You Knead Sourdough
Dry Sourdough Starter
Dry Sourdough Starter
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Buy once - all you need is more flour to continue to make amazing bread!
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Active starter guarantee or we'll replace it free
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Great for both new and experienced home bakers
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Bake your first loaf in as little as 3 days (no waiting weeks for an active starter!)
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Thousands of happy home baking customers
These dried flakes are your most important ingredient. They carry the wild yeast and beneficial bacteria that give real sourdough its rise and that distinct tang you won't get from a packet of commercial yeast.
Making a starter from scratch usually means a week or two of feeding flour twice a day and hoping it takes. Ours skips all that. The culture is already mature and stable, so you just rehydrate the flakes, give it a couple of feeds, and you'll have a strong, active starter ready for your first loaf in as little as 2 days.
One packet is all you need. A starter is alive, so once it's going you can keep it for years by feeding it.
What you'll want alongside it: this is the flakes packet only. If you're starting from scratch, the Complete Sourdough Starter Kit is the easiest way in, with the starter plus flour, a jar, and all the tools to bake your first loaf. Already have the gear and just need somewhere to keep your starter? Add a Starter Jar, or grab the Jar + Flakes bundle and save.
Starter flakes weight: approx 11g
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Our #1 priority at You Knead Sourdough is your happiness. As a small business, we 100% stand by our product. If you have a problem, we will solve it! Send you out a new starter, troubleshoot with you over the phone, send you extra resources, refund it - whatever it takes! Just send us a message and we will do anything we can to help.
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We are here to help! We are very active on Facebook, Instagram, email and our store chat - if you have any questions, issues getting your starter active or baking your sourdough get in touch and we'll help out any way we can. We also have a very active group on Facebook where people ask questions and post their sourdough creations to share with others. Come and join!
We also have comprehensive guides and FAQ's right here on our website, so if you have a question you can be sure that it has been answered.
Customer Reviews
I never knew ‘discard’ was so useful ‼️
My daughter feeds it to her cooks 😫
Now I’ve shown her how to make
Scones
Cracker biscuits
Crumpets & more
Thank you 💖
This is the best book about sourdough I have ever read. So much info and all the answers I needed at the time. If the book is on the kitchen bench then my husband knows in the next day or two, he will be eating yummy homemade sourdough. Thank you.
What wonderful praise, Elizabeth! 🥰 We’re thrilled the Cookbook has answered your questions, and we love that seeing it on the bench gives your husband something delicious to look forward to! 🍞
- Ariane
Excellent product! This jar is great quality with easy to read markings
Great to hear you’re loving your Starter Jar, Leeanne! We’re delighted its quality and clear markings are making your starter easier to manage. Enjoy watching it rise! 😊🥖
-Ariane
Hi since ive started using your knead flour, ive found my loafs to be amazing, im still learning but I am enjoying the whole sourdough process. I recently made a loaf one using your heavy duty bread tin and it turned out great for my first time 😄💓
What a fantastic first bake in your Heavy Duty Bread Tin, Michelle! We’re thrilled the flour is helping you create amazing loaves while you enjoy learning the sourdough process. Keep having fun with every new bake! 😄💓
-Ariane
Brought the dried starter to help start my sourdough journey.
I’ve managed a few loaves already, so this starter makes it a lot easier to start
You’re off to a brilliant start, Steph! We’re so glad the Dry Starter Flakes made beginning your sourdough journey easier and has already helped you create a few loaves. Keep them coming! 😊🥖
-Ariane