What Makes a Great Thin Wheat Cracker?
Served with hard or soft cheeses, dips or meats, thin wheat crackers bring a crispy, toasty element to any party platter. With a complex and grainy flavor, they’re also a nice cracker to enjoy right out of the box. Next to your water crackers and butter crackers, keep a box of wheat crackers in the pantry for a different kind of flavor. Our chefs define high-quality thin wheat crackers as having a golden brown color with visible wheat grain flecks. They should have good structural integrity, meaning the crackers should be mostly unbroken. Regular style thin wheat crackers should have a noticeable aroma with a moderately complex character that features nutty, toasty, grainy and perhaps buttery notes. For low-fat wheat crackers, the aroma should be simpler and less intense; in particular, butter notes should not be as pronounced. Neither style of cracker should have aroma or flavor off notes, including cardboard, rancid or stale notes. A thin wheat cracker is in taste balance when modera
