![]() In 25 years of baking I probably have eaten two New York pretzels, admits chef and owner Maury Rubin, who instead makes a buttery, salty Pretzel Croissant, dubbed the Croisszel in the Daily News test kitchen.Īnd more pedestrian foodies are stuck with the classic New York street pretzel, churned out in conveyor-belt numbers by J & J Snack Foods, which sells frozen knots to about 400 vendors around town. The state of the New York pretzel is in such decline that even City Bakery whose very name evokes a Gotham at the center of the culinary world dispenses with local patriotism with its version of the iconic breadstuff. Putting salt on a pretzel is a cop-out, says Barella Kirkland. And the Philly-style bakers at Brooklyn Pretzel Factory generally eschew it, offering only one salt variety for New Yorkers who can't live without a touch of Lot's wife. I did a quick mock-up with the few minutes I had the next day, but the carboard I used was the wrong type and I was in a hurry.A New York pretzel isn't worth its salt unless it's covered with huge rocks of sodium suitable for de-icing a highway. My wife was very NOT interested in product development with me that day. Anyway, the bottom line is how attractive are crackers to a beer drinking festival goer? I did a quick mock-up with the few minutes I had the next day, but the carboard I used was the wrong type and I was in a hurry. A slot in the bottom allows you to slide it out with your finger. The tube is square to fit the crackers and at the bottom is a slot through which you can slide the bottom cracker. It's a tube into which you slide a stack of saltines. Good idea? I know it's not as fun as a pretzel necklace, and I'm not sure crackers are as good as pretzels to most people, but think about it. (The original idea as actually a pretzel dispenser to keep the pretzels dry during rain, but I haven't figured out how to make it fit the shape of the pretzel perfectly.) And I wonder about making a saltine dispenser that you can clip onto your belt. So on the way I'm thinking back to when I did some judging for beer competitions and they would always have oyster crackers or saltines available for cleansing the palate. Last time wife and I went to a festival type thing I forgot to prepare a necklace. So let me throw this out there at you guys. When the mood strikes, bite the pretzel where the string goes through and it releases the pretzel from the necklace. Leave enough string to fit the whole thing over your head and tie the ends together. ![]() Take some string and thread it through a bunch of pretzels of your favorite size. Now I don't know why the beer festival only made pretzel necklaces the first year, and stopped after that, but I wish they would start up again! Meantime, make your own and enjoy that festival! A few minutes later the lady came back and gave me one of her tokens in appreciation! Well, we got comments every few minutes from people asking where they can buy them! At one point we started chatting with a couple and I gave them my spare necklace. We even made a couple of extras just in case we meet someone who asks about them and seems friendly. This past weekend wife and I made a couple of necklaces for a beer festival we try and go to every year. ![]() The pretzels are a great way to cleanse your palate between samples and also helps, to some degree, keep you from getting tipsy too quickly. Sometimes they sell them there, but sometimes they don't. ![]() Here is a great little tip you can use when you go to beer festivals:
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