I found this product at Woolies. Tastes good. When you have no milk this will give you a morning coffee fix. No need to boil the water, just take it to drinking temperature.
I'm a coffee tragic, roast my own green beans weekly, have a home espresso machine and grinder that cost waaaaay too much.
My better half gave me a Rosco and Rossa combination http://www.portaspresso.com/ for my 70th a few months back, great coffee on the road, bit of stuffing around though.
Sorry people, messed up, now I cant work out how to delete the duplicate image, perhaps a friendly Mod can assist?
-- Edited by Santa on Thursday 1st of November 2012 09:37:29 AM
-- Edited by Santa on Thursday 1st of November 2012 09:40:25 AM
jimricho said
01:21 PM Nov 1, 2012
I just use a good ol'fashion coffee plunger with a good quality ground coffee. Life's too short to spend any of it drinking instant coffee.
Mike C said
02:20 PM Nov 1, 2012
We use a stove top expresso unit combined with a $20 aldi milk frother.. perfect coffee every time.
jules47 said
02:20 PM Nov 1, 2012
Just got myself an espresso maker, the old fashioned ones - water in bottom, coffee, screw on the top - there is a funnel and the water comes up through the coffee to the top chamber. Heat some milk - yumbo - very addictive though.
Evie n Rhys said
04:57 PM Nov 1, 2012
Very flash Santa but it does make a great coffee. My daughter has one and I use it at their place. I'd still love to k ow why it smells much nicer than it actually tastes. Tess
Santa said
05:26 PM Nov 1, 2012
Evie n Rhys wrote:
I'd still love to k ow why it smells much nicer than it actually tastes. Tess
Does it? I think the reverse.
Pam said
06:25 PM Nov 1, 2012
We use the Nescafé ones. Prefer the taste. Sachets are much nicer than stewed Themos coffee. Just carry boiled water and make up coffee when we stop. They are handy as you don't need to add milk.
barina said
07:53 PM Nov 1, 2012
vk6tnc wrote:
I found this product at Woolies. Tastes good. When you have no milk this will give you a morning coffee fix. No need to boil the water, just take it to drinking temperature.
I have these at work and for when I run out of milk are a great alternative...BUT...I do love my Aldi Coffee machine and frother.....
Santa said
11:29 PM Nov 1, 2012
In answer to the original post, if I had to drink instant in any of it's guises I think I would give up.
SWMBO on the other hand is quite happy to drink Mocona when wer'e on the road.
woosy said
11:58 PM Nov 1, 2012
O'K I for one love my morning coffee nescafe instant sitting their waiting
for me love the smell and the taste it is my wake up in the morning
the rest of the day it is tea (dilma) Had one of the coffee makers but
love my instant
aussietraveller said
03:04 AM Nov 2, 2012
It looks like there are only two of us I think coffee made in a plunger is much better than either the nescafe or mocona ones and I have tried both must say the boss loves the nescafe ones. There is a good range of already ground coffee's available and if I run out of milk a little extra sugar and go for black
_wombat_ said
03:39 AM Nov 2, 2012
freshly ground coffee beans is the only way to go for great coffee, and my Breville machine goes everywhere with me, but we only have one coffee a day.
Santa said
04:21 AM Nov 2, 2012
_wombat_ wrote:
freshly ground coffee beans is the only way to go for great coffee,
Have to agree with you there Wombat, do you roast your own?
Santa said
10:19 AM Nov 2, 2012
_wombat_ wrote:
Santa wrote:
Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.
Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.
Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.
If you go ahead and order some suggest the less expensive beans up to about $12 kilo, bit of a learning curve but not at all difficult, only too pleased to offer assistance/advice if required
-- Edited by Santa on Friday 2nd of November 2012 10:21:01 AM
_wombat_ said
03:43 PM Nov 2, 2012
Santa wrote:
_wombat_ wrote:
freshly ground coffee beans is the only way to go for great coffee,
Have to agree with you there Wombat, do you roast your own?
No I do not roast my own, just did a google on roasting your own, I will have to look into this a bit more, do you roast your own?
Santa said
04:46 PM Nov 2, 2012
Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.
Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.
Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.
_wombat_ said
04:52 PM Nov 2, 2012
Santa wrote:
Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.
Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.
Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.
do you have a link to the online site please?
Santa said
05:51 PM Nov 2, 2012
Santa wrote:
_wombat_ wrote:
Santa wrote:
Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.
Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.
Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.
If you go ahead and order some suggest the less expensive beans up to about $12 kilo, bit of a learning curve but not at all difficult, only too pleased to offer assistance/advice if required
-- Edited by Santa on Friday 2nd of November 2012 10:21:01 AM
Just a heads up Wombat, coffee roasting generates quite a bit of smoke and chaff, because of this it's an activity best done in a shed or outside, SWMBO would not be at all impressed with the results of a kitchen roast.
_wombat_ said
06:12 PM Nov 2, 2012
thanks santa for the site info, this feels like Christmas have you thought of growing you own tree?
Santa said
06:35 PM Nov 2, 2012
_wombat_ wrote:
thanks santa for the site info, this feels like Christmas have you thought of growing you own tree?
Sadly not an option in Southern SA mate, they tend to like high altitudes near the equator.
_wombat_ said
07:13 PM Nov 2, 2012
Hmmm, I was looking at a site this morning that sells the seeds but they do not post to WA that maybe a reason, I will look into getting the equator moved down a bit
thanks again for the roasting info.
sarg said
09:22 PM Nov 3, 2012
here we go ....just like the yanks, addicted to ya coffee first thing in the morning. Well I will stay true to my English herritage....A Cuppa Tea with Milk & 2 thanks.
_wombat_ said
10:22 PM Nov 3, 2012
sarg wrote:
here we go ....just like the yanks, addicted to ya coffee first thing in the morning. Well I will stay true to my English herritage....A Cuppa Tea with Milk & 2 thanks.
what a stupid world we would live in if everybody was the same, you can have your tea with milk & 2 if that is your choice
sarg said
02:41 AM Nov 5, 2012
Or maybe, a nice hot chocholate..........yyyuuuuummmmmm Decicions decicions, what to have
oldboar said
03:50 AM Nov 5, 2012
I'll stick with Nescafe blend 45 (black with three sugar thanks). Used to love tea until I spent time in Sri Lanka adopting a couple of daughters. What we drink here doesn't even come close. Weird thing is, even the tea I'd been drinking over there that I bought back still didn't. Water, how it's boiled, who knows but I've given up trying to replicate a real cuppa.
Darrell
IvanJules said
04:37 AM Nov 5, 2012
Ivan is 50 on Thursday and I have bought him a coffee machine they had in Woolies for $79 and a milk frother for $20. So I bought one for his birthday...Only a few more days and I can try one too ;) I have heard the Aldi ones are great. Talking about coffee..Ivans making me one now...Only instant....(not for longgg). :) shhhh
_wombat_ said
04:39 AM Nov 5, 2012
IvanJules wrote:
Ivan is 50 on Thursday and I have bought him a coffee machine they had in Woolies for $79 and a milk frother for $20. So I bought one for his birthday...Only a few more days and I can try one too ;) I have heard the Aldi ones are great. Talking about coffee..Ivans making me one now...Only instant....(not for longgg). :) shhhh
please send me Ivan's email because I want to spill the beans
IvanJules said
04:48 AM Nov 5, 2012
All he does is surf the net.. No emails. No facebook. So unless he knew how to log on...he will never know ;)
_wombat_ said
05:00 AM Nov 5, 2012
IvanJules wrote:
All he does is surf the net.. No emails. No facebook. So unless he knew how to log on...he will never know ;)
bugga, ok just his phone number will do, but it must be before Thursday
I found this product at Woolies. Tastes good. When you have no milk this will give you a morning coffee fix. No need to boil the water, just take it to drinking temperature.
http://www.moccona.com.au/public/products/caf%C3%A9-classics-range/strong-cappuccino.aspx
I'm a coffee tragic, roast my own green beans weekly, have a home espresso machine
and grinder that cost waaaaay too much.
My better half gave me a Rosco and Rossa combination http://www.portaspresso.com/ for my 70th a few months back, great coffee on the road, bit of stuffing around though.
Sorry people, messed up, now I cant work out how to delete the duplicate image, perhaps a friendly Mod can assist?
-- Edited by Santa on Thursday 1st of November 2012 09:37:29 AM
-- Edited by Santa on Thursday 1st of November 2012 09:40:25 AM
I just use a good ol'fashion coffee plunger with a good quality ground coffee. Life's too short to spend any of it drinking instant coffee.
Heat some milk - yumbo - very addictive though.
Tess
Does it? I think the reverse.
I have these at work and for when I run out of milk are a great alternative...BUT...I do love my Aldi Coffee machine and frother.....
In answer to the original post, if I had to drink instant in any of it's guises I think I would give up.
SWMBO on the other hand is quite happy to drink Mocona when wer'e on the road.
O'K I for one love my morning coffee nescafe instant sitting their waiting
for me love the smell and the taste it is my wake up in the morning
the rest of the day it is tea (dilma) Had one of the coffee makers but
love my instant
Have to agree with you there Wombat, do you roast your own?
This is the company I buy from http://www.beangreen.com.au/index.php orders over $50 shipped free.
If you go ahead and order some suggest the less expensive beans up to about $12 kilo, bit of a learning curve but not at all difficult, only too pleased to offer assistance/advice if required
-- Edited by Santa on Friday 2nd of November 2012 10:21:01 AM
No I do not roast my own, just did a google on roasting your own, I will have to look into this a bit more, do you roast your own?
Yep, sure do, have been roasting weekly for about three years.
Can be as simple and cheap or as complex as you want to make it, keeping it dead simple all you need is a stainless steel dog bowl or similar, a wooden spoon, a gas stove and about 20 minutes to spare.
Green beans are available online for as little as $8 a kilo and the quality is streets ahead of the stale stuff offered by supermarkets.
do you have a link to the online site please?
Just a heads up Wombat, coffee roasting generates quite a bit of smoke and chaff, because of this it's an activity best done in a shed or outside, SWMBO would not be at all impressed with the results of a kitchen roast.
thanks santa for the site info, this feels like Christmas
have you thought of growing you own tree?
Sadly not an option in Southern SA mate, they tend to like high altitudes near the equator.
Hmmm, I was looking at a site this morning that sells the seeds but they do not post to WA that maybe a reason, I will look into getting the equator moved down a bit
thanks again for the roasting info.
what a stupid world we would live in if everybody was the same, you can have your tea with milk & 2 if that is your choice
Or maybe, a nice hot chocholate..........yyyuuuuummmmmm
Decicions decicions, what to have
Darrell
I have heard the Aldi ones are great. Talking about coffee..Ivans making me one now...Only instant....(not for longgg). :) shhhh
please send me Ivan's email because I want to spill the beans
All he does is surf the net.. No emails. No facebook. So unless he knew how to log on...he will never know ;)
bugga, ok just his phone number will do, but it must be before Thursday