Coffee is food. You should enjoy it how you like it.
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There is nothing wrong with instant coffee.
I enjoy dissolving it in a small amount of cold water before adding the hot water.
For an interesting drink, whisk equal parts cold water, sweetener, and instant coffee until it makes a tan foam (hand brother works great for this) in your mug. Add cold or heated milk and stir.
Two scoops hot cocoa powder with one scoop Mount Hagan instant. I call it a Dirt-Bag Mocha. The ingredients sit proudly next to my array of hand pump espresso machines, pour over solutions and variety of delicious beans.
Instant coffe with milk as base it is pretty neat actually
I care more about real milk in coffee than the coffee, up to a point - there is coffee so bad it can't be redeemed. So your powdered creamer offends me more than your powdered coffee, lol. Good instant coffee is probably not past that line. My husband drinks instant coffee, I use his as an ingredient in things but don't love it as coffee. It's better than the work pods though.
AFA sweet bread - I made a sourdough babka this weekend and can most highly recommend this dough for sweet breads, it was amazing. So good my penultimate child (who takes Adderall so not much appetite) took one bite and immediately cut herself three slices.
I haven't tried sourdough for my babka, but thanks for the recommendation! That's a great way to use up some flour before next week. Have you tried using Nutella spread as the filling? That one is very popular in my household haha
Wow that does sound so good! I did dark chocolate with a little cinnamon.
I worked in a brewery where I could just tap off hot water from the 2000L kettle. We would all just put a splash of hot water in a tbsp of instant coffee then top it up with oat milk or whatever is in the fridge. Not beating the super fancy stuff from the former commercial coffee machine shop next door used to make us daily in return for a case each canning session, but way better than any of the chain shops in the area.
Single source African light roast, coarse grind, French Press, no milk, no sugar. That is coffee.
What you have is an ingredient for a custard dessert or a nice addition to a pudding pie.
Of course, I tease, enjoy what you enjoy. I'm kinda partial to diner coffee, even though it's bitter and watery and made with the cheapest crap around.
Edit: I keep instant coffee granules in the house almost at all times. They're really great for baking, adding coffee flavor to desserts, or, my favorite, in chilis and barbeque sauces/rubs. They're faster to use and the nuances of great coffee are going to be lost in the cooking process anyway.
I swear I have a snobby hand grind and moka pot tho!
Idk I could swear as a younger adult I just didnt like the instant stuff. So I was pleasantly surprised to enjoy it this time around.
Perhaps the microplastics have clogged my taste buds lol
I think the quality has drastically improved because I feel similarly.
I've definetly heard of good instant coffee being (more)? of a thing lately?
It's definitely more of a thing now. I think Swift Coffee were the ones that I first started seeing everywhere. They produce their own instant coffee as well as partnering with a lot of roasters. The main difference is that they went for the "quality first" as opposed to nestle, et al, who do super high temperature and pressure extractions followed by spray drying for the cheapest end product.
The downside is that it's really energy intensive, so it costs like 10x the price. I wouldnt drink it as my daily coffee just because of the price, but it definitely does the trick when I'm traveling to a coffee desert or in the woods.
There are still plenty of mediocre and meh instant coffees out there though, e.g. Dollar store instant, supermarket house brands, I hated Bustelo instant, (Israeli) Elite.
I didn't like the much-ballyhooed Dutch Douwe Egberts, nor the Japanese UCC and Blendy instants either.
Nescafe Clasico and Tasters Choice taste good, but are offset by Nestle being a classic evil corporation
My favorite least harmful choice wound up being Colcafe Instant from Colombia. Smooth and flavorful.
Well, all that was before I started drinking brewed coffee...
You had me in the first half. My eyes really narrowed disapprovingly for a few seconds there xD
in chilis
Wait, what? Can you elaborate a bit?
Throw it in with your chili spice blend. It compliments beans, meat and tomatoes pretty well. I tend for "just a touch" in chili, but more in steak and BBQ rubs.
Edit: It might work well in curries, too, but I haven't tried that yet.
Which brand / type was it? By and large instant coffee, pod coffee, etc. Sacrifices a great deal of quality for a small bit of convenience. As these grow in popularity it often feels like it's further relegating what used to be regular coffee brewing to the niche of the specialty coffee world. Advocates of the speciality coffee movement want to share the joy of elevating coffee from a daily medication to a highly pleasurable and nuanced experience that can be full of variety, and simultaneously respect for the plant and the process of bringing great beans into our home kitchens. If you've achieved that realization and it's just exciting to find a tasty cup of instant coffee, hell yeah, I'd love to hear about it. I don't want to not know about something good that's coffee related. If it's, "hey, I've never had a coffee grinder, but I really think instant coffee is great!" well, I'd like to put my arm around your shoulder and have you walk with me down a really exciting rabbit hole.
Advocates of the speciality coffee movement want to share the joy of elevating coffee from a daily medication to a highly pleasurable and nuanced experience that can be full of variety, and simultaneously respect for the plant and the process of bringing great beans into our home kitchens.
I respect that, since I'm already grinding my own specialty beans, albeit only using an aeropress. But at the same time, I'm not turning my nose up on the simpler "ignorant" joy of instant coffee., simply because I learned, made, and tasted more and more specialty coffee. Or "instant" anything from hobbies / movement that want to share the joy of elevating [insert thing here].
It was one of these instant coffee
It's already got cinnamon in it and then you add milk. Not normal instant already.
As someone who just recently started bean coffee I'd say you do you and use what works for you
You don’t have to conform to certain standards and expect yourself to
But still instant coffee socks as someone who just recently started using bean coffee
Instant doesn't taste like "good" coffee, but it does taste good. Especially with a little milk and sugar (or substitutes).
For sure, but I remember not liking it much as a kid, so i was surprised at how much I liked it. Might have been the powder creamer.
I'm pretty sure that powdered creamer stuff is not normal anywhere outside of North America.