Crusty, delicious artisan sourdough bread begins with a healthy, vigorous sourdough starter.
Our authentic San Francisco sourdough starter, which we bake with daily, is an unusually vigorous microbiome made of wild yeasts and lactobacillus sanfranciscensis, the lactic acid bacteria that gives sourdough its distinctive, sour flavor.
When you order from us, we send you a fresh, healthy chunk of our own live sourdough starter along with detailed instructions for how to quickly build up a large quantity of active starter so you can begin baking right away. With minimal care and regular feeding, your sourdough starter culture will live forever.
Guaranteed live, healthy delivery within USA.
Here at Breadtopia we provide extensive information about managing your starter and keeping it healthy and happy. And of course we also have endless sourdough bread variation recipes.
Note: As a living culture, your sourdough starter should be fed upon delivery. If this will be purchased as a gift or may not be tended to within a day or two of delivery, or if you live outside of the US, please order our dried sourdough starter instead.
This Live Starter is Truly The Best! I am so glad I purchased this item. I’m now wondering why I didn’t get one of these Live Starters earlier! So vibrant and healthy! Makes my old “from scratch” sourdough starter (which I accidentally destroyed) look pathetic. No wonder I was having such problems with oven spring! Attached is a picture of my new starter. I got this starter late in the afternoon on Dec 15th and followed the instructions provided to a “T.” It’s now the evening of Dec 17th and look how much it’s grown already from the feeding I gave it earlier today. Fantastic! I’ve got my no-knead sourdough dough proofing right now and will bake it tomorrow. I expect great results….finally! Thanks, Eric, for such a wonderful product!
Patti, verified owner
Hello Eric, I just made my first loaf of no-knead sourdough, and you are right, your sourdough starter is very vigorous! I had a fantastic oven spring! I have a rye bread rising as we speak. Thanks again.
Marty
Berkley, Michigan
Just a note to say a massive THANK YOU for the wonderful sourdough starter. With it, I made near-perfect SD loaves.I have struggled for a year to come up with a good from-scratch starter and had endless problems. Yours worked like a dream, the texture of the dough was fabulous, and the loaves delicious.Why did I wait so long??Thanks again.
Margaret McGurk
I have been making sour dough bread for 50 years—best two starts I ever had: One that my pioneer ancestors brought across the plains and another that a friend from Alaska shared with me. We moved often—military! Three overseas moves would somehow result in the loss of these starts— The one that I ordered from you — a live wad of dough in a plastic bag— is GRAND! I love it. really strong from the moment I first fed it. Thanks so much—how I love making sour dough bread again.
Nancy P. Anderson
Lawton Ok
Breadtopia Live Sourdough Starter
