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Krusteaz is a consumer food product brand line of 
The brand name "Crust Ease", changed to "Krusteaz", was coined and the company founded in 1932, reportedly by four members of a Seattle bridge club; known co-founder Ada Rose Gilbreath Charters was from a Columbia County pioneer family, and raised on a farm in
Tukwila, Washington
Tukwila ( ) is a suburban city in King County, Washington, United States, located immediately to the south of Seattle. The population was 21,798 at the 2020 census.
Tukwila is a community of communities, with residents of many diverse origi ...
-based Continental Mills, now The Krusteaz Company. Its original product was "the world's first" just-add-water pie crust mix, followed by a factory-prepared, shelf-stable
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flour and dried buttermilk
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mixture, developed in 1946 or 1947 at the home economics
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department of the University of Washington
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, for making baked items including biscuits, pancakes, waffle
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s, cobbler
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and dump cake
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.
The brand name "Crust Ease", changed to "Krusteaz", was coined and the company founded in 1932, reportedly by four members of a Seattle bridge club; known co-founder Ada Rose Gilbreath Charters was from a Columbia County pioneer family, and raised on a farm in Dayton
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before attending Washington State University
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, back when it was known as Washington Agricultural College. She and her husband James Charters were the original owner-operators of the business.
As of September 2022, Krusteaz employed over 400 people in the Kent–Tukwila facilities - a Kent Valley
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facility constructed in 1986. - up from 300 in 2020, with over 800 total including in Effingham, Illinois
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, Manhattan, Kansas
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, and Hopkinsville, Kentucky, manufacturing over 150 products (e.g., muffin mixes, quick breads, snacks, cider), some for private labels and licensed brands.
Hundreds of pounds of Krusteaz may be used in a single pancake feed.
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*{{Official website, https://www.krusteaz.com/ 1932 establishments in Washington (state) Companies based in Tukwila, Washington