Your Favorite Instant Coffe & Why

I'd be very surprised if any mass-market instant coffee could reasonably claim to be 'single sourced.'  Even the 'fancy' brands that name the region are suitably vague as to include many locales, no more so than any Fairtrade product I've seen.

(Not to sing the praises of Fairtrade products which I have other issues with.)

Edited to add:  To get back to the topic I keep a jar of Douwe Egberts handy for when I can't be bothered with making real coffee.  It's not the cheapest (but far from the priciest) and taste pretty good for instant.  The fact I don't use instant very often makes the price easier to swallow and, as an added bonus, it comes in really nice jars that make good kitchen storage.

I don't think there are any instant coffees that are single sourced as far as I am aware.  It's mostly the beans and loose coffee. Sometimes they will put them on the packaging by saying something like from "xyz co-operative farm" or "abc plantation". If you are in a specialist shop they should be able to tell you.



I think that Douwe Egberts is Arabica beans as well? Is that the one with the advert about a boy on his gap year on a coffee plantation?

That's Kenco (if you mean the the one with Don Warrington.)  Also one of the better instants (I drank this for ages) - the jars aren't as nice though.

Kenco Sustained Development, or Rich Roast.

Sorry for the hijack, but I have to share one of my favorite fair trade coffee stories.

My husband was at our local grocery in the coffee aisle, when a young woman came into the aisle.  As he took a bag of Kona beans from the shelf, the woman began railing at him about how he should only buy fair trade beans and that his choice was a disservice to poverty-stricken growers.  He calmly pointed out to the woman that he was purchasing a bag of Kona coffee.  The woman stared at him blankly.  He explained that Kona beans were from Hawaii.  More blank stares.  She then continued her tirade as he walked away.

Heehee!

/hijack

And kona coffee is awesome!   

Sorry for the hijack, but I have to share one of my favorite fair trade coffee stories.

That is priceless!!! 

Stacey, I just bought a jar of PERCOL decaf (Fairtrade, of course) and it's pretty decent.

Stacey, I just bought a jar of PERCOL decaf (Fairtrade, of course) and it's pretty decent.

Ohh, thank you!

Sorry for the hijack, but I have to share one of my favorite fair trade coffee stories.

My husband was at our local grocery in the coffee aisle, when a young woman came into the aisle.  As he took a bag of Kona beans from the shelf, the woman began railing at him about how he should only buy fair trade beans and that his choice was a disservice to poverty-stricken growers.  He calmly pointed out to the woman that he was purchasing a bag of Kona coffee.  The woman stared at him blankly.  He explained that Kona beans were from Hawaii.  More blank stares.  She then continued her tirade as he walked away.

Heehee!

/hijack

LOL!  Love it!

Instant coffee is not coffee! 

word.

you can get a drip coffemaker from argos for £6.

we bring home buttloads of cracker barrel ground coffee whenever we're in the states. people come over just for the coffee. 

Nescafe Gold 'cause I don't drink instant coffee but the in-laws do and that's what I keep in stock for them.  Har!

i should get some cracker barrel coffee next time i am in the US....

does whittards sell the hazelnut instant in its shops..i looked online and it cose 3.50 and you have to pay 450 for postage...eek

i hate paying postage

does whittards sell the hazelnut instant in its shops..i looked online and it cose 3.50 and you have to pay 450 for postage...eek

Yes!! I also will give a big shout out for Whittard's flavored instant coffee. The hazelnut is delicious! In the shop they do 3 jars for 8 pounds. You can mix and match with the ground stuff if you'd like, so I got a ground hazelnut, ground vanilla, and instant hazelnut (for work). They have a bunch of different flavors too.

pssssst....

if you are ever in Lakeside, pop in the Whittards there and see me... I will do you an even better deal! 


shhhh.....

I may stop at Whittards tomorrow and get some instant coffee.

I do agree that freshly brewed is better, but I don't have that choice at work