Instant coffee?

[carpriver]

I buy 50 lbs of single sourced green coffee beans, Colombia, or Mexico, Coasta Rica et el. I roast enough for about 4 days, and grind enough for a cup or pot I use a pour through brewer. the roasted beans are stored in a vacuum bag that I reseal after each time it's opened.

 

[PALADIN85020]

My dad was way more picky about his coffee than I will ever be with mine. He purchased Combate roasted coffee beans (who knows where, as they come from Hermosillo, Mexico). These beans are produced caramelized. He had an antique hand-powered coffee grinder, and used that to make the grind which was then turned into coffee.

I told him that the only "combat coffee" I ever drank was in the Army, when we'd strain grounds through a (clean) sock in the field to whip up a pot. It all tasted the same to me - disgusting.

John

 

[ChuckS1]

I find that hard to believe. Have you ever made him a cup with the Kurig? If he has tasted that and still prefers the instant he might have defective taste buds?

No, your dad's probably made the right call.

 

[Dave_n]

I have had one instant coffee that is good enough to drink, and that I like as much as any K-cup coffee I've had. I don't shop for it, so I don't know if it exists in the USA, but it's the only coffee most Swiss households I've been in serve. Nescafé Gold De Luxe.

At home we have a cheaper version of the Jura Super-automatic machine described by Walkin' Jack, made by Saeco. It still needs the right beans and roast, a "Full-City Blend".

I agree with BWZ. Pick this up each time I visit Australia and use it there. Tried to bring it back through US Customs one day at LAX. You would have thought I had a primed hand grenade with the pin pulled!!! Dave_n

 

[rwt1405]

I never drank coffee at home growing up...learned to drink coffee in the Navy. Later on in life, I'd go to visit my folks, and they always wanted to fix coffee when I'd visit. They put in 8 heaping scoops of coffee to make 8 cups of coffee...the spoon would stand up in it without touching the sides of the cup. It was awful.

I'm failing to understand the problem with your parents coffee, can please explain further?

 

[arjay]

Bought some espresso beans last week and ground them extra fine.A big pile of em in a drip coffee maker with just a little water added to a cup with a few inches of heated milk and a teaspoon of sugar ain't too bad!

 

[jlrhiner]

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[TX-Dennis]

My wife is Cuban. Her family drinks Espresso brewed very strong. They add brown sugar to the point that it is almost like syrup and drink it out of those tiny expresso cups. Sickly sweet, awful stuff. Makes me gag.

My son loves it, though.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

One of the many surprising things I have encountered is the smell of roasting coffee.
I thought it would smell sort of like brewing coffee.
It dont! It’s got a creosote smell.
My Roaster, Norm Whiting had to install a multiply layer stainless exhaust stack with added blower air.
Somebody mentioned the Hermosillo, Mexico coffee plant.
You can smell that place 5 miles away.

 

[usmc2427765]

The best and worst coffee I ever had was the instant coffee found in C-rations. You had to be there to know what I mean

USMC RVN 1969-1970

 

[explorer13421]

I enjoy a cup of coffee. I have never roasted coffee beans, but I have ground freshly purchased beans and made coffee in several different ways (Mr. Coffee, french press, single drip).

I used instant coffee when time was short. As a vehicle to put caffeine in my system, it sufficed.

When I was backpacking and climbing the High Peaks in the Adirondacks, we used to put Taster's Choice instant in our packet of instant oatmeal, add hot water, stir and eat. That was quick, put caffeine where we needed it, and easy clean up. We ate better after climbing mountains. When you have climbed two or three mountains, covered 18 or 19 miles horizontally and gone up and down thousands of feet vertically, it is surprising what tastes good. Darn near everything!!!

 

[Onomea]

I buy 50 lbs of single sourced green coffee beans.....

Fifty pounds? Dang! You just like your coffee strong, or perhaps you have a large family of coffee drinkers?

How long does 50 pounds last you?

 

[zeke]

Apparently your mil is not a regular coffee drinker, and keeps some around for guests who are. She could do a lot worse than offer you some coffee, maybe buy her a little cheap coffee brewer next x-mas?

 

[ShivasIrons]

I agree with BWZ. Pick this up each time I visit Australia and use it there. Tried to bring it back through US Customs one day at LAX. You would have thought I had a primed hand grenade with the pin pulled!!! Dave_n

I ordered some of this off Amazon. Good coffee. By far the best instant I have ever drank, and I could drink this as a primary coffee. Shocked

 

[ddixie884]

I unloaded a flat bed trlr in Miami one morning. There was a roaster down the street and I had no coffee. When the espresso truck came by I was ready. I believe that is the strongest coffee smell of my life.

 

[hemiram]

It all tastes the same to me, awful. I remember when I was a little kid and my parents told me that "Someday, you'll like it!". Nope, I don't think at 61 there is a chance of that happening. I can't even stand the smell of it on an empty stomach. It's one of many free things I won't touch that I've had available for free at work, but pizza has to be #1. I've turned down thousands of dollars of free pizza over the decades. BBQ too. The travails of a picky eater..

 

[loknload]

Never ever had a cup of instant coffee that I liked!
If it don’t come fresh out of a pot I’m not interested!

 

[joebiker]

Growing up in the San Francisco Bay Area, I remember crossing the bay bridge and the smell of the coffee roasters at the Hills bros coffee plant.

 

[Nevada Ed]

Folks liked regular Folgers.
When I moved out I went to standard Hills.

Only instant that I could like enough for two cups was.....
Tasters Choice.

I am a coffee bean man now with a grinder for real coffee !!
Never going back to a tin can or glass bottle.

 

[BigBoy99]

This is dated but years ago my shooting buddy would like to have a cup of instant coffee before we would leave for the range. I never have like coffee so I would just sit by while he would make a cup for himself. He would take the Brand, "Maxim" Instant Coffee and put three heaping TABLESPOONS into a mug and add the water. It looked like tar but he would drink it down, saying that he like "strong" coffee!