Topic: Coffee jars for spices

[currylover40]

Just bought 10 big jars of douwe egberts coffee, yes like my coffee but can use these jars for my powders, spices.
half price at tesco for ?3.29.   http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=271183270
makes sense if you like coffee!

[Peripatetic Phil]

Just bought 10 big jars of douwe egberts coffee, yes like my coffee but can use these jars for my powders, spices.
half price at tesco for ?3.29.   makes sense if you like coffee!

Oh, CL, I /love/ my coffee (cannot imagine a day without it) but /instant/ coffee ?? Surely not.  Get yourself some Monsooned Malabar beans, grind them just before you make your coffee, then sit back and enjoy what will undoubtedly be the best moment of your day.  And then see if you can envisage drinking instant coffee (even Douwe Egbert's, which I willingly admit is one of the better brands) ever again ...   Unfortunately the Monsooned Malabar beans won't come in jars, so I have not solved your spice storage problems, but if you eat as much lime pickle as I do that will soon cease to be a problem !

** Phil.

[currylover40]

Hey Phil. The word monsooned malabar alone is drawing me to this way of making coffee, i got to try that, my sister is a bit of an expert on coffee, (travelled) , so will ask her if she tried it.
I've always drank instant stuff, just through habit really, guess i will have to for a while longer with 10 jars haha.
This forum is great as I've learnt something else apart from making a decent curry now.
Will get hold of some and let you know Phil.
Thanks

[Peripatetic Phil]

Hey Phil. The word monsooned malabar alone is drawing me to this way of making coffee ...

OK, if ever you find yourself in deepest Kent, feel free to call in and I will make you some !  But if you do plan to try some, make sure you get good fresh beans (Waitrose are the best I have found in terms of supermarket coffees, but you can always pay twice as much and have them posted to you by a specialist importer/roaster/grinder such as Steven Leighton's "Has Bean") and grind them yourself; the difference between freshly roast & ground coffee and ready-ground pre-packed coffee is almost as great as the difference between ground coffee and instant coffee ...

[SteveAUS]

Sounds like an "posh" bottle of Australian wine 

[Salvador Dhali]

Hey Phil. The word monsooned malabar alone is drawing me to this way of making coffee ...

OK, if ever you find yourself in deepest Kent, feel free to call in and I will make you some !  But if you do plan to try some, make sure you get good fresh beans (Waitrose are the best I have found in terms of supermarket coffees, but you can always pay twice as much and have them posted to you by a specialist importer/roaster/grinder such as Steven Leighton's "Has Bean") and grind them yourself; the difference between freshly roast & ground coffee and ready-ground pre-packed coffee is almost as great as the difference between ground coffee and instant coffee ...

I'm almost as crazy about coffee as I am about curry, beer and motorcycles, and after trying many bean suppliers over the years I've settled with this firm:

http://www.coffee-direct.co.uk/

Service is excellent, but more importantly they roast your beans on the morning of dispatch, which makes SO much difference. Apart from the taste, it's worth it just for the intense aroma hit you get when you open the pack!

After trying most of their offerings, this is my favourite:

http://www.coffee-direct.co.uk/barista-reserve.htm

Cosidering the quality,

[Peripatetic Phil]

I'm almost as crazy about coffee as I am about curry, beer and motorcycles, and after trying many bean suppliers over the years I've settled with this firm: http://www.coffee-direct.co.uk/ Service is excellent, but more importantly they roast your beans on the morning of dispatch, which makes SO much difference. Apart from the taste, it's worth it just for the intense aroma hit you get when you open the pack!

At the moment I am paying GBP 3-29 for 227 gm, and buy in bulk because I drink so much.  At Coffee Direct's pricing I can afford to buy 908 gm for GBP 15-99, which works out at GBP 4-00/227gm.  Not over the top if it really is roasted on the day of posting, IMHO.

Incidentally, without wishing in any way to dampen your enthusiasm, are you certain that all their coffees are roasted the same day as they are sent out ?  I ask because this is what I read on their site :

we roast coffee beans daily and dispatch the same working day (on orders placed before 12pm weekdays). Coffee has a completely different taste when its freshly roasted. Trust me, you will be amazed at the difference.

and if I were a lawyer, I would argue that so long as they roast every day, and dispatch the same working day for orders received before mid-day, then they were in full compliance with their statement even if the coffee that they dispatched had been roasted several weeks beforehand (i.e., just because you are roasting bean "B" on day "D" doesn't mean that when someone orders "B" that day they are guaranteed day "D"s roast -- it may well be that they roast Monsooned Malabar one day, Kenya Peaberry another day, and so on (and if they stock a large number of different beans, that could imply a considerable delay between roasting and dispatch).

Some of us can always see a down-side to everything

** Phil.

[Salvador Dhali]

I'm almost as crazy about coffee as I am about curry, beer and motorcycles, and after trying many bean suppliers over the years I've settled with this firm: http://www.coffee-direct.co.uk/ Service is excellent, but more importantly they roast your beans on the morning of dispatch, which makes SO much difference. Apart from the taste, it's worth it just for the intense aroma hit you get when you open the pack!

At the moment I am paying GBP 3-29 for 227 gm, and buy in bulk because I drink so much.  At Coffee Direct's pricing I can afford to buy 908 gm for GBP 15-99, which works out at GBP 4-00/227gm.  Not over the top if it really is roasted on the day of posting, IMHO.

Incidentally, without wishing in any way to dampen your enthusiasm, are you certain that all their coffees are roasted the same day as they are sent out ?  I ask because this is what I read on their site :

we roast coffee beans daily and dispatch the same working day (on orders placed before 12pm weekdays). Coffee has a completely different taste when its freshly roasted. Trust me, you will be amazed at the difference.

and if I were a lawyer, I would argue that so long as they roast every day, and dispatch the same working day for orders received before mid-day, then they were in full compliance with their statement even if the coffee that they dispatched had been roasted several weeks beforehand (i.e., just because you are roasting bean "B" on day "D" doesn't mean that when someone orders "B" that day they are guaranteed day "D"s roast -- it may well be that they roast Monsooned Malabar one day, Kenya Peaberry another day, and so on (and if they stock a large number of different beans, that could imply a considerable delay between roasting and dispatch).

Some of us can always see a down-side to everything

** Phil.

It's simply not possible to dampen my enthusiasm for things I love, Phil - though I must admit I hadn't given their claim a thought (and I've been called a cynical old git many times before).

Bottom line is that I'm not certain of anything in life, apart from that I do like their coffee, of which I probably consume far too much (along with salt, saturated fats, etc., etc!).

Now, if I was a real purist I'd be roasting my own beans, but I'm not sure that other residents of Dhali Towers could cope with yet another obsessive activity. That said, the thoght of the combined aroma of BIR and roasting coffee does have a certain allure...   ;D

[Peripatetic Phil]

Now, if I was a real purist I'd be roasting my own beans, but I'm not sure that other residents of Dhali Towers could cope with yet another obsessive activity. That said, the thoght of the combined aroma of BIR and roasting coffee does have a certain allure...   ;D

I used to do that (roast my own, that is), but being a cheapskate (and not having gas), my roasting was done in an aluminium pancake pan.  The aroma was out of this world, but the lack of consistency (some beans were burned to death, some were still green) meant that it really wasn't viable.  But you can buy real home roasters, small versions of the wonderful cylindrical roasters I used to watch in the window of Importers Ltd in Bromley, Kent, before they lost the faith and abandoned Bromley for ever -- the shop, an 18th century town house with a fine 1930s mahogany-panelled coffee house to the rear, was the home, for a while, of the Marquis of Townshend.  Both house and Coffee House were wantonly destroyed in 1987 to make way for the present "development" (Burger King).

Long, drawn-out, nostalgic sigh.
** Phil.

[currylover40]

Cheer's Phil. I used to get to Kent quite a bit as a trucker, but been laid off a while. I think that's where my love of coffee came from when i was on the road, never drank it beforehand.
Thank's for the links to the Monsooned Malabar (Love saying that)
Sister said she will pick some up, when she's home next week from St Andrews and we will both try it.
This could be the parting of me and Douwe Egbert's soon because with a name like that it's got to be good.
Thank's also Salvador for the link.
Have a good weekend