Schär Crackers

[jesse_the_k]

The European Schär company, located in South Tyrol, produces a range of gluten-free savory and sweet eating in cheery yellow and blue packages. My recent experience is with two of their crackers.

Schär's Gluten Free Table Crackers are all about the crunch -- the closest I've tasted to Saltines since I quit gluten. They're so fragile I couldn't spread anything on them: the weight of the knife crushed the cracker. That's probably because they're all starch:

corn starch, corn flour, blend of vegetable fats and oils (palm fat, sunflower oil), maltodextrin, rice syrup, modified tapioca starch, soy flour, sea salt, yeast, guar gum, modified cellulose, cream of tartar, ammonium bicarbonate, baking soda, citric acid, natural rosemary flavor. Contains: Soy May Contain: Tree Nuts

On the other hand, they are the perfect thing to crumble in a soothing soup. I've only tasted the plain ones; the multigrain version has some flours with protein (millet, buckwheat, sorghum, flaxseed, poppy seeds) so they could be more elastic.

Schär's Gluten Free Crispbread "Cracker Toast" is indeed crispy crunchy, and not only can I spread jam on them, they stand up to melting cheese in the toaster oven. All structure and taste like absolutely nothing -- seems like just air in there. Well, there's a wee bit of flour:

rice flour, corn flour, sugar, salt. May contain: soy, tree nuts (chestnut)

Schär also sells a multigrain crispbread which could taste of something. I hope it will be a replacement for my pseudo rye-bread buckwheat Pain des Fleurs, which is no longer sold locally.

corn flour, rice flour, teff flour, buckwheat flour, pea fibre, salt, maltodextrin, apple extract, May contain: soy, tree nuts (chestnut)

Schär sell nine types of bread and rolls, as well as corn/rice pastas. Have you tried them?

Comments

[nerakrose]

Schär's saltí are my favourite alternative to ritz crackers! I should try to see if I can find any around here, I used to pick them up in Sweden (back when I lived in Copenhagen and Sweden was just a 20 minute train ride away, I'm in London now) and would grab 2 bags to last me a couple of months. an open bag will still keep well if sealed up tight. my family used to make tuna salad and shrimp-egg salad and spread it on ritz crackers and it's still a favourite snack, so I was sad to not be able to do that anymore - until I found these!

of their sweet snacks I like the melt it's like a gluten free kinder bueno so I can happily nom on these. they're a bit pricey but I'll grab one if I'm in Waitrose anyway to pick up some gluten free stuff I can't find elsewhere, as a treat.

I couldn't find this on the UK website so now I'm sad, but in Copenhagen I used to get paniermehl (breadcrumbs) for when I wanted to make fried fish in breadcumbs - almost the only thing I use breadcrumbs for! I haven't cooked a lot of fish here in the UK because I find it difficult to source without paying out my arse for it. suppose if I ever do I'll have to make my own breadcrumbs...

I haven't tried any of schär's readymade bread, there's a part of me that's super hesitant to eat bread that's supposed to be shelf stable for as long as schär's breads are. I'm sure they're very good, I just can't make myself try them.

I'll say of the things I've tried from schär the only product I've not been impressed by are their pizza bases. they're just not good. and it frustrates me when restaurants use schär pizza bases for their gluten free pizzas because the pizzas are just never good! and always undercooked too, ugh. so these I avoid like the plague.

[jesse_the_k]

The breadcrumbs show up on the US site.

Local keto restaurant fashioned amazing flatbreads from almond flour, egg, Parmesan. It had enough structure to nibble a slice from your hand.