£6 Filter Coffee Machines at Asda & Argos

andysuth

supermonkey wrote: »

sounds like a good deal...

though i presume filter coffee is more expensive than instant?

COFFEE FILTER MACHINE; £5.00 in NETTO (about five weeks ago, chepaer than £6.00 in ASDA)

It has a valve underneath the funnel, to stop the dripping into the jug if the jug is not present.

Is Coffee more expensive as better ground coffee than instant? Are you kidding? It's less processing, less packaging, so is rightly cheaper for what you get. Instant, they have to effectively make the coffee, "Freeze Dry" it, and then package it in a large glass (often no DFSU) jar.

I'm genuinely offended when someone offers me coffee and its instant, It shows complete lack of attention to detail. Once you start drinking filter on a daily basis, you soon find instant COMPLETELY UNPALLETTABLE.

Finance wise:
Basic Filter coffee machine, Netto: £5.00
(occasionally you can get deluxe vaccuum jug for £10+)
Filters, Size four, Netto: £1 for 100 (also in Lidl, Aldi etc).
Pack of Carte Noir coffee - lasts me two weeks - £1, Netto.

One piled scoop/piled table spoon = one Cup of coffee.

About 35-45 cups (guestimate!) in a £1.00 Doughy Egbert pack. (coffee is compressed in most of the packs, so volume isn't the best way to judge).

If you're concerned about paying 4p a cup instead of 3p a cup, please see a doctor immediately.*

Please don't use any bleached paper for coffee filter, you just get a load of chemicals into your drink, which you then have to filter out of your body. Use a proper coffee filter paper (1p per filter, unbleached, each filter does several cups), anything else is just false economy for yourself and the NHS in twenty years time.

I like coffee. I feel tired.

I've gone Fair Trade though, and pay £2.50 for strong fair trade coffee (Ironically at Tescos), it tastes better than Carte Noir.

But for £7.00 to £8.50 how many coffees could you have at starbucks or Costas?

Cheers,

-Andy,

"it was daddy's idea to show morse code on walkie talkies - we're rich now"









*just kidding, I know what you lot are like!

MAGICIAN

You should drink filter coffee within 20 minutes anyway...so no need to keep warm for hours..

dc

andysuth wrote: »

COFFEE FILTER MACHINE; £5.00 in NETTO (about five weeks ago, chepaer than £6.00 in ASDA)

Finance wise:
Basic Filter coffee machine, Netto: £5.00
(occasionally you can get deluxe vaccuum jug for £10+)
Filters, Size four, Netto: £1 for 100 (also in Lidl, Aldi etc).
Pack of Carte Noir coffee - lasts me two weeks - £1, Netto.

One piled scoop/piled table spoon = one Cup of coffee.

About 35-45 cups (guestimate!) in a £1.00 Doughy Egbert pack. (coffee is compressed in most of the packs, so volume isn't the best way to judge).

Cheers,

-Andy,

"it was daddy's idea to show morse code on walkie talkies - we're rich now"

Thanks for the info, but the Argos and Asda ones have an inbuilt filter so save 1p a brew.


BTW my son's idea was to put the rotating circle of lights on the Sky+ box to replicate tape movement on a digital device, copied by Microsoft on the 360 and Nintendo on the Wii, now by Mozilla inFirefox to indicate page loading, and he is still poor!

MOCHA

'Real coffee' is more expensive but the taste is far far superior to the instant muck which is universally vile IMO.As others have said you can get a decent packet of filter coffee for £1-1.50 in many of the discount food shops and it's money well spent.

Midnight_Tboy

I'm pretty much sold on the idea of getting one of these coffee machines Be a good change from the regular instant.

Other than obv buying one of these "cheapest" models, is there any generally recommend midrange models? What are the improved features to them, other than being a brand name and maybe having a slightly larger container size and aluminium design etc.

bluflashlite

On the topic of Ground Roast -vs- Instant coffee, there's a lot more to it than just the perceived economy from the shop-shelves, so here's a few tips:-

Be careful of buying ground roast in bulk quantities because it can quickly go stale and lose its flavour!
A way around this is to keep the opened carton airtight in the freezer and then just decant amounts to an airtight container stored in the fridge for everyday use....it'll keep it's 'just-roasted' flavour for weeks this way.

As I understand it, they use a chemical process to freeze-dry the instant stuff. If you check instant jar labels, most warn that you shouldn't brew it with BOILING water (cos it makes those chemicals rather volatile). _pale_

So that surely makes the ground roast option a healthier one in my view.

For the record, using boiling water on ground roast (cafetierre's etc) isn't a good idea either cos it burns it - so unless you like that "freshly-burnt" flavour, always let that kettle rest a few minutes first! :whistle:

Do keep your eyes on the fair-trade options in the supermarkets, cos sometimes they are only marginally more expensive for those of wrestling between our conscience & our wallet!
:think:

As for the other machines out there, for anyone who loves a genuine espresso, latte or cappuccino as well as drip-filtered, there are some good value combi-coffee makers around. I bought a Delonghi one about 6 months ago for £60 & it's saved me a fortune! Who needs "Costa-Fortune" coffee shops that charge up to £3 per CUP when you can offer your friends the same "posh" coffees in your own home!! :T

For those who like it strong enough to blow your socks off (Toepazz), try visiting Poland! I've sampled in France, Germany, Italy, Columbia, even Latvia, but nowhere beats the Poles for serving the strongest brew on earth...it'd dissolve your spoon! :eek:

I've never seen a Polish blend on sale in the UK tho, so if anyone can tell me different I'd love to sample it again without the air-fare & carbon footprint of going to Poland! (Heh)

Meanwhile, I tend personally to find supermarkets own regional blends are pretty good value on the whole, finding the Egberts and other brand names a bit too bland or 'chocolatey' (but then I've tasted some truly ROUGH brews in my travels!)

Best advice - when someone makes you a really nice-tasting coffee, ask them what blend they've used!

Lastly, for real coffee-brewing enthusiasts, this a lovely history page that I stumbled on by chance when shopping for my current machine:- http://baharris.org/coffee/History.htm
Enjoy!

Midnight_Tboy

can I ask are these machines good for "filtered coffee"?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DeLonghi-EC330S-Pumped-Espresso-Maker/dp/B000C3MLJS/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt

As can get graded stock from fleabay and the likes for about 48quid?

Or are these only good for espressos and capuccinos but wouldtake too long or incompatable to use for "regular filtered coffee" that yous have been referring to

LiveWrong

Midnight_Tboy wrote: »

can I ask are these machines good for "filtered coffee"?

http://www.amazon.co.uk/DeLonghi-EC330S-Pumped-Espresso-Maker/dp/B000C3MLJS/ref=pd_sxp_f_pt

As can get graded stock from fleabay and the likes for about 48quid?

Or are these only good for espressos and capuccinos but wouldtake too long or incompatable to use for "regular filtered coffee" that yous have been referring to

They aren't good for much, I'm afraid. All you would get from that machine is poor quality shots of espresso. Making good coffee needn't be expensive, making espresso is. It can't be done without fresh beans, a grinder capable of grinding fine enough and a good machine.

The machines mentioned in the first page are fine for making filter coffee as it's a far easier process, if that is all you want to do, pick one up and spend the extra money that you were thinking of dropping on the espresso machine on some good coffee. I have no connection with http://www.hasbean.co.uk/ aside from being an incredibly satisfied customer but their coffee is top notch, as is their service. Not exactly money saving, though. I can't remember the name of the ground coffee Lidl flog in the black tins, bellarom or something like that, for about 70p, but it's better than any supermarket branded coffee.

Rather than a filter machine, I'd look at some of the other 'cheap' methods of making good coffee.

Do you live anywhere near a TK Maxx? They have almost always got Moka pots ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moka_pot ) on sale, often wrongly packaged as espresso makers. You'll get a completely different tasting, and in my opinion far nicer, coffee out of them and they are fun to play around with. TK Maxx is also a good place to hunt around for a cheap press pot/cafetiere which you'll be able to get a lovely coffee out of.

The ritual of using a moka pot or cafetiere is a far more rewarding experience than using a filter machine and I prefer the results.

Midnight_Tboy

corr blimeyy...so many different coffee making types out there and still non the wiser keep forgetting the difference between half of them.

Shame about the delonghi

I'm not bothered about espresso mind, mainly regular coffee....but like the idea of having cappucino with the milky nozzly tubey thing

I'll find something suitable eventually:P

LiveWrong

Midnight_Tboy wrote: »

corr blimeyy...so many different coffee making types out there and still non the wiser keep forgetting the difference between half of them.

Shame about the delonghi

I'm not bothered about espresso mind, mainly regular coffee....but like the idea of having cappucino with the milky nozzly tubey thing

I'll find something suitable eventually:P

There are plenty more methods where those came from :rotfl:

If you are after a nice 'regular' cup of coffee, go for a cafetiere. If you don't mind fleabay, have a search for bodum cafetieres and you wont go wrong. You wont notice the difference in the end result, but they are a lot nicer to use and more durable than cheapy ones.

For Cappuccino-style drinks, search amazon for 'milk frothers' and top a cup of cafetiere coffee with some frothed milk.