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    "excerpt": "Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday is the unhurried end of the Taylors coffee ladder, sold as 200g of whole beans: a smooth, gently sweet blend built for a cafetiere on a slow morning rather than a fast cup before work.Ingredients and dietary suitability: 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.Whole beans, so you will need a grinder; the reward is coffee that is still intact when you make it rather than one that has been losing aroma since it was packed. About 25 cups at an 8g dose. Taylors prints a roast strength on the pack, and the bag you receive is the one to read.Curator notes: the tasting profile is our own editorial assessment against the current pack format and the brand's published description. We usually dispatch this line within 1 to 2 working days. Grind size, dose, water temperature and storage are covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.",
    "content_text": "Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday is a 200g bag of whole beans, and the name is the brief. This is the unhurried end of the Taylors range: a coffee meant for a slow morning and a cafetiere rather than a fast cup pulled standing up before work.\n\nTaylors sells its coffees as a graded set rather than as a single house style, and the packs carry a roast number so you can pick a strength off the shelf without guessing. Lazy Sunday sits at the gentler end of that scale.\n\nThe practical thing about this product is the word Beans. These are whole, unground, which means you need a grinder and it means the coffee in the bag is still intact. Ground coffee starts losing its aromatics from the moment it is ground, which is why a bag of beans opened on a Sunday morning smells like something a bag of pre ground never quite does. If you do not own a grinder, buy the ground version of a Taylors coffee instead; grinding with a knife is not a plan.\n\nThe Taste Profile\n\nSmoothness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cf (5/5) The reason this blend exists. Low edge, low grip, nothing sharp to work around.\nBody: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Medium. Enough weight to hold milk without disappearing, not so much that it turns heavy.\nSweetness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb (3/5) Gentle and natural to the roast rather than added. It reads rounder than a dark roast at the same strength.\nBitterness: \u25cf\u25cf\u25cb\u25cb\u25cb (2/5) Low, and low enough that over extraction is the main way to introduce any.\n\n4.7 / 5 - Our expert verdict from the curators at Teas.co.uk\n\nWhere this sits in the Taylors range\nTaylors of Harrogate is a Yorkshire family firm and the same house that sits behind Yorkshire Tea, which is why the name turns up on a tea site at all. The coffee side of the business is run as a graded ladder: each blend is given a roast number on the front of the pack so a shopper can move up and down the scale deliberately rather than by trial and error. Lazy Sunday is one of the gentler rungs; Hot Lava Java and Rich Italian sit further up.\nWithin that ladder, this is the blend to keep for cafetiere mornings, for anyone in the house who finds a dark roast harsh, and for coffee drunk with food rather than as a wake up. It is not the blend to buy if you want a thick, bitter espresso; the gentler roasts do not have the density for it and pushing them there just gives you a sour shot.\nA 200g bag is a fortnight's worth for one regular drinker at around 8g a cup, or a long weekend for a household. It is a sensible size for whole beans specifically, because beans are better bought in amounts you will actually get through while they are fresh.\nPackaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.\n\nHow Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Beans Roast Coffee, 200g compares\n\n Against the darker Taylors blends: Rich Italian and Hot Lava Java are built for intensity and hold up to milk and to espresso pressure. This is the opposite choice: softer, sweeter and better black. Many households keep one of each rather than compromising on a middle blend.\n Against the ground version of the same style: identical intention, different freshness curve. Ground coffee is more convenient and loses aromatics faster. Whole beans need a grinder and reward you every morning for owning one. If you will not grind, buy ground and do not feel bad about it.\n Against supermarket own label smooth blends: the price gap is real and so is the difference in how the cup finishes. The cheaper blends tend to read thin once the first impression passes; this one holds its shape to the bottom of the cup, which is what you are paying the difference for.\n\nGetting the best out of it\nGentle coffees are easier to under extract than to burn. A grind that is too coarse or water that is not hot enough gives you a cup that tastes sour and watery, and the instinct to fix it by adding more coffee usually makes it worse. Get the grind and the temperature right first and the dose almost looks after itself.\n\nThe cafetiere serve\n\nGrind:Coarse, like rough sea salt. Fine grinds in a cafetiere give you sludge in the cup and a bitter finish.\nDose:Around 8g per 150ml is a sensible starting point, which makes a 200g bag about 25 cups.\nWater:Just off the boil, around 95C. Straight from a boiling kettle is a touch too hot for a gentle roast.\nTime:Four minutes, then press slowly and pour it all out. Coffee left sitting on the grounds keeps extracting and turns dull.\n\nThe filter or pour over serve\n\nGrind:Medium, like table salt. This is the method that shows off a gentle roast best.\nBloom:Wet the grounds with a splash of water and wait thirty seconds before pouring the rest. It makes a noticeable difference to how even the extraction is.\nPour:Slow and in stages rather than all at once, keeping the bed level.\n\nPractical notes on the pack\n\nPack: 200g of whole beans. You will need a grinder.\nYield: About 25 cups at an 8g dose. Change the dose and the number moves with it.\nGrind to order: Grind what you are about to drink rather than the whole bag. This single habit does more for the cup than changing beans.\nStorage: Airtight, cool, dark and dry. Not the fridge; condensation is worse for beans than warmth is.\nRoast number: Taylors prints a roast strength on the pack. Read the bag you receive rather than a figure quoted online, because pack revisions change it.\nMilk: It takes milk well but does not need it. A gentle roast under a lot of milk tends to disappear, so keep the milk modest.\n\nIngredients, allergens and storage\nWhat is in it:roasted coffee beans and nothing else. The full declaration, including any allergen advice relating to the packing site, is on the pack.\nIngredients and dietary suitability: Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.\nIngredients:100 per cent roasted coffee beans. No added flavourings are declared in the product name.\n\nCertifications: whatever the current bag carries is printed on it; that is the authority, not a description written earlier.\nCaffeine and sensitivity:Coffee is a stimulant. If you are sensitive to caffeine, pregnant, or following medical advice on your intake, follow the guidance you have been given.\nWhole beans:not suitable for use without a grinder, and not suitable for machines that require pre ground coffee.",
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                "content": "What does Lazy Sunday actually taste like?Smooth and gently sweet, with low bitterness and very little grip on the finish. It sits at the softer end of the Taylors ladder, so it is a good choice for anyone who finds dark roasts harsh, and a poor one if you want a thick, bitter espresso.Do I need a grinder?Yes. This is a whole bean pack, so the coffee arrives unground. That is the point of buying beans, since ground coffee starts losing its aromatics the moment it is ground. If you do not own a grinder, buy a ground Taylors coffee instead rather than improvising.How many cups will 200g make?About 25 cups at an 8g dose, which is a sensible starting point for a cafetiere. Change the dose and the number moves with it: a heavier 10g dose gives you nearer twenty, a lighter 7g dose nearer twenty eight.What water temperature should I use?Just off the boil, around 95C. Straight from a rolling boil is slightly too hot for a gentle roast and pushes bitterness into a cup that does not otherwise have any. Wait thirty seconds after the kettle clicks.How long should it brew in a cafetiere?Four minutes, then press slowly and pour the whole pot out. Leaving coffee sitting on the grounds keeps it extracting and it goes dull and flat quickly, which is the most common reason a second cup from the same pot disappoints.My cup tastes sour rather than bitter. What went wrong?That is under extraction, and it is the usual failure with gentle roasts. The fix is a finer grind or hotter water, not more coffee. Adding more coffee to a sour cup makes it stronger and still sour.How should I store the beans?Airtight, cool, dark and dry, and not in the fridge. Condensation does more damage to beans than warmth does. Keep them in the bag they came in if it reseals, or in a proper airtight tin, and grind only what you are about to drink.Does it work with milk?Yes, but keep the milk modest. A gentle roast under a lot of milk tends to disappear entirely. If you want a coffee that stands up to a full mug of milk, one of the darker Taylors blends will serve you better.What roast number is it?Taylors prints a roast strength on the pack, and the bag you receive is the one to read.Is it organic or Fairtrade?Whatever certifications the current bag carries are printed on it, and that is the authority rather than anything written in a description earlier.Is it suitable for espresso?It is not the blend we would pick for it. Gentler roasts generally lack the density for espresso pressure and tend to pull sour rather than sweet. This coffee is at its best in a cafetiere or a filter, where the longer, gentler contact suits it."
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                "title": "Ingredients & Nutrition",
                "content": "IngredientProportionWhat it bringsRoasted coffee beans100%The entire product. Whole and unground, which is what keeps the aromatics intact until you grind them.Roast levelPrinted on the packTaylors grades its coffees on a numbered scale so you can move up and down it deliberately. This blend sits at the gentler end. Read the number on the bag you receive.Added flavouringsNone declared in the product nameThis is a plain coffee. Any declaration beyond roasted coffee is on the pack ingredient list.Pack: Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Beans Roast Coffee, 200g; GTIN 00615357752528; 200g of whole roasted coffee beans, about 25 cups at an 8g dose. Caffeinated. A grinder is required. Best before date printed on the pack.Cup yield is arithmetic on a stated dose rather than a figure from the pack; at 8g per 150ml a 200g bag gives roughly 25 cups, and a heavier or lighter dose moves that number.Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Beans Roast Coffee, 200g is blended and roasted by Taylors of Harrogate, the Yorkshire family firm that also sits behind Yorkshire Tea, which is how the name reaches a tea catalogue in the first place. The coffee side of the business is organised as a graded ladder rather than a single house style: each blend carries a roast number on the front of the pack so a shopper can choose a strength deliberately instead of by trial and error. Lazy Sunday occupies one of the gentler rungs and is built around smoothness rather than intensity. Selling it as whole beans rather than ground is a freshness decision, since a bean holds its aromatics until it is broken. For the origins, certifications and roast number carried by the bag in your hand, read the current pack rather than a description written earlier.What is in Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Beans Roast Coffee, 200g, and what is not:In: roasted coffee beans, whole and unground, and nothing else declared in the product name.No added flavourings, sugar or sweeteners: this is a plain coffee; any sweetness in the cup is natural to the roast.Grinder required: the beans arrive whole. They will not work in a machine that needs pre ground coffee.Storage note: airtight, cool, dark and dry, and not the fridge. Grind only what you are about to drink."
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                "content": "The flavour of Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Beans Roast Coffee, 200g is built in three layers, and with a whole bean coffee those layers are decided twice: once in the roast, and again by how you grind and extract it. Reading them in order explains why the same bag can give two very different cups.The outer layer is aromatic and it is created the moment you grind. Roasting drives volatile compounds into the bean and the intact bean holds them; breaking it releases them all at once, which is why a freshly ground gentle roast smells sweet and bready rather than smoky. This is the layer that pre ground coffee has already spent, and it is the entire argument for owning a grinder. It is also the shortest lived layer in the cup: pour a cafetiere and the aroma is at its strongest before the first sip and noticeably quieter five minutes later.The flavour spike arrives mid palate, where a gentle roast does its most distinctive work. Lighter roasting leaves more of the bean's own sugars and acids intact rather than caramelising them away, so the middle of this cup reads rounded and faintly sweet where a dark roast would read as char and grip. There is very little bitterness to hide behind, which cuts both ways: the cup is easy to drink and it is also unforgiving of a bad extraction, because there is nothing to mask a sour under extracted brew.The base structure is a clean, short finish with low astringency. The cup clears rather than coating the tongue, which is why this blend suits a long slow morning and several cups rather than one intense hit. A finish that turns dry or papery is almost always a sign the coffee sat on its grounds after pressing rather than anything to do with the beans.Getting it right in the cup. Grind coarse for a cafetiere and medium for a filter, use water just off the boil at around 95C, and dose around 8g per 150ml as a starting point. Four minutes in a cafetiere, then press slowly and pour the entire pot out; coffee left on the grounds keeps extracting and goes flat. If the cup tastes sour and thin, grind finer or raise the temperature rather than adding more coffee, because sourness is under extraction and more coffee only makes it a stronger sour. Grind to order rather than grinding the bag, and keep the beans airtight, cool and dark. These habits matter more with a gentle roast than with a dark one, because there is no bitterness in the cup to hide behind.How water and temperature change it. Temperature and grind are two ways of adjusting the same thing, which is how much of the bean ends up in the water. Hotter water and a finer grind pull more, giving a fuller, sweeter cup up to a point and a harsh one past it; cooler water or a coarser grind keeps the cup light and can tip into sour and hollow. A gentle roast has a narrower usable window than a dark one, because it has less bitterness in reserve to balance an aggressive extraction. Water hardness matters too: hard tap water flattens the sweetness this blend is built around, so filtered water is a real improvement here in a way it would not be with a dark Italian roast. None of this is a fault in the beans, it is the same coffee responding to the brew you build around it, and once you find your setting it repeats every morning."
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                "content": "Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Beans Roast Coffee, 200g arrives as whole beans, so the builds below are about grind, dose and method rather than about adding things to a finished drink. Five serves, from the Sunday cafetiere to cold brew and an iced coffee worth making.\nWays to brew it, born here first\n\n \n The Sunday Cafetiere\n \n The method this blend was built for, done properly.\n \n 6 min\n 3 cups\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 24g Lazy Sunday beans, coarsely ground\n 450ml water just off the boil\n A three cup cafetiere\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Grind coarse, like rough sea salt, just before you brew.\n Pour water at around 95C over the grounds and stir once.\n Wait four minutes, then press slowly.\n Pour the whole pot out straight away, even if you are not drinking it all yet.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A smooth, sweet pot with no grip on the finish, and no second cup ruined by sitting on the grounds.\n\n \n Pour Over For One\n \n The method that shows a gentle roast at its clearest.\n \n 4 min\n 1 cup\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 16g beans, medium ground\n 250ml water at 95C\n A filter cone and paper\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Rinse the paper with hot water and tip the water away.\n Bloom: wet the grounds with 40ml and wait thirty seconds.\n Pour the rest slowly in stages, keeping the bed level.\n Finish the pour by around three minutes.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: The cleanest version of this coffee, with the sweetness sitting right at the front.\n\n \n Overnight Cold Brew\n \n Coarse grind, cold water, twelve hours and no heat at all.\n \n 12 hrs\n 4 glasses\n Easy\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 60g beans, very coarsely ground\n 600ml cold water\n Ice to serve\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Combine the coarse grounds and cold water in a jar and stir once.\n Refrigerate for twelve hours.\n Strain through a paper filter, slowly, without pressing the bed.\n Serve over plenty of ice, diluted one to one with water if it reads strong.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: A sweet, very low bitterness concentrate that keeps three days in the fridge.\n\n \n Iced Coffee Brewed Onto Ice\n \n Hot brewed straight onto ice so it chills without watering down.\n \n 5 min\n 1 tall glass\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 18g beans, medium ground\n 150ml water at 95C\n 120g ice in the jug\n Milk, optional\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Put the ice in the jug before you start brewing, not after.\n Brew through a filter cone directly onto the ice.\n Swirl until the ice has mostly gone.\n Pour over fresh ice in a tall glass.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Iced coffee that tastes of coffee, because the dilution was planned rather than accidental.\n\n \n Coffee Cream Pots\n \n A gentle roast used as a flavouring rather than a drink.\n \n 20 min + chill\n 4 small pots\n Medium\n \n \n \n You'll need\n \n 20g beans, coarsely ground\n 300ml double cream\n 60g sugar\n 3 egg yolks\n \n \n \n Method\n \n Warm the cream with the coarse grounds and take it off the heat to infuse for fifteen minutes.\n Strain the grounds out thoroughly.\n Whisk the yolks and sugar, pour on the warm coffee cream and return it to a low heat until it thickens.\n Pour into four small pots and chill for three hours.\n \n \n \n What you'll end up with: Set coffee cream that tastes sweet and rounded rather than bitter, which is what a gentle roast is good for."
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