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  • Best instant coffee?
  • perchypanther
    Free Member

    At home – Tassimo Costa Americano. Yummy with zero faffage.

    At Work – Carte Noire Classic. Slightly less yummy. Zero faffage.

    Tried all of these Wholebean Azera Millicano type bollocks. Not impressed.

    Tried various other instants. Always come home to the old favourite…

    mintimperial
    Full Member

    Some people just like to have a coffee sometimes.

    But instant coffee isn’t coffee. It’s modified gravy granules or something, I dunno, or possibly grout? It’s definitely not coffee, that’s for sure.

    Yeah it takes about 10 seconds longer to make a proper coffee, but on the plus side you get a drink that doesn’t taste like it’s been scraped out of a u-bend.

    annebr
    Free Member

    ransos – Member

    You can’t polish a turd.

    No, but you can roll it in Instant Coffee.

    johndoh
    Free Member

    on the plus side you get a drink that doesn’t taste like it’s been scraped out of a u-bend.

    But instant coffee doesn’t taste like… Ohh never mind.

    nemesis
    Free Member

    Mind you, IME, most coffee snobs can’t tell the difference when you make them a coffee properly but deliberately using stale coffee. So long as you can proclaim that it’s been made properly, nothing else really matters for them.

    I know, I’ve done it several times to make the point 😉

    In fact, I’d argue that they’re just the hifi muppets of the foodie world.

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    you can smell stale coffee a mile off, no need to taste it.

    nemesis
    Free Member

    I agree. And yet…

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    i have a Naim amplifier too, sorry if that made you head explode.

    nemesis
    Free Member

    KABOOOM!

    ( does it grind coffee for you? )

    nemesis
    Free Member

    And of course, it’s even worse when one of them makes you a coffee but completely over draws it as they’ve never noticed…

    binners
    Full Member

    [video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZPxjmBnF8gE[/video]

    breatheeasy
    Free Member

    Yeah it takes about 10 seconds longer to make a proper coffee,

    Then the five minutes cleaning out the kit for next time…

    Gary_M
    Free Member

    But instant coffee isn’t coffee. It’s modified gravy granules or something, I dunno, or possibly grout? It’s definitely not coffee, that’s for sure.

    Yeah it takes about 10 seconds longer to make a proper coffee, but on the plus side you get a drink that doesn’t taste like it’s been scraped out of a u-bend.

    Can’t figure out if you’re being serious or not.

    Decent instant coffee doesn’t taste bad though.

    ransos
    Free Member

    Then the five minutes cleaning out the kit for next time…

    It takes you five minutes to clean out a cafetiere?

    Gary_M
    Free Member

    It takes you five minutes to clean out a cafetiere?

    You use a cafetiere? So all you do is poor water on ground coffee?.

    brassneck
    Full Member

    The Starbucks added grit sachets are nice, but well too pricey for a regular brew.

    ransos
    Free Member

    You use a cafetiere? So all you do is poor water on ground coffee?.

    That was kinda the point…

    nemesis
    Free Member

    Yeah but he does it in an artisan way with a carefully curated coffee selection.

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    unless you wear a selvage denim coffee apron while brewing you can get in the sea.

    (hopefully thats a double whammy and somebody is boiling their piss at that)

    nemesis
    Free Member

    I sincerely hope that no one uses standard tap water for their artisan coffee (Shudders). My water sommelier is particularly touchy about that.

    perchypanther
    Free Member

    somebody is boiling their piss

    Now THAT’S artisan coffee. Although it should be hot, not boiling.

    MrSmith
    Free Member

    Tesco’s ashbrook spring has the best TDS and ph levels for coffee if you cant stretch to an inline reverse osmosis set-up, its also cheap if you buy it in 5L bottles.
    HTH

    climbingkev
    Free Member

    Cafe Direct Machu Pichu, very, very good.

    piemonster
    Full Member

    Coffee bags are a reasonable compromise for anyone not willing to skive off work for 2 minutes whilst cleaning their cafetière.

    breatheeasy – Member
    Yeah it takes about 10 seconds longer to make a proper coffee,
    Then the five minutes cleaning out the kit for next time…

    POSTED 2 DAYS AGO # REPORT-POST

    anyway, instant coffee is vile rank shite

    grahamt1980
    Full Member

    Millicano is ok, but I have started a bit of psychological warfare at work to persuade them to get a proper machine.
    I bought an aeropress and 200g of Tigerstripe.
    The amount of comments I get, when I have made it, on the lovely smell is going a long way.
    It only takes a couple of minutes to make and wash up

    chestercopperpot
    Free Member

    @Binners – Grounds for Constructive Dismissal IMO the employer should have ensured adequate coffee and tea provisions are provided.

    My advice resign stating the “dole coffee” has made your position untenable and file a claim for constructive dismissal with the Employment Tribunal.

    jonnyrobertson
    Full Member

    I’ll second piemonster’s suggestion of coffee bags. I use them at work and have got quite a few others onto them. About £2.60 for 18 bags from bigger Sainsbury’s or Tesco’s.

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