Favourite crackers for cheese.....

I like a thin, salty cracker. Can't stand digestives with cheese.

Hovis digestives / end thread

Nope, none of the digestive things.

Best? Depends on the mood - from plain old Jacobs, through to a salty wholemeal flour thing, even the lovely peppered ones...

Asda Multigrain with butter and/or brie - I'm not classy so even Asda own Brie does the trick.

Isn't it more a case of what's actually on the shop shelves to buy of late? Availability has become like loo rolls in March '20!

Isn’t it more a case of what’s actually on the shop shelves to buy of late?

This, also depends on the cheese. Sometimes toast is better.

Definitely think there's room for an uber cheese biscuit to launch. Never really been blown away by the incumbents. You can select from an infinite range of cheeses and then there's that deflation when you know you'll only be pairing pure cheese heaven with a tepid strip of card. Cheese crackers have definitely been punching under their weight for a long time.

Depends on the cheese

The Peter's Yard ones are nice

Just had some made by the local baker that were nice

But you can't beat a selection box so you can tailor the cheese/cracker pairing

If you could only have one I'd go Jacobs cream crackers

Aldi's premium thin ones, salted and cracked pepper are very nice.

I believe the correct answer is likely to be Miltons Multigrain. I’m basing that assumption on the fact that I frequently buy them but almost never get to actually eat them.

You can get herby crackers and ones with a light bit of salt/pepper that are quite nice.

This kind of jazz: https://groceries.morrisons.com/products/morrisons-rosemary-crackers-216464011

The correct answer is coarse oatcakes.

Followed by a digestive.

Sorry, WHAT?
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Just cheese. Never just one cheese. Like chocolate, you need two or three to compare and contrast. No crackers.
I find breakfast cheese is the best cheese.

Breakfast cheese?

Anyway, crackers. Jacobs melts are quite nice. Digestives can be good with the right cheese, perhaps a blue.

Our butcher and local deli sell a very expensive variety of crackers, very odd colours when I've peaked into the clear cellophane and seem to be hand baked by a crafts person, none of your ritz rubbish.

Rich Tea. Buttered.

Less prone to  easily breaking into small crumbly bits, as often seen with digestives.

Millers Damsel Charcoal

Tied in our house for number one, which goes to Jacobs Cornish Wafers/butter puffs.

Then digestives and rough oatcakes coming in pretty closely.

Followed by a digestive.

Sorry, WHAT?
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A CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVE surely? Topped with a nice slab of Stilton. Yum 🙁

A CHOCOLATE DIGESTIVE surely? Topped with a nice slab of Stilton. Yum 🙁

A guy I used to work with would have a chocolate digestive with a lump of cheddar on top after a meal.

All wrong.

The correct answer is Bath Oliver.

The very zenith of cheese biscuits.

But seemingly unobtainable now.

Unobtainable ? You've seen the struggle to get Jacobs Cream Crackers recently ? Elbows out in Tesco to keep hold of them...

Digestives are for covering in chocolate and dipping in tea and should be nowhere near cheese, you freaks!

Anyway, I’ve spent the last few days extensively researching this particular subject, to the point where my body is now 70% dairy, and I have concluded that these are the answer

I'm with the fella suggesting Barf (you know how to pronounce it) Ovals.

Also infinitely more palletable and tasteful than the other thing from that part of Somerset, Barf Rugby.

As for digestives... they're for cups of tea. Not cheese.🙄

All wrong.

The correct answer is Bath Oliver.

The very zenith of cheese biscuits.

But seemingly unobtainable now.

I concur, the very pinnacle of biscuits with which to enjoy some Wife Of Bath cheese, from the Bath Cheese Company.

Some of which is in my fridge, ready for seeing in New Year with a choice of whiskies over my mate’s place.

There’s a Bath Oliver Preservation Society, forsooth!

https://batholiver.com/

Lidl's rosemary crackers are my fave.

The black pepper versions are decent too.

The digestive biscuit has caused a bit of a stir. The best digestive for cheese is the Hovis. The Hovis cracker actually comes in the variety cracker selection box, which is preferable to any Mar's, Cadbury's or Nestle chocolate type box urg.

I'm going to try a chocolate digestive with cheese at some point, but it has to be dark chocolate with Butler's cheddar.

Crackers that need banning: ritz and tuc.

Crawford's cheese savouries are delicious and moreish but need to be eaten without cheese.

Crackers that need banning: ritz and tuc.

I think you need to take a while on the naughty step and reflect on what it is you've just said. You'll be dissing Cheddars next, then you really will be off my christmas card list

On the digestive front: My F-i-L, (who's from wigan, home of many an odd culinary 'delight') has a take on the plain (non-chocolate) digestive.

He dunks them in red wine 😳

Lol at binners.

Hubby is from Wigan and will only eat pie and chips, so your FiL has been brave and stepped out of his comfort zone with digestive and red wine :0)

Edit - Just realised that Crawford's cheddars are the bigger version of the Crawford's cheese savouries, so addictive. Once a packet is opened the whole contents need to be consumed in one sitting.

Another favourite, especially with dolcelatte or any blue cheese...

+1 for Carr's Melts but not the cheese ones - you are after all putting cheese on them.

Carr's melts - just about to swoon in ecstasy.

Melts for me too.
I've just finished a cheese 'n'b's lunch which was spoiled because all we have left is one of those Christmas boxes of biscuits. Utterly pap the lot of them. But the Montaglono cheese was great. Family scoffed all the Comte and good biscuits days ago.

+1 for Carr’s Melts but not the cheese ones – you are after all putting cheese on them

The implication here is that it’s possible to have too much cheese. This can’t possibly be the case. 😃

Ah but I don't want the "cheese" in the crackers competing with the cheese I want to taste.

You’re not thinking cheesily enough.

Simply separate your cracker, complete with auxiliary cheese, from your primary cheese with enough butter and it’s a dream ticket

Cheese-tastic! 😃

I've resurrected the cracker thread, to compliment the 'cheese' thread. After all it's nearly that mad time of the year for over indulgence.

Does anyone remember those mini type savoury cream cheese type balls that came in a packet? The cheese was very strong.

Bunnyhop has it in the original post
it's Carr’s Water biscuits

you are all crackers.  Crackers should never be eaten with cheese.  Cheese should be eaten with cheese or a frozen grape or membrillo

If you must have carbs with your cheese then only artisan real bread will do.  Non of this choleywood baking process rubbish.<br />And NO CRACKERS unless you are crackers<br /><br />FFS!

Digestives are for dunking in tea!

I am quite partial to a Jacobs cream cracker with cheese. They're neutral so don't detract from the cheese.

Uncle Jezza... for repeating your nonsense about frozen grapes being preferable to crackers on not one, but two threads now...

Agreed. He's on crack.

Try giving a frenchman crackers with his cheese.   I told you binners - your application to join the middle classes has been rejected.    I don't know what they are teaching folk these days!  did you even go to school?

Hey Teej - nbt says I'm posh because I won't eat a pie in the street, however crackers and cheese (and omg there are so many varieties now) are the best accompaniment for this dairy product.

Mmmm crackers.

Surely the grapes are in the wine anyway ?
…. so, favourite wine for cheese ? 🧀

Bath Olivers are only acceptable as Chocolate Olivers.

For cheese, Carrs, or some form of digestive.

I only dislike crackers as a cheese-to-mouth delivery mechanism as they break too easily and make a mess.

So they fail on the first hurdle, unfit for the only purpose they were invented for.

Water biscuits are best because they don't overpower the cheese but provide a lovely contrast in texture/ a vessel for the cheese and other items such as quince jelly or chutney if the mood takes. Some cheeses are best on their own though.. thinking of compte

I cannot remember the book now and have been trying all day but a classic of english literature has the protagonist bemoaning being given crackers with his cheese rather than bread.  so this has been known for a long long time!

Anyone know the book?  Its bugging the hell out of me.

Agreed, Carrs water biscuits. No need for any further discussion /close thread

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On very rare occasions, Cream Crackers with butter from the fridge (so nice and cold on the palate) and very fine Cheddar.