Instant coffee is grand
You are all overcomplicating coffee. All those machines and whatnot.
I mean, this is definitely an unpopular opinion. But any post that includes "you guys" or something like it is just rage bait rather than a genuine opinion.
That's just being a jerk with extra steps.
Truth? Any time an opinion comes down to criticising other people as the only support for your opinion, it's a shitty opinion. Why? Because it's flimsy. You made zero effort to back the opinion itself, that instant coffee is "grand". Zero, zilch, nada.
Your only other argument is complication. The "machines and whatnot". Since instant coffee used similar machinery to get into the jar you use to make yours, you might as well say that any coffee you didn't make yourself is better than self brewed. You'd put in about the same amount of "complications" ordering a cup from the closest fast food joint, since you'd have to also drive to a store to buy your instant.
Only if you have your instant delivered to you can you say that you had a less complicated path to a cup of coffee. By that standard, I can tell my kid to make a pot after having ordered everything, and have my fresh coffee be less complicated than your instant, if you made the instant cup yourself.
So, I upvoted your post as being unpopular. But it's low effort, shitposting rage bait, so I shouldn't have.
But any post that includes “you guys” or something like it is just rage bait rather than a genuine opinion.
That’s just being a jerk with extra steps.
This seems like an overreaction and an unbacked opinion to me. Who is getting enraged about coffee preparation?
preferring instant to fresh coffee is the more popular opinion in much of the world, but it's mostly in the same places where people would rather be drinking tea anyway:
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I'm Australian, coffee machines are becoming more popular due to the cheaper pod systems but they have mostly been luxury items in the past. Only people I know who don't drink instant are upper middle class or higher.
How do... how do you think the coffee becomes instant? Do you suspect that a coffee grinder, filter, and hot water is more complicated and machine laden than the process that turns beans into soluble powder?
If I did, those would also be simpler and less mechanized processes than the industrial ones.
Guess it's a lot of work for you and not too much, comparatively, for some massive scale corporation. Though I have found that I like it either from grounds or freshly ground.
How do… how do you think the coffee becomes instant?
I looked it up. Basically they make coffee the normal way (hot water) and then sublimate the water away.
Precisely. More complicated, more machines. You just outsourced the overcomplication.
I can assure you that your stomach will absorb more caffeine, not to mention you don't want to waste all that dietary fiber
General consistency isn't great. Also you poop out those grounds. I'm not sure they suggest fully. It's kind of scratchy
I've done this during my final boards...couldn't sleep all night, and went with a terrible headache to my exam hall.
That's like eating spoonfuls of peanut butter and then chasing it with two slices of bread.
Instant isn't as terrible as a lot of people make out but you also don't need to complicate fresh brewed coffee either, brewing in a french press is only slightly more inconvenient than instant but gives a much better tasting coffee.
What I can't forgive is incorrectly brewed fresh coffee. People who use a drip coffee machine and leave it in the jug burning and going stale for hours, I just don't get it instant would be better in that case. Then you have the people that microwave coffee until it's bubbling and sunder why it tastes bitter.
I see it more as able to make a mediocre cup, neither good nor bad. With brewed, you can change around different variables to play with the taste and thus can make good versions as well as bad. Being reconstituted, there is also the issue of less aromatics which plays a role in its taste, similar to orange juice needing flavor pack after processing. (https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0308814620320550)
Is instant as good as brewed coffee? -No.
is instant good to drink if you don’t have / want to take the time to brew coffee? -Yes.
instant coffee is bottom tier coffee. sure it is coffee, and I will drink it if nothing else available
I've been experimenting with cheaper and cheaper ground coffee to see where my floor is, I haven't found it yet. Aldi brand, Kroger brand, Folgers, it's all fine to me. Perhaps I should try instant.
It depends on your goal.
I frequently use instant, but will fall back to the ritual of espresso when I have time and wish to relax.
Downvoted because I agree with you.
Instant coffee is great. Hot water, stir... Fucking the bomb.
There's some crappy instant coffee that gives me headaches. But so does certain coffee brands.