How to Rehydrate Dehydrated Sourdough Starter: A Step-by-Step Guide
A Step-by-Step process to rehydrating a dehydrated sourdough starter. Be sure to save this helpful information for later!
Equipment
- dehydrated sourdough starter (You can purchase or make your own.)
- a glass jar – a wide-mouth jar is easiest to use
- a lid
- gram scale or measuring spoons
Ingredients
- distilled/filtered water at room temperature
- bread flour or a quality all-purpose flour that is unbleached
Instructions
How to Rehydrate Dehydrated Sourdough Starter: A Step-by-Step Guide
- I am going to do this step by step so that it is easy to reference back to and hopefully easy to understand.
- Note: If you have purchased dried sourdough starter from me, you will receive a card with it explaining the process to rehydrate your sourdough starter. Each pack has rough 2T or 20 grams of starter. With this amount of dry starter, you could do this process twice or share with a friend!
Step One
- Take a clean pint-sized or similar glass jar and measure out 1 T or 10 grams of dehydrated sourdough starter and place in the jar.
Step Two
- Add 50 grams (4T) non-chlorinated water and let sit, loosely covered, for 1 hour.
Step Three
- Stir well and then add 50 grams (4T) of bread flour to the water and starter.
Step Four
- Give it a good stir and let sit for 18-24 hours. Covered loosely.
Step Five
- After the 24 hours the starter should be bubbly and doubled. (If it isn’t don’t worry…read the note below.)
Step Six
- Discard half of the starter and then feed 50g flour and 50 grams water again. Let rise until the starter doubles again and use! Congratulations, you now have an active sourdough starter!
Notes
NOTE: If it doesn’t double in 24 hours after the first feeding this can happen, and it simply just needs to be fed a couple more times to get it nice and bubbly and active. Feed and discard half once a day until it doubles in size. When it at least doubles and is nice and bubbly your sourdough starter is ready to use! Have a little patience with it and it should be bubbly in no time!