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    "excerpt": "Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso is the short, dark instant in the Gold Blend range, a 95g jar of soluble coffee built to be made in a small cup rather than stretched across a mug, picked into the Teas.co.uk coffee selection as the espresso-shaped cup for a kitchen with no machine in it.Ingredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.One level teaspoon in 60ml of water just off the boil gives a concentrated, bittersweet cup with a cocoa-like finish; the same spoon under hot milk gives a flat white that does not vanish into the milk.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We run same-day UK dispatch on every order placed before 2pm Monday to Friday. Common questions are answered in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso is the short, dark member of the Gold Blend family: a soluble coffee built to be made in a small cup with a small amount of water, rather than stretched across a full mug. It is the jar to reach for when you want the shape of an espresso at home without an espresso machine anywhere in the house.\n\nThat distinction matters more than the marketing usually admits. Ordinary instant coffee is designed around a mug of water, and if you make it short it turns sharp. This one is built the other way round, so a level spoon in 60ml of hot water gives a concentrated, dark, bittersweet cup that holds together instead of falling apart, and the same spoon lengthened with hot milk gives a respectable flat white. A 95g jar sits in the cupboard for weeks and asks for no machine, no filter and no cleaning.\n\n The Taste Profile\n\n \nRoast depth: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) Dark and forward, the most espresso-facing cup in the Gold Blend line-up.\n\n \nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Medium in a mug, noticeably denser when you make it short in a small cup.\n\n \nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Deliberate and clean rather than harsh; it is doing the job an espresso bitterness does.\n\n \nFinish: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb (4/5) Long, dry and cocoa-like, and the reason it survives being covered in milk.\n\n4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\nThe tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description.\n\n The Story Behind The Jar\nNescafe is the instant coffee most British kitchens have had a jar of at some point, and Gold Blend is the range Nescafe positions above its everyday tier. The Espresso version is a specific answer to a specific problem: people wanted the dark, concentrated cup a coffee shop pulls, and did not want to buy, plumb in, clean and descale a machine to get it. Whether it replaces an espresso is a matter of taste, but it is unquestionably the right jar for anyone who makes their coffee short and strong, and it behaves very differently in the cup from a standard everyday instant.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\n Our Commitment To The Planet\n\n A jar makes the cup you measure and nothing more. No filter paper, no used grounds, no pot left warming until it is poured away.\n The jar, the lid and the seal often go separate ways for recycling. The current pack sets out what it expects, and your local authority decides what it will take.\n Certification marks, sourcing schemes and recycling claims belong to the pack in front of you, not to us. We do not restate them, and we do not upgrade them.\n\n How Does Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso Instant Coffee, 95g Compare to:\n\n Standard Nescafe Gold Blend: the everyday jar is built around a full mug and reads smoother and lighter; the Espresso jar is darker, more concentrated and made to be drunk short, so the two are not interchangeable spoon for spoon.\n \n Ground coffee in a cafetiere: the cafetiere gives more aroma and a heavier body, at the cost of five minutes, a kettle, a plunger and the washing up. The jar is the answer when the coffee has to happen in ninety seconds.\n\n Ideal Brewing Conditions\nThe one thing that separates a good cup of Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso from a disappointing one is water volume. Treat it as a concentrate and it rewards you; drown it and it tastes like ordinary instant.\n\nThe Short Cup\n\n \nMeasure: One level teaspoon into a small, pre-warmed cup. Heaped spoons make it muddy rather than strong.\n\n \nWater: About 60ml, just off the boil rather than straight from a rolling boil. Water at a full boil scalds soluble coffee and pushes the bitterness past where you want it.\n\n \nStir: Add a splash of the water first, work it into a paste, then add the rest. It dissolves more evenly and the cup carries a thin crema across the top.\n\n \nServe: Drink it straight away. A short cup loses heat much faster than a mug, and this one is at its best in the first two minutes.\n\nThe Flat White At Home\n\n \nBase: Make the short cup as above and leave it in the bottom of a warmed mug.\n\n \nMilk: Heat 150ml of whole or oat milk until it steams, then whisk or froth it for ten seconds.\n\n \nPour: Pour the milk in slowly, holding the foam back with a spoon until the end.\n\n \nResult: The dark base holds its line under the milk, which is exactly what an everyday instant fails to do.\n\n Getting The Best From The Jar\n\nWater temperature: Just off the boil. Let the kettle stand for thirty seconds before pouring.\nMeasure: One level teaspoon per 60ml for a short cup, or per 150ml if you want it long.\nMethod: Paste first, then top up. It is the single biggest improvement you can make to any instant coffee.\nMilk: Warm, not boiling, and added after the coffee has dissolved rather than before.\nIced: Dissolve in a splash of hot water first, then pour over ice and top with cold milk. Instant coffee will not dissolve properly in cold water.\nStorage: Lid on tight, somewhere cool and dry, and never with a wet spoon. Damp is what turns a jar of instant into a solid block.\n\nBest with: Dark chocolate, almond biscotti, a slice of something rich; it is strong enough to sit beside pudding rather than under it.\n\n Safety And Purity\nWhat is in it: Soluble coffee. The full declaration, including the process the brand uses and any nutrition figures, is printed on the current UK jar.\nIngredients and dietary suitability: The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\n\nCaffeine: Caffeinated, and made short it is concentrated, so a small cup is not a small dose. Worth keeping in mind late in the day.\nStorage Safety: Keep the lid closed and the spoon dry. Once moisture is in the jar the granules clump and the coffee stales quickly.",
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                "content": "How is this different from ordinary Gold Blend?It is built around a short cup rather than a full mug. Standard Gold Blend is designed to be made long and smooth; this one is darker and more concentrated, and it is meant to be drunk in a small cup or buried under hot milk. How much water should I use?About 60ml for one level teaspoon if you want the espresso shape, or 150ml if you want a long black cup. The ratio is the whole difference between this tasting like a proper short coffee and tasting like any other instant. Should the water be boiling?Just off the boil is better. Let the kettle stand for about thirty seconds. Water at a rolling boil scalds soluble coffee and drags the bitterness past where it should sit. What is the paste trick?Add a splash of hot water to the granules first, stir them into a smooth paste, then top up. It dissolves more evenly, it tastes rounder, and it puts a thin crema across the top instead of leaving a dusty ring. Is it really like espresso?It is espresso-shaped rather than espresso. You get the short volume, the dark roast character and the bittersweet finish. You do not get the pressure-extracted crema or the body a machine gives; anybody who tells you otherwise is selling something. Can I make a flat white or a latte with it?Yes, and it is the thing it does best. Make the short cup first, then add 150ml of hot milk. The dark base holds its line under the milk, which is exactly where an everyday instant disappears. Can I make it iced?Yes, but dissolve it in a splash of hot water first. Instant coffee does not dissolve properly in cold water, so pour the concentrate over ice afterwards and top with cold milk. How many cups are in a 95g jar?The cup count for the jar you are holding is on the current UK pack; a short strong cup uses more than a long weak one. Is it caffeinated?Yes. Made short it is concentrated, so a small cup is not a small dose, and that is worth remembering in the evening. How do I stop the jar going solid?Dry spoon, lid on tight, cupboard rather than windowsill. Moisture is what clumps instant coffee, and once it has clumped the flavour goes flat quickly. Can I bake or cook with it?It is ideal for it. A teaspoon dissolved in a spoonful of hot water gives you coffee flavour without adding liquid to a batter, which is why instant is the usual choice for coffee cake, tiramisu and chocolate puddings. What does Teas.co.uk think of it?We rate it 4.4 out of 5. Made the way it is meant to be made, short and strong, it is one of the better answers to wanting a dark coffee with no machine. Made long in a big mug it is just a slightly darker instant, and the jar is wasted."
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                "content": "Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this barcode names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.Ingredients, as published for this barcode: Soluble Coffee.Ingredient and nutrition data for this barcode: Open Food Facts (openfoodfacts.org), ODbL. The pack in your hands is the final word.IngredientProportionWhat it bringsSoluble coffeethe whole jarThe only thing in the jar: coffee brewed and dried at the factory so it dissolves again in the cup, with nothing added to it afterwards.Dose per short cup1 level teaspoonAbout 60ml of water to that spoon is what gives the espresso shape; the same spoon in 150ml gives a long black cup instead.Pack: Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso Instant Coffee, 95g; caffeinated soluble coffee. Cup count and the best-before date are printed on the jar.Characterising components shown; the full ingredient declaration, nutrition panel and allergen advice are printed on the current UK pack. Blended and packed for the UK market by Nescafe.Sourcing & blend. Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso Instant Coffee, 95g comes from Nescafe, the instant coffee brand most British kitchens have kept a jar of at one time or another, and sits in the Gold Blend tier the brand positions above its everyday range. Origin, blend composition, roast level and any sourcing scheme are stated by the brand on the pack rather than restated by us. The jar format is the point of it: sealed, shelf-stable, and ready in the time it takes the kettle to boil.What is in Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso Instant Coffee, 95g, and what is not:In: soluble coffee, and the hot water you add.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: nothing is added in the cup; the declaration on the current pack is the one that counts.Jar and lid: the components can take different recycling routes; check the current pack and your local-authority guidance."
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                "content": "The flavour of Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso Instant Coffee, 95g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the cup tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic, and with a soluble coffee it arrives all at once. The granules are dry until the water hits them, so the aroma is locked up rather than slowly fading the way it does in a bag of ground coffee; the moment hot water goes in, dark roast, a little cocoa and a faint burnt-sugar note come off the surface together. That is also why the smell of the jar tells you very little and the smell of the cup tells you everything.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, and here the water ratio decides what you get. In 60ml the dissolved solids are concentrated enough to read as a short, dark, bittersweet coffee with real weight. In 250ml the same spoon is spread thin, the bitterness disappears first, and the cup flattens into an ordinary mug of instant. Nothing about the coffee has changed between those two cups, only the concentration, which is why this jar rewards a small cup more than almost any other instant on the shelf.The base structure is the lingering finish: dry, cocoa-like and slightly bitter, holding on for several seconds after the swallow. That persistence is what lets it survive under milk. A softer, lighter instant is swallowed whole by 150ml of hot milk and leaves a beige drink that tastes mostly of milk; this one still reads as coffee at the end of a flat white, which is the whole argument for buying the espresso jar rather than the everyday one.Getting it right in the cup. Use one level teaspoon, not a heaped one; heaping it makes the cup muddy rather than stronger, because you are adding more of the heavy notes without adding any of the bright ones. Work the granules into a paste with a splash of water before you top up, which dissolves them evenly and leaves a thin crema across the surface instead of a dusty ring. Use water just off the boil rather than straight from a rolling boil, since very hot water pushes an already dark coffee into harshness. Warm the cup if you are making it short, because 60ml in cold ceramic is lukewarm before you have sat down. And drink it promptly: a short cup has very little thermal mass and a long one goes dull after ten minutes.How water and temperature change it. Soluble coffee is unusually sensitive to both. Water off a rolling boil extracts a harsher, flatter cup; water rested for thirty seconds keeps the cocoa notes and drops the sharp edge. Hard water mutes the aromatic top and leaves the finish feeling chalkier, so a filter jug makes a visible difference in a hard-water area. Cold water barely dissolves it at all, which is why an iced version has to start as a hot concentrate and then be poured over ice rather than mixed cold. And because the coffee is already brewed and dried, time does not extract anything further: leaving it to stand does not make it stronger the way a pot of ground coffee would, it simply makes it colder and duller. Everything that decides the cup happens in the first ten seconds, which is both the limitation of instant coffee and the reason it is on the shelf."
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                "content": "Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso Instant Coffee, 95g is a concentrate first and a mug of coffee second, which is what makes it worth building with. Six builds below cover the short cup, the flat white, an iced latte, whipped coffee and the baking concentrate.\nRecipes, born here first\n\n \n The Short Cup\n \n How to make the short cup with Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso.\n \n 2 min\n 1 small cup\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 level teaspoon Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso\n 60ml water, just off the boil\n A small pre-warmed cup\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the cup with hot water from the tap and tip it out.\n Add the coffee and a splash of the hot water, then stir it into a smooth paste.\n Top up with the rest of the 60ml and stir once more.\n Drink it in the first two minutes; a short cup goes cold fast.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A concentrated, dark, bittersweet cup with a thin crema on top, in the shape of an espresso rather than a mug of instant.\n\n \n Flat White At Home\n \n How to make a flat white with Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso.\n \n 5 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 level teaspoon Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso\n 50ml water, just off the boil\n 150ml whole or oat milk\n Cocoa to dust, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Make the coffee as a paste with the hot water in the bottom of a warmed mug.\n Heat the milk until it steams, then whisk or froth it for ten seconds.\n Pour the milk in slowly, holding the foam back with a spoon until the end.\n Dust with cocoa if you are feeling fancy.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A milky coffee where the coffee still tastes of coffee at the end of the mug, which is not true of most instant lattes.\n\n \n Iced Latte\n \n How to make an iced latte with Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso.\n \n 4 min\n 1 tall glass\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 heaped teaspoon Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso\n 40ml hot water\n A glass packed with ice\n 150ml cold milk\n Sugar syrup, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve the coffee in the 40ml of hot water first; it will not dissolve properly in cold.\n Sweeten the hot concentrate now if you want it sweet, because syrup will not mix in once everything is cold.\n Fill a tall glass with ice, pour the concentrate over it, then top with cold milk.\n Stir once and drink before the ice melts down.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A cold coffee with a dark backbone rather than a watery one, made in four minutes with nothing but a kettle.\n\n \n Whipped Coffee\n \n How to make whipped coffee with Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso.\n \n 6 min\n 2 glasses\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 tablespoons Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso\n 2 tablespoons caster sugar\n 2 tablespoons hot water\n 300ml cold milk\n Ice\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Put the coffee, sugar and hot water in a bowl in equal measures; the ratio is what makes it whip.\n Whisk hard for three to four minutes, by hand or with an electric whisk, until it turns pale and holds soft peaks.\n Fill two glasses with ice and cold milk, then spoon the whipped coffee on top.\n Stir it down through the milk before drinking.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A thick caramel-coloured coffee foam over cold milk, and the one recipe where instant coffee does something ground coffee simply cannot.\n\n \n Mocha In A Mug\n \n How to make a mocha with Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso.\n \n 5 min\n 1 mug\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 1 level teaspoon Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso\n 2 teaspoons cocoa powder\n 1 teaspoon sugar\n 200ml hot milk\n A pinch of salt\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Mix the coffee, cocoa, sugar and salt in the mug with a splash of hot water until smooth; lumps here stay lumps forever.\n Heat the milk until it steams.\n Pour it in slowly, stirring as you go.\n Taste and add a little more sugar only if the cocoa is a dark one.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A mocha with a proper bitter edge behind the chocolate, rather than a hot chocolate with a rumour of coffee in it.\n\n \n Coffee For Baking\n \n How to make a coffee concentrate for baking with Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso.\n \n 2 min\n 1 batch\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 2 teaspoons Nescafe Gold Blend Espresso\n 1 tablespoon boiling water\n Your cake, icing or tiramisu\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Dissolve the coffee in one tablespoon of boiling water and stir until completely smooth.\n Cool it for a minute before it goes near butter or eggs.\n Stir it into buttercream, sponge batter or a tiramisu soak in place of brewed coffee.\n Use the dark jar rather than an everyday one; baking dilutes coffee flavour and you want the concentration.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Strong coffee flavour without adding liquid volume to a mixture, which is exactly why instant coffee is the baker's choice and not a compromise."
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