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How Matzo Is Made
- helsinkiandrew 3y agohttps://archive.ph/40WTx https://archive.ph/40WTx The JS/Scroll capture in the original article results in lots of blank areas in the archive but I think the text is all there.
- yesbut 3y agoI Wonder how much Streit paid for this ad.
- gus_massa 3y agoOld but still relevant post by pg: https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html https://paulgraham.com/submarine.html
- woodruffw 3y agoI don't think this is placement. If it was, Streit would have been outbid by Manishewitz; the latter is significantly larger and has non-regional pull (I've never seen Streit's widely available outside of the NYC area).
- ars 3y agoIt's not really necessary to advertise Matzo to Jews...... And there's nothing in the article that distinguishes this brand from any other.
- compsciphd 3y agoBloomberg (the company) has (or at least had) Matzah out in their "kitchens" all year round. Apparently Mike really liked it. (Combining truth and a pop culture life cereal reference)
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- ars 3y agoThis is how machine Matzo is made. Hand made Matzo is a whole 'nother thing.
- vsnf 3y agoMatzah is fantastic, I wish I had more opportunities to have it. The hard, thin, crunchy matzah bread, matzah ball soup, its all great. We used to have it once a year during school lunch, probably for Passover, but I don't really remember when or why. I just remember that it was pretty delicious.
- mdasen 3y agoIf you want to have it more often, it's sold at supermarkets year-round (usually in the ethnic/foreign food area)
- xattt 3y agoUnfortunately, I live in an area where rice is considered “ethnic”.
- humanrebar 3y agoYou can order it online and have it delivered. https://www.amazon.com/matzah/s?k=matzah https://www.amazon.com/matzah/s?k=matzah
- jajko 3y agoNot jewish (nor religious), I just like it. Its a good snack, pretty much tasteless to me on its own but good for various dips like hummus (mixing cultures/religions a bit) or taramasalata. Good if you want to eat something and not overload on carbs (since its very light). Lasts forever. In Switzerland they have it most shops, from various brands.
- elthran 3y agoNon-Jewish and British. Personally I really enjoy just slathering it in good butter as a snack - I'd often end up eating a box at a time this way as a growing, ravenous teenager. Not massively healthy, but definitely satiating. Rakusens is the only brand that's easily available in most supermarkets (but I'm sure if I went to a more Jewish area than where I live they'd have a bigger variety.
- HenryBemis 3y agoI used to enjoy "how ... is made" videos on YouTube. I used to work in a dairy factory (in IT) a few decades ago, and it was amazing to see the process. And then after watching "Rick and Morty - Plumbus: how they do it" (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eMJk4y9NGvE) all these vids are ruined :)
- etrautmann 3y agoA high point of satire IMO. Apparently the audio was improv and animated after the fact?
- varispeed 3y agoThis is first thing my parents taught me to make. So when I was a kid and I was hungry I'd make myself some Matzah. Now I am too lazy, so I sometimes buy Matzo. Not quite the same, but it's okay, brings me back to childhood. I am not Jewish, but I often wonder why my family knew this and other things seemingly from Jewish culture. One of things I couldn't get an answer for.
- lebuffon 3y agoIf you have latin american ancestry there are people known as conversos. There were other places besides Spain, in middle ages Europe where people hid their Jewish backgrounds, attended church and blended in to protect their families but some traditions persist. There may be a family secret in your background. Mazel tov!
- marklar423 3y agoJust curious, when you say you made it, you mean from scratch with flour & water? What's your recipe?
- chronogram 3y ago2 flour and 1 water, it doesn't have leavening or salt by design so you just mix it and roll it out until it's wafer thin and prick holes in it so make sure it stays flat. Then you bake it in a really hot oven. The high temperature is great when you bake a lot in a row since it lets you work fast, but for home baking maybe an airfryer is an economical alternative.
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- yard2010 3y agoI hate it. Every year I would curse my ancestors because they couldn't wait 5 minutes for the bread to rise. I warn every person that is running away from war or slavery - prepare your food well!! Don't create some future stupid obligatory traditions for your offspring!!
- dgacmu 3y agoIsn't it as much a problem of duration? The first piece of matzo is great. :-)
- xyzelement 3y agoAs someone who educated himself as a Jew in adulthood, the beauty of matza is its metaphoric representation of humility. Leavening represents ego rising and avoiding it for the 8 days of passover is a physical reminder of humility. Prior to passover, we do a careful search of our household to find and remove leavened bread, even small bits. This is analogous to soul-searching for things within us where ego dominates and gets in the way of the kind of people we want to be. The symbolism of finding and taking the effort to remove these traces (or large chunks) of ego is powerful, and passover is a great periodic reminder to take this kind of inner inventory. And then on the physical level, and still related to ego, I think there's a lot of little "addictions" that we have as people. "I can't live w/o a muffin in the morning" or whatever is pretty benign as far as addictions go, but even the difficulty of giving that up shows how much of our behavior is ruled by little irrelevant things in the world. And then our ability to get over that and just eat matzo for 8 days proves to ourselves that we can ultimately overcome these addictions that they don't matter. A modern version of that might be "for 8 days, you can only use a feature phone, no touchscreen devices!" :) Now that I said all of this, I have to fess up that I love the crunchiness of Matza which I for the first time tasted around age 9 when the Soviet Union was opening up and someone brought us Matza from the US. It was literally my first "taste" of religion. EDIT: to tie it together - passover is a holiday about freedom. On the literal level, exodus from slavery. On the metaphorical level, liberation from ego-domination and unconscious subjugation to the world instead of making active choices. Your ability to chose to just eat matza for 8 days is an assertion of your freedom over that. Your ego, and the world, would rather you load up on bagels - but you are somehow finding within yourself to forego that because of higher aspiration (even if that aspiration is merely to continue traditions of your ancestors) - and that is amazing and powerful in and of itself.
- gneray 3y agoFor all those in this thread who haven't tried Matzah, I strongly encourage you to do so. Think of it not as bread, but a cracker – a platform for spreads, if you will. What kinds of spreads? - Butter + salt - Butter + jam - I guess butter + anything - Brie cheese I could go on. Try it y'all!
- mrichman 3y agoBut not peanut butter :)
- hprotagonist 3y agolittle milk, couple eggs, some black pepper…
- bkandel 3y agoMatzah pizza!! Super convenient, you can just leave a box in your pantry and take one out whenever you need a quick and easy crust.
- sybercecurity 3y agoMatzah lasagne: use Matzah boards as the noodle layers and use veggies, cheese and sauce. Could use meat as an alternative. Need to soak them a bit first or else use a lot of sauce since the boards tend to soak up whatever moisture there is in the pan.
- MisterTea 3y agoI'm not Jewish but my mother would buy Matzo at the store and make little peanut butter and jelly bites with them. Of course, peanuts are forbidden during Passover.
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- anonzzzies 3y agoOlive oil. Just that works fine too.
- sam_goody 3y agoThere are two types of Passover Matzo - machine and hand. Streit's does machine matzo, but a great number of those who have a "Passover Seder" use only hand-matzo for that. (There is also egg matzo but that is a different category) OT: I cannot get openAI to draw me realistic hand matzo, no matter how hard I try :(
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