Tough Cracker, Stale Cracker [portable] ✔
Pulse stale crackers in a blender. Use them for breading chicken or topping a mac and cheese.
There is a specific tragedy that occurs when a fresh saltine meets a hot bowl of tomato soup. You drop the cracker in, and within fifteen seconds, it has disintegrated into a muddy sludge. It loses its shape entirely. tough cracker, stale cracker
However, the atmosphere is a cruel mistress. Unless your box was sealed with the hermetic precision of a NASA clean room, air gets in. And with air comes humidity. The starch molecules, which have curled into tight, rigid crystals during baking, begin to relax. They drink in the ambient moisture from your kitchen. They essentially un-bake themselves. Pulse stale crackers in a blender
