JUST LIKE REAL COFFEE SHOULD BE (Kenco Really Smooth)

Member Name: snappy

Product:	Kenco Really Smooth
Date:	10/05/01 (154 review reads)
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Advantages: smeels and tastes as good as freshly 'perked', substantial name of Kenco behind it

Disadvantages: slighty more expensive that the regular brands

I live on Coffee – no two ways about it. I seem to have lost my supposed traditional English taste for tea and gone all transatlantic. You just can’t beat a great cup of freshly percolated coffee, or if you are in one of the recent plethora of recently sprung up Coffee houses – a latte, cappuccino and nice comfortable to seat to relax in.

But if you are in a hurry, at home, and don’t want the trouble of firing up the Coffee machine, far and away the best option is the KENCO Instant coffee.

I can remember those TV Ads with the Kenco coffee rep touring the South American bean farms, “But here try this” as she hands him a cup of Kenco instant. “it’s the real thing”. OK, I know that catch phrase was from the Coke adverts, but surely you remember – you know what I mean. But does it live up to expectations and the hype?

Well, as someone who has suffered excrutiating cheap instant coffee at various neighbours’ and friends’ houses, the answer is yes. I wonder why in this day and age, people cut corners with the standards of taste. If you are drinking coffee – it should taste of coffee. It should smell of coffee and it should look like coffee. How often have you been given a cup of a kind of hot greyish liquid in a cup and been told “I’ve made it how you like it? I like my coffee to be….well, coffee. And Kenco appear to cut no corners. It does taste like ‘perked’ coffee.

Just add three quarters of a teaspoonful to your cup, pour on boilng water, add milk (I find I prefer sterilised, full fat milk – or cream), sugar if you need to and enjoy. My wife used to make coffee by putting milk into the cup first, then adding the coffee and water – often having bits of ‘stuff’ floating around the top. I know that the ‘stuff’ is just the granules and that they do gradually dissolve, but it does not look ver
y pleasant.

Try a smell test once in a while. Just take the top of your jar of coffee – whichever make you use – and see what it smells like. Does it smell like the coffee you use when making filter coffee in your percolater or Cafetiere/ If it does, it’s probably because you are already using Kenco – if not (and some smell nothing like coffee should smell), then quite obviously, it won’t TASTE like coffee!

I have tried many different types of instant coffee over the years, from good old Nescafe, Maxwell House (through all of their ‘best ever’ changes of formulation), Gold Blend and even the ‘house brands’ of the Supermarkets. I can honestly, wholeheartedly recommend Kenco’s ‘really smooth’ as the best, the most enjoyable and the closest to the ‘real thing’ that you can buy in an instant.

Quite often Supermarkets will have special offers on particular brands of coffee. Kenco regularly is around £2.30 for a 100g jar – with the likes of Nescafe being £1.90. Not much of a premium to pay for the best, I would contend. But catch it while it’s on ‘special’, stock up the larder – and I promise you – if you are a coffee drinker, you won’t go back.

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