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

I would get individually wrapped tea bags if you don’t drink it
unless you’re expecting a lot of visitors or visitors just one time. I can taste when the box has been open a while on Yorkshire tea. Also don’t get clear containers and leave them anywhere in direct sunlight, it makes the tea taste funny.

i think Yorkshire tea is a good standard tea bag. But ‘wow’ would be more like a tea pigs or fortnums for me.

Honestly, just keep some sachets that you find in hotels etc. and replace as you require.

Second coffee bags they're somehow passable and nicer than instant (which is all bad).

I prefer PG Tips to Yorkshire.

Nice biscuits and basic beverages the way to go, in my expert opinion 👍

Yorkshire Gold
(Brody… IYKYK…)

@mumofoneAloneandwell I think instant coffee generally dissolves where as coffee bags are more like tea bags in that you’re infusing the water with the flavour and it’s closer to a filter coffee

Personally, instant coffee is better than ground or pods etc. Everyone is different when it comes to coffee though. I am happy with gold blend tesco / sainsbury own. But a jar of nescafe gold would be ok to look good with visitors although expensive and tastes exactly the same as sainsbury gold blend! And more than half the price

Yorkshire tea bags
Dowie egbert's coffee

Barry’s Irish Tea bags and Taylor’s coffee bags

I can also taste when tea has been open a while. My favourite is M and S gold blend if you're going for standard tea, and it comes in a foil packet so you could reseal it with a clip which I reckon would help its longevity.

I don't drink coffee so I keep a bag, resealed with a clip, in the freezer and use a cafetière.

Definitely Yorkshire Tea Bags (I’m a Yorkshire Lass)
Nescafe Gold Instant Coffee (granules not smooth)

I have that coffee for the occasional instant as I get proper stuff at work for free. I personally like clipper tea

Only instant coffee I can stand is Azera (and do actually really like it). Basic Nescafé and Nescafé gold is horrific and I’d choose tea over them any day. Twinnings do great tea bags.

Yorkshire Tea and Taylors of Harrogate ground coffee or coffee bags if you don't drink it much yourself. They also do a decaf version.

Yorkshire Gold, not the bog standard Yorkshire. It’s much tastier.

Ringtons tea bags and Nescafé

The Taylors ones? I have had to switch to decaf for health reasons and the Taylors decaf bags actually taste like proper coffee.

@mumofoneAloneandwell Also individually wrapped so ideal for occasional visitors OP, fresh coffee will go stale and even instant won't do well over long periods of time

I don't like ground coffee so instant is great. Azera or Kenco here. A choice of tea is nice but just good ordinary teabags are fine with a mixed box of herbals maybe. If people are pickier than that I expect, like me, they keep a few tea bags in their bag.

Tetley, Nescafe. If you don't know how to make tea, get your visitors to do it themselves.

Job done.

Instant coffee is in no way ‘better’ than found. You might prefer it personally but to most people instant coffee is a warm drink which tastes in the same ballpark as coffee, sort of, while ground coffee makes a decent cup.
If there’s only instant coffee, I don’t have coffee.

Agree

For tea, I've gone Yorkshire gold

Agree with the ground coffee and mokapot. So much nicer.

What about sugar - do i need to buy a good brand of sugar or will silver spoon do?

And milk can be just semi skimmed

Omg i will have to get in oat milk and soy 😫😫😫

If you're aiming to impress, white for tea, brown for coffee.

Depends how far you want to go.

Silver spoon is fine.