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

[ranalore]

I eat all kinds of Schar products, and just placed an order on the US site, which is having a bagel sale. Their multi-grain artisan bread is my favorite kind of sliced bread; their deli bread is a pricy but delicious treat. Their hamburger buns are hands down the superior GF bun on the market. I actually haven't tried their bagels yet, but I have high hopes, given my experiences with their other products.

I love their KitKat alternative, and their hazelnut truffles are a holiday staple. I use their Speculoos cookies to make homemade cookie butter, and their Honeygrams to make the crusts for key lime pie and cheesecake, as well as when making s'mores.

I do like their table crackers, but prefer their entertainment crackers, which taste like how I remember Ritz, rich and buttery, and are much more sturdy than the table crackers.

Their Sch'nack cakes are good, too. I like to freeze them in the summer, then eat them with a scoop of vanilla ice cream and some caramel sauce or macerated berries.

Thanks to your recommendation

[jesse_the_k]

...and an obliging market in northern Wisconsin, I've just eaten a multigrain ciabatta roll with pulled pork (huh, why have I never posted that here?) and grated apple.

Wow! It's almost bread! Very nice. Next time I'm toasting it.