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!

Snobby coffee.

Once I’d make the switch to proper coffee I couldn’t drink instant anymore. If I’m at someones house and spot instant I ask for tea.....I don’t even really like tea but it’s better than instant

However I don’t rate the nespresso coffee at all

I love ground coffee but despise Nespresso with a passion- It always tastes like vending machine / petrol station coffee to me.

I don't drink inst it's gross I stopped drinking it in my very early 20s. But I just see them as completely different drinks. For me it's the freeze dried taste every single instant coffee tastes of that freeze dried after taste. I'm also not sure I'd call it snobby. Its just likening what you like.

We don't have a pod coffee machine. I don't like the ideo of waste and I do wonder about the coffee quality. (that is a bit snobby)

I've not heard of 'snobby' but I like freshly made coffee better than instant. I did buy some sachets of instant that taste like 'real', bought them online. They were very nice in a small cup. I wish I could remember what they were called.

Being on my own, I generally use individual filters. Apart from what I mentioned above, I haven't had instant for years.

Tired the Nespresso stuff at a friends. Never again. Ridiculously priced, and it tastes exactly like sort of stuff you get handed by the trolley staff on rail journeys. I genuinely can't see what the attraction is.

That’s not a comparison. Filter/presse coffee and Instant are two different drinks. I can’t drink instant. I hate it. But other people like it.

Instant coffee here, but only the good quality stuff. We also have a Nespresso which DH mainly uses and sometimes makes me one from there, but if I'm getting one for myself it's instant every time.

I have both instant and fresh coffee beans in the house. Must admit I use instant more often than not because it's quicker, however I love the smell of fresh coffee brewing. I don't like the pod machines, coffee tastes awful and they are so wasteful.

I don’t drink instant coffee, but I am not a coffee snob, I just prefer the taste of something else, it is hardly snobby. My husband occasionally has instance coffee and my sister does too, I don’t look down my nose at either of them.

i buy coffee beans, grind them and pop them in the cafetiere. Takes 5 mins, tastes much better and works out cheaper than most pod coffees.

Can someone recommend me a good quality but “mild” filter coffee please? I like coffee but it makes me dizzy if it’s too strong. Or do I just use less of it??

I like both.

Yes, 'proper' coffee is better but instant coffee is what I grew up with so it has a comfort factor.

That’s a very British question, OP. Italians would view the idea of coffee as a signifier of social status as incomprehensible. Everyone drinks the real stuff.

Preferring real coffee to instant doesn’t make you a ‘snob’. It means you prefer real coffee.

@TulipsandDa1s1es

i buy coffee beans, grind them and pop them in the cafetiere. Takes 5 mins, tastes much better and works out cheaper than most pod coffees.

I couldn’t agree more.

It takes 30 seconds to chuck a couple of scoops of beans in the grinder, blitz them and tip them into the cafetière. You do this while the kettle is boiling, then pour the water over the coffee, stir, wait a minute, plunge pour and enjoy. It literally takes hardly any longer!

@Estrellente

I suspect coffee does not agree with you. I have no experience of the dizziness thing, but some people get "the shakes" or sleep badly from taking too much.

Try a decaffeinated ground coffee for a couple of weeks, see if that suits. Oddly, dark, Italian blends taste stronger, but have less caffeine because it burns away during the prolongued roast.

Coffeemakers usually come with a measure that is nominally one cup's worth. I think it is one Espresso cup, and if you prefer a larger cup or mug, you will either use more, or it will be weaker.

I occasionally have café au lait in a breakfast bowl, which is basically half a pint of hot milk with a dash of coffee in it, so not very strong, and tastes quite different.

If you want intensity of flavour, try a small (demi-tasse) cup with no milk or sugar. Cream, and full-cream milk, suppress the taste. Semi skimmed is acceptable.

A restaurant trick is to serve little jugs of single cream with after dinner coffee. This hides the taste so you don't realise it is stale, bitter old stuff that they have reheated or kept on the hotplate for a couple of hours. It will also conceal strong instant coffee that they have made in a coffee pot and left for a few minutes to develop some taste.

That’s really helpful, thanks Piglet.

You could try moving from pods to making your own coffee in a moka pot. You’ll save money, spare the environment and it tastes even better!

www.amazon.co.uk/Bialetti-Moka-Express-Espresso-Maker/dp/B0016H2PLS/ref=mp_s_a_1_4?dchild=1&keywords=moka+pot&sprefix=moka+&tag=mumsnetforu03-21&qid=1601068189&sr=8-4

Instant coffee takes me straight back to morning sickness (my youngest is nearly 16!). Nespresso I object to on environmental grounds (and don't particularly like). Cafetière or stove top coffee for me!

I definitely prefer instant