I’ve recently been doing some instant coffee with milk and it is really fucking good. Around February I wanted a bit of a classic snack the way my grandparents would, some sweet bread with instant coffee. So I got myself some. I had forgotten the powdered creamer, so I used milk. I was pleasantly surprised.
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.
I respect that, since I’m already grinding my own specialty beans, albeit only using an aeropress. But at the same time, I’m not turning my nose up on the simpler “ignorant” joy of instant coffee., simply because I learned, made, and tasted more and more specialty coffee. Or “instant” anything from hobbies / movement that want to share the joy of elevating [insert thing here].
It was one of these instant coffee
It’s already got cinnamon in it and then you add milk. Not normal instant already.