sourdough Starter for Baking - For Artisanal Bread, Pizza Dough, Waffles & More

I can't get the lid off! Apparently others have also had problems. Is there some sort of trick?UPDATE.I finally got the lid off (hint, it is not screwed on, so turning the lid to unscrew it does nothing - you have to pry/pop it off).Having finally gotten to the starter, I fed it slowly (at room temperature) with small, equal amounts (by weight) of bottled water and bread flour for about a week and a half, and it easily came back to life. I now have a good, healthy starter - and just baked with it for the first time. The bread came out wonderful.I've been baking sourdough bread for years, and have had a number of starters, and I must say this is one of the best I've ever used. The smell is deep, rich, and has that distinctive tanginess. I'd recommend this to everyone from sourdough beginners to people that are very experienced. It is just an excellent product.I also want to add a note about the Seller. I posted an initial review, just complaining about the lid. The seller reached out to me offering a replacement or refund. I was tied up with other things and didn't respond. Without even being asked, he sent another starter. I was very pleasantly surprised. The company genuinely cares about happy customers.So - bottom line - my grumpy one star review has been changed to five stars. This is an excellent product, sold by a very responsible company.

Update: Customer service reached out to me and was wonderful! I’ve had issues going on with family and wasn’t unable to respond but they reached out multiple times and ultimately ended up sending me a brand new container of starter, with instructions, despite not being able to get in touch with me. Customer service is an important part of any brand to me and theirs is top tier. I appreciate their dedication to fixing the situation and ensuring that I was satisfied. I can’t wait to try out the new starter and can’t say enough nice things about this company!I want to preface by saying I am completely new to sourdough and making bread but like to cook and wanted to give it try. With that being said, there were zero instructions, guidance, or directions included - just the jar of product. Obviously I don’t expect my hand to be held but I thought there would be at least some sort of direction included. I don’t have a clue how to feed it or anything so I’ll have to do my own research on that.The lid arrived swelled up and when I opened the product, it hissed. Again, no directions were included so I’m not sure if this is normal or not. I’ll have to research this to make sure I’m good to use it. If so, I’ll come back and make an update on how that goes.

I struggled for weeks trying to get a starter to mature. I learned that faulures (1:1:1) only works if you have a slow environment. My experiments matured too fast and starved. And when I fed it 1:5:5 it never doubled. And when it did, my dough under fermented. I swallowed my sunk cost and purchased the Dutch Sourdough starter.This sourdough starter is amazing. It tripled in 24 hours and I was able to start baking right away. I tried another brand it took 3 days for it to come alive.I shall call this sourdough starter Bram and Bram shall be it's name. Dutch sourdough starter is the way to go.

I worked at making my own starter for over six weeks with little success. Finally; my husband accidentally knocked my glass starter jar to the ground and that was the end of that failure. After six weeks of suffering with little result; I purchased this. I live in FL and it is summer and this arrived in awesome condition even after over a week of postal transport. I was able to successfully use within only 2 days. I am a beginner so my first decent loaf came a few days later after some practice. I have frozen some starter in the jar it came in just in case. I can now proceed with my sourdough journey with confidence. So happy!

Absolutely gorgeous and delicious bread. I've been making my own sourdough for a few years and thought I would try out a few different starters and see if I noticed a difference. I've never used any starter that wasnt my own but I have brought starter from one house to another during a move and definitely noticed they were different. I ordered the starter and noticed that it would be a little while before it arrived and I had a short trip coming up so I ordered it right as I left. Low and behold, it arrived early and our cool spring weather hit one of those weird hot humid spells for 3 days and I was nervous that the starter may have gotten cooked in my mail box. I wanted to give it a go and see. The starter took about a week to wake up and when it did it was some of the most beautiful bubbly texture and gorgeous starter I've ever seen. I definitely plan to buy others to try and I have many different ideas I want to try now.

This is my first time with a sourdough starter, and I’m super excited :P. It kinda feels like I have a pet to feed now! It actually smelled really nice when I opened it, and I can’t wait until it’s ready to use! It came with instructions on how to feed and store it, which was nice. I kinda wish some recipes had been included though, or maybe some tips on what’s recommended for certain things, like what kind of jar I should store it in, what type of flour is best, what should it look like if it’s ready, and what the ideal temperature and humidity are. Overall, this seems like a great quality product and I’m gathering recipes to make once it’s ready :).