I like Folgers instant. It’s damned fine cup of coffee. Sorry to say, but the Eurotrash are right on this. In a blind taste test, half our coffee snobs would probably pick instant over whatever Starbucks is selling them for $4 or $5 a cup.
It's prolly not what you think......
I generally have instant coffee. It’s the 80/20 rule in effect. No, it doesn’t taste as good but considering the time and/or expense of alternatives it’s good enough. My daily coffee expense has to be pennies.
The best coffee I’ve ever had was in Japan (5 star hotel, no idea what they do or use), so everything else seems like second place anyway.
But we drink instant tea.
My parents always made espresso with one of those Italian stove top espresso makers. I’m not a coffee drinker but I love the flavor it gives baked goods.
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Folger’s classic roast instant coffee drinker here. We lived off grid for give years so we started drinking instant and just got used to it. Keeps longer too being freeze dried so it’s a better prep item, especially since all you need to be able to do is heat up water to 150 degrees. Can do that on a hobo stove with some sticks.
The Aeropress + a Hario Mini Mill works well for a travel setup (or just everyday individual use).
We only buy Kona or other island beans and grind out own coffee. Have been for years now since my wife found the lower acid of hawaiian coffee suited her.
I do not care as long as it has caffeine, but prefer brewing my own.
Nescafé®? Perish the thought.
Wifey is not a coffee person but loves her StarJunky’s frappy thingys.. I spare her criticism tho, I’m a regular morning Taster’s Choice instant swiller myself.
Some of the best I ever drunk was Sumatran or Hawaiian bean.
Best coffee is campfire coffee.. straight up.. imho
It’s common in S.E. Asia as well. TBH, I keep instant coffee at my houses in the UK and France, as I can just walk to a café if I want a fresh brew.
Mom got rid of the percolator so no I buy a bottle or two of pre-brewed iced coffee when visiting. I don't need to have it hot.
I think the Italians are still known for good coffee.
Nescafe has always been a prestige item in Mexico. Maybe because it’s an import? Sounds disgusting.
The recipe I use for hot chocolate mix calls for some instant coffee. That’s as close to drinking coffee as I get.
The best coffee my wife and I have had lately is Nescafe from the Philippines. Before cargo ships got stuck off the California coast, we were briefly able to buy the Philippine brand, Nescafe Brown, from a Korean store near us. You can recognize the brand because it comes in a bag with a photo of a Philippine coffee farmer on it. The text under the photo says his name is Arnold Abear, and that he has been growing coffee for Nescafe since 2009.
It seems that like Europe, Asia is going for instant coffee, because the Asian stores around here have carried instant coffee from Vietnam, South Korea and Indonesia as well.
Holland and Belgium have very good coffee, Dowue Egbarts comes to mind. But yes, the euros do drink a lot of instant coffee.
No shit there I was,....in a nice restaurant in Brno, Czeck Republic 1999. I saw an espresso maker and ordered an espresso. I was all set for some “real” coffee after a very long drought then I looked over and the waitress was filling it with instant coffee. AARRGGHH
I’ve used Chemex since the early 80s, to brew my Kona Hawaiian Volcanic Mtn Estate and Jamaican Blue Mountain coffees, all ground to Turkish Powder grind.
The more area of the bean exposed to hot water, the more flavor one gets.
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