Very simple instructions!
Our Valrhona Chocolate Dehydrated Sourdough Starter
Our Valrhona Chocolate Dehydrated Sourdough Starter
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Ready To Use Sourdough
Easy Baking Process
Description
Description
Meet our Valrhona Chocate 119 Year Old Sourdough Starter:
Get Started Baking Immediately!
Baking Sourdough Bread can sometimes feel out of reach, because starting a sourdough starter and building its strength requires time, patience, and sometimes a little luck. But, opening your jar of our LIVE sourdough starter changes the game completely, and gives you great results right away.
The Valrhona Chocate verosion of our dehydrated 119-year-old legacy starter is shelf stable and a great option for anyone outside of the US.
Our established starter is resilient, she fits into real life. Go on vacation. Take a break. Keep her in the refrigerator. You don’t have to worry about one missed feeding destroying months of work.
Have complete confidence in your baking, or gift it to the baker in your life. This is an heirloom sourdough starter you, can keep for years.
When I inherited this starter 19 years ago, everything changed.
Sometimes what’s missing isn’t another recipe or another bag of flour. It’s simply a strong, established starter you can rely on.
Our 119-year-old starter is active, STRONG, resilient, and wildly reliable—giving you the chance to skip the months of trial and error and start baking with confidence.
Ready to see sourdough success?
Why Ours?
Our starter is carefully maintained and hand-packed daily, not mass produced. We feed her with just two simple, high-quality ingredients:
• Organic King Arthur All-Purpose Flour & Rich Valrhona Chocolate Cocoa
• Filtered water
That’s it.
She arrives dehydrated and ready to feed, so you can get your sourdough journey started without spending weeks or months trying to establish a starter from scratch.
And if you’re wondering whether she’ll give you the results you’re looking for, just check our reviews!
Thousands of bakers have already trusted our starter in their kitchens around the world!⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Happy Baking! ❤️
Vidya,
Little Ranch Family
📦 International customers: Please see our dehydrated starter option.
What She’s Fed With
What She’s Fed With
What’s Inside
What’s Inside
The Story Behind “The Bitch”
This starter has been alive since 1907 and has only lived in three households—mine included. I received the last remaining portion of her as a birthday gift from my half-brother. It belonged to his grandmother and had already been in her family for a century.
At the time, I had just finished culinary school and was working as a young chef in San Francisco. One of the books that inspired me to become a chef as a child—Kitchen Confidential by the late Anthony Bourdain—told a story about a starter named “The Bitch.” She made incredible bread. So does ours.
This starter is a piece of our family, and we’re honored to share her with you. When she arrives in your home, we encourage you to name her—make her part of your own story. She’s meant everything to us, and we know she’ll mean something to you too.
Customer Reviews
Customer Reviews
Overall rating: 4.9 / 5 from 19 reviews.
So far so good. I think, there needs to be better instructions. Like Barney style or a link with a video. I am having to watch other videos of people that purchased starter in the mail on how to start them because I had no idea
Saw at Christmas, and then when it was on sale for Mother’s Day—couldn’t resist! The chocolate starter was a ‘lil ass kicker’ from the start!!! Not just doubled-tripled+! Tickled pink! Thank you!
This starter is STRONG! Fed it as directed for four days and day five it was ready to bake. It made thee best chocolate sourdough loaf!
Ordered from Hong Kong ! Amazing packaging and shipping ! Great starter!! Love it !
Little Ranch Family sends starter immediately. Received it yesterday. This morning? 💪"STRONG-ASS BUBBLES!"💪🫧 REALLY?👏👏👏 🎉Can hardly wait to make "Little Ranch Family's" Chocolate Starter "Chocolate Cake" GAMECHANGER!
Received both the regular and the chocolate starters Can’t wait to get them started Thank you for all your help with the shipping Brenda
Both rehydrated wonderfully!! I will be baking this weekend and then getting some of my own dehydrated for back up. I haven’t tried chocolate sourdough yet so i am excited to try it out!
So glad to buy the chocolate starter! I love that it came with very explicit and very easy to follow instructions on how to revive and feed it. Thank you!!
Love them both! Thank you so much. 😊
Purchased as a gift for my mother and she absolutely loves it!
My plan is to make a chocolate cake. I am still still waiting on my starter to be fully active. It’s been 3 days so far and nothing yet. I have a five because I want to support the home business, but unfortunately, still waiting.
Beautiful sourdough. Definitely will always use this company! 10 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
Wonderfull the packaging and very easy to follow the instructions. Love!
The starter was easy to activate. I'll be making bread soon but don't have any chocolate recipes to try yet.
So easy!
Delivery was fast, sadly nothing made with it yet though.
Very handy to keep as a back up. Beautifully packaged.
Flavor was great and the instructions provided made it so easy to get going