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
Really struggled establishing a healthy active on my own, even after doing a what I thought were all the right things. You Knead Sourdough’s dried starter flakes had me baking beautiful loaves the same week of reviving my order. It’s given me the confidence in my ability again and my family and friends are enjoying all the loaves I’m giving away. They have everything you need to start baking some beautiful loaves almost immediately!
What a beautiful turnaround, Jazmin! We’re thrilled the Starter Flakes had you baking lovely loaves within the same week and, most importantly, restored your confidence. Your family and friends must be delighted to share in the delicious results! 😊
-Ariane
Got my starter to rise and was ready to use and was so so excited!! Opened it and it was mouldy. Will need to perfect the art of sourdough.
We’re sorry your excitement was cut short by finding mould on your starter, Ally. We’ve reached out to you privately to help work through what may have happened and get your sourdough journey back on track. We’ll help you turn this around! 😊
-Ariane
Love this idea hope i do it right simple instructions to follow
I have purchased two starters (due to letting go of my sourdough making for a year or two) and both have just been so easy to activate. I originally purchased the full set 3 years ago and it’s still going strong!!
Welcome back to sourdough, Amy! We’re thrilled the starters were so easy to activate and that your original kit is still going strong after three years. Here’s to picking up right where you left off! 😊
-Ariane
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Hi Emily! Thanks so much for your simple but lovely review. We're thrilled to hear you're happy with your starter. Happy baking!😊