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.

  • squiblet
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    492 years ago

    Starbucks tried to modernize it with these little packets a few years back, under the name “Via”. The older brands still exist too, such as Nescafé, which, as a Nestle product, I assume is made from the blood of indigenous people.

    • @s_s@lemmy.one
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      The biggest difference is that starbucks via doesn’t start with awful coffee.

      Starbucks isn’t good coffee compared to some fancy pants third wave coffee, but It’s not nescafe either.

      Freeze drying and rehydrating might not do anything to hurt coffee flavor, but it’s not going to make bad coffee suddenly taste good.

    • BraveSirZaphod
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      122 years ago

      The production actually is pretty cool really. They basically brew giant vats of coffee and then freeze dry it into a powder that can be easily rehydrated.

    • originalucifer
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      52 years ago

      i bet the blood of indigenous people would taste better… not that im condoning such an aberration.

    • @helenslunch@feddit.nl
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      12 years ago

      I just bought a couple dozen of these NUUN tablet tubes. When it arrived the return address had Nestle on it. So I guess I can’t buy those anymore…