To take some proper coffee to playgroup?

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I go to only playgroup each week. It is on a monday morning and starts at 9:15. I usually drop ds off at school and head straight there with dd.
Most monday mornings are a bit manic and a lot of the time I find myself getting to playgroup having not yet had a brew of any sort.
I could really do with a coffee at that point.
The coffee they have is cheap shite nescafe instant stuff. It's horrible.
Wibu to either take my own proper coffee & cafetiere, which I don't mi d sharing as a little goes a long way. Or atleast take a decent instant coffee, which I won't want to share!

What 'type' of mum bracket would you put me in at your playgroup?

You could help out in the kitchen when serving drinks and volunteer to be in charge of the new 'ground coffee' section?

My dh has a teeny tiny metal flask from Amazon that he takes his coffee to work in.

Yes OP will clean the sink of course sapphire but it's always a faff making sure that you get all the grains and I find that a few random ones lurk around forever, but I'm probably a slattern.
I'd just try to avoid being in that situation. I foolishly volunteered to run our toddlers group for a hideously long short period, and found myself in the kitchen sorting out the tea/coffee tidy up much more often than my fair share. I'd have felt rather stabby to anyone ostentatiously washing out their cafetiere whilst I tidied up after the proles.

I think taking a cafetière is a bit far 😂

Take a thermos mug?
Why not take some instant that's better to drink than Nescafé ? Or take a flask? Make a quick coffee shop stop on the way?

Why would she be 'ostentatiously washing out the cafetiere'?

There's some real inverse snobbery going on on this thread. I'm inclined to agree with this: If someone judged you for preferring to drink something tasty I would judge them right back!

Buy individual disposable coffee filters, £2.20 for 10 in Sainsbury's.
Take one each time. I get them for work - I too prefer proper coffee first thing. Not very environmentally friendly, but neither is a Costa cup.

bombard it's a help youself kitchen, and you're expected to wash your cup so I would make sure that there are no coffee grounds left about.
I rhink there are a handful of people who would be keen for a fresh coffee. So I think buying one from charity shop might be a good way to go.

Either the cafetiere has to be enough to provide everyone who wants coffee. As pp said I would call it "fresh" or "ground" coffee, instead of "proper".
Or bring a travel/insulated mug and if questioned I would mutter something about hot drinks always going cold when looking after children (true)

I used to drink wine mainly for the alcohol and coffee mainly for the caffeine!
Now I drink for dual purpose! So I rarely drink anything that doesnt taste good. I'd rather have tea or water.

PMSL, I thought you were going to be like my colleague who ended up going to a Steiner playgroup because it was the only one that ran the day she didn't work. She and her friend had to smuggle in illicit non-Steiner coffees, they couldn't make it through the (3 hours IIRC) session on herbal tea
More helpfully, I'd just take a charity shop cafetiere, I suspect the coffee buyer is someone like me who only drinks tea, I have been set right more than once on my poor choice of coffee, and certainly never been offended esp if the person concerned offers to bring some themselves :)

That's what I'm worried about sapphire I'll look like a snob, or pretentious as usual would think. Although there is nothing snobby or pretentious about fresh coffee.

Although there is nothing snobby or pretentious about fresh coffee.

No, quite. I'd say, first offer to bring the cafetiere and suggest a kitty, and if they don't go for that then fuck em. Take it in for yourself and let them judge away.

I'm keen to take a cafetiere now, to normalise it. But I need a retort incase a parent makes a comment about me being a snob?

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I keep one of these in my work bag and also bring it on holiday with me. Life is too short to drink instant coffee

Be that mum & don't worry about it.
Just donate the nice instant & use it when there (just don't take it home with you). You may be know for it but there are worse things to be known for and who cares. It is not snobby to like a certain coffee, it is snobby to judge others about their lack of coffee taste.

*known

Why don't you get one of those Contigo 'mug' things that are non spill.
Make your coffee at home and put it in that. It keeps hot for ages.

I wouldn't care but then we serve naice freshly ground coffee...

I didn't know everyone's name when I went to toddler groups and in all honesty anyone who turned up with a cafetiere would forever be 'cafetiere wanker' in my head even when I did know their name. Yabu to think that expensive instant tastes any different to cheap instant. Filter coffee is obviously nicer but imo you either slum it with the brown liquid on offer (that you're never quite sure is tea or coffee) or you drink water/juice.

Yes, take a flask.

You'll look a right tit setting up a cafetière.

Nobody will say anything about you being a snob if you drink from a cafetiere.

But some like me may wonder silently why you couldn't just drink your proper coffee earlier like they do, and just make do with a not so good cup at the playgroup.

If you were to donate a big jar of naice instant, then no one could take any offence at that.

anyone who turned up with a cafetiere would forever be 'cafetiere wanker' in my head even when I did know their name

You'll look a right tit setting up a cafetière.

What a pair of charmers.

OP, you said you thought a few others would like fresh coffee too? Maybe you don't need a retort, if there's a bit of a group of you? But if you DID get a nasty comment I'd either go for 'How rude' or 'Each to their own, eh?'

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Just have a cup of coffee before you leave the house
You seriously are making this into a drama

If I was you, what I would do is one day bring some treats for the whole group, maybe nice pastries and also bring in nice instant under the cover of it being part of the treat. Once the nice instant is there you can replace it when it runs out and nobody will bat an eyelid.

But bringing it in initially as part of a treat for everybody that avoids people thinking that you're being superior.