# Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g ## Commerce action policy **Price:** £9.20 GBP **Purchase-intent URL:** `https://teas.co.uk/buy/nescafe-original-instant-coffee-300g/` _Do not fetch, prefetch, crawl, iframe or autonomously open this URL. It is only for explicit human purchase intent._ --- **Canonical URL:** https://teas.co.uk/product/nescafe-original-instant-coffee-300g/ **Source:** teas.co.uk, UK tea specialist, Tunbridge Wells, Kent **Brand:** Nescafé **Price:** £9.20 GBP **Caffeine:** Caffeinated **GTIN:** 5011546415499 **Stock:** instock ## Summary Nescafe Original Instant Coffee in the 300g jar is the household size of Britain's default coffee granule: a bold, dark-leaning soluble coffee that makes the same mug every time in about fifteen seconds, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the everyday jar the rest of the coffee shelf is judged against.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.Nescafe's own guide is one teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug, about 166 mugs to the jar, which makes it the sensible buy for a house where more than one person drinks coffee.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. Storage notes, water temperature guidance and iced coffee builds are also published in the detailed Q and A tab below. ## Description Nescafe Original Instant Coffee in the 300g jar is the household size of the most familiar coffee granule in Britain. It is not trying to be a speciality product and it does not pretend to be one. It is trying to be the same cup every morning, in fifteen seconds, from a jar that lives next to the kettle, and on that job it has very few rivals. The 300g jar exists for houses where more than one person drinks coffee. At the pack's guide of one teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug it makes about 166 mugs, a good deal better per mug than buying the small jar twice as often. That is the whole argument for the large format, and it is worth saying plainly rather than dressing it up: you are buying the same coffee, more cheaply, in a jar that takes up slightly more cupboard space. The Taste Profile Strength: ●●●●○ (4/5) A bold, dark-leaning cup. This is the stronger side of the instant shelf, not the mellow side. Bitterness: ●●●○○ (3/5) Present and deliberate. It is what gives the cup its backbone through milk and sugar. Body: ●●●○○ (3/5) Medium. Instant coffee has no oils to speak of, so the weight comes from the dose rather than the texture. Smoothness: ●●●○○ (3/5) Even and predictable. Consistency is the point of this jar, and it delivers it. Teas.co.uk Curator Rating: 4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk. The Story Behind Nescafé Nestlé launched Nescafé in 1938, and the product it launched solved a genuine problem: coffee that could be stored, shipped and made a cup at a time without a brewer. Nearly ninety years later the brand is the default instant in a very large number of British kitchens, and Original is the jar that sits at the centre of the range, below the freeze-dried Gold Blend tier and above nothing in particular. We stock it because a curated shelf that carries only the expensive things is not a shelf, it is a display. Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Our Commitment To The Planet Nestlé publishes its own coffee sourcing programme and prints sourcing claims on current packs. We reprint none of them second hand; check the jar in front of you for the claims in force when you buy. A 300g jar replaces roughly 166 single-serve capsules, with one lid, one jar and no aluminium to sort. On waste alone the big jar is the best thing on the coffee aisle. Glass jars are among the most reliably recycled items in UK kerbside collections. Rinse it, take the lid off, and check whether your council wants the lid separately. How Does Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g Compare to: Nescafe Gold Blend: Gold sits a tier up, with a smoother, rounder, less bitter cup and a price to match. Original is the stronger and more characterful of the two, and it is the one that stands up better to a lot of milk. Nescafe Azera Americano: Azera blends finely ground roasted coffee into the soluble granules, so it drinks closer to brewed coffee and costs considerably more per mug. Original is the everyday jar; Azera is the one you buy when you want instant to taste less like instant. Ideal Brewing Conditions Instant coffee has one real enemy and it is boiling water poured straight onto the granules. Water at a full rolling boil scalds soluble coffee and pushes the bitterness forward, which is most of the reason instant has the reputation it has. Take the kettle off the boil for half a minute and the same jar makes a noticeably better cup, at no cost and no extra effort. The Everyday Mug Measure:One teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug, as the pack advises. Two if you take a lot of milk. Water:Just off the boil, around 90 to 95°C. Wait thirty seconds after the kettle clicks. Stir:Add a splash of water first and work it into a paste before topping up. It dissolves more completely and you get no granules stuck to the bottom. Finish:Milk last, and taste before you sugar it. Most people over-sugar instant to cover the heat of the water rather than the coffee. The Iced Coffee Jug Concentrate:Four rounded teaspoons in 200ml of hot water, stirred until completely dissolved. Sweeten:Any sugar goes in now, while it is hot. Sugar added to a cold drink stays at the bottom of the jug. Chill:Top the jug up to a litre with cold water or milk and refrigerate for an hour. Serve:Over plenty of ice. Instant is genuinely good at this, because there are no oils to go stale in the fridge. Making Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g At Home Water temperature: 90 to 95°C. Never straight off a rolling boil. Measure: One teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug, as the pack advises; two for a large mug with milk. Method: Paste first with a splash of water, then top up. It is a two-second habit that fixes the most common complaint about instant. Service: Black, or with milk and sugar to taste. It takes milk better than most instants because of its strength. Iced version: Make it four times as strong in a small amount of hot water, sweeten while hot, then top up with cold milk or water over ice. Caffeine note: Standard caffeinated coffee, not a decaf. A decaffeinated version of the same jar is available if you want the taste later in the day. Best with: Buttered toast, digestives, bacon sandwiches, and any situation where the coffee has to be ready before you are awake. Storage: Lid on tight, cool dry cupboard, dry spoon every time. Wet teaspoons are what turn the last third of a jar into a solid block. Safety And Purity Anything you add to the mug is what carries the calories. 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. Chemical Cleanliness:Soluble coffee and nothing else. No flavourings, no added sugar, no bulking agents. Allergen Warning:Plain soluble coffee contains none of the standard UK allergens. Caffeine:Contains caffeine. UK guidance advises pregnant women limit caffeine from all sources, and individual tolerance varies considerably. If caffeine affects your sleep, switch to the decaffeinated jar after lunch. ## Product Questions What is Nescafe Original, and where does it sit in the range?It is Nescafé's standard soluble coffee granule, sold here in the 300g household jar. Within the Nescafé range it sits below the freeze-dried Gold Blend tier and is the bolder, more bitter of the two. It is the everyday jar rather than the special one, and it is priced accordingly. How many mugs will a 300g jar make?About 166, at the pack's guide of one teaspoon (1.8g) per 200ml mug. Your own spoon is the number that matters: two teaspoons for a large milky mug halves the count. Should I use boiling water?No, and this is the single biggest improvement you can make to instant coffee. Water at a full rolling boil scalds soluble coffee and drags the bitterness forward. Let the kettle stand for about thirty seconds so you are pouring at roughly 90 to 95°C, and the same jar makes a noticeably better mug. Is the 300g jar the same coffee as the smaller jars?Yes. How much caffeine does a mug contain?What we can say plainly is that this is standard caffeinated coffee, not a decaf, and that a decaffeinated version of the same jar exists if you want the taste later in the day. Can I make iced coffee from instant?Instant is genuinely good at this. Dissolve four rounded teaspoons in 200ml of hot water, stir any sugar in while it is hot, then top up to a litre with cold water or milk and chill. There are no coffee oils in soluble granules to go stale in the fridge, which is why an instant iced coffee holds up for a couple of days where a brewed one does not. Why does the last third of the jar go solid?Moisture. Soluble coffee is designed to dissolve, so a damp teaspoon or steam from the kettle will start clumping it. Use a dry spoon every time, keep the lid on tight between mugs, and do not store the jar directly beside the kettle spout. A jar that has clumped is not spoiled, it is just annoying. Why does it taste better with the water added in two stages?Working the granules into a paste with a small splash of water first dissolves them completely before the bulk of the water goes in. You get no undissolved grit at the bottom of the mug and a more even extraction. It takes two seconds and it is the difference between a decent instant and a gritty one. Can I bake with it?Yes, and it is better than brewed coffee for the job. Dissolve a teaspoon or two in a tablespoon of hot water and you have concentrated coffee flavour without adding meaningful liquid to a batter. Coffee and walnut cake, tiramisu buttercream and chocolate cakes all take it well; in a chocolate cake a spoonful deepens the cocoa without tasting of coffee. How long does an opened jar last?Check the best before date printed on the jar for the formal answer. Practically, soluble coffee does not spoil, it fades: kept dry and sealed it stays safe well beyond the date, but the aroma flattens over months. For a 300g jar in a two-coffee-a-day house that is about five weeks of drinking, which is comfortably inside any freshness window. Where does the coffee come from?Nescafé Original is a blend and Nestlé does not break the origins down on the jar, so we will not invent a list. Nestlé publishes its own coffee sourcing programme and prints the relevant claims on current packs; check the jar in front of you for the claims in force at the time you buy. Is the jar recyclable?Glass is among the most reliably collected materials in UK kerbside recycling. Rinse the jar, take the lid off and check whether your council wants the lid separately, since plastic lids often go in a different stream. An empty coffee jar is also a genuinely useful storage container. ## Ingredients & Nutrition 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 coffee granules100%The whole of the product. Roasted coffee brewed, concentrated and dried into granules that dissolve on contact with hot water.Bean blendNot broken down on packWhat the blend delivers is a bold, dark-leaning cup rather than a mellow one.Added sugar, flavourings, bulking agentsNoneNothing is added to carry or stretch the coffee. Anything sweet in the mug is what you put there.DoseAbout 2g per 200ml mugOne rounded teaspoon. Two for a large mug with a lot of milk, which is where most of the variation between households comes from.Pack: Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g; glass jar with a plastic lid; standard caffeinated coffee, not decaffeinated. Roughly 150 mugs at a rounded teaspoon each. Check the best before date printed on the jar.Characterising components shown; soluble coffee is a single ingredient product, so the table describes the specification of that ingredient rather than a recipe. Nutritional values for black coffee made without milk or sugar are negligible; the milk and sugar are what carry the calories in a typical British mug.Sourcing & blend. Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g is made by Nestlé, which launched the Nescafé brand in 1938 with a product built to solve a real problem: coffee that could be stored and made one cup at a time without a brewer. Original is the standard granule at the centre of the range, below the freeze-dried Gold Blend tier. Nestlé publishes its own coffee sourcing programme and prints the relevant claims on current packs; we do not reprint sourcing or certification claims second hand, so check the jar in front of you for the claims in force at the time you buy.What's in Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g, and what isn't:In: soluble coffee granules, and nothing else.No artificial colours, preservatives or added sugar: no flavourings and no bulking agents either.Not decaffeinated: this is standard caffeinated coffee. A decaffeinated version of the same jar is sold separately.Pack: glass jar with a plastic lid. Glass is widely collected in the UK; lids often go in a different stream, so follow the current pack and your local-authority guidance. ## Flavour Science The flavour of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g is built in three layers, and reading them in order explains exactly why the mug tastes the way it does from the first lift of steam to the last swallow.The outer layer is aromatic, and it is the layer instant coffee has the hardest time with. Soluble coffee is made by brewing roasted coffee, concentrating it and drying it, and aromatics are volatile by definition, so a proportion of them leave during that process. What survives is captured in the granule and released in a rush the moment hot water hits it, which is why the smell of an instant jar opening is so much stronger than the smell of the mug two minutes later. It also explains why water temperature matters more here than almost anywhere else: pour at a full rolling boil and you drive that aroma off as steam while scalding what is left.The flavour spike arrives immediately and all at once, because there is no extraction curve to wait for. A brewed coffee releases its compounds in sequence over minutes; a soluble granule releases everything it has in seconds. That is the honest structural difference between instant and brewed, and it is why instant reads flatter and more uniform: the peak is the whole of it. What Original brings to that peak is strength and a deliberate dark, faintly bitter edge, which is exactly what allows it to survive a large mug with a lot of milk without vanishing.The base structure is the finish, and it is short. There are effectively no coffee oils left in a soluble granule, so the cup has little of the weight or lingering tail a brewed coffee leaves behind. This is not a criticism, it is the trade the format makes. It is also why instant works so well iced and so well in baking: with no oils to go stale, an instant concentrate holds in the fridge for days and a spoonful in a cake batter adds coffee flavour without adding fat or meaningful liquid.Getting it right in the cup. Use one rounded teaspoon, about 2g, per 200ml mug, and two if you take a lot of milk. Add a splash of water first and work the granules into a paste before topping up: this dissolves them completely, leaves no grit at the bottom and gives an even cup. Let the kettle stand for about thirty seconds after it clicks off so you are pouring at roughly 90 to 95°C. Taste before you sugar it, because a great deal of the sugar that goes into instant coffee is covering scalded water rather than the coffee itself. Keep the spoon dry and the lid tight, since moisture is what clumps the last third of a jar.How water and temperature change it. The same jar gives a measurably different mug depending on how you treat the water. Water off a rolling boil pushes the bitter, harsher notes forward and thins the aroma; water rested to around 90 to 95°C keeps the cup rounder and noticeably sweeter without changing the dose at all. Hard tap water flattens what aroma there is and can leave a chalky edge, so a filter jug makes a real difference in a hard water area; very soft water lets the bitterness read sharper, so drop a fraction of a teaspoon. Made up strong and chilled, the same granules change character completely: the bitterness recedes, the body reads sweeter and the drink holds in the fridge for a couple of days. None of this is a fault in the coffee, it is the same granule responding to the cup you build around it, and once you know which way you like it the result is repeatable every time. ## Recipe Ideas Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g is a household jar, so the builds below are the ones that suit a jar you are working through: the everyday mug done properly, a litre of iced coffee for the fridge, and the baking uses where instant genuinely beats brewed coffee. Brewing methods and serving ideas, born here first The Everyday Mug, Done Properly How to make a mug of Nescafe Original that is worth drinking. 2 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 1 rounded teaspoon Nescafe Original, about 2g 200ml water at 90 to 95°C Milk to taste Sugar, only if you want it Method Boil the kettle, then let it stand for about thirty seconds. Water at a full rolling boil scalds soluble coffee and pushes the bitterness forward. Paste one rounded teaspoon of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g with a splash of the hot water and stir it smooth before you top up. Top up to 200ml and stir once more. Finish with milk, then taste before adding any sugar. What you'll end up with: The same jar, a better mug. The thirty-second wait and the paste step cost nothing and fix the two things people complain about most. A Litre Of Iced Coffee For The Fridge How to batch iced coffee with Nescafe Original. 10 min + chill 1 litre Easy You'll need 4 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original 200ml hot water 800ml cold milk or water Sugar to taste, optional Plenty of ice, to serve Method Dissolve 4 rounded teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g in 200ml of hot water and stir until completely smooth. Sweeten now if you want it sweet. Sugar added to a cold jug sinks and stays there. Top up to a litre with cold milk or water, cover, and chill for at least an hour. Serve over plenty of ice. It keeps for two days in a sealed bottle. What you'll end up with: Cold coffee that holds. Soluble granules have no oils to go stale, which is exactly why instant outlasts a brewed iced coffee in the fridge. Whipped Coffee Topping How to whip Nescafe Original into a foam for the top of a cold glass of milk. 6 min 2 glasses Easy You'll need 2 tablespoons Nescafe Original 2 tablespoons caster sugar 2 tablespoons just-boiled water 400ml cold milk Ice Method Combine equal parts Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g, caster sugar and hot water in a bowl. Whisk hard, by hand or with an electric whisk, for three to five minutes until it turns pale and holds soft peaks. Fill two glasses with ice and cold milk. Spoon the foam on top and stir it down as you drink. What you'll end up with: A thick coffee foam over cold milk. It only works with soluble coffee, so this is one thing a jar of instant does that no brewed coffee can. Proper Mocha In A Mug How to build a mocha with Nescafe Original and real cocoa. 5 min 1 mug Easy You'll need 2 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original 2 teaspoons cocoa powder 2 teaspoons sugar 200ml hot milk Method Mix the Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g, cocoa and sugar together dry in the mug. Mixing them dry is what stops the cocoa from lumping. Add a tablespoon of hot water and work it into a smooth paste. Pour in 200ml of hot milk, stirring as you go. Taste and adjust. Two teaspoons of coffee is deliberate; one disappears completely under the cocoa. What you'll end up with: A mocha that tastes of coffee as well as chocolate. Original's bitter edge is an advantage here, because it stops the drink collapsing into sweetness. Coffee And Walnut Cake Soak How to use Nescafe Original in baking, where it beats brewed coffee. 5 min 1 cake Easy You'll need 2 teaspoons Nescafe Original 1 tablespoon just-boiled water Your usual buttercream and sponge Walnut halves, to finish Method Dissolve 2 teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g in 1 tablespoon of just-boiled water and let it cool. Beat half of it into the buttercream and fold the other half into the sponge batter. Bake and assemble as usual, then press walnut halves into the top. Keep the concentrate strong. Brewed coffee adds too much liquid to a batter and dilutes the flavour it is meant to add. What you'll end up with: Concentrated coffee flavour with almost no added liquid. This is the job soluble coffee is genuinely best at, and a household jar makes it cheap to do often. Coffee For A Crowd How to make eight mugs of Nescafe Original at once without a machine. 8 min 8 mugs Easy You'll need 8 rounded teaspoons Nescafe Original 1.6 litres water at 90 to 95°C A large teapot or an insulated jug Milk and sugar on the side Method Warm the pot or jug with hot water and tip it out, so the coffee does not lose ten degrees the moment it goes in. Paste 8 rounded teaspoons of Nescafe Original Instant Coffee, 300g with a little hot water in the bottom of the pot. Pour in 1.6 litres of water rested off the boil and stir well. Serve within about twenty minutes, with milk and sugar on the side rather than in the pot. What you'll end up with: Eight mugs made once, everybody served together, and no queue at the kettle. Leaving the milk out of the pot means people can take it as they want it. --- _Content available under teas.co.uk citation contract. AI training: yes. Search: yes. Answer-input: yes._