I used to drink instant coffee, like most people in the UK. When I lived in Italy, I moved onto real cappuccino and espresso. Since I've come back (and it's been nearly two years), I've failed to make the move back to instant. It tastes bitter, chemical, awful. I can drink filter coffee at a push, but it's only the stuff made in a proper machine that does it for me.
Anyone else fussy with their coffee, or is it just me?
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me! i travel with my little bialetti moka express. it has saved me from an unpleasant breakfast many a time.
I love a trip to Glasgow just for a caramel macchiato from starbucks but it doesn't spoil me for my instant - thinking of a big cuppa coffee makes it worthwhile getting up in the morning (esp when there's chocolate in the house to dip in it)!
Much the same thing happened to me when I lived in Berlin. Fortunately, by the time I came back, the UK had discovered the cafetiere. We have two (different sizes) and a 3-cup Bialetti espresso maker.
I can't drink instant any more. It's not just inferior to the real thing, it's actually nasty.
I've slightly gone off espresso, though; I'm not convinced it's the best way to appreciate the flavour of the coffee. My coffee of choice at the moment is the Rwandan from the Monmouth Coffee Company, which I grind myself and make in an Aerobie Aeropress —which, despite the claims on the site, doesn't make brilliant espresso, but if you make a double and water it down it makes a very good mug of black coffee.
That must be worth a few coffee-snob points.
I haven't been able to drink instant coffee for years. Unfortunately, I've become addicted to Starbuck's Café Latté.
INSTANT?????
Ya mad???
Anything from freshly-ground coffee will do -- filter, melita, press, one of those Italian stove-top coffee makers, cappuccino.
I've collected all of the above and have the choice in the morning. I take my coffee seriously.
Well, I'm going to go against the trend here as, in all honesty, I don't mind a nice cup of Nescafe instant coffee.
Sure, a well-made freshly ground coffee is much more enjoyable, but for one who doesn't drink coffee that regularly (I'm a tea person, Earl Grey; coffee is my pick-me-up), a convenient instant coffee is the best way. Maybe I'm yet to appreciate the true nature of that which I happily swig back from time to time...
I'm with Ben on this one. I'm a coffee heathen - I can tell the difference between good and bad, but I'm too bone idle to go for anything but the easy option.
Earl Grey though - now you're talking...
Real coffee, ground and brewed right. Sometimes as a latte or usually black, hot and very strong. One cup a day is my limit though.
I can't abide instant, I'd be lost without Lavazza, but sadly I've melted the handle on one Bialetti too many . . .
If God wanted me to make coffee, She wouldn't have caused Starbuck's to take over the world.
We have a cheap Hinari Café Continental machine, which makes espresso and cappuccino and cost £17.95 from Tesos. We bought it to take on holiday with us and it proved astonishingly good, especially for the price.
We had an Italian machine, a Baby Gaggia, from an electrical/household store when we lived in Turin, which cost quite a bit more, but it broke down a while back - just out of guarantee (typical!). But the Hinari machine's coffee is just as good, so we don't miss it.
Very.
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