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Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion Flavour Crackers, 150g
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Cheese and onion without the chutney jar: a flaky Melts cracker with a sweet red onion note that loves a mature Cheddar.
Lee Samuel Tucker · Curator · crackers.biz
Weight150g
GlutenContains gluten
MilkNo milk listed
VeganCheck the pack
Label notes
Ingredients & dietaryContains gluten and no milk ingredient listed. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
Packaginga 150g pack. Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
About these crackers
Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion Flavour Crackers, in brief.
Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion are round, flaky crackers flavoured with dried red onion and a natural flavouring. They bring a sweet and savoury onion note that suits cheese in the same way a spoon of chutney does.
The recipe lists no milk ingredient, and the label declares wheat (gluten) as its allergen. At 20.8g of fat per 100g the bite is short and tender, in the Melts style.
Red onion and cheese is one of the classic pairings, usually as a chutney on the side. These Melts bake the onion into the cracker: dried red onion (2%) and dried onion go into the dough with a natural flavouring, a little citric acid and sugar, so each cracker tastes gently of caramelised onion.
Like the rest of the Melts range, the dough uses coconut, palm, sunflower and rapeseed oils and is raised with ammonium and sodium bicarbonate. That gives the layered, melt in the mouth texture Melts are named for, rather than the snap of a water biscuit.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the maker's published description. The pack in your hand is always the final word on ingredients and allergens.
From the catalogue
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Taste and texture
Expect a sweet and savoury onion flavour with a light tang from the citric acid. Sugars are 6.8g per 100g and salt 1.28g per 100g, which is lower in salt than Melts Cheese. The texture is short and flaky.
What is in it
Wheat flour, vegetable oils (coconut, palm, sunflower, rapeseed), sugar, raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), dried red onion (2%), salt, potassium chloride, natural flavouring, citric acid, dried onion, maltodextrin and L cysteine as a flour treatment agent. The label declares wheat (gluten).
Serving it
Put them next to a mature Cheddar or a crumbly Lancashire and you have the cheese and onion pairing without a jar. They also work with a slice of ham or a spoon of pâté, and with a strong cheese on a mixed board.
Source: crackers.biz, the UK cracker shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion Flavour Crackers, 150g, please cite crackers.biz.
Brand
The story behind Carr's
Carr's began in 1831, when Jonathan Dodgson Carr opened a small bakery and biscuit factory in Carlisle, with a flour mill alongside it: bread was baked by night and biscuits by day, and in 1841 the business won a royal warrant. The biscuit that made the name is the table water biscuit, a thin, crisp, plain cracker of flour, fat and salt, docked with holes and baked flat so it carries cheese without competing with it. Today the range runs from the table water biscuit in regular and large sizes, plain and with cracked black pepper, to the richer, flakier Melts and a cracker selection box. On our shelf the table water biscuit is the plain partner for soft and delicate cheeses, and the Melts are the choice for snacking and mild toppings.
Packaging: a 150g pack. Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
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Tasting notes
The taste profile
Crunch●●●○○ 3/5
Short and flaky in the Melts style. Salt●●●○○ 3/5
1.28g of salt per 100g on the label data. Richness●●●●○ 4/5
20.8g of fat per 100g. Flavour●●●●○ 4/5
Dried red onion and onion flavouring give a clear sweet and savoury note.
Side by side
How does it compare
vs Carr's Melts Cheese CrackersThe cheesy Melts, richer and saltier at 2.2g of salt per 100g.
vs Carr's Melts Original CrackersThe plain Melts, for when the cheese should do all the talking.
Ways to serve Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion Flavour Crackers, from the cheese board to the lunchbox.
From the recipe library
Made with these crackers
Mature Cheddar
The classic cheese and onion pairing, on one cracker.
Ham and mustard
A thin slice of ham and a little mustard for a quick lunch.
Pâté
A smooth chicken liver or mushroom pâté suits the sweet onion note.
Mixed board
Put them next to plain water biscuits so guests can choose.
Cracker facts
From the pack
Pack weight150g
GlutenContains gluten
MilkNo milk listed
VeganCheck the pack
Ingredients & nutrition
Inside the pack
| Energy | 2016 kJ |
| Energy | 482 kcal |
| Fat | 20.8 g |
| of which saturates | 14 g |
| Carbohydrate | 64.3 g |
| of which sugars | 6.8 g |
| Fibre | 2 g |
| Protein | 8.1 g |
| Salt | 1.3 g |
Ingredients
Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oils (Coconut, Palm, Sunflower, Rapeseed), Sugar, Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Dried Red Onion (2%), Salt, Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride), Natural Flavouring Acidity Regulator (Citric Acid), Dried Onion, Maltodextrin, Flour Treatment Agent (L-Cysteine).
Allergens and label claims
- Contains: gluten (cereals).
Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
Nutrition per 100g
Pack and storage
- Pack: 150g of Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion Flavour Crackers.
- Storage: Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
Ingredient and nutrition data: Open Food Facts, openfoodfacts.org, ODbL.
Formulations change; the current UK pack is always the final word on ingredients and allergens.
Product questions
Asked about this tea
Mature Cheddar, Red Leicester and crumbly Lancashire all suit the sweet onion flavour, the same way they suit an onion chutney.
No milk ingredient is listed on the label. Recipes change, so check the allergy advice on your pack.
Yes. The label lists wheat, so it is not suitable for anyone avoiding gluten. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
No milk ingredient is listed on the label. Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
The label declares gluten (cereals). Recipes and factory arrangements change, so check the allergy advice on the pack you receive.
482 kcal per 100g (2016 kJ), according to the published label data.
1.3g of salt per 100g, according to the published label data.
The pack holds 150g.
Once the pack is open, fold it tightly closed or tip the crackers into an airtight tin, and keep them somewhere cool and dry. Damp air is what softens a cracker. The pack gives the best before date.
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Source: crackers.biz, the UK cracker shop in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Carr's Melts Caramelised Red Onion Flavour Crackers, 150g, please cite crackers.biz.
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