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!

Don't think of myself as a coffee snob in any way but I loathe instant - any instant. I have had a nespresso machine for over 10 years - the pods are recycled and the coffee is certainly not stupidly expensive. I also buy freshly coarse ground coffee from Pact which I use at work
in a cafetiere. Nespresso no more expensive than that. I also have a couple of Italian stove tops. Although I LOVE it I don't drink much - one cup first thing at work then maybe an espresso when I get in early evening. The Husband drinks (awful) instant constantly and has no taste whatsoever. don't know where he came from.

The worst ground coffee is better than the best instant coffee.

I disagree with this. I have a distinct memory of tasting the filter coffee served in a hotel at breakfast, and making myself a cup of instant instead. (I normally drink filter at home.)

YANBU, instant coffee is rank.

I love my nepresso coffees. I drink these at home.

Though I still enjoy instant coffee as long as it's somewhat decent, I tend to drink this more at friends homes and at work etc.

I know someone with a Nespresso (or similar) machine and I find the coffee too weak and not hot enough. I don't know if the machine is adjustable to fix either of these problems, but I doubt it.

I think a good cup of instant would solve both problems, and therefore be better. (But obviously not as good as the filter coffee I make for myself every day.)

I also grew up outside the UK and filter coffee is the real coffee for me. I will drink instant if there's nothing else but it's just not the same. Not into these pod coffees at all either.

When I have been given instant coffee in someone else's house I have to literally gulp it down. If they are not in the room I hold my nose! I never accept coffee now only tea.

Instant coffee to me tastes vile and nothing nothing nothing like proper coffee. Yes I have tried a lot of them and they all taste disgusting.

Fine if you like instant but don't pretend it tastes like coffee should

They’re all just different drinks, aren’t they. I like freshly ground coffee made with a pour over pot for a long coffee, or a moka pot on the stove for an espresso. Aeropress when I need one quickly. instant only if there’s nothing else! Flat white in a proper coffee shop etc. They’re all different. I do think nespresso / pods to be wasteful and unnecessary and not enough of a step up from instant to be worth it, but if it works for you etc.

Got visions of packing up the kitchen to go to friends house for coffee. Coffee machine, aero press, cafetière, beans, grinder........ what a whole entire world there is for just coffee alone. Never thought about it before. I need to look at bean to cup. It does need to be small tho, I don’t like things on worktops and I haven’t really got worktop space for massive machine 😬

Don't know if someone has filled you in already but you can buy reusable coffee pods very cheaply on ebay/amazon. My husbands a bit of a coffee snob and the main thing he'll use now is a percolator. He will occasionally use a filter machine but he only likes it when the coffee is on a warming plate and kept very hot, or a cafetiere but finds the coffee a bit grainy sometimes. On the other hand I'm a teacher and will literally drink anything given to me in a mug.

My mother had a stove top percolator when I was growing up which made quite decent coffee.

We get our ground coffee from the Italian cafe/deli round the corner - fair trade organic and orangutan friendly.

Taylors Hot Lava Java coffee bags here, left to brew for 5 mins though, not the suggested 2. Starbucks Via is nice but pricey, not keen on any other instants. I can tolerate Douwe Egberts if I need a glass jar for something though.

Fresh coffee that has been kept sitting on a hot plate for too long is vile - really acrid, acidic and bitter.

I've lost count of the jars of instant coffee I have bought after people have told me it tastes just as good as 'snobby' coffee.

No. Really. It never, ever does.

Nqartz in a lot of areas you can't recycle the pods as it needs doing specially and the equipment is expensive.

Nespresso can’t be considered by anyone as heavenly,

Coffee snob to me is someone who grinds their own beans and goes the whole hog, it’s not someone shoving a pod in what is effectively an instant machine

And I say that as someone who has one.

Instant coffee and Nesoresso isn't to my taste. I make an espresso at home, with ground coffee. But I don't see that as being snobby. It's what I like. Good enough!

@SerenDippitty

Fresh coffee that has been kept sitting on a hot plate for too long is vile - really acrid, acidic and bitter.

That describes Starbuck's coffee accurately!

I love instant, but only Gold Blend. I'm very posh, generally, but prefer it.

@ToastyCrumpet same. I have trained DH to bring me coffee in bed every morning (except his birthday) by claiming not to be able to make the good foam with the machine and being impossible before having coffee.

@Seafog we have a camping espresso maker. Best Father’s Day present for my coffee snob DH.

But both my mother and MIL only like instant so they buy some when they visit. We have two almost full (stale) different brand jars taking up valuable cupboard space which gives me the rage. Also an almost full box of teabags. We don’t drink tea. Don’t even own a kettle.

OP try the Gaggia Brera bean to cup. It’s compact and reliable.

Locally roasted, single origin coffee beans. Hand grind. Chemex pour over.

But I am 100% a coffee snob! (I do enjoy a Starbucks pumpkin spice latte...but I class that as a treat, not coffee)

Black filter coffee here, stronger the better. I only really enjoy one particular brand. I'll still drink it if I can't get my preference, but I don't enjoy it as much and it's pretty much just going through the motions.

I don't really view instant coffee as the same thing at all. To me the two are so distinctly different that it's like offering a beer drinker cider because you are out of beer. It's not 'snobby', I just don't enjoy instant coffee at all and would rather just go without or have a cup of tea, or soft drink instead.

Instant coffee isn’t coffee it’s a coffee flavoured drink.

Waitrose now sell compostible nespresso pods - Eden project ones - can go into the food recycling