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Sourdough starter (spontaneous wheat or rye)Sauerteig
Flour and water left in a warm jar sour on their own as lactic acid bacteria and wild yeasts from the flour multiply. Fed fresh flour and water every day for one to two weeks, the mix settles into a stable culture that raises bread and makes it sour. Made in 5 steps over 13 days – 46 days. The longest step, keep the starter, takes 7–30 days (University of Illinois Extension 2025). Lactiplantibacillus plantarum and Levilactobacillus brevis do most of the fermenting.
Amounts from a sourceThe amounts are the University of Illinois Extension home starter recipe, one jar. Lab studies use the same idea at other hydrations, from a firm dough of 187.5 g flour and 112.5 ml water to a liquid one of 2 kg flour and 6 litres of water.
50 g
Whole rye flour · Day 1 only; whole-grain flour is suggested to start[illinois2025]
55 g
Unchlorinated water · Day 1; filtered or spring water, or tap water left to stand overnight[illinois2025]
25 g + 25 g
Bread or all-purpose flour plus whole rye flour · Each feed from day 2, added to 50 g of kept starter[illinois2025]
50–55 g
Unchlorinated water · Each feed from day 2[illinois2025]
Total time across the recorded steps: 13 days – 46 days
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What changes:Flour and water are stirred into a thick paste
Step 1 of 5
Mix flour and water
Time
Not documented
Temperature
Not documented
Salt
None given
Acidity
Not documented
Which microbes the steps name, step by step
Yeasts
Enterococcus
Lactococcus
Leuconostoc
Weissella
Output: unfermented paste.
Flavour
Not documented
Texture
thick paste
Colour
Not documented
Microbes at work in this step
flour bacteria and yeasts start to grow
Method
Measured measured in a studySet fixed by a specification or tested recipeReported one source reports itTypical a general value, not sourced for this fermentUnconfirmed not yet checked against a source
What makes this one different
Unlike yeast-leavened bread, nothing is bought in. The starter is the flour's own lactic bacteria and yeasts, kept going by feeding, so the bread gets both rise and sourness from it.
Rye starter (Roggensauer)Whole rye flour. In one lab study rye starters stayed dominated by Weissella, while wheat starters kept changing up to day 10.
Wheat starter (Weizensauer)Wheat flour. Lab wheat starters at 30 °C were dominated by L. plantarum or L. fermentum.
Spelt starter (Dinkelsauer)Spelt flour. In one lab study it behaved like wheat, but L. fermentum was never found in it.
Firm versus liquid starterFirm starters (about DY 160) and liquid ones (about DY 400) are both used; hydration changes the acid balance and the speed.
Safety
Flour is a raw food that can carry Salmonella and pathogenic E. coli, so never taste raw flour, dough or starter; baking is what makes it safe (FDA). In new starters Enterobacteriaceae, including E. coli, peak in the first days and die out as the pH falls below 4 and the starter matures. Throw a starter away if mould grows on it.
Hazards the sources name: Enterobacteriaceae from the flour, including Escherichia coli and Enterobacter cloacae at the start; Salmonella and pathogenic Escherichia coli in raw flour.
Bread residue from Switzerland is dated to about 3700 BC. Brewers' barm replaced sourdough in much of medieval Europe, and cultured baker's yeast replaced both after 1871.