Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g
Everything on the coffee shelf is pushed towards darker and bolder, because strength is the one thing that fits neatly on a label. This blend goes the other way deliberately, and anyone who buys it expecting the usual will be disappointed for exactly that reason. It is light, nutty and soft, with so little bitterness that most people stop reaching for the sugar. If your idea of a good cup is one that announces itself, this will read as weak, and the answer is a heavier dose rather than a longer brew, because leaving it standing only makes it dull. It comes ready ground, which suits the house where nobody wants to hear a grinder before eight. Save it for the morning with nowhere to be: toast, marmalade, and the second cup already assumed.
Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, in brief.
Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g is the gentle end of the Taylors coffee range, a light to medium roast ground for cafetière and filter, built to be drunk slowly and black rather than thrown down before the school run, picked into the Teas.co.uk curator selection as the blend for anyone who finds a dark Italian roast harsh.
Taylors prints a roast strength number on the front of the pack.
The commercial logic of the British coffee shelf pushes almost everything towards darker, bolder and stronger, because strength is easy to put on a label. Taylors runs a named blend at the other end of that scale on purpose, for the substantial number of people who find a dark Italian roast harsh and have concluded, wrongly, that they simply do not like coffee. It is ground rather than whole bean, so it goes straight into a cafetière or a filter machine.
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The Story Behind Taylors of Harrogate
Taylors is a Yorkshire family firm based in Harrogate, best known in Britain for Yorkshire Tea, with a coffee side that is older and rather quieter. The house approach is a small number of named blends rather than a rotating wall of single origins, each one built for a specific occasion, and the names tell you the occasion rather than the origin. Lazy Sunday is the unhurried one. Hot Lava Java, elsewhere in the same range, is not.
Taylors also prints a roast strength number in large type on the front of every coffee pack, which is more useful to a supermarket shopper than most of what goes on coffee packaging. We will not quote the figure for this blend from memory; it is on the front of the pack and it takes a second to read.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes. Ground coffee packs often combine card with an inner foil liner, and the two rarely go to the same bin.
Our Commitment To The Planet
- A 200g pack is roughly a fortnight of good drinking for one household, which is about as long as ground coffee stays worth drinking. Buying bigger is usually buying waste.
Getting The Best From Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g
- Water temperature: 94°C. A light roast needs the heat to extract properly, so do not go cooler than this.
- Measure: 60g per litre, and give it five minutes rather than four.
- Milk: It takes milk, but this is a blend that is better black. A light roast has less to push through milk than a dark one, and a big flat white will bury it.
- Sugar: Try it without first. The blend carries enough of its own sweetness that most people find they do not need any.
- Storage: Airtight, cool and dark, and finish the pack inside a fortnight of opening.
- Best with: A long breakfast, toast and marmalade, or the back half of a newspaper.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
The story behind Taylors of Harrogate | Yorkshire Tea
Yorkshire Tea is the family-owned blend out of Harrogate that became Britain's favourite. The Original is the everyday workhorse; Gold steps it up with stronger Assam character; Hard Water powers through limescale areas. Taylors has been in the same family since 1886, sources ethically through the Rainforest Alliance, and famously refuses gimmicks.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; components can require different disposal routes.
Our commitment to the planet
The taste profile
How does it compare
A light roast has more acidity and less developed sugar than a dark one, so Lazy Sundayis easy to under-extract and almost impossible to make harsh. Push it slightly further than instinct suggests.
The Slow Cafetière
The Big Sunday Filter Jug
Made with this tea
The Unhurried Cafetière
How to make The Unhurried Cafetière with Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday.
- 30g Lazy Sunday ground coffee
- 500ml water at 94 degrees
- A warmed cafetière and a jug
- Somewhere to sit for twenty minutes
- Warm the cafetière with hot water and tip it out, then add the ground coffee.
- Pour water that has stood off the boil for thirty seconds, wetting all the grounds at once.
- Wait five minutes, not four. The fifth minute is where a lighter roast's sweetness arrives.
- Plunge slowly and decant into a warmed jug, then drink it black before you decide whether it needs anything.
What you'll end up with: A soft, nutty, sweet cup with no bite to it, and a second cup as good as the first.
The Long Breakfast Jug
How to make The Long Breakfast Jug with Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday.
- 6 rounded tablespoons ground coffee
- 1 litre fresh water, filtered if hard
- A paper filter
- A warmed flask
- Fill the machine with fresh water rather than whatever has been standing in the tank since Thursday.
- Brew one rounded tablespoon per mug into the jug.
- Decant straight into a warmed flask. Twenty minutes on a hotplate cooks the sweetness out and stews what is left.
What you'll end up with: A jug that is still worth drinking an hour into a long breakfast.
Sweet Cold Brew, No Sugar Needed
How to make Sweet Cold Brew, No Sugar Needed with Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday.
- 80g Lazy Sunday ground coffee
- 1 litre cold water
- A large jar with a lid
- Ice to serve
- Stir the grounds into the cold water until every particle is wet, then lid the jar.
- Refrigerate fourteen hours. Cold water pulls the sweetness and almost none of the bitterness, which suits a light roast better than a dark one.
- Strain through a paper filter and serve over ice, undiluted.
What you'll end up with: A concentrate sweet enough that adding sugar would be a mistake.
Iced Coffee With Honey And Oat Milk
How to make Iced Coffee With Honey And Oat Milk with Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday.
- 150ml strong brewed Lazy Sunday, cooled
- 1 teaspoon clear honey
- 80ml oat milk
- A tall glass of ice
- Stir the honey into the coffee while it is still warm, because it will not dissolve once the drink is cold.
- Cool the sweetened coffee, then pour it over the packed ice.
- Float the oat milk on top and leave it to fall through on its own rather than stirring.
What you'll end up with: A soft iced coffee where the honey follows the nutty sweetness already in the roast.
Coffee And Walnut Tray Bake Soak
How to make Coffee And Walnut Tray Bake Soak with Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday.
- 100ml very strong brewed Lazy Sunday
- 60g soft brown sugar
- A handful of chopped walnuts
- A plain sponge tray bake, still warm
- Dissolve the sugar into the hot coffee and reduce it over a low heat for two minutes until it thickens slightly.
- Prick the warm sponge all over with a skewer and spoon the syrup across it.
- Scatter the walnuts on top and leave it to cool in the tin so the syrup sets into the crumb.
What you'll end up with: A coffee cake that tastes of coffee rather than of coffee essence.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roasted coffee, ground | 100% of the pack contents | Everything in the cup. A light to medium roast with a soft, nutty sweetness and very little bitterness. |
Pack: Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g; pre-ground for cafetière, filter, aeropress or stovetop. Use within the best-before date, and within about a fortnight of opening for the aroma.
Only the pack contents are shown. Lazy Sunday is named after an occasion, not a place.
Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g is put together by Taylors of Harrogate, the Yorkshire family firm most British households know for Yorkshire Tea, whose coffee side is older and quieter than its tea side. The house approach is a short list of named blends, each built for a particular occasion, rather than a rotating wall of single origins: the names tell you when to drink the coffee rather than where it came from. Lazy Sunday sits at the gentle end of that list, which is a deliberate commercial decision in a market that pushes almost everything towards darker and bolder, and it exists for the large number of people who find a dark Italian roast harsh.
What's in Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g, and what isn't:
- In: roasted coffee, ground, and nothing else in the pack.
- No added flavouring: this is a plain roast, not a flavoured coffee. The nutty sweetness is developed in the roast rather than added to it.
- Not ground for espresso: the grind is cut for cafetière and filter. For espresso, buy the whole bean version and grind it yourself.
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Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 200g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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