Coffee

Coffee is food. You should enjoy it how you like it.

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.

https://www.theperfectloaf.com/sourdough-babka/

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.

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.

Instant doesn't taste like "good" coffee, but it does taste good. Especially with a little milk and sugar (or substitutes).

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