Ground coffee recommendations..

[Threevok]

I've had some nice beans for the coffee machine in work, from a company called Discount Coffee up in Scotland.

I've not found a ground one from there I have liked though

 

[Heltor Chasca]

Subscription with Footprint Coffee in Wales. Different pack every delivery. You decide the frequency.

Or the Kenyan grounds from Lidl as your utilitarian supply.

 

[Threevok]

This any good ?

https://www.domu.co.uk/vonshef-burr...oKFFaE2-MRMIs2NemPbpTxDmfAOTTVmRoC_BMQAvD_BwE

 

[srw]

They supply beans to McDonalds, Greggs, Waitrose, Sodexo (massive), Elior (nearly as massive)........ and so the list goes.

I don't think the OP is asking for a cup of coffee, which is mainly what those suppliers will sell him. He's asking for some ground coffee to take home and make his own. With the help of the internet, some basic equipment (a jug and a kettle) and some advice it's really quite easy to avoid the sort of adequate but overpriced coffee you can slurp out of a big paper cup.

 

[SteveF]

One of my mates loves this stuff: http://grumpymule.co.uk/ it's not bad.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

And this:


is a load of hokum. Over the years we've used three or four different electric grinders and have never found the grinder difficult to clean (you don't need to do it very often) or the coffee difficult to get in the right place. Use a little paint-brush (quarter-inch size from any old hardware shop) to brush out the container and the machine.

Hokum you say?

You could have just said that you were somehow lucky.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=g...1.69i57j0l5.7513j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

 

[srw]

Hokum you say?

You could have just said that you were somehow lucky.

https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=g...1.69i57j0l5.7513j0j7&sourceid=chrome&ie=UTF-8

Yes, there's a bit of static electricity. But that doesn't, as you claimed, make electric grinders impossible to use, or make the coffee stick to everything. Nor does it make drinking stale pre-ground coffee more attractive than having freshly ground coffee available each morning.

It sounds as if you've been somehow unlucky.

 

[Yellow Saddle]

Yes, there's a bit of static electricity. But that doesn't, as you claimed, make electric grinders impossible to use, or make the coffee stick to everything. Nor does it make drinking stale pre-ground coffee more attractive than having freshly ground coffee available each morning.

It sounds as if you've been somehow unlucky.

I suggest you read carefully what I wrote and then amend your comments.

 

[flake99please]

Costco have some decent coffees....

One of my favourites (bean)

Another decent one here (ground)

 

[srw]

I suggest you read carefully what I wrote and then amend your comments.

Here's what I was replying to. It makes three specific assertions, the first of which is untrue, the second of which has some truth but is a minor irritation, and the third of which is untrue.

Electric coffee-grinders are difficult animals to live with. They generate incredible static electricity which charges the coffee particles and makes them stick to everything in the vicinity. They become impossible to wipe and get rid of.

As a daily user of an electric coffee-grinder who would rather tolerate the minor irritations of statically charged ground coffee than revert to stale pre-ground coffee I stick to my assertion that it's hokum.

 

[Profpointy]

I suggest you read carefully what I wrote and then amend your comments.

For some unfathomable reason I re-read what you said, and you did indeed claim that coffee grinders were unusable because of static. Hey ho

 

[Yellow Saddle]

For some unfathomable reason I re-read what you said, and you did indeed claim that coffee grinders were unusable because of static. Hey ho

No, I said they are "difficult animals to live with" and then explained why I think that.

 

[Bonefish Blues]

OP, srw is giving good advice. Fresh ground is a world better than anything "off the shelf".

We use Sumatra Mocha beans from Happy Donkey company (no, really we do!). Outstanding value and an excellent product.

 

[Fnaar]

This is the best available-pretty-much-anywhere option I know:

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I am a slight (but not ridiculous) coffee-snob. I actually buy mine from Lidl. It is lovely.
An Italian friend of mine says "Lavazza, Lavazza, e merda in tazza) (= sh!t in a cup) But hes more of a coffee snob than me)

 

[sight-pin]

No problem with mine, Although it only takes about 10 seconds to fill the portafilter.