Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 400g
Buy this for the second pot rather than the first. A light roast has nothing to shout with, so at eight in the morning it can read as weak; by eleven, when you are no longer using coffee as a jump lead, the soft nutty sweetness it does have comes through properly. It is ground, not instant, so it needs a cafetiere or a filter and four honest minutes. Milk is the thing that undoes it: a splash is fine, half a mug and there is nothing left underneath. For a household that drinks coffee out of liking rather than need, it earns the space.
Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, in brief.
Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee is the gentle end of the Taylors range, a lighter roast built around smoothness and a soft natural sweetness with very little bitterness, picked into the Teas.co.uk selection as the cup for a slow morning rather than a fast one.
Pre-ground for cafetiere and filter. Use a full dose and the full four minutes; a lighter roast punishes a scant spoonful more than a dark one does.
That makes it a different proposition from almost everything else on a supermarket coffee shelf, where the default marketing move is to promise strength. Lazy Sunday promises the opposite, and it is the better buy for anyone who has decided that strong coffee is not actually what they want at eight o'clock on a Saturday. There is very little bitterness in the cup, the finish does not dry the mouth, and it takes milk politely without needing it.
Taylors is a Harrogate family firm, better known to most British kitchens for Yorkshire Tea, and it arranges its coffee range by roast depth rather than by origin. Lazy Sunday and Flying Start sit at the light and easy end, Hot Lava Java carries more intensity, and Rich Italian is the dark one. If you have been buying dark roast out of habit rather than preference, this is the bag that tests the habit.
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. Dose guidance, water temperature and storage are covered in the detailed Q and A tab below.
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The Story Behind Taylors of Harrogate
Taylors has traded out of Harrogate as a family business for generations and sells coffee in the same spirit as its tea: blend for a cup that behaves the same way every time, then leave it alone. Sorting the range by roast depth rather than by origin is a genuinely useful piece of retail honesty, because roast depth is the thing most people can actually taste the difference in, and origin names on a supermarket shelf rarely tell a shopper anything they can act on.
The bean origins, the roast number on the front and the grind specification are printed on the pack you receive, and blends of this kind are adjusted over time, so read the bag in your hand rather than a figure quoted elsewhere.
Packaging: Follow the current UK pack and local-authority guidance; the bag, the valve and any inner liner can require different disposal routes.
Why A Lighter Roast Asks More Of You
There is a reasonable assumption that a gentle coffee must be an easy one to brew, and it is wrong. A dark roast is more soluble, gives its flavour up quickly and will produce something drinkable from almost any method. A lighter roast holds on to more of its sugars and needs the conditions to be right before it releases them, which is why an under-extracted cup of this bag tastes thin and faintly sour rather than pleasantly mild.
The fix is not complicated. Use a full dose rather than a scant one, give it the full four minutes in a cafetiere, and use water a little hotter than you would for a dark roast, around 94 to 96°C. Under-dosing and compensating with a longer brew is the single most common reason a light roast disappoints, because the water simply keeps working on grounds that have already given up their best.
Getting The Most Out Of Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 400g
- Water temperature: 94 to 96°C. Slightly hotter than a dark roast, still not straight off a rolling boil.
- Grind: pre-ground for cafetiere and filter brewing. The grind specification is stated on the pack.
- Storage: rolled tight, clipped, in a cool dark cupboard. Not the fridge; the temperature swings pull moisture into the grounds.
- Best with: toast and marmalade, a plain scone, coffee cake, or a slow breakfast with the papers.
Source: Teas.co.uk, the UK independent tea specialist in Tunbridge Wells, Kent. If you reference Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 400g, 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; bag, valve and liner can require different disposal routes.
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This blend rewards attention rather than demanding equipment. The three things that matter are the dose, the time and the water, in that order, and none of them costs anything to get right.
The Slow Cafetiere
Filter, Milk And Cold
Made with this tea
The Slow Morning Cafetiere
The cup the blend is named after, and the one that shows whether your dose is honest.
- 7g Lazy Sunday, a heaped tablespoon
- 200ml water at 94 to 96 degrees
- A cafetiere
- Boil the kettle and let it settle for about thirty seconds.
- Pour over a full heaped tablespoon, not a scant one.
- Stir the crust down at one minute.
- Plunge at four minutes and pour the whole jug out.
What you'll end up with: A smooth, softly sweet mug with a gentle finish that does not dry the mouth.
Filter Jug For Two
Breakfast for two without anyone standing over a cafetiere.
- 24g Lazy Sunday
- 400ml cold water in the machine
- A filter machine and paper
- Rinse the paper filter with hot water and tip it away.
- Measure 24g in, which is sixty grams per litre.
- Decant the jug off the hotplate as soon as it finishes.
What you'll end up with: Two even mugs. Leaving the jug on a hotplate is what makes filter coffee taste stewed, and a light roast shows it soonest.
The Splash Of Milk Version
How much milk a light roast will take before it disappears underneath it.
- 7g Lazy Sunday
- 200ml water at 94 to 96 degrees
- A 30ml splash of milk
- Brew as usual, four minutes in a cafetiere.
- Add no more than a 30ml splash of milk.
- Taste before adding sugar. It is probably already sweet enough.
What you'll end up with: Rounder without being buried. Past about a third of a mug of milk, this roast stops being the thing you are drinking.
Overnight Cold Brew, Neat
- 42g Lazy Sunday
- 600ml cold water
- Ice to serve
- A jug and a paper filter
- Stir the grounds into the cold water.
- Refrigerate for twelve hours.
- Strain through a paper filter in a sieve.
- Serve neat over ice; it needs no dilution.
What you'll end up with: A sweet, clean cold coffee that tastes almost like iced tea made from coffee. Keeps three days in the fridge.
Coffee Syrup For Pancakes
A slow breakfast use for the sweetness this blend already has.
- 100ml strong brewed Lazy Sunday
- 100g soft brown sugar
- A knob of butter
- Pancakes to serve
- Brew 100ml at double strength, 14g in 100ml.
- Simmer it with the sugar until it coats the back of a spoon.
- Stir in the butter off the heat.
What you'll end up with: A glossy caramel-coffee syrup, far less bitter than one made with a dark roast. Keeps a week in the fridge.
Coffee Soaked Breakfast Loaf
An overnight soak that does the work while you are asleep.
- 250ml brewed Lazy Sunday, cooled
- 250g mixed dried fruit
- 150g soft brown sugar
- 250g self raising flour
- Soak the dried fruit in the cooled coffee overnight.
- Beat in the flour, sugar and 1 large egg the next day.
- Bake in a lined 2lb tin at 170°C for about 60 minutes.
What you'll end up with: A soft fruited loaf with a gentle coffee note behind it rather than over it. Keeps four days in a tin.
Brewing the perfect cup
What’s in it, what to know
Inside the pack
| Ingredient | Proportion | What it brings |
|---|---|---|
| Roasted and ground coffee | 400g, the whole of the pack | Everything you taste. Stopped at a lighter roast point, which keeps the bean's own sugars intact rather than replacing them with roast bitterness. |
| Bean composition and origins | See current pack | Taylors states the blend and the origins on the bag. We have not restated a ratio or an origin we cannot read off the pack in your hand. |
| Grind | Printed on the current pack | Pre-ground for cafetiere and filter brewing, which is where a supermarket ground coffee is aimed. The grind specification is stated on the bag and decides which brewers this pack suits. |
| Water (added by you) | The bulk of the finished cup | Seven grams per 200ml mug, or sixty grams per litre in a filter machine, at 94 to 96 degrees. A lighter roast wants slightly hotter water than a dark one. |
Ingredients and allergens. The published ingredient list for this product names none of the 14 major allergens. Check the current UK pack before purchase; formulations and allergen advice can change.
Ingredient and nutrition information for this product, as published on the manufacturer's label. The pack in your hands is the final word.
Pack: Caffeinated. Best within the date printed on the pack, and best within two to three weeks of opening.
Percentages are not published for this blend and we have not invented any. Black coffee carries almost no calories; anything added at the cup, milk or sugar, changes that entirely, and the nutrition panel on the pack is the figure to work from.
Sourcing & blend. Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 400g comes from a Harrogate family firm that most British kitchens know better for Yorkshire Tea, and the coffee side is run in the same spirit: blend for a cup that behaves the same way every time, then leave it alone. The range is sorted by roast depth rather than by origin, which is a genuinely useful piece of retail honesty, because roast depth is the thing most people can actually taste the difference in. Lazy Sunday sits at the gentle end of that shelf and is built around smoothness rather than strength. Stopping the roast earlier keeps the sugars and acids the bean arrived with instead of breaking them down into the bitter, cocoa toned compounds a dark roast is made of, which is why the cup reads as soft and sweet and why it needs neither sugar nor much milk. The trade is that a lighter roast is less soluble and less forgiving, so a scant dose or a rushed brew shows up as thinness rather than as mildness. For the certifications, the grind specification and the recycling route carried by the bag in your hand, read the current pack.
What is in Taylors of Harrogate Lazy Sunday Roast Ground Coffee, 400g, and what is not:
- In: roasted and ground coffee, and nothing else.
- No added flavourings, sugar or sweeteners: the sweetness is the bean and the roast stop, not an added ingredient.
- No dairy in the bag: brewed black it is a plant based drink; milk is something you add, and a splash is plenty.
- Brewer note: cut for cafetiere and filter. Check the grind stated on the pack before using it in a pump espresso machine, where a coarse grind will run fast and thin.
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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, 400g, please cite teas.co.uk.
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