As a nation, we're guzzling k-cup coffee, so we can't front. But, interesting fact.
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Nearly half the world prefers instant coffee; Australians the most, US the least
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As a nation, we're guzzling k-cup coffee, so we can't front. But, interesting fact.
Wait, do people go to a shop or something and get instant coffee? That's crazy. I drink instant coffee at home because sometimes I want caffeine in the next 30 seconds and if it's going to take longer than that I might as well get tea, but if I'm buying it elsewhere it better be proper coffee.
I'm guessing Americans not having electric kettles makes it hard to market instant coffee.
I'm guessing Americans not having electric kettles makes it hard to market instant coffee.
Sakura
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Is the only choice instant coffee or buying single cups at shops? Why not just brew your own lol.
Woah wait, Americans don't have kettles? I don't know how I would live without one.
Alx
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Yup. I drink instant coffee every morning, mostly because it's easier (and cheaper).
Instant coffee < Nespresso-like capsules < Starbucks-like coffee < espresso on the counter < espresso at the restaurant, but in the end I mostly drink instant at home and capsules at work.
It's funny though that my parents always called instant coffee "American coffee".
We heat up water in the microwave.
Well then, I don't know who to blame!
Nicktendo86
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Don't know if you are joking or not, but come to think of it never seen an electric kettle on an American TV show or movie. Mind blown, that's like the first thing you buy when moving to a new house here. What do you do without the saying 'put the kettle on'? Bloody weirdos.
Sakura
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Please tell me you are joking. My mind can't handle this.
IncandescentPrecept
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I don't have that kind of time to waste.
What? There's no sugar in coffee.
way more
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In America
we don't feel the need for useless add-on's, extraneous extras, pointless utensils, and vanity items. To heat water we buy a "water-hot." We fill it with water and place it upon the stove.
Perhaps other cultures feel the need to purchase the latest item so that at which during when a guest is over they may comment such as "Oooooooooh! Look at my Watery-Dooo boiler-yoooooo, it's just the latest commercial gadget I've purchased that moves me up a rung in our hierarchal caste system!"
Excuse me for thinking only the "upper"-class should have a water-hot.
Nicktendo86
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Exactly, that's why it is such a bitter disgusting slosh. Never heard of anyone complain that instant coffee is pure suger :/
Oooooooooooooooh yeah.
Not for this Aussie though. Fresh beans all day erry day in my kitchen. Just bought a new grinder to go with them, too
Most people probably think your joking but its so fucking true. I'll take a shitty cup of Blend 47 or Mocona over Starbucks anyday.
The little packets we have here have sugar and powder cream in them.
Instant coffee without sugar and cream does exist here and it's a lot better, but it tastes pretty rank when drank with brewn coffee side-by-side
WHAT?
Edit: Damn, that is really sad. And there are some instants I will take over old drip coffee that was brewed from burnt beans and reheated too many time.
I have never ever seen that before. This thread is educating me.
Huw_Dawson
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Wait, Americans don't use kettles?
How do you life
How do you life
way more
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This is pretty much why people prefer Budweiser or Foster's to local brews. The glombed over, generic, low-threshold, flat flavored, nature of instant coffee, MSG, chicken tenders, or tilapia.
The gentle taste profile of a person who thinks Starbuck's tastes "burnt"
The taste profile of someone who enjoys a bit of flavor.
sales don't necessarily mean preference though. do they mean retail as in coffee shops or what people buy from supermarkets?
to me instant doesn't even taste like coffee, its like some weird waxy coffee style flavoured drink.
using an aeropress is barely more effort than making instant anyway
to me instant doesn't even taste like coffee, its like some weird waxy coffee style flavoured drink.
using an aeropress is barely more effort than making instant anyway
Huw_Dawson
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I'm drinking instant coffee right now.
I boiled the water with a kettle.
Like a human being.
I boiled the water with a kettle.
Like a human being.
We don't drink tea, so we don't need kettles.
PassiveObserver
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Real talk, a cup of coffee does not cost $5. Specialty desert drinks maybe, but small regular cup of joe costs $1.80 at Peet's or Starbucks. Single brewed cups, on the other hand, can get crazy.
But how do you Mi goreng?
HOW DO YOU?
Was just about ask the same thing! I can't live without my instant noodles!
killer_clank
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sure, but electric kettles are just a demonstrably better way of heating a quantity of water quickly for any purpose. i just can't get over doing it in the microwave, you surely can't heat that much water in a microwave, and what do even you put the water in?
/mindblown
ItAintEasyBeinCheesy
it's 4th of July in my asshole
But here's the best coffee
This is my case. We have coffees for all occasions in my house, and a myriad of wonderful ways to prepare them. Thing is, unless it's the weekend and the baby's asleep, I don't have fifteen minutes to spare on making a cup of coffee. Instant has reached the point where it's now 'good enough' for 90% of my coffee drinking.
Lucian Cat
Kissed a mod for a tag; liked it
I care ;__; really need to buy me a coffee brewing thingy one day.
Edit:
Ugh no. Stupid SA and our crappy coffee
Huw_Dawson
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But what about hot chocolate
gravy
ovaltine
pot noodles
instant soup
lemsip
These are all things that kettles are good at
Sakura
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I very rarely drink tea, and an electric kettle is indispensable for me. I use it for instant coffee, and for instant noodles or other things requiring hot water. They are like as cheap as 10 dollars, why wouldn't you have one?
I thought Canadians and Americans were so similar. I just cannot wrap my head around this.
A pot of water? Takes oh, roughly the safe amount of time?
I loathe instant coffee and capsule coffees. They taste like shit and the amount of plastic junk you have to trash with the capsules is ridiculous.
But whatever nothing stops the train where we drown in plastic and bad tasting shit.
We need a revolution for fresh food and bewerages.
But whatever nothing stops the train where we drown in plastic and bad tasting shit.
We need a revolution for fresh food and bewerages.
reptilescorpio
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Wow that's really strange considering everywhere you look in Australia is a cafe serving fancy coffee, even in small towns out in the countryside.
Very unexpected. Although every business I've ever been to provides unlimited supplies of instant coffee.
Flawless lol
Very unexpected. Although every business I've ever been to provides unlimited supplies of instant coffee.
Although a lot seem to be picking up pod machines, which sits in a nice middle ground between the two.
Flawless lol
Looks like dog food and sugar.
Huw_Dawson
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Okay, in all seriousness, if you're choosing to heat water on a stove in a pot it will take way longer to boil than choosing to use an electric kettle. My kettle is pretty average. It boils 500ml of water in about two or two and a half minutes at most. And you can boil well over a litre in most kettles, which is useful for when you have quite a few people over and there is much tea and coffee to make.
And don't quote me on this as I am not mad enough to try it, but I'm pretty sure boiling water using a microwave is both very inefficient and still takes quite a bit of time?
Plus, if you're boiling water on the stove you should be doing it in a stove kettle anyway, because they contain heat better and as such boil the water faster. And they make a cool whistling sound when they have boiled the water, which is pleasingly retro.
reptilescorpio
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WAIT WAIT WAIT
People in the US don't have kettles? I can't believe I'm only learning this now!
Well yeah, that might hold up instant coffee sales!
Also powdered milk? YUCK!
Brewed coffee here in my country town has gone up to $5.50 at some spots. Fucking insanity since it was only $4 when I moved here 3 years ago and there are now 6 new cafes open since then! If it was that cheap I would love on the stuff lol
People in the US don't have kettles? I can't believe I'm only learning this now!
Well yeah, that might hold up instant coffee sales!
Also powdered milk? YUCK!
Brewed coffee here in my country town has gone up to $5.50 at some spots. Fucking insanity since it was only $4 when I moved here 3 years ago and there are now 6 new cafes open since then! If it was that cheap I would love on the stuff lol
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