Katz Gluten Free

It was a Groupon deal. About a third of the goods I received were expired. There was an open container of cookies. Doesn’t appear to be tampered with, but it wasn’t sealed correctly. I tried only the cookies and the cinnamon rolls and they were good. I’m tossing the expired stuff. It didn’t come frozen or if it was when it left the factory then it thawed because it wasn’t packaged correctly.
I was disappointed.

I came across this bakery In my quest for gluten free challah. If you are gluten free and haven’t heard of these folks, check this out. They have everything you could ever want, plus they send you a free sample pack of goodies. And yes, u can order online.

Let me start of by saying I’m not allergic to gluten nor do I have celiac… I just prefer to avoid it if possible. As a result I’ve gotten myself comfortable with alternative flours like almond, rice, etc – I can’t be bothered with making my food an experiment so I avoid the xanthan gums, sorghums etc. Katz ran a groupon for $ 20 for $ 40 worth of gluten free stuff so figured why not. It was expiring so I needed to place my order. I ended up ordering like 10 different items, I was really concerned with where I was going to store everything as $ 40 worth of baked goods one would assume would take up a lot of space. Not so much, these are some tiny baked goods. I will update this review after I try some of the other items, but so far based on opening the box, and trying an english muffin… Eh.
I ordered, vanilla rugelach, raspberry hammentashcen?, dinner rolls (about 2.5″ diameter seriously), english muffins (4), carrot muffins (4), honey muffins (6), chocolate cupcakes (4), and a chocolate loaf thing. All of the items are pretty small in my opinion. I tried an english muffin today with my lunch. it was all sunken in on the one side so not really able to split it properly… I toasted it slightly because our work toaster takes for fricken ever… it was ok. No flavor really just texture. I’m hopeful that the baked goods will be better but considering I spend essentially $ 30 ($ 20groupon plus $ 10 extra spent for free shipping), I’m kind of unimpressed. I guess I shouldn’t complain because I can eat the regular baked stuff. Either way I’ll prob stick to making my own stuff from now on. For those who are scared to work with nongluten baking stuff or just don’t like baking then sure try them out. I prob won’t be reordering… but…i’ll update. Otherwise because I am close to their facility they shipped in one day and ship frozen so everything came thru nice and fresh.