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I love Camp Coffee and had ran out but whilst walking round my local Tesco I spotted the Douwe Egberts Cafe Switch and thought they look nice so i'd give them a try. Douwe Egberts, I would say are excellent coffee makers so I new they would be fair ly decent.
Douwe Egberts - The Company
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Advantages: Great tasing coffee Disadvantages: none
...local Tesco I spotted the Douwe Egberts Cafe Switch and thought they look nice so i'd give them a try. Douwe Egberts, I would say are excellent coffee makers so I new they would be fair ly decent.
'''Douwe Egberts - The Company'''
Egbert Douwes and his wife originally started up in Joure, Holland in 1753 by selling Tea, Coffee and Tobacco to local residents. Their son Douwe Egberts entered the company in 1780 and started ... ...the world.
Douwe Egberts are famous for making ground coffee from a medium to a rich roast including decaffeinated suitable for cafetieres and filter machines, intstant freeze dried coffee including Decaffeinated and Cafe Switch.
They buy their coffee beans from farms that they know and trust and are moving towards 100% sustainablity and are promoting social, economic and enviromental wellbeing by helping its farmers ... more
The housework is done, its raining and I can't go and do any gardening or take my two year old for a walk, so its review time.
I love Camp Coffee and had ran out but whilst walking round my local Tesco I spotted the Douwe Egberts Cafe Switch and thought they look nice so i'd give them a try. Douwe Egberts, I would say are excellent coffee makers so I new they would be fair ly decent.
Douwe Egberts - The Company
Egbert Douwes and his wife originally started up in Joure, Holland in 1753 by selling Tea, Coffee and Tobacco to local residents. Their son Douwe Egberts entered the company in 1780 and started supplying other shops around the country of Holland. His decendents went on to make the company the largest coffee company in Holland. Since 1978 they have been associated with the Sara Lee Company thus making them able to supply their products worldwide. They are now the 3rd largest supplier of coffee in the world.
Douwe Egberts are famous for making ground coffee from a medium to a rich roast including decaffeinated suitable for cafetieres and filter machines, intstant freeze dried coffee including Decaffeinated and Cafe Switch.
They buy their coffee beans from farms that they know and trust and are moving towards 100% sustainablity and are promoting social, economic and enviromental wellbeing by helping its farmers look after their workers, their families and the environment in which they live and work. The company is UTZ certified (a global non government organisation), and they insure that the workers and their families have access to healthcare, clean water and decent housing. Their children have access to schooling. Workers are fully trained and their labour rights are protected. Fertilisers and agrochemicals are used minimally and are controlled, the use of water and energy is minimised and environmental pollution is reduced. They do not dictate their prices so this enables the farmers to achieve a better price for the coffee and gain more competiveness within the market.
The Product - Cafe Switch
The 216ml box (13cm x 12cm x 6cm) contains 6 x 36ml cups of liquid coffee drink. It is available in four different flavours, True Kick, a bittersweet drink with a stronger taste of coffee, White Innocence a smooth coffee drink with a hint of vanilla and caramel, Creamy Pleasure, a rich coffee drink with a taste of cream and tiramisu and finally Creamy Pleasure less sweet taste.
The pods are 12cm x 5cm x 2.5cm and are made of brown soft plastic and have a foil type material topping. You pump the two joined pods for about 15 seconds (I tend to pump for 30 seconds) until the pods go rather stiff. Pull the centre seal and squeeze the pods together into a cup/mug ensureing you get all the contents out including the vital froth. Pour on hot water and thats it. No need for milk or sugar.
Taste Test
Right my daughter is having her afternoon nap. Time to relax and enjoy a cup of coffee. Lets go for a bit of Creamy Pleasure. It has about 6mm of froth on top of the drink. It has a slightly sweet but pleasing aroma. It tastes creamy and is sweet enough for me, although I only have one sugar in my coffee, if you have any more in your coffee you may wish to add a little sugar. It does not have a very strong coffee taste but it is pleasant. You can taste the tirasimu but I wouldn't be able to pin point that taste if it didn't know what the taste was. As you drink it the froth obviously does reduce but there is still some froth left at the end.
Nutritional Information and Ingredients
Per 36mm concentrate made up with 180ml water contains 75 calories, 2g protein, 11g Carbohydrate and 2.5g Fat. I just pour water in and don't bother measuring 180ml out
Ingredients. 54% Whole Milk, 14% Sugar, 13% Coffee Extract, Skimmed Milk Powder, Refined Hydrogenated Coconut Oil, Glucose Syrup, Cream, Flavours, Acidity Regulator (E331 and E524), Stabilizers (E460, E466 and E407), Sweeteners (Cyclamic Acid and Saccharin). Quite a few E numbers then but a reasonable amount of calories.
Price and Availability
It costs £1.99 from Tesco and £1.98 from Asda. I can't find whether Sainsburys sell it as it is not showing on the mysupermarket website. This works out at around 33p for a cup of coffee.
My Opinion
The coffee is an ideal drink for relaxing and is reasonably priced at about 33p a cup. It has a pleasent taste and is enjoyable. Its a pity that nowhere on the box does it mention that the comapny are UTZ Certificated or that they are trying to help farmers and the environment. Maybe if this was mentioned it would be a good selling point bring them in contention with the Fairtrade product.
Some Useless Facts about Coffee
Coffee is the worlds second most important export for devoloping countries after Crude oil.
Coffee was originally used as a medicine around 900BC by an Arabian Doctor.
Brazil is the largest producer of Coffee followed by Vietnam, Colombia and Indonesia.
More than 20 million people world wide work in the coffee industry or related industies.
For further reading the website is www.douwe-egberts.co.uk.
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Advantages: Smooth flavour. Disadvantages: A bit too sweet and no coffee "hit"
...up my normal jar of Douwe Egberts instant, but this morning I decided to stay awhile and look through the ranges, convincing myself that this was a justifiable thing to do as caffeine is now my only vice!!
I'd seen adverts for the Douwe Egberts Café Switch products on TV, but had never really paid them much attention - or had I? The subliminal nature of advertising must have worked as I reached for a pack and decided to give them a try!!
Douwe ... ...Douwe Egberts in 1753, selling coffee, tea and tobacco from their small shop in Joure, in the Netherlands. When their son, Douwe Egberts, joined them in around 1780, he decided to expand their horizons, distributing coffee around local merchants, with the company growing in size and strength with each passing generation.
Since 1978, the company has been associated with the Sara Lee Corporation, allowing it's size and distribution network to expand ...
stevielad123 27.01.2007
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Advantages: Instant, No Need To Add Milk Or Sugar Disadvantages: Messy, Oversweet, Expensive, Ghastly Taste......
...someone pushed a sample of Douwe Egberts Cafe Switch through my letterbox then it was inevitable that I would have to give it a try.
As I am not a big Coffee drinker this was actually a product that I had never considered purchasing as I had thought it to be both expensive and gimmicky, but since this sample was free, obviously the cost did not come into the equation.
For the purpose of this review however I did do my research and discovered that ... ...you around £2. I don't pay much more than this for a full jar of my regular Instant Coffee and this provides a lot more than six servings.
The sample that I received was a 36ml packet. This came wrapped in a rather sophisticated looking foil packet, complete with a mouth watering picture of a Cup of this frothy Coffee.
I was not too sure what to expect but I had the read the instructions on the back of the packaging that promised a "rich and smooth ...
micksheff 17.03.2007
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Advantages: Easy to make, good on the move. Disadvantages: A little too sweet, slightly expensive.
...that they had started selling Douwe Egberts Cafe Switch. I had seen the commercials on TV months back and thought it looked quite interesting but until now I was unable to find them on my rare trip to the supermarket.
Thinking back to the advert for Cafe Switch, I remember pressing red (Sky Digital) to order my free sample. I filled in my details but they never did send me my sample!
Café switch comes in 3 varieties; I tried the True Kick Bittersweet ... ...together by a brown coloured Douwe and Egberts Cafe Switch sticky label.
The Cafe Switches themselves are made of a thin brown plastic - sealed off in a foil cover, think of those UHT milk portions you get in some cafe's and restaurants as an example. So! 2 UHT milk portions turned upside down with a thin plastic piece between them binding them together at the bottom of the carton. On the middle plastic piece are two indentations creating a double ...
darren1982 08.07.2007
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Advantages: easy to use Disadvantages: too sweet and a lot of packaging per drink
...free sample of the new Douwe Egberts Cafe Switch pod ,'True Kick' flavour.
What is it?................................................
This is a new idea as far as I know for making coffee simple to make and would possibly be most useful where coffee is drunk occassionally, for instance in an office that does not have a coffee machine or where you do not drink coffee yourself but have the occassional guest who would prefer coffee to whatever else ... ...milk is added already,to save having to keep milk cold ,they would need to be in a strong box or tin though. This was why I was trying them as we go camping quite often.
Packaging..................................................
I have to admit ,the packaging is a major bug bear for me.
The sample I have tried was sent through the post and arrived in a 4" x 2" x 1" purple cardboard box,containing a plastic (recycleable) sealed sachet,containing ...
eyebright1234 05.02.2007
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Advantages: Convenient for people on the go Disadvantages: Rancid taste, Packaging, Pumping sometimes hurts!
The opinion of whether you like this product or not, completely lies in the situation. So i'll only do my opinion. But first...
-Price-
£1.99 in ASDA
£0.79 in CoolTrader
-Nutritional Information-
-Per Serving-
75 Calories (310KJ)
2.1g Protein
9.8g Carbohydrate
2.8g Fat
Now that thats over:
I bought this off of Cooltrader for 80p approx, because i was NOT going to buy 6 coffees for £1.99. I thought nescafe mochas were rediculous. Anyway, ... ...'True Kick' variety, which is apparently 'Bittersweet and Inviting'.
-Packaging-
Eek. Theres no personality. It's some demented egg cup casket, which is inappropriate and a pain to carry around. The ingerients text is unbelievably small to read (I got my dads old magnifying glass to read it) and saw that it was unbelievably fattening!
-Taste-
Blech! I don't taste any sugar at all in it, and they say theres no need to add any more. It's rediculous ...
Necormancer 27.11.2007
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