Please tell me the best tea bags and instant coffee to have in my home for surprise visitors?

[mumofoneAloneandwell]

I dont drink tea or coffee at all

Ive got my eye on some cups and saucers and a tea pot

I need to be prepared for potential guests popping up and want to wow them as much as poss

Please advise - sorry to be so dull

Yorkshire tea
Azera instant coffee

Yorkshire tea for traditional tea drinkers
Earl Grey for a bit of variation
A small range of Pukka tea bags for those that like fruit/herb teas
Millicano instant coffee

Definitely Yorkshire tea.
I wouldn't serve visitors instant coffee. Get some ground coffee and a mokapot.

Fortnums do the best tea. All instant coffee is awful. Just get a french press, Monmouth do the best coffee in my opinion, not sure if they sell ground coffee and if they do how long the sell by date would be, but any decent ground coffee is better than instant and takes the same to make as a pot of tea.

I don’t drink tea and I only drink instant coffee, I genuinely don’t like anything else, philistine that I am. But I wouldn’t worry too much about brand, you could just get nice containers? If not, the Nescafé Azera coffee is pleasant.

I use coffee bags for when we have guests. My family (coffee snobs) think they’re good.

How frequent are your visitors? Tea doesn't last forever so if youre not having visitors regularly then get whatever tea bags you can get a small quantity of.

Do you know how to make decent tea? I assume so but if you don’t drink it, maybe you don’t? Knowing how to make a good cup of tea is more important than the brand of tea you choose.

I like Thompsons teabags and Nescafe Azera instant coffee personally. I also keep some herbal teas for anyone avoiding caffeine or who just likes them.

Having had tetley I respectfully disagree 😅

That's a shout, I dont

I made tea for my mum as a kid 😄🙈

Surely its expensive tea bag, boiling water, semi skimmed milk (maybe 1/10th of the cup) and sugar?

Are those only for espressos?

Ive seen the cutest espresso cups and saucers

One of these things? How long does it take to make the coffee, I dont wanna be standing for ages in the kitchen 😫

Sorry reread your post 😅

I likE PG tips, twinings earl grey and coffee bags

If it’s infrequent get individually wrapped bags and sachets of coffee because it deteriorates once open. If you are being very hospitable by a mixed pack of herbal teas, some of us can’t have caffeine

I love, absolutely love my cup of tea but gave up using tea bags a while ago. I'm in Ireland and use Barry's Tea Master Blend loose leaf. I make a pot or sometimes a cup using a variety of strainers that I've gathered, I even bring loose leaf camping instead of tea bags, I find most tea drinkers prefer it once they try it and weirdly I need less of it to satisfy my craving than when I used tea bags.

Yorkshire tea is good bog standard tea. Tea pigs do nicer tea bags imo.

Get fresh coffee bags. Waitrose own are fine. Or Taylors. Instant coffee is horrible. Coffee bags are just as easy as teabags and taste good.

I don’t drink instant coffee but don’t expect non coffee drinkers to stock ground coffee. I drink most tea bag tea but if you don’t drink tea would rather make it myself to get the strength I want

I drink loose leaf tea at home but most people don’t stock it.

Is a coffee bag not just instant coffee in a bag?

I've stuck Yorkshire tea in the sainsburys online shop

Yorkshire tea or Yorkshire gold?

For coffee, I would buy coffee bags. They taste much better than instant, and individually wrapped so won’t go off. Jackson’s do a nice one

No. You can add water to make a longer coffee.

Imokapots are a fangle and can burn coffee if you aren’t careful. Cafetières are easier to use

Ah the eternal argument! I've never burnt the coffee in a pot. I find cafetiere coffee too grainy. But both are better than instant!