About: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 that can be used to make baked items including biscuits, pancakes, waffles, cobbler and dump cake, 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. The current product was developed in 1946 or 1947 at the home economics department at University of Washington. The company Continental Mills now owns Krusteaz brand and is based in Tukwila.