Bakers Club Artisan Diastatic Malt Powder 10oz - Enhance Flavor, Crust, Rise, Texture - Baking Bread, Pizza Crust, Pretzels, Desserts, Muffins, Bagels, Sourdough, Milkshakes - Made in USA, Malted

Sourdough was ready 12 hours later after feeding, and has continued to be vigorous since it was started last week with feeding of course. So anyone wanting to try sourdough baking and doesn't want to have to babysit a starter from scratch, this works very well, tangy but not over powering,

worked as advertised - made my bread much lighter and fluffier!

If you’re serious about baking, you need this. Package size is good for home bakers. Not too little, not too much. It is sealed very tightly to ensure freshness. The ingredients are simple, and the granule size is smooth and consistent. Mixes easily in to all your baking recipes.

I've been making sourdough bread for years. It's a long process requiring attention throughout the day. Because of health issues, making sourdough has become difficult for me, so I bought a KBS Bread machine. It has a sourdough cycle. Sourdough people can be difficult to please. We mostly each have our own way of doing things and we are picky about how we like our bread to turn out. I had trouble getting what I wanted from the KBS. The final rise is quite long, and at least with my stuff, the dough over rises and the gluten collapses. And the bread is too sour for my liking. I am able to slow down the fermenting by freezing all the dry ingredients and pan before starting, and refrigerating the spring water. This helps with both problems. I also use this dough conditioner. I get a good rise, nice texture. The bread turns out very nice. I use this dough conditioner for regular (non-sourdough) breads as well. Very nice rises and textures. I generally use 1/2 to 1 teaspoon per loaf (less than what the bag suggests). I also add 1/2t diastatic malt to the non-sourdough breads. I highly recommend. I have researched each of the ingredients in this dough conditioner. They all seem very safe and in common use in the food industries around the world. Now, with this and the KBS bread machine, I can just dump my sourdough ingredients in and press start--the machine does the rest.

This is not a dehydrated sour dough starter. I’m incredibly upset especially since it can’t be returned and it’s not at all what was advertised. Even on the package it says to add instant yeast when baking and with a true sour dough starter that would not be necessary. I wondered why it was a 6g package and only said to use 1g of “starter” mixed with a significantly higher amount of water and flour. Don’t waste your money. They are better starters out there to give you a head start.