Luxury Christmas Crackers

The term luxury Christmas crackers seems to be appear on every box of crackers that appears on shop shelves or in online shops selling crackers. Even the cheapest poorly made boxes of Christmas crackers usually has luxury Christmas crackers stamped all over the packaging. To add insult to injury they have a price tag which clearly indicates that they are anything but luxury Christmas crackers!

So how does one determine what a luxury Christmas cracker really is. Is it the value of the gift inside? Of course an expensive gift inside the cracker certainly pushes that particular cracker into the realms of a luxury Christmas cracker. But if it’s placed inside a cheap cracker doesn’t that defeat the point of being classed as a luxury Christmas cracker?

We at Classic Cracker believe that luxury Christmas crackers are not defined as luxury just because of the cost of the gift inside. In fact we sell more empty crackers without any gifts than any other type of cracker and we feel that our crackers are luxury crackers even without an expensive gift in them.

Some of the criteria that needs to be met for a cracker to be considered truly a luxury Christmas cracker are the following:

Made in the UK – With all due respect to China and other countries around the world, we in the UK make Christmas crackers to the highest standards. China is a bulk manufacturer creating crackers as cheaply as possible and paying low wages for lower skilled staff. Here in the UK we have better working conditions, better pay and workers who tend to take more pride when making luxury Christmas crackers.

Hand Rolled – There are 2 ways to make crackers. The cheapest way is to make crackers using a one piece sheet of cardboard commonly know as a foil board. These are mass produced in China by machines and are put together by simply folding together and either clipping a lip into a flap or gluing down one edge. All the fillers are laid on top of the card and rolled and closed. This process is very simple and unskilled. To the untrained eye they can look very good if the foil board has a good design. Luxury Christmas crackers are handmade using beautiful sheets of paper, hand rolled, scrunch, tied and decorated. This way of making a cracker is highly skilled and is not something you can pick up easily unlike the cheap foil board process

Decorations -  using beautiful ribbons and making hand tied bows adds extra credence to the fact that we are making luxury Christmas crackers. All of the decorating on luxury Christmas crackers takes a lot of time and skill and yet the finished cracker looks spectacular.

Luxury Christmas Crackers – sample images

Luxury Christmas Crackers

Please take a moment to visit Classic Crackers online Christmas cracker shop if you want to see more luxury Christmas crackers.