Shmurah Matzah Prices NYC Area 2019/5779

[jojo-nj]

Charedim @ bakery (before Purim) $44/lb Whole
Shatzer @ bakery $28/lb Whole
Costco Israeli $14.99/lb

[Ays]

How does the Israeli Costco one compare I taste to the others

[Dan]

How does the Israeli Costco one compare I taste to the others

You get what you pay for.

[mrprez27]

You get what you pay for.

so its more stale? worse hecher?

It falls apart after one 'use' lol?

What does 'you get what you pay for' especially in the category of Shmurah Matza! lol

[jojo-nj]

Stale. Thick. Broken.

[jojo-nj]

How does the Israeli Costco one compare I taste to the others

May return after use

[keepsmiling123]

Shatzer Spelt: $29.99

[yzj]

I was in Bingo a few days ago. They had Israeli hand Matzos with the eidah hachareidis (I forgot the brand name)for $10.49 a pound iirc.

Someone recently told me there is a product on the market that is a kind of hybrid machine/ hand matzoh. The mixing and first part of the kneading, the cutting of the dough into balls, and the actual placing of the matzos in the oven are done by hand but much of the process is machine; the ball of dough is pressed through (foot powered?) mechanical rollers and the matzos go through the oven on a conveyer belt among other things. The end product looks identical to a hand matza and is much cheaper to produce.I wonder if any of the cheaper hand matzos use such a system?

[Dan]

I was in Bingo a few days ago. They had Israeli hand Matzos with the eidah hachareidis (I forgot the brand name)for $10.49 a pound iirc.

Someone recently told me there is a product on the market that is a kind of hybrid machine/ hand matzoh. The mixing and first part of the kneading, the cutting of the dough into balls, and the actual placing of the matzos in the oven are done by hand but much of the process is machine; the ball of dough is pressed through (foot powered?) mechanical rollers and the matzos go through the oven on a conveyer belt among other things. The end product looks identical to a hand matza and is much cheaper to produce.I wonder if any of the cheaper hand matzos use such a system?

I was told that's what the Costco matzah is.

[Yikes2179]

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[quote name="Moshe123" post=1911299 timestamp=1521946478]<br />The cheap bingo "hand matzos" are a real sheila if it can be considered hand matzos. The vast majority of poskim hold that it's considered plain machine matzos. <br />[/quote]<br />These?<br /><br />https://youtu.be/NUYDLUT6gBg<br /><br />No issue with lishmo that's for sure... It's just the famous "chometz mitaam komus".

[yzj]

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<br />These?<br /><br />https://youtu.be/NUYDLUT6gBg<br /><br />No issue with lishmo that's for sure... It's just the famous "chometz mitaam komus".

Wow! I’ll bet 9 out of 10 people wouldn’t dream that this is what they are buying.

[TimT]

Discussed here

[ExGingi]

I was told that's what the Costco matzah is.

#fakenews

לשאלת הרבים

Holyland Matzos (at Costco) with New Square hashgucha.

Shmura M'shas ketzirah.

Bakery is in Yerushalayim, we baked for a few consecutive weeks, our own mashgiach supervised all times, Rav Goldminzer (who lives now in Yerushalayim) frequently visited himself, 18 minutes from start of first meira till last matzo is out of oven,
.מצות אנשים, יראי השם

הכל בתכלית הכשרות לשם מצת מצוה

*A Hologram must be affixed to each retail box*.

[yitzgar]

#fakenews

Sounds more like a case of alternative facts

[ExGingi]

I was in Bingo a few days ago. They had Israeli hand Matzos with the eidah hachareidis (I forgot the brand name)for $10.49 a pound iirc.

Someone recently told me there is a product on the market that is a kind of hybrid machine/ hand matzoh. The mixing and first part of the kneading, the cutting of the dough into balls, and the actual placing of the matzos in the oven are done by hand but much of the process is machine; the ball of dough is pressed through (foot powered?) mechanical rollers and the matzos go through the oven on a conveyer belt among other things. The end product looks identical to a hand matza and is much cheaper to produce.I wonder if any of the cheaper hand matzos use such a system?

I am flabbergasted whenever people refer to those as hand matzoh.

I am told by people that sampled them, that while they are round, the texture and "crunch" is similar to square machine matzoh.

Unfortunately, there is one Lubavitcher Rov in E.Y. that gives a Hechsher on these and calls them hand matzoh.

[ah giten]

This is machine matzo all poskim were talking about, just this one here has all problems combined... The machine matzos then had multiple problems throughout the years, but having it wheeled, then baked through the  conveyor belt oven, is real problematic..

[NTorch]

Thanks for starting the thread this year, I was out checking prices yesterday and was going to restart this and see that you have done it for me.

Aron's Kissena Farms (in the former NWL store next door)

Matzot Mitzva 19.99 (1lb)
Redemption 12.99 (1lb)
Charlap 49.99 (2lb)
Holyland Reg 22.69 (1lb)
Holyland WW 29.49 (1lb)
Shatzer Reg  28.50 (1lb)

[aygart]

#fakenews

Where do you see in what you quoted that it is fake news?

[ExGingi]

Where do you see in what you quoted that it is fake news?

It doesn't explicitly say it, though it does say מצות אנשים. I will double check with the source of that quote. But one can simply buy a box and check out the texture. The machine matzos which are marketed as hand matzos are rolled using a hand operated machine, and are baked using a conveyor. The result of those is uniform matzos (just like the square machine matzos), unlike hand matzos which will never be uniform in thickness or in level of baking.

Here is an ad for those machine matzos which are marketed as hand matzos.

[doodle]

I am flabbergasted whenever people refer to those as hand matzoh.

I am told by people that sampled them, that while they are round, the texture and "crunch" is similar to square machine matzoh.

Unfortunately, there is one Lubavitcher Rov in E.Y. that gives a Hechsher on these and calls them hand matzoh.

Don’t be flabbergasted.
From a Halachic Standpoint there is nothing wrong with them . They are one hundred percent Avodas Yad Matzos and are Kosher Lchatchila even according to the Divrei Chaim .
Maybe they are not so “traditional”,  but that’s not a Halachic issue .