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Brand review · 3 min readPresto Coffee Roasters coffee review
What Presto Coffee Roasters sells, what it costs against the rest of the market, and who should buy it.
Presto Coffee Roasters sells 5 coffees in the UK and the cheapest comes out at 9p a cup, which is less than most of the instant coffee we track. Cheap coffee is easy to find and hard to trust, so the useful question is not whether it is cheap. It is what the range actually contains, and whether the bag doing the heavy lifting is the one you would want.
Short answer
A jar for the mornings when thirty seconds is the budget, for below the going rate.
Cheaper than 69% of the instant coffee we track
- Tastes
- Dark, smoky and bold
- Strength
- Very strong
- Best for
- Speed over ceremony
- Valuecup price vs the format median
- 3/5
- Easy to likefrom the roast profile
- 4/5
- Good for beginnersblend, roast and pack size
- 4/5
Cheapest cup£0.09across 5 products
Against the market−18%vs the instant median
Two cups a day£1.23a week, £0.27 less than typical
Mostly roastedDarksmoky, bold
Buy it ifyou want a cup in thirty seconds
Skip it ifCafé Direct at 9p would do
What kind of roaster this is
Presto Coffee Roasters sells ground and instant in the UK, and we track 5 of their coffees, in 500g and 200g.
Presto Coffee Roasters is a blender: 100% of the range we can classify is blended rather than sold as a named origin. That is a choice, not a shortcut. A blend can be rebuilt season to season to taste the same, which is what you want if you buy the same coffee every month and would rather it did not move under you. The roasting spans 3 of our five levels, so there is a genuine choice to make inside the range rather than one house style applied to everything. Nothing here comes in a kilo bag. That keeps the coffee fresher in your cupboard and costs you the bulk discount, which is the trade you are making whether or not anyone points it out. Decaf is 20% of the range, which is unusually well served; most brands treat it as an afterthought.
Formats and origins
What Presto Coffee Roasters sources and sells. Each one is a live filter across every brand we track.
What Presto Coffee Roasters coffee costs
The range runs from 9p to 81p a cup across five products. That is a 9.2× spread inside a single brand, which is why "is Presto Coffee Roasters expensive" is the wrong question; the right one is which bag you pick. The cheapest is House Espresso in the 500g, and the dearest is Espresso Intenso in the 200g.
| Product | Format | Size | Per cup | Per kg |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| House Espresso | instant | 500g | £0.09 | £43.98 |
| House Espresso Intenso | instant | 500g | £0.09 | £43.98 |
| Espresso Intenso | instant | 500g | £0.09 | £45.92 |
| House Decaf | instant | 500g | £0.11 | £53.98 |
| Espresso Intenso | ground | 200g | £0.81 | £44.95 |
Bags themselves run £8.99 to £26.99. Ignore that column. A bigger bag costs more and almost always costs less per cup, which is the only number that follows you home.
The one to buy
If you buy one thing from Presto Coffee Roasters, buy House Espresso. At 9p a cup it comes in around 18% under the median for instant coffee, and that is measured against every brand in our catalogue rather than against Presto Coffee Roasters's own list prices. Nothing else in the range gets close on that test.
What that costs over a year
How much coffee do you drink?
- Presto Coffee Roasters£0.09 per cup£64
- Typical instant£0.11 per cup, our median£78
At 2 cups a day, Presto Coffee Roasters costs £14 less a year than the typical instant coffee we track. That is the same coffee habit, bought better.
How Presto Coffee Roasters tastes
We have not tasted Presto Coffee Roasters, so we are not going to invent a tasting note. A flavour score we did not earn would be worth less than none, and this section would be the easiest place on the site to quietly make one up. What we can show you is measured: where every coffee in the range sits on our own five-point roast scale, and which origins go into it. Roast is the strongest single predictor of whether a cup arrives bright and fruity or dark and chocolatey, so it is the closest honest answer to what this brand is like to drink.
How Presto Coffee Roasters roasts
Every coffee standardised onto our own five-point scale rather than the roaster's. Read these as tendencies: origin, process and how you brew all move the cup.
Who it suits
- People who found something they like and want it to taste the same next year, which is what a blend is for.
- Slow drinkers, and anyone who would rather buy little and often than watch a kilo go stale.
- People who want to choose their own roast rather than take the roaster's word for it, since the range covers 3 of our five levels.
Is it good value?
Our test is simple, and it is the same one we apply to everything: cost per cup against the median for the same format. Presto Coffee Roasters clears it comfortably on at least one product, which more brands fail than pass. Worth knowing that the saving is concentrated in the larger bags rather than spread evenly, so buying the small size gives most of it back.
Presto Coffee Roasters products we track
Cheapest per cup first, with live prices.
Prices are the last we fetched and can move. As an Amazon Associate we earn from qualifying purchases. It never changes the order, which is always cheapest per cup first.
What else to consider
No brand is worth buying without knowing what sits next to it on price. These are the closest instant coffees we track to Presto Coffee Roasters, and the comparison hubs will put all of them on the same per-cup basis if you want to go wider.
Coffees priced like Presto Coffee Roasters
The closest instant coffees on price per cup, from brands we also track. If one of these is cheaper for the same thing, that is worth knowing before you order.
Compare against the market
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