good job you dont drink the stuff i do then, but then again i dont buy from the likes of spar or coop as its way to expensive and i stock up when i find a special offer, you should see the bottom of my fridge at the moment its has 20 500g of lurpak in it as they are £3.25 in tescos
At the moment Tesco have a special on the Kenco Intense coffee at £3.50. It does taste reasonable decent. I buy the Nescafe Irish Latte sachets plus the Nescafe Azera Grindsmith coffee. In a large mug I add one sachet, 1 1/2 teaspoons of the Azera, a bit of milk, a good whisk for some froth and then the hot water. Tastes very nice.
We buy filter coffee and use a cafetiere or the stovetop - there has been a survey saying that nespresso etc are actually better for the environment than filter coffee, due to wasted coffee, but guess what? That survey was done by the nespresso company...........I dont buy that view anyway considering the energy etc that goes into making the machine in the first place. Secret, if there is one, is simply not to use too much.
There are plenty of reasons behind the high cost of coffee at the moment - a significant factor for instant coffee would be that spray drying is a very energy hungry process.
I'll drink instant if that's all there is - there's lots of variety and different types, some good, some bad, so I couldnt generally label it as terrible or great. You need instant to make a dalgona.
We used to use a filter machine but went over toNespresso,a few years ago.
We have one at home plus a smaller one in the van.
They supply recycling bags for the pods which are collected when they deliver your order. They have a company to recycle as pods are aluminium.
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Gave away the Nespresso because I couldn’t find a way to recycle the metal pods & even strength 10 pods weren’t a patch on our filter coffee (dark roast, strength 5) in the MH and the gaggia type machine at home.
Nothing wrong with instant coffee (we like Douwe Egberts), we accept that it’s a different drink from real coffee (like “builder’s” tea bags vs loose leaf Formosa Oolongs tea), they’re both brown & wet & hot, but taste very different.
Nespresso pods alone are 12600 tonnes of aluminium a year (a material that is horrific for the environment to produce), its very interesting how Nespresso say that 30% of their pods get recycled but experts say its only 5%. This is a very interesting article that covers both the good and bad sides of it, and how the brand itself has struggled with identity as it achieved global domination.
Quote: Originally posted by arthurdent on 28/6/2023
... and the decent powdery instant stuff was £7.70 for 100g. Instant ! £7.70 ! 100g !
Is it me ?
The only instant I would buy myself is Nescafe Gold Alta Rica and it is 4.06 GBP for 100g.
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I also use nespresso, we have 2 machines one at home and 1 in the van, we’ve been using these for around 10 years now, for me the coffee is spot on with very little mess, all the instant coffees I’ve tried are just to weak.
My pods go in the recycling bin along with bottles and cans, so my council recycles mine
Just to put the record straight, at home we normally use Nespresso and cafe royal pods for convenience and an Aeropress with Lavazza Gold for leisure. In the van we also use Nespresso but also sometimes have a jar of instant for variety / ease. This time I got a Lidl Bellarom instant for under £3 and you know what, it's not bad.
And now that we're here in expensive Ireland, we found the same coffee that was £7.70 at home at €5 (or £4.30) in a garage.
When we had a pod machine we found the lidl and Aldi pods to be ok...in Ireland.
Now we grind beans and use the big golden bags from Lidl Ireland. I haven't drunk instant since I left the UK in 95
I am a latte fan and do not like Americano without milk. I am not even sure if there is a machine for domestic use that does a decent latte. OH likes the occasional cappuccino or latte.
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Topic: So I went to the Spar for coffee ...
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