Instant Coffee

[tech_guy]

Just purchased a tub of the new Nescafe Azera (£3.29 for 60g was a bit of a shock) as I love coffee but have grown to hate the taste of the instants. I must say it's rather nice - not quite the barista standard as it claims, but still rather drinkable.

 

Ah, caffeine.......I can cope with the rest of the day now

[Pete10141748]

I can't stand instant coffee at all, only drink coffee from Costa/Starbucks and from my Tassimo machine at home.

 

Caramel Latte Machiatto? Don't mind if I do!

[laserblazer]

I drink Typhoo instant tea in school. That way, nobody can pinch my milk! I put it in a large, insulated mug and it stays warm for ages.

[MattHarwood]

A bit of a coffee head here too..

 

Azera is nice, Millicano (Kenco) is better, but avoid the Carte Noire one - a strange concoction that is!

 

Of course, much prefer ground coffee, Percol and Jamaica Blue being favourites

[K.C.Leblanc]

I can only drink Nescafe while reciting the mantra "Despirate times call for crap coffee".

[tech_guy]

I'd like a decent coffee machine here but I'd probably kill myself by overdosing on coffee.

[Norphy]

Whenever people find out that I drink neither tea or coffee, they look at me as if I'm a bit odd

[sonofsanta]

Whenever people find out that I drink neither tea or coffee, they look at me as if I'm a bit odd

 

[mac_shinobi]

I prefer Kenco or other ones as can't stand Nescrape

 

Costa and Starbucks have some things that need improving such as mochalatte ( tastes like burnt coffee ) where as when made by myself with hot chocolate and kenco ( actually tastes like it should )

[pcstru]

I'd like a decent coffee machine here but I'd probably kill myself by overdosing on coffee.

 

I use an Aeropress thing at work. It takes a few seconds longer than instant (eeeuch!) and produces a pretty good coffee given decent beans as input. It also 'sweeps up' all the grinds from home which are left over when changing from a coarse grind for cafeteria to a very fine grind for espresso (those two don't mix but the press will deal with anything)

[hardtailstar]

Whenever people find out that I drink neither tea or coffee, they look at me as if I'm a bit odd

 

i get the same!

[LiamH]

3 in 1 instant coffee's are a lifesaver.

 

Its hardly a costa or nero coffee ( starbucks is overrated imho) but we dont have the luxury of one of those near by, and the machine in the staffroom gives you the worst coffee i have ever tasted for the privilege of 20p for half a cup

[Oaktech]

we don't just drink coffee, we eat it too...

 

LIDL Great Britain - lidl.co.uk

[DT2]

Jamaica Blue

 

 

Expensive taste.... Damn good coffee though. I also like Old brown Java

[basicchannel]

I drink Typhoo instant tea in school. That way, nobody can pinch my milk! I put it in a large, insulated mug and it stays warm for ages.

 

 

Typhoo instant? Is that the tea version of Cheez Whiz?

[Greenbeast]

Sainsburys TTD Costa Rican instant, mmmm, pretty good for instant

[basicchannel]

I say buy one of those small cafetieres and some decent ground coffee (Percol is a good one) and as long as you've got access to hot water you've got great, non-instant yet very quick nonetheless coffee.

[Danp]

Filter coffee machine in office + Tesco coffee = happy me

[plexer]

Have a filter machine in the workshop.

 

But I've also been using some vietnamese coffee from Trung Nguyen Online: Vietnamese Coffee and Tea with one of their phins.

@ZeroHour did you get the one I sent in the coffee collection?

 

Ben

[3s-gtech]

Agreed Nescafe is nasty. For instant I drink Kenco Smooth, really not bad. Coffee machine at home for when I get home - takes too long in the morning! Nowt at work, two cups a day is plenty for me, and I hate tea

[googlemad]

I bought a McDonalds coffee at 8:20am before work, a train journey and a ringing phone later I manage to drink it at 9:40am, it was still luke warm!

 

Pretty impressive!

[SpuffMonkey]

You need one of these

 

Siemens Surpresso Compact "Beans to cup" coffee machine TK58001GB

[soveryapt]

I say buy one of those small cafetieres and some decent ground coffee (Percol is a good one) and as long as you've got access to hot water you've got great, non-instant yet very quick nonetheless coffee.

 

This is what I do. Whenever I do venture to make myself a brew though I always get the strange looks and "oh, look at you with your posh coffee" to which I always reply that if they want one, I'll make them one, which soon shut them up (not that that's the intention, I genuinely mean I will actually make them a decent coffee if they want one) but there we go.

 

The starbucks instant sachet things that they've started doing aren't too bad, but they really are quite expensive.

 

These days though, thanks to the fact that even with a lidded thermos style cup, I keep getting told about hot drinks around school (there are plenty of staff walking round with normal cups on busy corridors with hot drinks in them but me who's trying to be sensible and never gets a brew at lesson change / break time .. [/rant]) .. I just tend to drink water or the odd bottle of coke here and there ..

[webman]

We get ground coffee at work for a cafetiere. We've had some coffee from a local shop in the market, but found Sainsbury's Fairtrade or Organic range is just as nice, if not nicer - So Organic Peruvian, Fairtrade Ethiopian Sidamo, and Fairtrade Colombian Coffee (in that order)

 

The process for the AeroPress device looks like too much fuss

[synaesthesia]

I'm a strange one. I like instant coffee but don't like proper stuff

Favourite brand? Asda's value stuff. 47p a jar and it's either no different or better than Kenco or Nescafe! Then again, I wonder if my tastebuds are dead