Talk:Saltine cracker

Huge error in history

A huge error was created in this edit Joseph Garneau was just a cracker (hardtack) manufacturer. He did not invent the saltine cracker. Unfortunately this has echoed around the Internet so is often repeated. The saltine was invented in St. Joseph.Americasroof (talk) 16:22, 31 August 2012 (UTC)

Wrong Again, the first hard bread in the Americas was made long before the white man invaded our land. My people made hard bread by mixing grains and other ingredients. Nuts and seeds from various plants indigenous to this land are ground into a powder then mixed with water and fats from animals and placed on a hot stone. Then broken into smaller pieces, the hunters would take some for the day long hunt. One cannot claim the beginning of a source of nutrition unless you have lived for a thousand years. 207.177.152.67 (talk) 18:44, 25 April 2023 (UTC)

Mechanical Structure

The article states:

"[The cracker] has perforations throughout its surface, to allow steam to escape[...]."

This cannot be right. Consider that neither the boundary stitching nor perforations provide egress for steam to escape during baking. However, the perforations mechanically attach the top cracker surface to the bottom. The perforations prevent the cracker from expanding into a pillow shape as steam expands the cracker. Compare, for instance, to oyster crackers that are pillowish in shape and have no perforations. 2001:5B0:2BFF:3EF0:0:0:0:37 (talk) 23:32, 10 March 2014 (UTC)

The description is wrong. I'm changing it. Craigde (talk) 02:31, 5 February 2015 (UTC)

Picture of Saltine crackers.

That has to be the worst example of Saltines minus the nice, solid white backdrop. They look really burnt and more unappealing than usual. Someone needs to get on this. AntonFMD (talk) 22:24, 27 December 2018 (UTC)

Zesta

This last box I bought had NO salt on them and they tasted stale!!! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2603:9001:4A13:3F00:20CD:AB2D:6C7C:6D00 (talk) 19:45, 5 January 2022 (UTC)

The Zesta page suggests that Kellogg's sold the company in 2019, contrary to the assertion in the article. Danchall (talk) 10:26, 24 October 2022 (UTC)

Baking Salt

"Initially called the Premium Soda Cracker and later "Saltines" because of the baking salt component"

The phrase "baking salt" caught my eye. I have some trifling experience with baking and more with cooking in general, and I'd never heard of baking salt, so I Googled it, and got no direct hits. Is it merely a reference to having salt in the recipe, or is something else meant?~~ 2600:1700:E90:D120:648A:E63F:CE9C:93F2 (talk) 20:13, 17 February 2024 (UTC)