Cartograph Organic Instant Coffee Packets 50ct vs Jot Original Ultra Coffee Concentrate

Organic single-serve sticks for travel, camping and a desk drawer

Scores higher on process & cup quality, convenience & format, packaging & shelf life.

Iced coffee and milk drinks without equipment, cheaper per cup than specialty instant

Scores higher on sourcing transparency.

• +Freeze dried with no additives at all, which most stick formats cannot say
• +50 sticks sold as a pack of two, the most servings of any stick format here
• +Organic, medium roast, sold as an instant espresso
• +Cartograph names camping, office and commuting, which is what sticks are for

• −Ethically sourced is stated with no certification named behind it
• −No origin country is published
• −No price is published for it here

• +$1.90 a cup, against $2.60 for Intelligentsia's specialty instant
• +Mixes into cold milk without clumping, which instant does not, iced coffee in seconds
• +One tablespoon, no equipment, and the strength is yours to set
• +Origins named: Peruvian, with Colombian and Honduran

• −Refrigerated once opened, where a jar of instant keeps in a cupboard for a year
• −Fourteen cups a bottle, so a light drinker buys a fortnight at a time
• −A glass bottle does not travel the way a sachet does
• −Far more expensive than supermarket instant, which is cents a cup