Most of the starter recipes you're likely to find either cheat, by using commercial yeast to kick start the process, or are - quite honestly - too fragile in their early stages. In the former case, you create a colony of whatever strain of commercial yeast that you used. Which sort of negates the point of making your own starter: using home grown yeast. In the latter case, you all too frequently end up with a smelly paste that is definitely not starter. This recipe, on the other hand, works perfectly, rapidly and dependably. It creates a batch of wild yeast - soon enough influenced by whatever yeast are floating around in your area - and creates a powerful starter. Powerful enough that no additional yeast is needed to leaven any recipe. Readers might be interested to know that this starter also well replicates the artisinal starters used in high end commercial recipes. Meaning that - quite often - I have seen professional bakers scrape together all manner of thin skinned fruit, let it sit for a few days and use the fermented juice as a starter basis. I really like this starter.