Jacob's Crispbreads Chive Crackers 5x38g
Crispbread on this pack does not mean what it means on a box of rye. These are light thin wheat crackers, far nearer a thin table cracker than any dense slab, so if you came looking for something to load heavily you have picked up the wrong packet. Taken as what they are, they are good: a gentle green onion note, enough of it that nothing has to go on top, and a snap that arrives intact. Chives are alliums, which rules them out in some households, and it is a wheat bake, so gluten-free is out as well.
Jacob's Crispbreads Chive Crackers, in brief.
Jacob's Crispbreads Chive is five sealed 38g packs of mild chive-seasoned crispbread, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the savoury pack that is still crisp on the fourth day because the fourth pack has not been opened yet.
Chive is mild, so brew the tea normally rather than strong: a builder's-strength cup erases it completely.
Jacob's Crispbreads Chive solves a problem the rest of our savoury shelf cannot. A cracker is a wonderful thing in a cupboard and a hopeless thing in a bag, because the moment a pack is opened the clock starts on the crispness. Five sealed 38g packs rather than one large one stops that clock four times over. The published ingredient list also includes rye.
The pack front gives the format as five packs of 38g, which comes to 190g across the whole box.
Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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Chive is the seasoning, and it is the right one for the format. A multipack is eaten away from a kitchen, usually with nothing on top, so the cracker has to be finished rather than plain. Chive gives it a mild green savoury lift without the salt load of a crisp, which is the whole argument for this over a bag of something fried.
The Story Behind Jacob's
Jacob's is one of the oldest names in British and Irish savoury baking, and a multipack is the most modern thing it does. The engineering is in the packaging rather than the recipe: a 38g sealed pack is one sitting, so the crackers inside are as crisp on the last day of the box as the first. That is brand positioning rather than a statement about what is in this particular pack.
It is worth being honest about what you are buying. Five small packs use more material than one large one. What you get back is crispness at the point of eating and a portion that ends by itself, which is a real thing and not a marketing one.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- What it is for: a lunchbox, a desk drawer, a glovebox, a walking bag. Anywhere a large pack would be stale before it was finished.
- What it is not: not a cheeseboard cracker and not a sharing pack. It is a portioned snack and it is seasoned to be eaten with nothing on top.
Getting It Right in the Cup
- Open one pack at a time: that is the entire product. Opening two on Monday defeats the point of buying five.
- Eat them plain: they are already seasoned. A topping on a chive cracker muddles two savoury ideas without improving either.
- Room temperature: a cold pack from a fridge or a car in winter mutes the chive almost completely.
- The empty pack is a portion guide: a 38g pack ends by itself, which is more useful than it sounds beside an open 200g bag.
- Best with: a normal mug of tea at a desk, or a bag of them at the bottom of a rucksack for a day out.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Crispbreads Chive Crackers 5x38g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Jacob's
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
Sourcing and packaging details are printed on the current UK pack; the brand page carries the fuller story.
The taste profile
How does it compare
A seasoned multipack cracker is usually eaten with whatever drink is to hand, which is a low bar and worth raising. Chive is a mild allium note and it behaves differently from salt beside a hot drink: it does not flatten bitterness, so a very strong cup will run straight over it and a moderate one will not.
The Tea Break
The Coffee Break
Made with this tea
The Desk Drawer Break
How to make The Desk Drawer Break with Jacob's Crispbreads Chive.
- 1 sealed 38g pack of chive crispbreads
- 1 mug of breakfast tea, brewed normally
- Milk
- No sugar
- Brew the tea for three minutes rather than five. A strong cup erases a mild chive note completely.
- Take milk. Dairy and allium are a natural pairing, which is why chive ends up in so much cream cheese.
- Open one pack only. The aroma is at its best in the first few seconds after a sealed pack is torn.
- Eat them plain and let the empty pack be the portion guide.
What you'll end up with: The break this box was designed for, and a better one than a bag of crisps beside a hot drink.
The Lunchbox That Survives The Morning
How to make The Lunchbox That Survives The Morning with Jacob's Crispbreads Chive.
- 1 sealed 38g pack of chive crispbreads
- A small block of cheese
- Cucumber batons
- An apple
- Pack the sealed 38g pack as it is. Do not decant it into a box, which throws away the only advantage the format has.
- Keep it away from anything wet, above the fruit rather than below it.
- Cut the cheese into a block rather than slices so it does not sweat against the crackers.
- Open it at the table at lunchtime, four hours after it was packed and still crisp.
The Day Out Bag
How to make The Day Out Bag with Jacob's Crispbreads Chive.
- 2 sealed 38g packs of chive crispbreads
- Hard cheese
- Fruit
- A flask of tea
- Put both packs at the top of the rucksack. Sealed packs survive being sat on far better than an open bag does.
- Open the first at the halfway point and keep the second sealed for the way back.
- Pour the tea weaker than you would at home. In a flask it keeps brewing, and a stewed cup destroys a mild chive note.
- Eat the cheese alongside rather than on top. There is no clean way to build a cracker on a hillside.
What you'll end up with: Two packs, two stops, and neither of them soft by the time you get to it.
Chive Crackers And Soured Cream Dip
How to make Chive Crackers And Soured Cream Dip with Jacob's Crispbreads Chive.
- 2 sealed 38g packs of chive crispbreads
- 200g soured cream
- Fresh chives, chopped
- Lemon juice and black pepper
- Stir the soured cream with the fresh chives, a squeeze of lemon and a good grind of pepper.
- Tip both packs into a bowl at the last minute rather than in advance.
- Dip rather than spread. These are firm enough to scoop and they hold up better than a thin cracker would.
- Serve cold drinks alongside. This is the one occasion these are better away from tea than with it.
What you'll end up with: The only time a chive cracker earns a plate, and a ten minute thing to put out when people arrive.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Light crispbread base | the structure | Firmer than a wafer and lighter than a dense Scandinavian slab, which is what lets it survive a bag without shattering. The snap is clean and stays that way because the pack was opened that morning. |
| Chive seasoning | the difference | Named on the pack front. A mild green allium note that reads as onion at a distance, giving the cracker enough character to be eaten with nothing on top. |
| Five sealed 38g packs | the format | The engineering is in the packaging rather than the recipe. One sitting per pack means the fifth is as crisp as the first, which is the whole reason to buy a multipack. |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat, barley and rye (gluten), and it may contain egg, milk and sesame. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: flour (wheat flour, calcium, iron, niacin, thiamin), vegetable oil (palm), barley and barley malt extract, kibbled rye, glucose syrup, raising agents (ammonium bicarbonate, sodium bicarbonate), chive flakes (1.5%), salt, natural flavourings, wheat starch. May also contain sesame seeds, milk, egg.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
Pack: Best before the date printed on the pack, and each inner pack is one sitting.
Characterising components shown. Chive and the five by 38g format are both taken from the front of the pack, according to the published pack listing; the 190g total is our own calculation on that format.
Sourcing & blend. Jacob's Crispbreads Chive Crackers 5x38g comes from the snacking half of a long-established British and Irish savoury baking name. That half of the range arrives finished rather than plain, which is the right decision for a multipack: a box of these is eaten away from a kitchen, usually with nothing to hand to put on top. It is a different product philosophy from the cheeseboard end of the same brand, which is deliberately bland so a topping can talk. The pack you receive is the current UK retail pack rather than an import made to a different recipe.
What is in Jacob's Crispbreads Chive Crackers 5x38g, and what is not:
- In: five sealed packs of light chive-seasoned crispbread crackers, 38g each and 190g across the box.
- No nutrition comparison from us: the point made about fried snacks is about the coating left on the palate, not about calories or fat. The numbers belong to the panel on the pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Crispbreads Chive Crackers 5x38g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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