Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g
Chive is the part that leaves first. It is a fresh herb note and a volatile one, so the last third of a pack is a different cracker from the first third: plainer, carrying a faint tang, with the green gone out of it. That alone explains a fair amount of the spread in what people say about this flavour, because half of them are describing a pack that has been open a while. The two halves of the name are also pulling in opposite directions, which is more interesting than this flavour's reputation suggests: the soured note rounds everything off and the herb lifts it back up, and where a shopper lands depends almost entirely on which of the two they noticed first. Anyone who arrived wanting a seasoning that announces itself will put it down as underpowered. Anyone who wants to get through a bowl in front of the television without the palate giving up will find it does exactly that. A dairy-free household should not read sour cream in a product name as a declaration either way; only the current pack settles that.
Jacob's Savours Thins, in brief.
Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers is a bowl cracker rather than a base, 150g of thin crackers seasoned on both faces.
The seasoning is creamy rather than acidic and mild rather than hot, which makes it the one to put out when you do not know who is coming. Serve it shallow, dip it into something thick and cool, and keep it off the cheeseboard.
Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers belongs to a category that barely existed on the British cracker shelf twenty years ago and now takes up a third of it. A Thin is a cracker seasoned all over and built to be eaten on its own, straight from a bowl, with nothing on top. It is not a cream cracker with a flavour added. It is a different product doing a different job, and the Savours name is how Jacob's separates the two.
The pack tells us Savours, Thins, sour cream and chive, one hundred and fifty grams, and we will not invent anything past that.
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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The Story Behind Jacob's
Jacob's is the largest brand on our cracker shelf by some distance, and it now runs several quite separate lines under one name. The cream crackers and the Krackawheat are bases, built to hold cheese and to be eaten at a table. The Savours range is the opposite: seasoned crackers made for a bowl, eaten with the fingers, with nothing to spread on them. Our reading is that the Thins are lighter and crisper and the Bakes are thicker with more chew. That is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description, not a specification handed to us.
Sour cream and chive is the safest seasoning in the savoury snack business, and that is a compliment rather than a criticism. It is creamy rather than acidic, mild rather than hot, and it does not divide a room the way vinegar or chilli does.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
What You Are Actually Buying
- Weight: one hundred and fifty grams.
- A bowl cracker, not a base: seasoned on both faces, so anything you put on top is competing rather than sitting on a blank canvas.
- The mild end of the Savours shelf: creamy rather than sharp, which is what makes it the flavour to put out for a mixed crowd.
- What it is not: not a cream cracker, not a Savours Bake, not a free-from line, and not a diet product of any description.
Ideal Serving Conditions
A Thin is the easiest thing on our shelf to serve and the easiest to spoil, and both come down to the same property. There is very little of it in any direction, so it takes seasoning brilliantly and takes damp just as fast.
The Bowl and the Plate
- Serve them shallow: a wide bowl keeps them whole. A deep one turns the bottom third into crumbs before anyone reaches it.
- Dip mild, not sharp: the seasoning is already creamy, so a cool cucumber or yoghurt dip extends it while a sharp dip fights it. A thick dip is essential; a thin one snaps the cracker on the way out.
- Give them their own bowl: if there is cheese on the table, put out a plain cracker beside it. A seasoned Thin will talk over a mild cheese and waste it.
The Storage Rules
- Airtight the day you open it: a Thin has almost no interior, so there is no reserve of dryness to fall back on. It goes soft faster than any cream cracker.
- A rigid tin over a bag clip: the tin solves the softening and the breakage in one move, and broken Thins are a real nuisance because the seasoning ends up in the bottom rather than on the cracker.
- Cool, dry and dark: the cupboard above the hob is the worst place in the kitchen for anything this thin, and a warm cupboard dulls the dairy note before the texture goes.
Getting It Right with a Hot Drink
- Pairing: a straightforward builder's brew with milk. The creaminess of the seasoning and the milk in the cup pull in the same direction, which is unusual for a savoury snack.
- Also good: a plain black tea without milk if a dip is already on the table, because the tannin does the cutting instead.
- Avoid: anything floral or heavily scented. Chive and jasmine are a genuinely unpleasant combination and there is no technique that rescues it.
- Dunking: no. A seasoned Thin in a hot drink loses its seasoning into the cup within seconds and collapses shortly afterwards.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g, 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.
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Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g is a bowl cracker rather than a base, so the builds below are about serving it well rather than loading it up. Five cover the sharing bowl, the dip that works, a desk lunch, a use for the broken pieces and the one hot drink that genuinely suits the seasoning.
Made with this tea
The Sharing Bowl
How to make The Sharing Bowl with Jacob's Savours Thins Sour Cream & Chive.
- 1 pack Jacob's Savours Thins Sour Cream & Chive
- A wide, shallow bowl
- A plain cracker for anyone near the cheese
- Tip the pack into a wide shallow bowl. A deep bowl turns the bottom third into crumbs and loose seasoning before anyone reaches it.
- Close the rest of the pack straight away if you have held any back, or better, decant it into a tin.
- Put a plain cracker beside the cheeseboard and keep these separate. A seasoned Thin talks over a mild cheese and wastes it.
- Refill rather than overfilling, because the crackers at the bottom of a heaped bowl arrive broken.
What you'll end up with: The product served the way it was designed to be served, with the two small decisions that stop half the seasoning ending up in the bottom of the bowl.
Cool Cucumber and Yoghurt Dip
How to make Cool Cucumber and Yoghurt Dip with Jacob's Savours Thins Sour Cream & Chive.
- 200g thick Greek-style yoghurt
- Half a cucumber, deseeded and grated
- A small bunch of mint or chives
- Black pepper
- Savours Thins to dip
- Squeeze the grated cucumber hard in a clean cloth. Wet cucumber is what turns a dip thin, and a thin dip snaps the cracker on the way out of the pot.
- Fold it through the yoghurt with the chopped herbs and a good grind of pepper. Add no lemon: the seasoning is creamy, not acidic, and sharpness fights it.
- Chill for twenty minutes so it firms up properly.
- Serve in a small deep pot so a cracker can go in far enough to pick up a proper load.
What you'll end up with: A mild, cool dip that extends the seasoning instead of arguing with it, and thick enough that the cracker survives the journey.
The Desk Lunch Plate
How to make The Desk Lunch Plate with Jacob's Savours Thins Sour Cream & Chive.
- 8 Savours Thins
- A mug of soup, anything smooth
- Half an avocado or a boiled egg
- Salt and pepper
- Keep the crackers on a plate beside the soup rather than in it. These have nothing like the structure for dunking.
- Choose a smooth soup rather than a sharp tomato one, which will fight the dairy note in the seasoning.
- Add an avocado half or a boiled egg on the side so the plate is a lunch rather than a snack.
- Eat the crackers dry and in order, alternating with the soup, and the seasoning stays where it belongs.
What you'll end up with: A ten-minute desk lunch that uses the crackers for the crunch they are good at rather than asking them to hold anything up.
Crushed Crumb Crust for Baked Fish
How to make Crushed Crumb Crust for Baked Fish with Jacob's Savours Thins Sour Cream & Chive.
- A handful of Savours Thins, broken
- 25g melted butter
- Zest of half a lemon
- 2 white fish fillets
- Crush the crackers in a bag with a rolling pin to a coarse rubble rather than a powder. This is the best use for the broken pieces at the bottom of a pack.
- Mix the crumb with the melted butter and the lemon zest until it just holds together.
- Press it onto the fish fillets and bake at 200C for twelve to fifteen minutes depending on thickness.
- Taste before adding any salt. The seasoning is bringing a good deal of its own, and the chive note comes through the bake surprisingly well.
What you'll end up with: A savoury crust that tastes deliberately seasoned rather than of plain breadcrumbs, from the part of the pack most people throw away.
Beside a Milky Brew
How to make Beside a Milky Brew with Jacob's Savours Thins Sour Cream & Chive.
- A small handful of Savours Thins
- A builder's brew with milk
- Nothing else, deliberately
- Brew the tea as you normally would and take milk. This is one of very few savoury snacks where milk in the cup helps rather than hinders.
- Skip the dip for this one. Two creamy things at once is one too many and the tea stops registering.
- Avoid anything floral or scented. Chive and jasmine together are genuinely unpleasant and nothing rescues it.
- Keep the cup beside the plate rather than dunking, which would put the seasoning in the tea within seconds.
What you'll end up with: The unusual case where a savoury snack and a milky cup are pulling the same way, which is worth using rather than fighting.
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Typical values per 100g, as published | Per 100g |
|---|---|
| Energy | 477 kcal |
| Fat | 21.3g |
| of which saturates | 16.5g |
| Carbohydrate | 64.3g |
| of which sugars | 2.8g |
| Fibre | 2.4g |
| Protein | 8g |
| Salt | 1.8g |
Ingredients and allergens. Per the published ingredient list for this barcode it contains wheat (gluten) and milk. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Wheat Flour, Vegetable Oils (Coconut, Palm, Rapeseed), Raising Agents (Ammonium Bicarbonate, Sodium Bicarbonate), Sugar, Dried Chives (1%), Salt, Dried Onion, Flavour Enhancer (Potassium Chloride), Dried Soured Cream (1%) (Milk), Natural Flavouring, Maltodextrin, Dried Whey (Milk), Modified Starch.
Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.
| Component | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Thin baked cracker base | Grains and proportions not stated by the brand | The structure and almost none of the flavour. A Thin is rolled and baked with very little interior, which gives a clean single-break snap rather than a crumble, and leaves the seasoning to do the talking on both faces. |
| Sour cream and chive seasoning | See current pack | The product. A soured, slightly lactic note leads, mild grassy chive sits behind it and salt holds the base up underneath. Creamy rather than acidic, which is what keeps a whole bowl from becoming tiring. |
| Pack format | 150g; cracker count not stated by the brand |
Pack: Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g; thin baked crackers seasoned on both faces, a separate line from the Jacob's cream crackers and from the thicker Savours Bakes. Store cool, dry, dark and airtight, and move them into a rigid tin the day you open the pack: a Thin has almost no interior and therefore no reserve of dryness, so it softens faster than any cream cracker on our shelf. Read the net weight, the cracker count, the ingredient list, the nutrition panel, the allergen advice and the best-before date off the current UK pack.
Characterising components shown. The distinction drawn between the Savours Thins, the Savours Bakes and the Jacob's cream crackers is our own editorial reading of lines the brand sells separately, not a specification from the brand. The sensory placements are our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description; we have held no tastings and hold no brand specification sheets.
Sourcing & blend. Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g is made by Jacob's, the largest brand on our cracker shelf and one that now runs several separate lines under a single name. The cream crackers and the Krackawheat are bases built to hold cheese at a table; the Savours range is the opposite, seasoned crackers made for a bowl and eaten with the fingers. Within Savours we list both the Thins and the thicker Bakes, and our reading is that the Thins are lighter and crisper while the Bakes have more chew. That is our own editorial assessment and not a specification from the brand.
What's in Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g:
- In: thin baked crackers seasoned with sour cream and chive on both faces, loose in a 150g pack.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Jacob's Savours Thins, Sour Cream & Chive Crackers, 150g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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