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

[bushwah]

SCHAR HONEYGRAMS ROCK

seriously, it is like eating graham crackers again. treat yourselves. they're shelf stable and they're GOOD

[lunabee34]

They are the closest thing to real crackers; I do wish they weren't so crumbly, though.

The Schar bread is the most palatable bread to me. I get the ciabatta rolls and the bagels regularly.

[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.

[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.

Table Crackers

[harmonic_tabby]

I recently tried two packages of those Table Crackers and I agree, they were deeply reminiscent of saltines. But they are very fragile and one bag was half crackers and half cracker crumbs. So, I enjoyed them but I probably won't buy them again since I do have access to sturdier crackers even if they aren't saltine-ish.

[j00j]

We quite like the baguettes and ciabatta.