Glutino English Muffins are one of my long term favorites. I always have some in the freezer. The only thing about them is that they don’t really taste like English Muffins much at all.
Glutino English Muffins
This brings up a great point, one probably worth an entire post, but I’ll touch on it here. When I am eating some gluten free food product, people ask me “Does it taste like regular (fill in random food product here) ?” Usually the answer is “no” and I get the predictable sad looks of sympathy. That’s when I explain that the real question is not whether something tastes like the glutonium version – the right question is “does it taste good?” And more often than not, there is no sad look or sympathy required – there is some really good Gluten free stuff out there.
Back to the muffins. I think they’re awesome, even if they aren’t much like Thomas’ English Muffins. They are much softer, and more dense in texture – kind of like a sponge cake. They don’t have the huge craters to hold cups of melted butter. If you enjoy butter like I do, you have to balance the lake of butter on a fairly smooth surface lest it runs off the side. And when you toast them, they stay fairly soft with the lightest hint of crunchiness on the surface. The other big difference, in my opinion, is that they taste sweeter than normal english muffins. I like that.
They’re not just for breakfast anymore either. They are a pretty good compliment to a hot sandwich and are the best bun for a gluten free hamburger that I have found. Makes you feel like a normal person again when you can eat a killer hamburger, bun and all.
From Glutino.com:
Premium English Muffins – Toast or microwave and enjoy. Great for mini pizzas, too. Cholesterol free, no refined sugars or hydrogenated oils, this calcium rich English muffin starts your day off right.
I like to order a ton at a time and keep them frozen. I bring one package at a time to my gluten free drawer in the fridge and let them thaw out overnight. Store in the fridge until gone. Enjoy!
After an 18 month adventure through the catacombs of the medical system, I was formally diagnosed with Celiac Disease. The bright side of that journey is that I know 3,712 nasty and horrible conditions that I do NOT have.
We love UDI’s bread, although it is very expensive. It really tastes like bread and we don’t have to bake it. I will have to try out the English Muffins. We tried one brand (I don’t think they were Glutino) and they were hard as rocks!
Funny you should mention UDI’s! We just found it at out grocery store last week and I tried a loaf of bread and their bagels. Both are awesome! Nice sourdough taste to the regular bread and great texture and flavor for the bagels. Really good stuff!
I don’t know how you enjoy these muffins, I truly don’t. (Well I do, since taste is subjective/personal preference) Like Pam Brown, my gluten free diet, at least for bread alternatives revolves around Udi’s bread/bagels and Bionaturae pasta. They’re the only gluten free products I’ve tried so far that are comparable to their gluten counterparts. Kinnikinnicks donuts are pretty good as well. Unfortunately, you have to keep these bread based products frozen or they crumble. I greatly miss the soft texture of bread. But I digress. Back to the atrocious muffins Glutino tries to pass as food
First things first is the smell. Out of the bag they smell like a mixture of dish soap and plastic. If I was blindfolded and some one placed these “english muffins” under my nose, I’d bite your hand. Unfortunately for me, they taste exactly how they smell. Terrible to the point where I found them inedible. Even the healthy amount of butter and jam could not mask the chemical taste I was experiencing. Needless to say, I spit them out and threw away the rest.
I wouldn’t recommended them unless you’re curious what a bottle of hand sanitizer tastes like. Udi’s all the way, companies need to take note or fall by the wayside.
Just a Comment on LOVING BUTTER AND ENGLISH MUFFINS GET A CRINKLE CUTTER FOR VEGGIES AND SLICE YOUR ENGLISH MUFFINS WITH THIS INSTEAD OF A KNIFE AND THERE ARE PLENTY OF NOOKS AND CRANIES FOR THE BUTTER I PROMISE YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!!!