Instant coffee….advice needed.

I use grade 4. My finger slipped and typed 3.

ronib

Douwe Egberts pure gold medium roast instant coffee

This! I drink tea, but DH likes it even decaffeinated.
It tasted even better from B&M where the last lot we bought was £3 cheaper than at Sainsburys.
It also still has 200g instead of the sneaky Shrinkflation of Nescafé Gold Blend 190g.

Nescafe gold for me..
I do try some of the others, and enjoy them for a while, but when i have a cup of my usual, it says "home".

Allira

Oreo

Have been musing about coffee this morning, not the good stuff but instant coffee, but a really enjoyable one.I’m going to buy something later on today and am always hoping to find a better one than the last one I bought.
The coffee in the rest room at work is always poor quality so I will start taking my own in with me.
It needs to be one with caffeine.What can you recommend?

It depends if you like a coffee that tastes more like proper ground coffee or are happy with a good instant eg Douwe Egberts.
DD bought a Lidl own make - Bellarom Americano Barista Premium and said it was very good, better than wellknown brands.

Thanks Allira. We have a new Lidl recently opened near me so I will give this coffee a try.

Does the temperature make a difference, read that coffee with ground should not be boiling water is it the same with instant?

I think its better if the water is off the boil a bit.

I use Taylor’s one cup, I keep a box in the car so I’m not caught short when I visit my parents, who don’t drink coffee at all. My son prefers Millicano to ground coffee.

Because I usually drink decaffeinated I buy Nescafé Gold Blend because I read ages ago that, unlike many decaffeinated coffees it’s done naturally. I bought Kenco for years after working in market research, tried it and preferred it to Nescafé. Being more expensive than Nescafé it probably negated anything I made doing that job. Currently drinking Nescafé Azeri Americano. I like the containers because they seem to be very airtight and I reuse them for other things. I only have one cup of caffeinated coffee to wake me up in the morning. Can’t drink percolated coffee any more as I drank lots of it one night when I wanted to see some sort of special moon and I think I overdid it as it makes me queezy now.

Colombian strength 4. 100% Arabica. Tastes like real coffee. I like a heaped teaspoon. Only £2.79 at Aldi.

MissAdventure

Nescafe gold for me..
I do try some of the others, and enjoy them for a while, but when i have a cup of my usual, it says "home".

Oh me too MissA!
Tried a few of these mentioned over the years
Even the ‘ordinary’ nothing special Nescafé is £7 a small jar now 😮

You can take the girl out of Old Trafford etc …

I still deeply inhale my Nescafé (one cup a day) before drinking it …
Takes me right back to junior school when my younger sister and I were allowed one cup every Saturday morning by our mum by the gas fire IIRC

Happy days!

We were allowed one on holiday.
It always seemed very grown up, and I didnt enjoy it that much, but i had it anyway

ronib

Douwe Egberts pure gold medium roast instant coffee

Can’t get the top off 😖

But you can buy in paper bags as refills….Tizliz

ronib

But you can buy in paper bags as refills….*Tizliz*

Strangely more expensive.

Luckily I can’t stand coffee so OH usually makes his own

Clipper House Blend Organic Instant Coffee. I get mine in the local health food shop. I don’t think you can tell it’s instant.

ferry23

I have Nescafe Azera. Expensive but it's usually on offer somewhere. I find it richer and more coffee tasting than the run of the mill instants.

You used to be able to buy a small tin which would be good to try it out.

100% the best instant coffee I have had.

Doug Egberts for me too.
Im like Tizliz, struggle and wrestle to get lid off!

Waitrose Colombian coffee bags, 15 for 4.50£
or box 10 Taylors Rich Italian coffee bags when on offer

Take a small cafetiere and use fresh ground coffee. There's no substitute for it

Nescafé Azera here as well.

Aveline

Take a small cafetiere and use fresh ground coffee. There's no substitute for it

A coffee bag is just as good I think when you’re not at home. The coffee is vacuum packed, so it’s fresh, and it’s a lot more convenient.

Jodieb

Colombian strength 4. 100% Arabica. Tastes like real coffee. I like a heaped teaspoon. Only £2.79 at Aldi.

I agree, this is excellent and amazing value!

That's cheap!
Wish i had an Aldi near me.
I'd give it a whirl.

We rarely drink instant coffee preferring beans we can grind each day.

My preference is Machu Picchu Decaf which I try to buy when on offer. As a good alternative I buy Barrissimo Decaff Americano Barista Roast from Aldi. If not Decaf I will buy Machu Picchu 3 or 4.