https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instant_coffee
"Said to have been popularised in the UK by GIs during World War II, instant coffee still accounts for over 75 percent of coffee bought to drink in British homes, as opposed to well under 10 percent in the U.S. and France and one percent in Italy.[11]"
What's up with that, Brits?
You're an instant homosexual
he's yuropoorean, so yeah
why don't you guys brew good coffee instead?
I always keep a jar or two of instant on hand.
It's great for breakfast shakes, or desserts that require coffee, where you'd rather not leave a brewed pot out to cool. Or even if I'm just in a hurry and want a cup of swill.
I really enjoy it, tastes better than most commercial stuff over a drip coffee machine and I can't be bothered over the gay elaborate brewing methods other than a French press
How is a pour over elaborate
I don't drink coffee for the taste, I drink it to expedite my 8am shit.
Then take caffeine pills
because a coffee machine is an unnecessary expense when compared to a kettle
also tea is superior, except for the morning shit ie
curious what Americans drink at home now tbqh, not exactly known for their coffee
The fucj are you talking about. We drink a shit load of coffee. You're basically gay if you drink tea and no one respects anyone who drinks energy drinks
calm down ladies, bit touchy today are we?
>britain drinks a lot of instant coffee
>uh um well er uh A-AMERICANS!
You're a parody of yourself at this point.
dumbass
It said 10% of AMERICANS drink instant, how is it unrelated?
Americans are very well known for their coffee. As to your question, most people drink drip coffee or cold brew nowadays.
Americans are known for disgusting 1000 kcal coffee milkshake abominations made with burnt beans.
You literally drink powdered sloppa while america pumps out some of the most prestigious coffee roasters in the world, cope seethe and drink another cup of instant nespresso
>burnt beans
Sounds French.
41% of americans drink their coffee black, and we invented cowboy coffee
american """""black""""" coffee is more like brown sewage water
one or two beans per cup is not a coffee
there is a reason why coffee americano is just brewed with the latest used grounds and topped with 4/5ths hot water
Americans also brew at the highest extraction on average of the top coffee consuming nations
>there is a reason why coffee americano is just brewed with the latest used grounds and topped with 4/5ths hot water
and whats the issue with this?
>there is a reason why coffee americano is just brewed with the latest used grounds and topped with 4/5ths hot water
It's common for Americans to drink coffee all day long while at work, so a mild brew is preferred as opposed to a single very strong tiny cup of coffee just in the morning.
Imagine calling the drink you're trying to talk up sewage while trying to disparage another country for drinking a less concentrated version of it.
You're not very good at this, are you?
Almost no one in America is drinking cafe americanos. Drip coffee is by far the most common style of coffee in America.
There's quite a split here; boomers love their preground dark roasts and Nespresso rigs, which aren't great but at least they brew the stuff themselves. Millennial women go for the milkshake abominations (never seen a man drink one). Younger people either get autistic about it and buy v60s or aeropresses or whatever, or increasingly just don't drink coffee at all.
>canada
I never hear about their coffee. What's the scene like? Aus of course is bizarrely overrepresented in the serious coffee world.
>Aus of course is bizarrely overrepresented in the serious coffee world
Italian migrants introduced us to proper coffee some time around the 80s I think
>Italian migrants
those are slovenes and croatians
>Italian migrants introduced us to proper coffee
why didn't they do this anywhere else?
seems there was no point pulling back out of politeness if this crybaby was going to start melting down about /int/posting anyway
you're known for coffee consumption but not known for good coffee, quite the opposite. I was surprised that only 10% drink instant
>As to your question, most people drink drip coffee or cold brew nowadays.
thanks for actually answering it, even if it took a while
I've never heard a good word about American coffee.
You've never heard anything about american coffee aside from Starbucks because your entire perception of America is memes
well that's what memes are for
starbucks is your only coffee related export, and thats because america is not known for its coffee. literally name any other country in the americas besides canada and they have better coffee there than you do
Genuinely cannot help themselves
stovetop espresso maker, I like half coffee and half whole milk with a tiny pinch of sugar
Not american but feel like alot of americans rather buy to-go coffee on starbucks etc instead of brewing at home
>I'm not an Americano but I claim to be an expert on Americans because I watch commercials
Why are thirdies like this
buddy how many Starbucks are in your country?
where do you think it came from
Huh? We have coffee shops and local roasters from coast to coast. America pumps out pretty decent coffee
At home I imagine most people these days use pod brewers or classic drip brewers, with fancier people using french presses.
I would say the majority now drink keurig slop. Just look at how much shelf space had disappeared for regular coffee in stores and has been replaced with k-slop
My mom tried using those k cups for a bit but after a while switched to folger's instant, which she says tastes about the same but with less hassle.
I drink assam, keemun, and lapsang souchong teas mixed with a dark roasted coffee. All plain and black, no sugars or milks. Everything mixed together. Hot or cold with ice.
Instant coffee
Coffee is now a human universal, everyone drinks it everywhere
with their overpriced espresso goytoy machine
Americans drink drip coffee brewed in a plastic machine, that ensures constant sloughing of estrogen into their good goy juice.
That way the boss gets his productive workers and the cops get their docile feminized serfs
I drink pic related exclusively, it honestly isn't that bad
I like instant cough
whe it comes to anglo coffee
australia>canada>USA>UK
I'm a brit and I love instant coffee, more than with beans (which go on toast).
I'm not changing who I am or what I like to appease brown people or white men that eat horses.
I assume it's because Brits drink tea.
i drink 5 or 6 cups of nescafe a day, black. Its delicious.
Gold blend is pretty good. I do like to brew up some ground coffee every now and then though
i used to be a pourover nerd with all the ultra-precise bullshit figured out, but then I figured out I could get almost the same result for far less time/effort with a french press, so i converted. breakfast needs to be quick
It's easy to make when you're half asleep, it doesn't shit up the environment like capsule machines and you don't need a university degree like a proper coffee machine. Also you don't have to worry about cleaning properly like with a moka pot.
old people and capsule machines mainly
>instant coffee still accounts for over 75 percent of coffee bought to drink in British homes
embarrassing. never expected the number to be that high
>one percent in Italy
based
How does he manage to get away with wearing round glasses? It just makes me look like a homosexual so I stick with rectangular ones.
the trick is to be a homosexual like that guy
i read some advice that if your jaw is square, round glasses look better on you. and vice versa.
this. the more round your face is, the more the glasses just focus the roundness of your face. unless you have a perfect jawline (and head shape) you basically have to wear the opposite of your face shape or you'll look like an idiot
Hoffmanbros, how do we respond?
Instant isn't inherently bad, the dehydration process isn't what makes it taste like shit. What makes it taste like shit is the industrial batch brewing processes they use to make the original brewed coffee before they dehydrate it, even if you were drinking that stuff fresh it would taste like dogshit.
But brewing coffee and the aromas that come from it is half the fun
>What's up with that, Brits?
takes two seconds to make, most people only drink it for the caffeine anyway, and are used to the instant coffee taste since thats what they always drank
As a britbong I fucking hated the taste of coffee until my mid twenties. Always thought it tasted burnt and acrid and dogshit. I could get the caffeine high from strongly brewed tea.
Went to Amsterdam and tried some freshly ground coffee, and while it took a couple sips to get a hold of it was significantly more pleasant than I was used to. Now I keep some beans on hand for the occasion of wanting a cup of coffee or to share with company I've got round.
Instant coffee is still fucking dogshit I feed to people I can't be arsed getting the mortar and pestle out for because I'm too cheap to buy a grinder.
More like instant vomit.
If you think that's crazy, Latin America is close to 100% instant coffee consumers.
For me, it's extraforte
'Murrican here and growing up, my Depression/WWII era Polish immigrant parents drank instant coffee but I think it was a gee wiz kinda thing for them, as mom had an old hand-crank coffee grinder and ceramic pot with a matching ceramic "filter" insert (I remember the slots being pretty big so a very course ground would be needed) buried in the back of the kitchen cabinet and which she never used.
I also drank instant coffee before getting a real job and moving out, whereupon I got a Mr.Coffee brewer with a timer so it would be ready as I stumbled out of bed and nowadays, buy Maxwell House, Folgers or Meijers brand pre-ground coffee (whatever is on sale) with Coffee-mate powdered creamer and sugar (beet sugar, I'm from Michigan).
members of the yamayurikai drink instant coffee and if its good enough for them its good enough for me
i just have a cup in the morning and drink tea the rest of the day. i've tried good coffee in shops that make a thing of it but i'm simply too lazy to faff about with equipment first thing in the morning while i'm getting ready for work. it's 'good enough' coffee.
I'll talk shit about Mexico all day but I drink pic related.
Just bought a can of this. It's fucking good.
I'm brit and everyone I know has a grinder and orders their roast beans over the Internet and parcel delivered once every few months, then just makes the coffee whatever way they like. honestly doesn't matter as long as the roast is somewhat fresh and the grind is fresh
Probably a consequence of how poor UK was after the war
>purely historical factors
>What's up with that, Brits
I don't know, but we're also responsible for James Hoffman and the age of pretentious coffee snobbery he's heralded, so I guess we're a place of extremes
Not really a coffee country.
>instant coffee still accounts for over 75 percent of coffee bought to drink in British homes
Gott strafe England
>Compared to most other European countries, British coffee consumers drink relatively large amounts of instant coffee. A recent survey stated that up to 73% of British households prefer instant coffee for in-home consumption in 2021
suits their breathless defense of gray food under gray skies eaten by gray people
I legitimately prefer instant coffee to drip coffee, I think it tastes better and I like being able to just make one cup whenever I feel like it, as strong as I feel like and never having to deal with coffee grounds or cleaning a machine
I went from a $4000 espresso setup to v60 pourovers to instant coffee.
The time, effort, counterspace, and especially cleaning just wasn't worth it. Good beans are also fucking expensive.
Once in a while I'll get drip from a good cafe but instant isn't that bad. Its a hell of a lot better than pod machines, which are filthy and taste like rotting slime after a few weeks.
Sounds like a larp. What was the setup?
It was a quickmill e61. I don't have any pictures of the setup but here is a pour
And here is where I am now, same counter and cup.
cringe
you were just too lazy to do it right so you gave up halfway and went back to eating shit
>hunger provoking image
>food wasting question
Fuck you op
Eat the instant coffee.
instant coffee is good when you make a frappe, everything else sucks.
They stopped selling my favorite instant coffee (Gevalia Colombia). Now I suffer through most cups.
Used to eat this stuff dry in boy scouts to stay up all night long
A larger percentage of British people drink instant coffee because they don't regularly drink coffee as they prefer tea. If they're going to spend time making something why not just make better tea?
You people can't into statistics at all. Fucking retards should stay away from understanding numbers when you can understand contextual reasoning.
>If they're going to spend time making something why not just make better tea?
That's a good question. Why haven't they learned to make better tea?
Elaborate on how British tea is sub-standard
it's british
go on
What more needs to be said?
what do they do wrong
see
I really cannot make this any clearer for you. If you're still having trouble grasping it, just give up.
When's the last time you bought tea leaves grown in the UK?
Subpar subcontinental black tea drowned in milk and sugar is hardly any better than US Southern sweet tea. Good cha stands on its own. Only the chinks and nips got it right.
I don't drink this shit, I need no drugs in my body