Nescafé Taster's Choice House Blend Instant Coffee Sticks, 18 Count

Nescafé Taster's Choice House Blend is instant coffee portioned into 18 single-serve sticks, one cup to a stick. It suits the coffee drinker who wants a mug wherever hot water happens to be: a desk, a hotel room, a campsite, a break room.

Instant coffee begins as real brewed coffee. Roasted grounds are extracted with hot water at the plant, and the resulting liquid is dried back down into soluble granules that dissolve the moment water hits them. That is the whole trick of the stick format, and House Blend sits at the lighter, milder end of the Taster's Choice range.

Tear a stick into six to eight ounces of hot water and stir; pull the water back an ounce or two if you like the cup fuller. The same stick dissolves in cold milk or water, so an iced coffee is a matter of stirring and adding ice, and the flat packets slide into a bag or a glove box for later.