Sourdough Bread Making Kit With Live Starter - Complete 13 Piece Artisan Baking Set - Beginner Friendly

Start baking real artisan sourdough at home with this complete sourdough starter kit gift box!

Designed for beginners and keen home bakers alike, this all-in-one bread baking set includes the essential ingredients, reusable tools and specialist equipment needed to make authentic homemade sourdough with confidence.

The kit is neatly packed in one box and is designed to help customers start baking straight away while giving them tools they can keep using for future bakes.

It is an excellent choice for anyone looking for a sourdough starter gift set, artisan bread making kit or practical baking gift for bread lovers.

What’s Included:

A full 13-piece sourdough kit containing:

• Live sourdough starter 
• Specialist baking sheet
• 2 calico-lined proving baskets
• Baker’s lame
• Bread flour
• Starter flour
• Semolina
• Spelt flour
• Spray bottle
• Ovenproof ramekin
• Plastic scraper
• Flour scoop
• Cotton towel

The only thing you need to provide is an oven, some patience and a little muscle-power!

Gift & Storage:

If this is a gift please be aware the starter needs to be refrigerated or kept in a cool place as soon as possible and fed within 14 days. Please ensure your delivery date accommodates these timings.

About Sourdough Starter:

Unlike commercial baker’s yeast, a sourdough starter is a live culture of wild natural yeasts that helps bread rise slowly while developing the distinctive flavour, texture and character sourdough is known for. This starter is designed to be ongoing rather than single-use: you bake with part of it, then simply replace what you use with flour and water so it can keep going for future loaves.

With a little care, it can be kept in the refrigerator and last indefinitely.

What Makes Our Sourdough Starter So Special:

We call our peerless starter The London Leavening Standard, in a nod to its Fleet St connections. Brought into being by a journalist and baker in 1998 it has since risen to greater things, travelling the length and breadth of the country, as well as gaining a foothold as far afield as Australia and America. A proven performer, it has mothered thousands of loaves of the highest quality for two decades. Treat it well and it will return the favour.

See more on what makes this sourdough starter exceptional in the advice section below.

About Crumb Sourdough:

At Crumb, we believe anyone can make perfect sourdough at home. You do not need baking training, prior experience, or costly equipment to enjoy baking delicious artisan-style bread. Our goal is to make sourdough baking easy, accessible, and rewarding with simple sourdough kits, sourdough starters, and bread-making essentials designed for home bakers.

From beginners starting their first loaf to confident bakers looking for reliable sourdough supplies, our products are created to offer the easiest path to great homemade bread. Simple, enjoyable, and made to help you bake with confidence. Happy baking!

Starter Advice

One of the key stumbling blocks for bakers new to sourdough is making your own starter. If everything goes to plan, it should be simple, but most people soon realise things usually don’t go to plan, and the results can be frustratingly hit or miss.

Some of the best advice we were given here at Crumb was to begin with an established starter so at least you know what a good sourdough starter looks and feels like, so at least you have a benchmark if you fancy trying to make your own later. But in truth, Crumb has never had such impressive results from other starters, homemade or otherwise, which is why The London Leavening Standard has pride of place in this kit.

As an experiment, we have left the starter for over a month without feeding, and it has still provided perfect results, though it is best practice, if you are not baking regularly, to discard 300g of the starter every week or so, and replenish with fresh flour and water, but that is the only maintenance it will ever need (unlike some of the finnicky liquid starters that many other bakers use, which require careful feeding 24 hours before you plan to bake)