Instant coffee

mato · 18 Oct 2015 at 19:56

Any recommendations for a good instant coffee? Have been drinking Nescafé Gold at work for a long time but sure there's better out there. Not a big fan of the Kenco Milicano. Have tried the Nescafé Azera was quite nice, prefer something smooth. Any thoughts?

stufflol · 18 Oct 2015 at 20:07

Douwe Egberts gold is very good

tnx · 18 Oct 2015 at 20:16

Have you tried those individual filter coffee pots ?

A one -shot deal. Place the pot over the cup, add hot water and wait a mo..Bingo. A proper cup of coffee in an instant.

rombouts.com/uk/

mato · 18 Oct 2015 at 22:43

tnx said:
Have you tried those individual filter coffee pots ?

A one -shot deal. Place the pot over the cup, add hot water and wait a mo..Bingo. A proper cup of coffee in an instant.

rombouts.com/uk/

Hmm I'll look into this, although I suspect will be considerably more expensive..

Pho · 19 Oct 2015 at 00:14

How about something slightly off-tangent and and getting a cafetiere? You can grab a "3 cup" 330ml travel one for about £5 (most actual coffee cups are about 350ml I believe) then there's tonnes of pre-ground coffees you could use.

I do quite like Douwe Egberts Gold also though. Steer clear of the red "classic roast" one though, it's horrid

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edit: This cafeterie mug looks rather awesome

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monkeyspank · 19 Oct 2015 at 00:52

Nescafe azera

spireite_uk · 19 Oct 2015 at 03:30

The only instant coffee that's really passable is Nescafe Alta Rica

tnx · 19 Oct 2015 at 06:28

mato said:
Hmm I'll look into this, although I suspect will be considerably more expensive..

You get what you pay for.

Participant · 19 Oct 2015 at 07:27

spireite_uk said:
The only instant coffee that's really passable is Nescafe Alta Rica

That's what we have and for an instant, it's really quite good.

Cosimo · 19 Oct 2015 at 07:28

spireite_uk said:
The only instant coffee that's really passable is Nescafe Alta Rica

That's what we have as our instant.

XeNoN89 · 19 Oct 2015 at 12:46

stufflol said:
Douwe Egberts gold is very good

I tried the Douwe Egberts Roasted Hazelnut coffee the other day. it was delicious! (I rarely drink coffee)

ttaskmaster · 19 Oct 2015 at 13:08

monkeyspank said:
Nescafe azera

Have tried this one and it was OK. Didn't taste like dirt & grit like Nescafe usually does.
My personal preferred is actually the standard Carte Noir one.

Putty · 19 Oct 2015 at 13:57

Carte Noir here has well. That cafetiere mug looks pretty nifty!

cheesyboy · 19 Oct 2015 at 14:01

I use Douwe Egberts Dark, after having tried a lot of different instants.

I've never found an instant which tastes anything other than totally disgusting when drunk black, but with milk the Dark Egberts is pretty decent.

jono_astra · 19 Oct 2015 at 20:32

Landy · 20 Oct 2015 at 17:02

I use Douwe Egberts gold, but coming a close second second is Carte Noire absolut, the one in the black jar, very very nice for instant coffee

Uriel · 20 Oct 2015 at 23:09

I've been fairly impressed with Percol's instant coffees. Had their Italiano and Americano recently.

I think wholebean instants are basically all crap. They just take instant coffee and add grit.

I don't really do black instant coffee. Just not found one that's satisfactory but have found quite a few to be acceptable with Milk.

CafeDirect Instant is really rough - even with milk.

haaammit · 21 Oct 2015 at 01:07

Haven't drunk instant coffee for the last 5 years, but when I did, Carte Noir was the one for me.

Radec · 21 Oct 2015 at 01:07

I don't even know what instant coffee is

Nitefly · 21 Oct 2015 at 01:15

monkeyspank said:
Nescafe azera

This is really super good.