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The Explorer Starter: A World-Traveled Dehydrated Sourdough Starter
The Explorer Starter: A World-Traveled Dehydrated Sourdough Starter
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Start Your Sourdough Journey with a Proven, Powerful Foundation.
Have you tried to create a sourdough starter from scratch, only to be met with a flat, lifeless jar and wasted flour? A great loaf of bread begins with a great starter, and your journey shouldn't start with frustration.
I created this dehydrated sourdough starter—which many of you know from my YouTube videos as "Bread Pit"—to give beginner and experienced bakers a powerful, reliable head start. This is the very same living culture I use in all my videos. It's exceptionally strong and resilient, delivering consistent results and the complex, dairy-like flavors you've seen me achieve. Stop the guesswork and start baking with a starter you can trust from day one.
A Starter Unlike Any Other: The World's Most Traveled Culture
"Bread Pit" is more than just a starter; it's a globetrotter. Over the years, I've carried this original culture with me on my travels, allowing it to collect and cultivate a diverse, robust ecosystem of wild yeasts and beneficial bacteria from around the world.
This incredible journey has made the "Bread Pit" culture exceptionally resilient and complex, allowing it to thrive in a wide variety of kitchen environments. Each bag contains a piece of that global baking adventure.
Its journey so far includes:
The Americas
North America: Canada; USA (California, Nevada, Arizona, Utah, Florida, Hawaii); Mexico
South America: Argentina (Buenos Aires, Patagonia, the most southern point of the world)
Caribbean: St. Vincent and the Grenadines
Europe
Denmark, Germany, Italy, Portugal, Spain
Asia & Oceania
Asia: Japan (Tokyo), India (Delhi, Bangalore, Taj Mahal), Thailand (Bangkok), Bali
Oceania: Australia, New Zealand, Cook Islands (Aitutaki, Rarotonga), French Polynesia (Tahiti)
Africa
Kenya (Masai Mara, Nairobi), Mauritius, South Africa
Why Choose This Starter?
Bake with Confidence from Day One: Skip the difficult, often unsuccessful 14-day process of creating a starter from scratch. This mature, powerful starter is ready to reactivate and use, saving you time, flour, and frustration.
Get Consistent, Bakery-Quality Results: This is the exact starter culture used in every "theBread.code();" video. You've already seen the incredible oven spring and open crumb it can produce!
Incredibly Versatile & Flavorful: Perfect for artisan bread, no-knead loaves, pizza, buns, and even enriched brioche doughs. Its unique microbial diversity creates a delicious, complex flavor profile that is tangy but not overly sour.
Built to Last for a Lifetime: Once reactivated, your starter can be maintained for years with simple feedings, freeing you from ever buying store-bought yeast again.
What You'll Receive
One Bag of Dehydrated Starter (the original "Bread Pit" culture): Carefully dried to ensure it's ready for safe international shipping.
Generous Quantity: Each bag contains enough starter for three separate reactivations, giving you multiple chances for success.
Detailed Instructions: A clear, step-by-step guide on how to easily reactivate and care for your new starter.
(Please note: The glass jar shown in photos is for demonstration and is not included. A simple mason jar or Weck jar is recommended.)
No-Fail Reactivation Guarantee
Your success is my mission. If for any reason you are not able to reactivate the starter, I am happy to send you a replacement and/or refund your purchase. Simply reach out with your order number, and I'll take care of it.
Thank You for Your Support ❤️
By purchasing The Explorer Starter, you're not just getting a world-class sourdough culture (the one and only "Bread Pit"); you're directly supporting my mission to spread the love and knowledge of bread-making to as many people as possible.
Thank you for joining me on this journey.
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Delightful addition to my sourdough starter. Fascinating how much of the world has contributed to this versatile starter.
Initially feeding the starter was fiddly! It is a very small portion and I found using an expresso cup, coffee scales and a chopstick the best utensils for the feedings and then an old, clean mustard jar as the volume was higher. I also found it better to add the bottled water first to the starter, mixing it in bit by bit, followed by the flour.
As I had been using his rye starter method for years, I didn’t want to change to using a white flour starter so once I had fed it enough I then made a rye starter from it which took several feedings again to get it perfect. Now I have the tastiest sourdough I have ever made from this starter and bacterial background with Heinrich feeding it with different flours from all over the world.
The rye starter keeps perfectly well in the fridge for a week or even more and I usually bake weekly. The discard from this is saved also in the fridge and used to make rye bread.
PS the scoring is not great because I was using a sharp Japanese knife having given up on Chinese razor blades in my lane! So even more sharpening required!
I got the dried starter, a copy of the book and the poster. The book is wonderfully printed and very detailed. I really enjoyed getting the starter going again and am baking some great bread. Vielen Dank!
Excellent sourdough starter. Takes a while to turn up but good once it arrives.
Great! I love the videos so much that I bought it all! When it didn't all show up , after an email it was taken care of!!