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I went crazy back in fall and bought 4 starters from Sourdough International on a buy 3 get 1 free deal. I chose the Finnish, Russian, San Francisco and Tasmanian. The 5th starter in this comparison is the one from King Arthur (KA below).I activated them according to the instructions and they all work wonderfully. Activation took 6 to 8 days for me rather than the 3 to 5 they
I stopped in at a brewing supply shop yesterday and picked up a pound of malted rye and a pound of malted wheat. These are fully diastatic malts. They can be roasted or toasted to convert them to non diastatic malts, prior to use in breads. That is most likely what I will do with them, since the flours I buy tend to be malted already and I don't care to have runaway starch