Advantages: Ethical, good taste, available in all major supermarkets. Doesn't turn into Mud! Disadvantages: Slightly more expensive but worth it!
Coffee has to be a staple product found in any normal kitchen cupboard. Instant coffee is used the world over and any trip down to your local supermarket will see an aisle full of different varieties giving the buyer far too much choice!
Now I am a coffee fiend and I do love my daily freshly groundcoffee routine using my espresso machine, however sometimes you just want something quick and easy so this is where my love for Clipper comes in!
Clipper
Most people will be aware of Nescafe, Gold Blend, Kenco etc but I doubt many of you have heard of Clipper. Part of the Clipper Teas company, Clipper provide a number of coffee varieties including a decaffeinated range. This review shall focus upon the original Clipper organiccoffee.
Clipper is a fairtrade provider of teas and coffees and all ingredients are fully organic to ensure ...
Advantages: Fair trade, tastes quite nice Disadvantages: Tastes nice is very different to tastes gorgeous
normally retails at about £3.19 (Safeway). This is slightly more than some coffees, but when you think about the benefits the slightly higher cost brings, I don’t think this really matters.
The packaging of Café Direct is…well its not hugely classy, but then I don’t really think this matters either! It comes in a dark blue jar, with a greeny front, with a picture of a cup of coffee with steam coming off it. It carries the logo, the fairtrade logo, and the number 5065. 5060ft is the height at which it is believed the best coffee taste comes from. Café Direct use a range of heights – some up for 6000ft, for the highest quality. The beans are grown in Latin America and Africa, and are paid the best price “ensuring the farmers benefit from a good income whiled you get the best quality coffee direct from ...
Advantages: great taste and less guilt Disadvantages: packaging
every carefully sipped and relished mouthful.
Being a coffee that disolves easily, it is ideal for use in baking if you fancy making a coffee cake, and that rich, dark flavour just begs to be blended with a creamy chocolate cake topping...
The jars seal well enough and the coffee stores well. I am a very occasional coffee drinker, pehaps having one cup a week, and I get a few guests who indulge, so a 200 gram pot will last me several months. The coffee survives this well and there is no noticable reduction in quality over this period.
Packaging is a bit of a pet issue with me. While its great buying a product like this one, where farming is carried out in a more consciensious way - it might not be organic, but it's decent and careful of the environment - it does seem a bit mad to then throw aweay a whole lot of material for landfil ...
