For some reason I think of it as an older concept. Now Starbucks and coffee chains are popular.

Seinfeld on instant coffee https://youtu.be/uDrh5pujB9I?si=VdlVEREjMTNd2Bs7

Highlighting carlcook’s advice:

dissolve in cold water, ONLY THEN add hot water. The rationale behind it is that aromatics evaporate too quickly when the instant powder is infused with too/boiling hot water.

  • BarqsHasBiteOPEnglish
    7•1 year ago

    so much less carbon footprint.

    Bad news for you.

    https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1385894723015243

    Instant coffee has >2 times higher impacts and costs than ground coffee.

    Based on the functional unit of 1 tonne of coffee produced, instant coffee has higher impacts and costs than ground coffee for both system boundaries because it requires double the amount of green coffee beans and 7–11 times more energy.

    • DeadNinja
      3•1 year ago

      Really bad news, and so ignorant of me. Thanks for the enlightenment btw !