Brooklyn, NY – So Who Has The Best Matzoh In Willimasburg?

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    File photo by JoeflixBrooklyn, NY – Shmura matzohs may look the same but they don’t taste the same. Each major Hasidic sect in Williamsburg has its own matzoh bakery and each bakery zealously guards its methods and its recipe. But which factory produces the tastiest shmura (if those words aren’t themselves a contradiction in terms)? We put our stomachs (and bowels) on the line for our first-ever Shmura Matzoh Smackdown.

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    Richard
    Richard
    14 years ago

    And when did you test the taste?

    satmartalmud
    satmartalmud
    14 years ago

    In ‘hider mitzva’ is satmar reb aron the top!!!!

    Happy peisech for everybody!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    על טעם וריח אין להתווכח”

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    So the ARIZONA wheat wins ?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Pupa Tzehlem has been the BEST for the past 50 years……………………………….

    Dav
    Dav
    14 years ago

    Overall comment: Crispy and thin. That’s right! Prices are all the same as long its MHADOUR that’s what count , we love these Matzoh’s from the new Satmar Matzoh Bakery on Rutledge Street.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Regarding Zalmanite matzoh, the article says the matzoh was so dense that: “some tasters could not differentiate the product from the box that contained it”.

    Why are we not surprised regarding the source of this gourmet treat

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    what about shatz?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    So the matzos of the Aaronites are better then the Zalmonites ! wow finally the truth is coming out…..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Pupa also started using Arizona wheat instead of the local long Island wheat

    A willamsburg residents
    A willamsburg residents
    14 years ago

    Don’t know why you say so …..we all know for yers that the satmer bakery on broadway yes delicious !!!!! Motzah !!!!!

    101
    101
    14 years ago

    Shatzer is the best by far!!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    i used to buy Satmar (Broadway) for years, one year I got a few pounds of Pupa-Tzelem, my comment is, The Satmar was much better in taste, I think the pupa was tasteless.. but the Pupa was thinner than the Satmar.

    Matzos
    Matzos
    14 years ago

    My kids always bring their own matzos, and I have the opportunity to taste all kinds of matzos, bottom line, everyone has a different taste, while I love the satmer (old bakery) matzos, my wife insists on eating Boro park matzos..

    Hant Matze
    Hant Matze
    14 years ago

    I see you picked in first place my best choice. Kerestirer matzah beats em all. Hands down!

    Definately Pupa Tzelim
    Definately Pupa Tzelim
    14 years ago

    I’ve been eating Pupa Tzeilm since I was 5. There is no doubt they blow everyone else off the Seder Table

    Kosher lover
    Kosher lover
    14 years ago

    For years we have been eating satmar shmura matzo (broadway bakery), last year i realized 2 days before yom tov that we’re short on matzo, I took a ride to satmar, when they told me they’re sold out, I was directed by a grocery clerk to the new satmar bakery on rutledge st. I bought a couple of boxes, I just did not like the taste of it, it had some sort of interesting taste, can’t explain it. How ever, my kids ate it no problem and had no complaints.

    This year i went right after Purim to the old bakery to make sure I get what I want..

    Poshut
    Poshut
    14 years ago

    It’s a no-brainer, everyone knows that Pupe Matzos are the best.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    thick like a talmud? this writer probably never saw a talmud..

    Willi guy
    Willi guy
    14 years ago

    Satmar Broadway matzo bakery happens to sell more matzos than all others combined.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I’m a vienar member I eat till now pupa tzahlim it is thin but doesn’t taste the bast lately I realized that satmer bakery (zalis) isn’t thin atall but the taste is something special so I start to buy both for the kzysim I’m using popa tzhalim because its ez to swallow but around the yom tov I’m eating satmer matzos the rosanbers are managing there and the have a good recipe and experience from almost 50 years or more

    Satmar matzo
    Satmar matzo
    14 years ago

    I hardly eat any matzo other than Satmar (zalmanites), and all I can tell you, it’s crispy, thin, tasty and just awesome!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    How can somone say such narishkiet for one all mazeh recepis are the same unless they are not kosher secondly mhecheh tesey that just couse u like a particuler matzah evryone else will as well and why just willi why not all bakeries so I must conclude this was a paid artical otherwise it dosent taste right pun intended

    Cynic
    Cynic
    14 years ago

    Silliest review ever (guess I must be a Zalmanite). Who were the judges?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I have tasted many matzos from all bakeries, I stick to Satmar Zalmanites and Pupa Tzelem!! They’re both delicious!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    these tasters, there tommys are full of chessburgers they dont know what they talk about and dont know what a good matza is.

    Velvel
    Velvel
    14 years ago

    I think Shatzer Matzah has the best taste.

    Yanky
    Yanky
    14 years ago

    Satmar on broadway is the best, and thats why they start to bake every year before any other bakery , this year they started alredy rosh chodesh chesbun, also in chimras and hidurim they are top rated, 100’s of chaburas choose this bakery to bake there matzos at satmar on broadwy, if you to see what a system means just take a look whats going on there erev pesach, a minute after chatzos people from wiily, boro park, flatbush and all over the city are comming to pick up fresh kosher matzos with the help of askunim ther is no lines to wait everything goes very fast, they dont take cash at bakery you have to buy one in the satmara shuls in the days before pesach they give you a card when your matzos wiill be ready ,starting from 1 till 6 (depends on age the older you are the earlier you get) the price for 6 matzos is $65 for a member in the satmara kehila its $55,,,,,a kosheren pesach!!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    May I guess that the author of this article has an agenda?

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I’ve tried a lot of bakeries, I landed back in Satmar (Zaloinim) the only place where I find all chumrahs and the taste and texture of the matzos are magnificent.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I’ve eaten pupa for the past few yrs and its gr8 matzah. However the montreal matzahs puts everyone else away by far, better tasting more mehudar.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Somehow Satmar -Broadway is still outstanding, and thousands of people from all over the USA prefer to eat only Satmar matzos.

    Listen here...
    Listen here...
    14 years ago

    Been buying Chareidim for years. Great taste, crispy, and extremely thin (but tough on keeping “shleimim”). Pupa is slightly thicker and very good – especially their “razaver” (which means whole wheat). But the best razaver by far is from the Boro Park bakery. This year I bought some matzos from Komemiyus (Israel) – very very good, but expensive – but really mehudar.
    Bottom line – enjoy whatever you eat, and have a Chag kosher v’Sameach

    tasteless
    tasteless
    14 years ago

    Tastes like cardboard? I’d recommend Mr. Taster should get a new job, and order a set of new taste buds implanted quickly..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    How is Arizona wheat “more kosher”? If so, how did the Jewish people manage before Columbus discovered America? This is a serious question.

    Yankel
    Yankel
    14 years ago

    I tasted from all bakeries and its true broadway satmar are usually thicker BUT in taste nobody is better, kerestire etc taste like … air

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    so the Aaronites won again !

    tasteless
    tasteless
    14 years ago

    Tastes like cardboard? I’d recommend Mr. Taster should get a new job, and order a set of new taste buds implanted quickly..

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Does the Pupa rebbe really require each of his chassidim to eat “20 lb of matzoh” during pesach or was this just a bit of editorial hyperbole??

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Pupa has the thinnest Satmar Zalis best tasting.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    For those of us outside ny where can we get the Pupa Tzeilim matzas?

    CHezky
    CHezky
    14 years ago

    i think the guy that made this article should retastse the matzos again SATMAR BROADWAY IS THE BEST ,,,THATS WHY THEY START BAKING ROSH CHODESH CHESHBON!!!!

    chasid
    chasid
    14 years ago

    Al taam vereiach ein misvakeiach, what a stupid arguement!

    Use Your Head
    Use Your Head
    14 years ago

    The irony here is overwhelming – the whole point of matzah on Pesach is for it to be lechom oni – poor, simple bread. It’s not supposed to be a gourmet delicacy!

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    If they would’ve included Boro Park in the taste test then Chareidim matzoh would have won…hands down. It’s the thinnest and best tasting matzoh I’ve ever had. Shkoyach to everyone who works at the Chareidim matzoh factory!

    mesader kidishin
    mesader kidishin
    14 years ago

    al taam v’reiach ein l’hisvakeiach. personally I like the zalmonite matzoh better.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    Like most people I use only shmura hand matza, but to tell you the emes, I think al pi halacha 18 minute machine made shmura matza has less chance of being chomets.

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    I really don’t understand this argument matzoh always taste the same it has no taste

    Anonymous
    Anonymous
    14 years ago

    My Rebbi was known to say “if you want to make sure you eat chometz on Pesach, eat only hand shmurah.”
    Ask anybody involved, the machine shmurah matza is much less likely to be chametz