Submitted 1 year ago by someguy3@lemmy.ca to nostupidquestions@lemmy.world
For some reason I think of it as an older concept. Now Starbucks and coffee chains are popular.
I don’t mind instant coffee and there are so many options. I get hired if I drink the same thing all the time. So some weeks I drink cold brew, some weeks I drink instant coffee, some week I drink iced and some weeks I drink tea. I alternate between different sources of caffeine pretty much every other week.
I feel like it’s 2 different market segments.
Starbuck and othes fancy coffee shop I am in town, look for clean toilets and wifi so I’d pay 10 € to get them
Instant I am camping, (and sometimes indoor without coffee machine) and want a coffee
In the army we used to get a pack of instant coffee with the afternoon meal. We rarely wanted to shit ourselves later in the bush, so, no. We’d save it for whomever was fucked with guard shift that night.
Please understand there is no hot water at night; no real water supply at all. We do not traipse about the boonies looking for a stream, nor do we make a fire so it can be seen for miles. We even hide the pips on our wristwatch.
Not since bush coffee have I had instant coffee. And if I die without having instant coffee again - even properly prepared - it will be too soon.
I generally only drink instant for late night decaf, though the premixed Korean instant coffee packets are a treat every hour and then
At least instant coffee makes sense in an economical way: it saves steps and time. what i don’t get are filter coffee machines, the coffee they make is always horrendous.
I drink it. It’s cheaper and quicker to make than anything else I’ve found.
My husband does. Nescafe. Though I make coffee each morning in a moka pot, fresh ground. He likes the instant coffee (and likes it much earlier than I make coffee).
I like coffee but not enough to like bad coffee.
Still seems like the default in much of Europe and Asia
I had a British coworker that said she thought instant coffee was the only kind until her twenties. Then I remembered British drink tea.
I think that instant Chai is actually quite popular worldwide. I assume it’s pretty similar to instant coffee.
I’m finishing my cup right now. People say it’s shit but I don’t mind it.
No, it’s disgusting, taste like socks’ water
U dont want your sockwater?
slurp
I don’t drink coffee at all but I do live outside of the US. I have noticed that in MANY places in the world, instant coffee is the norm. It’s not normal to see coffee beans in the grocery store at all really where I am now. I would have to go to a more upscale place or to a specialty spot to find whole or ground coffee.
Freeze dried Colombian is fantastic. A jar of Juan Valdez keeps in your cabinet for ages of you’re not a vide drinker.
I keep a jar of it in my desk at the office.
Handy for those overnight callouts when noting else is available.
I keep it to make dalgona
What’s dalgona?
Dalgona coffee is made by mixing equal parts of instant coffee, granulated sugar, and hot water. Here’s a recipe on how to make it!
If I’m going camping and want to keep things light I’ll buy instant coffee and transfer it into a freezer bag.
Only when I’m backpacking in the wilderness, otherwise, it’s fresh ground for me!
Personally, not very much. I have a little bit of instant coffee around but it’s mostly for camping.
Day to day, I either drink homemade iced coffee, or regular coffee made in a pour over. Getting the iced coffee ready is as fast as putting some ice in a bottle and pouring the coffee. Even the pour over, which takes maybe 15 minutes total is still faster than the time spent going to a Starbucks, waiting in line, ordering, and waiting for it to be made.
To me, buying coffee is really only going to happen when I’m traveling.
I use it, because I have fibromyalgia. So it’s easier sometimes to just press the button on the kettle to makes some coffee. When I’m doing well, I always make Turkish coffee, since it feels like it makes me clearer way faster than other coffee does.
Try Korean instant coffee, it’s about the best I’ve had. Check the ingredients carefully if you have food sensitivities, there’s often surprise 🌽 in the creamer and sometimes corn syrup powder as sweetener.
Drinking some right now, try medaglia d’oro Espresso Instant Coffee. I also enjoy a few other brands, it’s literally pre brewed coffee and then dehydrated, you can have shitty regular coffee and shitty instant.
Generally only when camping. Really like Mt. Hagen, but the canisters of Starbucks Premium Instant are decent.
I drink instant cappuccino, a habit I picked up from my wife. It’s much less “coffee” than it is “vaguely coffee-flavored drink.”
My parents in law do it.
Dealing with coffee grinds got annoying. It’s also one of my first grocery store purchases when traveling.
Bonus points for instant iced coffee.
Yes. I don't like it but sometimes I don't have time to make my normal pour over. Like lunchtime. Tastes pretty bad. Especially to a pour over coffee snob like me.
Even Costco sells it.
I’m a pour over die hard but have you tried aeropress? You can make a single cup very quickly and easily.
Pour over doesn’t seem that popular in Australia. I mean I know it’s a thing but I’ve never seen it or heard of anyone drinking it.
Here the at-home-coffee options go instant > french press > mocha pot > pods > espresso machine.
Where would pour over fit in here?
I think I have heard of that. You need special hardware, right?
Me
Wow, that looks tasty!
I hadn’t heard of this. Looks like they’re using sugar to make that thick consistency. One recipe says 1tbsp coffee 1tbsp sugar 1tbsp hot water. That’s a hard no from me.
I think it still represents something like 5-10% of the US coffee market.
Better doesn’t always drive out cheaper.
It’s not always about cost but convenience.
Got hot water? Add instant coffee and you’re done.
And you can make hot water with just about anything. Most people use a microwave, I’m sure. But you could use a stovetop or hot plate, a camp fire, or even a tin cup over a Zippo if you really had to.
Is there really anyone left who -would drink it?
Instant coffee, instant sex … not pleasant, but over with quik. Now - get back to work. Slacker.
Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 year ago
I use instant coffee for baking. And I had instant coffee as part of the tea-making facilities in British B&Bs (but I definitely prefer the tea there).
HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 1 year ago
I’m thinking about making coffee ice cream and I was going to make a coffee reduction for that flavor (I experiment a lot. If it doesn’t work I still have ice cream) but this sounds like a much better idea.
Treczoks@lemm.ee 1 year ago
It is nice in chocolate desserts, pralinees, creams. Just imagine a buttercream cake where the buttercream has a hint of coffee flavor.
p_cells@lemmy.world 1 year ago
How do you use it for baking?
mbp@lemmy.sdf.org 1 year ago
Not them but adding it to cakes, cookies, macrons, etc like cocoa powder does the job wonderfully in my cases.
Fraylor@lemm.ee 1 year ago
Use it anywhere you want coffee flavor without adding grit, or liquid.