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Find your cracker · a quick guide
The right cracker for the moment.
Start with what you are doing, then with the cheese. Every route leads to the right shelf, and to the Cracker Wiki if you want the reasons.
By occasion
What are the crackers for?
The cheese board
After dinner, put out three kinds: a plain water biscuit, an oatcake and something with rye, seeds or fruit.
Which cracker for which cheese →A drinks party
Choose thin, sturdy crackers that carry a topping without snapping, and breadsticks to stand in a glass.
The story of grissini →Soup and supper
Cream crackers and oatcakes keep some bite in a hot bowl; thin water biscuits are better broken over at the last moment.
Crackers in soup →Lunchboxes and snacks
Cheese crackers, snack crackers and rice cakes travel well and need nothing on top.
How much cheese is in a cheese cracker →Gluten free guests
Oatcakes made with gluten free oats, and rice and maize crispbread, labelled gluten free on the pack.
What the gluten free label means →By cheese
Match strength with strength: mild cheese, plain cracker; strong cheese, a cracker with flavour of its own.
Brie, Camembert, young goat’s cheese
Soft and mild
A plain, crisp cracker that stays out of the way.
Cheddar, Red Leicester, Wensleydale
Hard and tangy
Oats and wholegrain give body to match.
Stilton and other blues
Blue
Oatcakes, rye, or a cracker with fruit for sweetness against salt.
Washed rind cheeses and long aged hard cheeses
Strong and aged
A dense, dark cracker with a flavour of its own.
The full guide, cheese by cheese: the best crackers for cheese → and the cheese and cracker pairings.