How do you freeze friendship bread starter?! Please help.

How different is this from regular yeast?

I freeze yeast doughs all the time and when defrosted, the yeast are still active.

 
Not sure but I know that my aunt tried this....

she had too much starter and froze some as a liquid and then tried bringing it back out to make some bread with it and let it thaw at room temp and the bread would not rise even when she put it in an oven she couldn't get a rise out of it she said. For a while we were all over run with starter and looking for ways to not waste it.

I will ask a baking teacher but I think commercially produced yeasts are a lot hardier than natural or wild yeasts that are in these types of starters.

 
I may stand corrected - just did a search and found this.....

NOTE: The starter can be refrigerated or frozen if you can't use it in the 10 days. Let it come to room temperature or defrost thoroughly and use as new starter beginning at day 1.

Now the starter here isn't like the one my aunt and grandmother used so it may depend on that. Not sure.

 
So just stick a tub of it in the freezer as is?

I know I sound like an idiot, but I want to freeze it correctly. Thanks in advance.

 
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