- FAQs (1/17/2022)
A – Click on the Place Order button and select what you want. Make sure you include ALL the items you want, including your default.
A – You can place your order between Monday 7pm and Wednesday 7pm for the Friday.
A – No. As long as you have a default order set, weāll just delivery that to you, unless you change or add to it, or skip a week.
A – Yes! Weāll just keep track of your balance and if you start going into the red, weāll suggest you make an extra payment via your account page.
A – HBK works on a subscription basis. You pay a monthly amount and this should usually cover your orders. This means you don’t have to worry about paying every time you make an order. Sometimes weeks you may want to order more and that’s fine. Your account may as a result sometimes go into the ‘red’. No problem, you can just make an ‘Top Up Payment’. This is in addition to your regular monthly payment. There are three possible amounts to choose from, dependent on how much is needed approximately to get back in the black.
A – Just click on āSkip this weekā during the ordering period. Make sure you do this BEFORE Wednesday 7pm, otherwise weāll deliver to you on the Friday. If you want to skip more than a week, just select the weeks youāre going to be away.
A – Yes, just click on āPause Deliveriesā and weāll stop delivering until you āUnpauseā. Weāll also stop sending order reminder texts during this time..
A – No, they donāt. However weāll keep a track of your balance and if you start going into credit, we ask if you want to pause payments as well.
A – You can either keep the credit in your account, or we can give you a refund. Again, weāll keep an eye on your account and give you the options.
A – Yes. We can create a set monthly payment for whatever amount you want to cover your regular order.
- Popup – Skip This Week text (11/26/2021)
How do I skip this week
You can skip for the current week up to Wednesday 7pm
- Popup text for Place order when window closed (11/26/2021)
Placing an Order
The ordering window is from MONDAY 7PM to WEDNESDAY 7PM.
- Popup Text for set default order (11/26/2021)
How do I set my default order
You can now set your default order at any time. please select from below and update.
- Order form text top (4/27/2021)
Orders for delivery on [date_friday]. Place your order for this week anytime Mon 7pm -Wed 7pm.
- Account welcome text (4/15/2021)
Welcome to your HBK order page.
Here you can:
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Place your order for the week
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Change your default loaf
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Skip weeks in advance.
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Pause your deliveries.
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N.B. You can only change your default order, skip weeks or pause deliveries during the ordering window.
The ordering window is from MONDAY 7PM to WEDNESDAY 7PM
Remember you don’t have to place an order- we will automatically deliver your default order.
Going to be away? Please let us know by Wednesday 7pm.
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- Country Sourdough (9/16/2018)
- 1. Launching HBK . . . (8/17/2017)
Easter 2012 ā As London nervously awaited the impending Olympics with pragmatic British pessimism, I cycled down to the E5 Bakehouse to attend a sourdough bread making day, bought for me as a present by my partner. At the end of the day our teacher and E5 founder Ben Mackinnon jokingly asked the group: āSo, anyone fancy opening a bakery?ā Self-conscious laughter or expressions to the effect of āyeah, right!ā
Five years later I am surprised to find myself, not exactly opening a fully-fledged bakery, complete with deck ovens, metres of stainless steel, and a fetching white hat with airtex (not artex?!) vents perched on my head, but at least adding myself to the growing number (especially this end of town!) of micro-food producers, wedged into small back alleys, 1/16 railway arches, or, as in my case, at the back of a Victorian terraced house not far from Hackney Central. After all, all I did was bake some loaves, then more loaves, then more loaves, offer them to friends, neighbours, work colleagues; they give me money for my efforts, those coins in my pocket feel somehow worth more than the monthly paid salary; I bake the bread on the morning of my wedding for the reception; I take my sourdough starter on holiday with me, baking in France, in Spain. I attend more courses, meet others similarly absorbed (finding your tribe, as Ken Robinson says), whether in person or through the wonderful (and temporally- cursed) medium of social media.
At the risk of sounding a bit like Swiss Tony (youāll have to google that one, if you donāt know), the twists and turns of ones life are perhaps a little bit like baking- you do all you can to make the best loaf, involving a balance of control and ālisteningā to the dough, but in the end the results are in the hands of the gods and it comes out as it comes out, sometimes great, sometimes bloody awful!
