Cultures for Health San Francisco Sourdough Style Starter Culture | Homemade Artisan Bread | Heirloom, non-GMO | Live Culture Bread Mix | Easy to Follow Recipe
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Flavor Name: San Francisco Style
Size: 0.19 Ounce (Pack of 1)
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- BEGINNER FRIENDLY: Sourdough is one of the most forgiving cultures to work with, making it a great choice for beginners or breadmaking pros. Plus, this dehydrated culture gives you a chance to get familiar with feeding your starter before it's time to bake!
- HEIRLOOM STYLE: With proper care, our sourdough starter can be reused indefinitely to leaven baked goods, making it easy for you to create delicious bread over and over again.
- VERSATILE: Make more than just bread! Use this starter to try your hand at creating delicious pizza dough, muffins, pancakes, pasta, banana bread, cakes, and more.
- HEALTH BENEFITS: Each starter contains a blend of bacteria and yeast that boosts the nutritional content of your bread and creates incredible flavor in every batch. Plus, finished loaves are chock full of prebiotics, which help promote good digestion.
- SAFE: Each batch is pathogen tested by a trusted third-party laboratory so you know you are getting a high quality, healthy starter to make great baked goods at home.
Brand: Cultures For Health
Flavor: San Francisco Style
Specialty: Non GMO
Number of Items: 1
Allergen Information: Gluten, Non-GMO
Is Discontinued By Manufacturer : No
Package Dimensions : 6.9 x 5.16 x 0.28 inches; 0.64 ounces
Item model number : 5100
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Manufacturer : Cultures for Health
Best Sellers Rank: #1,467 in Grocery & Gourmet Food (See Top 100 in Grocery & Gourmet Food) #1 in Bread Mixes
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Customer Reviews: 3.8 3.8 out of 5 stars (12,746)
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Flavor Name: San Francisco Style
Size: 0.19 Ounce (Pack of 1)
The quality of the culture is GREAT! Directions are not accurate on how to properly start the culture on the packaging. BE SURE TO CHECK THE WEBSITE for proper activation of your sourdough starter! Be prepared to read the directions and plan for what to do with the discard. You definitely don't want to waste it! It does take some work and dedication to get great results but it's worth it. Be SURE to PREPARE before embarking on the starter "journey". It's like having a baby in the house or a new puppy. You have to be sure you have the time to watch it and attend to it for many days before use. We are first time starter makers and now we have a ton of discard to use and share with friends! The company is very attentive and responds VERY quickly to support your sourdough journey... EVEN THO it's just kind of disappointing to start a culture with the packaging directions that are not together, The folks at, "Cultures For Health", are going to address the packaging directions, so I give them 5 STARS! This company has a lot of other really great fermentation options like Kefir and more to choose from as well. A good resource for folks looking for quality! WE LOVE CULTURES FOR HEALTH!
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Reviewed in the United States on December 17, 2025 by TOPASEF
Flavor Name: San Francisco Style
Size: 0.19 Ounce (Pack of 1)
Final update: Seller had actually sent a message saying “reply to this message with ‘full refund’ if you would like a full refund.” I replied as such. Seller asked for details about my sourdough process. After multiple back and forths and my prompting they said they actually were not issuing a refund because I’m still working on my starter… what? lol. Huge waste of time and personally I’m never ordering from them again. Update: Seller gave me a refund :,( I feel terrible but I did try my best with it. I’m going to buy it again so I can hopefully get it started and give this five stars. I’ve been really hesitant to write a review, because it could be something on my end. However, I feel I’ve tried EVERYTHING and haven’t gotten this starter to work. I followed the directions exactly and didn’t have a working starter after a week. At a certain point (after the week) I added less water so it could hold bubbles better and I could see if it was growing. I’ve since tried two different bottled waters, mainly spring, multiple flours, including whole wheat and multiple methods of warming the starter. Currently I’ve been using unbleached AP at a 1:1:1 ratio, with the proofing setting on my toaster at 85 degrees and feeding consistently at either the 12 hour mark or the 24 hour mark (trying to figure out when it would like to be fed). It bubbles a little bit and bubbles reach the surface eventually, say around the 12 hour mark and by that point it’s basically more liquid than solid, I can pour it like liquid into the trash when it’s time to discard (starts out like thick pancake batter). However, in that 12 hours it grows maybe a fifth (and that’s after like 6 hours and also where it stops). I’m now adding rye to see if that will get it going. Anyways, POINT IS: It’s been over a month now and even if it eventually starts growing properly (which I’m hoping it will) I can’t say the starter I originally purchased had anything to do with it. I’m pretty sure I just created my own starter for $13. One thing I will say is it never went through the early doubling phase that happens when starting your own starter and it never smelled bad. So maybe it was alive, I don’t know - but it didn’t work as advertised and I’m pretty annoyed at this point thinking I probably could’ve had more luck starting my own fresh starter three weeks ago… I don’t know.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 27, 2024 by Amber
Flavor Name: San Francisco Style
Size: 0.19 Ounce (Pack of 1)
Starter worked great. Made my first loaf in 7 days. Tasted amazing, and looked great too. A great way to jump start your bread making.
Reviewed in the United States on December 27, 2025 by Mark Des Biens Mark Des Biens
Flavor Name: Gluten Free
Size: Pack of 1
I have recently found out I have celiac therefore wanting to try this gluten-free starter (did use brown rice flour as recommend) also I used warm water, which has definitely helped. I have used warm water with previous starters that I made from scratch before I needed to go gluten-free.. Honestly, I did not believe this would work because so little comes in the packet, surprisingly on day three which is quick I had a double rise. Have not baked with it yet however, I’m off to a good start. I do recommend this starter to anyone just beginning
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Reviewed in the United States on January 10, 2026 by leeeeeee leeeeeee
Flavor Name: San Francisco Style
Size: 0.19 Ounce (Pack of 1)
Purchased this product and follow the instruction but unfortunately no sourdough mother. I had made my own sourdough before and it worked. Not sure if what I got was good quality mother. Waste of money. Wish I could give it zero star. Gonna start my own process as this was unsuccessful, n wasted my money!
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Reviewed in the United States on November 23, 2025 by SS
Flavor Name: San Francisco Style
Size: 0.19 Ounce (Pack of 1)
I bought this starter 2 years ago and it worked like any other starter I have created from scratch in the past. Bake for 1.5 years with it until i got lazy and let it die. So I’m back for another purchase as its easier than scratching one out. What some of the one star reviews need to realize is all starters take time to bring to their prime due to room temperatures, lack of availability good bacteria (by keeping your starter sealed and not loosely contained and a solid healthy feeding routine. As this starter comes dehydrated, it may need more than a week to hit it’s prime so just keep feeding it daily and making sure it’s stirred multiple times a day to help incorporate thise natural bacterias around it. One way or another it will come alive if its 63-75 degrees in its surrounding environment and fed quality flour with a 12+% protein content at 1:1 ratio to water. One can increase feeding quantity as well. A starter flourishes in the right environment, you can grow a starter in “San Francisco” and send it to a friend in Michigan, and as the starter ages, it loses it’s “San Francisco” profile and gains a new profile based on its new surroundings and bacterias, and vice versa.
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Reviewed in the United States on November 11, 2025 by LB Jr.