Instant or ‘snobby’ coffee???

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I have over the years become a bit of a coffee snob. Yes I will admit it. I used to drink instant. Was introduced to filter coffee and thought it was heaven!! Then years later used a friends nespresso machine and have never looked back. So, are you a coffee snob or is it just a hot drink???
Yabu. It’s just a drink
Yanbu. No instant for me!

@LaurieFairyCake, Blue Mountain is my favourite, too.

I first had it at my nan's, when I was about 13. She had very high standards when it came to food and drink (when I was a few years older, she introduced me to the delights of a proper dry martini, and single malts).

But Lavazza beans will do for every day.

I'm not much of a coffee drinker, but my one cup of the day is filter coffee as I don't think instant coffee tastes like, well, like coffee. But I'm not a snob about it. Each to their own.

I LOVE the smell of instant coffee, though, because it reminds me of being given a big jug of coffee in primary school to take around the teachers and pour into their mugs at break time. There was a jug of white (with a horrible skin on it) and a jug of black. No health and safety in those days

I like both . My only gripe with cafetière coffee is I haven’t found my “ brand” that I know and can buy regularly.

In our old house we had a plumbed in bean to cup that ground the beans fresh for each cup

God I miss that machine - and that house.

Current mouse sized house doesn't have room for a bean to cup or anything really drives me mad I have a small Philips Senseo that takes the pods that are like tea bags. So throwing them away is just like throwing the grinds away.

double 'pods' with a dash of cream (low Carbing- used to use heated milk, but more Carby).

I also drink a lot of hot water & id rather have that than instant, but people find it 'weird' so I'll have whatever they're having tea/instant coffee. It's a hot, wet, drink -I'll survive it, but not enjoy it.

"snobby is one of the words that gives me the rage. I like Nespresso coffee a lot, i prefer it to instant, and very much prefer it to costa.

^^ This

Just came on to have a giggle about how snobby people are being about the word snobby...

I don't mind instant coffee if offered it at someone else's house, but I don't think of it as coffee at all, it's a completely separate drink, one which I don't usually have. I keep it in the house for use in flavouring cakes, I'd never make a drink with it.

We've recently acquired a bean to cup machine and it's amazing. But before that I've been using a cafetière for decades.

Each to their own though. I'm not snobby about what coffee other people drink, and I'm certainly not an expert on different brands of beans or anything like that - I usually just buy what's on offer in the supermarket!

I only drink decaf, because proper coffee makes me jittery and messes with my sleep, but it's proper ground decaf all the way (in a cafetière atm, but getting a proper coffee machine soon). I would rather have tea or a glass of water than instant - I think it tastes horrible.

I never have instant coffee at home (not a conscious choice, we never had it in the house growing up as my dad was a massive coffee snob and just never tasted it before). But I'm renovating a house I inherited which currently doesn't have a kitchen, so keep a stack of those little instant coffee sachets for when I can't be bothered to make a coffee shop run. I like the really junk-food ones, like Nescafe Irish Cream. Not what I'd consider real coffee but tasty as a one-off.

At home I go between the mokka pot or the cafetiere. Used to have a gorgeous vintage 60s Vesuviana which my parents bought in Italy in the 60s, but I'm not sure where it is. I'm not a coffee snow though - I need to buy a new coffee grinder, so for the moment I'm using pre-ground coffee (that sound is my father spinning in his grave). I'm also fairly keen on Starbucks, which definitely marks me out from most real coffee snobs! (WHEN is PSL coming back?!)

I don't really like real snobby coffee. Will put up with it if that's all that's on offer. Instant all the way for me 😜 And I drink a lot of coffee! ( Probably about 6 mugs a day).

I think that there are quite a lot of coffee snobs around, as have heard lots of women banging on about "their" coffee, and "their" fabulous coffee machines, and their refusing to drink some lowly persons instant coffee. It's a right pain to listen to stuff like this, although it's not a problem, as I only drink tea.

Is 6 mugs of coffee a day a lot? DP drinks a fair bit more than that.

And my tea consumption is probably double that. I'm on mug 5 or 6 already.

@ScrambledSmegs

Exactly!! I think instant has a taste of no rip to it as well! I find I can’t drink it cos it makes me feel very queasy.
Again I apologise for the use of the word ‘snobby’. It’s just a family thing I grew up with if their was a choice it was ‘instant or snobby’.
I have a machine, a cafetière and a stove top... but I’ve never tried bean to cup. I used to like lavazza but it just seems to have lost something for me. I have another one here to try as well. But I’d love bean to cup if I only knew what bean to buy!! There’s so many to choose from!! And as an aside, my dh srinks instant only!

*bovril. How did that equate to ‘ no rip’! Bizarre

I'm snobby about people who use nespresso machines, all that packaging. Bog standard instant coffee is fine for me.

6 cups of 'one teaspoon' instant is probably ok.

6 cups of the ground coffee I drink, in a day and I'd be suffering heart palpitations!

@JayeAshe

We never have instant, but the only coffee we use is Lidl's Bellarom gold, nothing snobby about us

I have a bean to cup machine, which gets used constantly but I have the Lidl one when I'm in the office because they only provide red top Nescafe

I only drink about two or three a week. I'm a caffeine lightweight.

I get the point about performative snobbyism. My dad, I swear to God, he could have been the model for Frasier Crane. He used to love to watch that show and never understood that Frasier and Niles were being mocked in the scenes showing their fussiness.

Instant definitely has a odd tang to it that marks it out right away. I don't mind it and will drink either but would pick 'real' coffee over instant every time.

However I don't go near the pod things, I will admit to being a coffee snob about them!

Nespresso is as bad as instant. Fresh or nothing.

I'd prefer to tea over instant coffee. It's muck.

I've been like this for 20 years and it used to get all sorts of raised eyebrows years ago. Not so much now.

I like both, I can only have one - two strong coffees a day after that I have to instant or I get headaches,

@ummnamechange

I’ve never actually tried civet coffee. Have you tried it!?

@Pobblebonk

I tried some with baileys at Christmas, but I thought it tasted awful. Not at all matched. Like if someone mixed tea and coffee together in the same cup? Perhaps I did it wrong.....

I thought these pods were meant to be a bit chavvy. I just use instant. Couldn't be bothered messing about grinding up beans either.

You'll need to prise my Aeropress from my cold dead hands. Hardly more time consuming than instant, but perfect coffee. No sludge at the bottom like a cafetiere, just rich, real coffee.