Krusteaz

Krusteaz is a consumer food product brand in Washington state owned by Continental Mills. Its main product is a factory-prepared, shelf-stable flour and dried buttermilk mixture[1] that can be used to make baked items including biscuits, pancakes, waffles, cobbler and dump cake,[2] and another pre-mixed product makes pie crust. The brand name "Crust Ease", changed to "Krusteaz", was coined and the company founded in 1932 by people in a Seattle bridge club; co-founder Rose Gilbreath Charters was from a Columbia County pioneer family, and raised on a farm in Dayton before attending Washington State University.[3][4] The current product was developed in 1946 or 1947 at the home economics department at University of Washington.[5] The company Continental Mills now owns Krusteaz brand and is based in Tukwila. Production is in a Kent Valley facility constructed in 1986.[6] The company employs over 300 people in the Kent–Tukwila facilities as of 2020.[7]

Hundreds of pounds of Krusteaz may be used in a single pancake feed.[8]