Cheap coffee as tasty as pricey java

If we are gonna talk about coffee. We used to get coffee from Tegut called "Pedro". You could get beans or ground. All of a sudden it disappeared. I have looked everywhere for this brand, cause it is truly the best coffee we have ever had. Does anyone know where Pedro is still sold? Especially anywhere in the Frankfurt area or near by.

Thanks

Here's a table with results from Stiftung Warentest. The coffee I buy isn't there, but who cares as long as my husband and I like it. In the end it doesn't really matter what other folks like since you're the one drinking it.

NB: For those who can't see the embedded link:

"http://www.test.de/themen/essen-trinken/test/-Kaffee/1772611/1772611/1771568/1773145/"

I agree with Bipa that it does not matter. Drink what you like. Aldi brand coffee is good. I can not stand starbucks. Tchibo is okay. I like the Aldi Earl Grey tea. If there was a tea test I would like to know how well they did concerning the tea.

The Aldi coffee is pretty good. I do wonder about the "packaging" criteria, though. All the different coffee brands seem to be packaged exactly the same way.

if anybody is interested, I could give you the results of my personal tests with Aldi coffee last year and Rewe Espresso this year

Aldi coffee bags, 20 pieces 1,59 Euro. Total 144 gramms or each bag 7 gramm.

I open them and put them into the Aldi Filter and add boiling water for 1 cup.

Aldi Red = best coffee, mild and full flavour

Aldi Black = used it for a month, very good coffee, but really strong. Would only recommend one in the morning

Aldi Green = Says "Mild". Roasted too much. Has the burned taste.

Aldi White = Decaf. Is o.k. as a substitute, but doesnt have the fire of the red one

I also tried out the low-cost Rewe Coffee bags, they do cost 1,69 Euro for 18 pieces. Also have a similar color scheme. But none of them can beat the taste of the Aldi Red.

You can see at Aldi that the Aldi Red 20 Bag box and the Aldi Black 20 Bag box are mostly sold out - like this afternoon at Aldi Schwanthalerstrasse.

The White and Green stack up.

Where Rewe wins is the Ja Coffee cream, 20 pieces for 49 Cent. If you like to drink your Coffee with cream, this one tastes better than the products from Aldi/Lidl/Plus

Where Plus wins is the Day Plus Süßstoff, 1200 sweeteners for 99 Cent. That may be an individual thing, but I only buy them.

Best Coffee Filter is the inexpensive one at Aldi. I tried out the inexpensive filters from Lidl/Rewe/Plus/Kaufland and for me the Aldi Coffee Filter transports the flavour the best.

Espresso, prepared with the 50 Euro Aldi Espresso Machine - which you unfortunately can´t buy any longer

Rewe - Segafredo casa - best taste, good flavour, pretty strong, you feel that it is a good espresso. ~3,50 Euro, mostly sold out

Rewe - Lavazza crema e gusto - a very good mild espresso, it is very funny this one feels a little bit colder for me. But the preparation is the same. ~3,30 Euro

Rewe - Lavazza Black in a can - I know 2 girls that do have 1-2 of that cans in their kitchen, but I do not like this one. But the can is o.k. ~5,50 Euro

Rewe - Rewe Espresso - tastes good. This is a dark one and even if it is prepared in an espresso machine, it has something of the taste that you get out of a steam cooker. 3,00 Euro

Rewe - Lilly Espresso. I never tried this one out, it is very expensive with ~7,50 Euro for 250 gramm

One more test, the Tschibo Cafissimo Espresso/Coffee Machine. 10 Capsules are 2,49 Euro. The Red Espresso is mostly sold out

Red Capsules - Espresso. Very good, has taste and fire. Better than the espresso in most Restaurants/Cafes

Orange Capsules - Caffee Crema. I don´t like it, it tastes like if it is roasted too much.

Blue Capsules - Caffee. I don´t like it, doesn´t have much flavour or much fire

I don´t like the other Espresso capsules, I buy them sometimes if the red box is sold out, they may taste a little bit spicier or more mild, but they do not have the same fire.

So far I looked into the Rewe 30 times to buy Capsules and the Red Espresso was sold out maybe 20 times.

I would recommend to heat up the empty cups in a microwave 30/60 seconds at 600/300 Watt - that is really the only use for a microwave oven for me.

You could also put some boiling water into the cup for 5 seconds, that will do the same thing.

Surely, we must recognise that the main reason we are switching to the Bio and Fair Trade Coffees are on the grounds firstly of health (Organic coffees use no poisons and chemical fertilisers) and of 'Fair Trade' which means that we do our part to ensure that the farmers in Ethiopia, or Brazil, Mexico etc... get a fair price for coffee

Fetilisers and bug sprays are posion - they kill things, if a substance kills a grasshopper or whatever, then it is highly probable, that that substance is not too good for human consumption either

+There is a government imposed Kaffeesteur on all coffee imported or roasted in Germany. - That steuer is 2.19E per kilo, 1.10 per 500g. If the final price - retail is Euro 2.50, considering packaging, transport, storage and retail mark-up, can you imagine what the farmer is recieving for those beans?

Their is a very good film. Black Gold. Worth a view. When you purchase the products listed above you are supporting a rampant abuse of power.

I like my rampant abuse of power with a little skim milk, no sugar.

I have tried many different types of coffee and I have to say that the Markus double pack from Aldi won hands down every time,wouldn't buy anything else now.

We like the Aldi espresso beans - I think the name is Tizio. Better than or as good as Segafredo and the others at half the price of what we were paying in Italy.

existence is pollution and existence is support for big global companies.

You could maybe change the balance, but I think it is still difficult to get around companies like Nestle or Oil-companies. If you do avoid their products direct, you will buy their products indirect under other labels or you will pay profit to people that buy their products. These people may give their part to the save-the-whales-foundation, but could also buy again products from big global companies.

In the worst case, you pay 10 Euro for the amount of the coffee/tea that you get at Aldi for 1.50 Euro. What happens with the other 8,50 Euro? One can not say.

If you like espresso, try Dinzler. I was loyal to Illy for a long time, but this is great - I don't drink coffee often but when I do, I want a great one. That's what Dinzler is.

Thanks for the evaluation of different coffee brands in your post #7. However, I disagree with your above statement. There still are smaller coffee companies. For example, I drink Darboven fairtrade coffee, which is listed among the best in the Stiftung Warentest table Bipa posted. Sure, the Aldi coffee isn't bad either, but I prefer to pay more because coffee is one of the goods which is most affected by volatile, so to speak "unfair" world market prices (while the production costs remain the same).

Just a quick glance at the wiki article about coffee reveals that there are huge differences between the different beans (Arabica being more demanding than Robusta; other rarer bean types), the cultivation (forest or sun cultivation and its ecological consequences) and the harvesting method (hand-picked or by machines). I guess (hope) that is where the remaining 8,50 Euros go ? into avoiding ecologically harmful production methods as much as possible and paying the workers better. I also think that the overall quality of coffee deteriorates if there is a competition for the most cost-effective production instead of for best value for price.