With a love of Provençal- and New England-style home furnishings, family-based Maine Furniture Co works with artisan makers around the world, ensuring ethical and sustainable practices sit at the heart of its business. We love the fact you can almost style your kitchen around the Bauhaus-cool grandy, but top marks goes to Brabantia for its timeless aesthetics, practical design and sustainability. If you’re into matchy-matchy appliances, the retro range also features a kettle and toaster available in cute shades of pink, green, red and cream. When you’re whittling down the options, it’s helpful to take a look at your kitchen or workspace and figure out how much room you can – or would like to – dedicate to your bread-keeping vessel.

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Whether you're setting out some toast for breakfast, or laying out bread rolls on the table before dinner, you'll find just the right bread bin.Made by north-east furniture makers Funky Chunky, the lid doubles as a bread board and fits to its inky blue steel base like the perfect jigsaw piece, keeping our goodies fresh for several days, even in the late summer heat.

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In recent years, the century-old, family-run Dutch brand has added a “fall front” design and the popular, bamboo-lidded “nic” to its family of bread bins, but the classic roll-top is still going strong – and for good reason. Made with stylish stainless steel accents to compliment any kitchen and embossed chrome - effect T/C/S lettering. Ideal if you want to keep your handmade loaf in plain sight, this 9l bread box feels like great value for money. Thanks to naturally self-preserving beeswax, which keeps away pesky germs, cleaning is just a matter of rinsing with cool water and leaving to dry, and the bag can simply be snipped up and put on the compost heap at the end of its life (after roughly 250 washes). Unlike most other bread bins in the line-up, the locknlock can travel from freezer to microwave to dishwasher with no complaints, and each box comes with a trusty three-year guarantee from Lakeland.After housing two medium loaves and a stash of rolls, it cleaned up a treat with warm, soapy water and its powder-coated steel and chrome design feels reassuringly long-lasting. We comfortably stashed two medium-sized loaves, which stayed super fresh via the tactile roll-down door, while the bin’s flat top means it can double up as a surface for small canisters and favourite spreads. If you’re after a no-frills kind of bread bin or you’re a travelling baker, this is a solid investment. With one of the most generous capacities across the bins we tested, we nestled in two medium sliced loaves, rolls and a packet of crumpets inside, and all items remained at optimum freshness for several days. The weighted lid opens and closes with ease and discreet ventilated holes at the rear kept all our produce fresh and in perfect condition.

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Complete with a smooth wood finish, snug lid fit and a tactile curved handle for easy access when the munchies strike, it can hold a large loaf plus a couple of smaller items such as muffins or buns. While the larger version would be more suited to a family’s daily bread requirements, its little sister is perfect for couples or solo bread lovers alike.What could be a more fitting vessel for your handmade walnut bread than a handmade walnut-wood bread bin? The natural ventilation gaps mean wrapping loaves in baking paper or bags is best for maximum freshness, but for something a little different, this feels like a fresh, understated take on a classic. The sleek aesthetic – a mix of old-fashioned functionality and hip Americana – makes it a kitchen showstopper, but it’s more than just a cool hang-out for artisanal loaves.