This starter gives a great flavor but would have been helpful to know to feed it every day. I've baked 3 loaves in about 3 weeks. They had a great flavor but rose and fell. It could be that the bread recipe I used has too much yeast. And I used bread flour. I made a new starter today and will feed every day with 1/3 c. flour, 1/3 c. water and a pinch of sugar. In 8 days, I will make bread and give half the starter away before feeding it. All other recipes I've read have said to do this and maybe it will work with this recipe. Excellent taste.

I don't think I'm doing mine right, because my bread never rises enough, but the flavor is great a month or two later.

I let the starter age for more than a week before making my bread to attempt a more sour flavor, but the result wasn't what I expected - more like french bread. Hoping the next try will be better.

This was very easy. I've already had it for almost a month and made the San Fransisco sourdough bread on this site and it turned out great. Tomorrow I'm going to try making sourdough pancakes for breakfast.

I absolutely love sourdough bread but was never sure about the whole starter thing... finally I gave in and did some research. I found a website that went on and on about how 'starter newbys' fail repeatedly, the difficulties of starting starter, etc.... obviously they didn't try this recipe! I've kept mine alive for 2 weeks now and made my first loaf of sourdough. Not too sour yet but rose to gargantuan proportions! I feed mine 1/4 c of flour, 1/4 c of water every day. It always has a nice layer of brown fermentation on top. Just mix it in, it's apparently normal!

I have had the starter for about 2 weeks now. My last bread did taste a little more sourdoughy this time around, can't wait till it gets even more aged!

Such an easy, low maintenance starter! Thanks! I use it with the San Francisco sourdough recipe from this site, and the results get better and better every time I use it!

I have been wanting to make sourdough starter forever. Finally tried it about 1 month ago and it was a disaster. Found this receipe and my faith is now restored, it is so easy. It was very helpful to read the review about keeping it warm in the oven with the light on. I am in a mountain community and it is very cold right now. I also learned about feeding the goo. It is great!

Great starter recipe and easy too. I made sourdough pancakes for a large group and there was not one left. I can't wait to make bread.

This starter is very forgiving! I was worried my home wasnt warm enough for fermentation since it is a cold winter here but it did ok! I put it in the oven with the lioght on for 7 days...feeding 1/3 cup water and 1/3 cup flour every day. I used it to make San Francisco Sourdough on this site and it was a hit!!! It had a great sour taste so i am sure it will only get better. I even gave some starter to my mom!! This makes a lot!

My first try at sourdough starter. Turned out well. I've made a couple of loafs of bread and they've been great.

Thank you for this recipe! I have had my starter now for a month plus and it is going great.

I'm going to jump a bit ahead here and give this five stars for the ease of prepartion alone. I've not tried other starters before because they've always sounded so complicated. This was so easy! Within the first 30 minutes of mixing everything together I had a bubbly ever expanding mass of goo on my hands! Ahhh! Attack of the Sourdough Starter Monster! And its an hour later and its still expanding. I'm hard pressed to keep it in a suitable container. Next time I think I'll use a leftover plastic ice cream container instead of a glass canning jar. I can't wait until this is finished! I think I'm going to try "feeding" it as other reviewers suggested.

This is my very first try at sourdough starter, or making sourdough anything for that matter, and it's excellent!!! It's SO EASY, and my family LOVED the sourdough bread I made - even my picky daughter! I've used this starter in the Chocolate Chip Sourdough Muffins, as well, and am tryin the Sourdough Chocolate Cranberry Cake today, too! YUMMY!!!

A very simple starter with clear instructions. I didn't listen to the others and it did overflow all over my stove after I replenished the flour and water after using my first cup of it. I've tried the Herman pancake recipe and a sourdough banana loaf. I can't wait to do further experiments with it!

This was my first attempt at a starter and it worked beautifully. The bread was great. Thank you!