[Closed] Nicest instant coffee?

No nestle products please.
fairtrade is the way to go.

percol expresso instant is nice.

Kenco really rich, blue jar.

Douwe Egberts pure gold is my favourite instant!

carte noire tastes like coffee.

Starbucks Via, if you must, is a cut above the rest of the instants imo.

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Lovely. Been drinking it for 22 years and it still grooves my truffles.

+1 for kenco blue top.

Yeah I like a Douwe Egberts for a smoooooth instant taste.

If I want something with more bite I make a proper coffee.

Alta Rica is crap imo, I don't think it really tastes of anything.

+1 for Kenco Rich. Buy it in the Eco Refill bag & feel good about yourself.

no nestle products!!!!!! Baby killers they are
*stamps feet*

At work I use Percol Cafe Espresso not too bad.

Clipper organic decaff. The one with the green lid. It's so nice, I prefer it to other caffeinated brands. Highly recommended.

my god! i agree with tj.plus instant coffee of any ilk is tasteless. 😯

no nestle products!!!!!! Baby killers they are
*stamps feet*

Worlds over populated anyway

and Alta Rica is lush

There is loads of so called proper coffee in expensive places like sxxxxxxks etc which is bitter and horrible

I like Gold Blend. In fact all Nestle products are great.
The Milky Bars are on me!!

3 words: Nestle, Nestle, Nestle.

agree with TJ and nicest instant coffee is some kind of triple oxymoron

Instant coffee and NESTLE condensed milk only if camping in a wilderness though where fresh is unavailable

Instant karma's gonna get you

Instant Karma ,by Kenco is it?

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and some pre ground coffee.

Na - its by lennon

Instant karma’s gonna get you
Gonna knock you right on the head
You better get yourself together
Pretty soon you’re gonna be dead

[i]fairtrade is the way to go.[/i]

Overpriced inferior products. People buy this shit just to think they are doing some good.

It does do some good tho - especially with coffee and chocolate.

Some fairtrade instant coffee is acceptable - I would say it was great tho

[i]fairtrade is the way to go.

Overpriced inferior products. People buy this shit just to think they are doing some good.[/i]
I concur. (but don't know for certain)
Anyway, what's the point of these threads? One mans meat is another mans poison. I can drink most coffee apart from proper cheap stuff, without going 'BLEURGHH!' I must have no taste buds.

Didn't like the fairtrade coffee or tea I tried and i've only got to look at my corporate clothing to see the shody stitching and odd size's for clothing.

For instant coffee I like Douwe Egberts or Carte Noir.

Life is too short for instant coffee - just drink the real stuff.

Rocket Fuel coffee with guarana is so good

Douwe Egberts pure gold is my favourite instant!

Call me a total pleb but the best coffee I've even had was from an isolated café off a trail near Morzine. It was a double espresso ... with cream... and a tiny sprinkling of sugar... mmmm

Tj and tootall+1

+1 for bruneep and TooTall

Instant is minging get the plastic filter thingys that sit on top of your cup if you don't have a cafetiere or percolator.

I do try and avoid Nestle stuff, but their Pretentious Range or whatever it's called has some nice stuff. Alta Rica's decent, Cap Columbie's my own favourite, good enough that I can't be bothered with anything else really. Don't really like the Parisien but it's indistinguishable from a lot of "proper" cafe coffee to me. The Green Blend is interesting, tastes a bit fresher and, well, quite reminiscent of weed smoke, though that's not how they describe it.

The Espresso is impressive. Looks like Espresso, smells like Espresso, tastes of MDF.

tesco gold label @ £1.29 per jar - as good as owt else !

You can't get a better instant coffee than Mellow Birds.

I avoid all Fairtrade coffee as I can't help feeling that it's an attempt to rip me off. Presumably what they refer to as "fair" is me paying overinflated prices so that some greedy coffee bean growers can overcharge for their produce.

And I don't buy into this nonsense about it helping to pay for their children's university education .............. why would anyone need a university degree to grow coffee beans FFS 😕

The only "lesson" they need to learn, is how [i]market forces[/i] work. And the best way to teach them that, is to make certain they only get the market rate for their coffee beans ................ ungrateful greedy gits 😐

I would avoid Nestle products (specially KitKats) as TJ suggests, because they have started to introduce Fairtade produce. Basically just don't buy anything with the Fairtrade logo.

Buy it in the Eco Refill bag & feel good about yourself.

Jar sizes - 100g and 200g. Refill pouch, "new size" 150g. They've thought about this, haven't they. I don't want 'new size', I want 'old size' to refill my gorram old jars. Hence, y'know, "refill."

Eejits.

Instant coffee + nice = impossible.

after trying a few different instants - i settled on keeping a cafetiere and coffee in my drawer - i tried to pack in coffee but after starting on long days , especially just after lunch i need a good pick me up , only ever drink 2 cups a day thought 1 with breakfast and one after lunch.

instant coffee didnt have the hit i was looking for

one of the lads in the office did says "jesus terry your becoming as metro as scotty" - as he poured hot water into his nescafe :S

remember...

don't think of instant coffee as an inferior coffee drink...

but a drink in its own right. It tastes better then.

Just don't do it. It's not hard to quickly make a half decent cup of Joe these days. I use this:
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What's with all this poncy coffee? instant is fine .Most of the other stuff taste like bitter shite

"remember...

don't think of instant coffee as an inferior coffee drink...

but a drink in its own right. It tastes better then. "

yup.....

Not always practical to put a pot of coffee on when you're trying to pull a 3 year old out of the dishwasher by his ankle,get a 7 year old dressed, and an 11 year old to just "Eat the toast!!!, it's all there is till I've been shopping", and you needed to leave for school exactly seven minutes ago.

Underhill - Member
+1 for Kenco Rich. Buy it in the Eco Refill bag & feel good about yourself.
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keep premade cold coffee in the fridge then 😉 iced coffee 😀

second only to hot coffee for kick starting you out the door on the morning

rootes1 - Member

"don't think of instant coffee as an inferior coffee drink..."

I don't. I think of it as an equal coffee drink, often a superior coffee drink. All just a matter of taste. Most "proper" coffee does no more for me than a good instant

I buy my coffee beans from local Geordie producers ... 😆

Instant - whatever's on offer at Tesco. Kenko or Gold Blend, Percol or DE. No FairTrade rubbish though.

Some days ernie_lynch annoys me with his contrariness / mild trolling, but sometimes he hits high points of near genius.

ernie_lynch - Member
I avoid all Fairtrade coffee as I can't help feeling that it's an attempt to rip me off. Presumably what they refer to as "fair" is me paying overinflated prices so that some greedy coffee bean growers can overcharge for their produce.

And I don't buy into this nonsense about it helping to pay for their children's university education .............. why would anyone need a university degree to grow coffee beans FFS

The only "lesson" they need to learn, is how market forces work. And the best way to teach them that, is to make certain they only get the market rate for their coffee beans ................ ungrateful greedy gits

Avoid instant coffee.

I think it's impossible to find a 'decent' tasting instant anything. Let alone coffee.

Try a coffee peculator instead.

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I think it's worth the extra effort.

[Mind you, when it comes to coffee, I can be something of a fundamentalist].

Hairychested - Member
No FairTrade rubbish though.

http://www1.american.edu/ted/chocolate-slave.htm

Under the financial cosh these days, I've started drinking instant instead of actual ground coffee beans.

I doubt you'll find an instant that tastes like coffee, but Nescafe standard has an actual taste of sorts, and seems like an efficient caffeine delivery system...

I can stand M+S fairtrade Italian blend if necessary. £4.99 a jar not too painful.

4.99 a jar? Is it a really big one?

Tesco Classic 100% nonce free.

If.. for some reason you have decided to conjure up an excuse for drinking instant coffee.. and you have deluded yourself that you will gain some sort of perverse satisfaction from doing so.. then there can be only one sensible course of action..

instead of reaching for the jar of granulated shizzle.. just grab a teabag and have yourself a proper drink..