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I love a cup of coffee. My husband does too; he just gets a regular or iced coffee from Starbucks. I keep seeing commercials for those instant coffee machines. I don't get them. It is an instant powder mix. My husband has a machine at work. He hates it and doesn't touch it.
I love a cup of coffee. My husband does too; he just gets a regular or iced coffee from Starbucks. I keep seeing commercials for those instant coffee machines. I don't get them. It is an instant powder mix. My husband has a machine at work. He hates it and doesn't touch it. What is all the craze with fancy instant coffee?
I don't get it either. I think because it's "instant".
I love a cup of coffee. My husband does too; he just gets a regular or iced coffee from Starbucks. I keep seeing commercials for those instant coffee machines. I don't get them. It is an instant powder mix. My husband has a machine at work. He hates it and doesn't touch it.
What is all the craze with fancy instant coffee?
I'm not clear what you're talking about. The instant coffee machines I'm familiar with are big commercial vending machines that make different coffee drinks and cocoa from powdered mixes. But I never see commercials for those.
What I do see commercials for are the various pod systems for home use, like Nespresso, Keurig, and the new Starbucks system, but although they make coffee quickly, they are all actually brewing ground coffee under pressure, not using instant coffee.
The little packets that make "lattes" are instant coffee mixed with milk powder. The one at my husband's work has all sorts of coffee flavored, teas, etc. It is a table top machine. Maybe, green mountain? All instant crap. It definitely isn't fresh ground coffee. Plus, the machines don't get as hot as regular brewed coffee.
Sounds like your husband's office has a Keurig, Green Mountain is a brand of coffee. Keurigs have a pod system that can do real brewed coffee as well as tea, cocoa, and various other drinks. He may not like it, but it is real coffee not instant.
Sounds like your husband's office has a Keurig, Green Mountain is a brand of coffee. Keurigs have a pod system that can do real brewed coffee as well as tea, cocoa, and various other drinks. He may not like it, but it is real coffee not instant.
Or a Tassimo. Those things are more expensive than a Keurig and so are the pods. Hubbys office got rid of their Kuerig and got a Tassimo. It will make all kinds of lattes and cappuccinos. Nastiest. Stuff. Ever. I tried one of the lattes one day while visiting his office. Just gross. Tasted totally instant and not nearly hot enough. And I don't know if this is all of their machines, or just those that are supplied and serviced by a coffee service, but theirs will not allow you to use the make your own type of pods. One of his coworkers bought the do it yourself pods for Tassimo and tried it. Wouldn't work. Their pods have some kind of bar code on them that the machine scans before it brews the coffee and will not accept any other pods.
Sounds like your husband's office has a Keurig, Green Mountain is a brand of coffee. Keurigs have a pod system that can do real brewed coffee as well as tea, cocoa, and various other drinks. He may not like it, but it is real coffee not instant.
How is powdered drinks of varying flavors not instant drink mix? Tea doesn't come in a powder. Lattes don't come in powders either. Flavored coffee is a powder mix.
Your post referred to instant coffee. The coffee in those machines (Keurig etc) is not powdered, or instant.
I'd guess most people use them for coffee. The powdered drinks that use only hot water are most likely secondary use...it's a convenient quick hot water dispenser.
How is powdered drinks of varying flavors not instant drink mix? Tea doesn't come in a powder. Lattes don't come in powders either. Flavored coffee is a powder mix.
I think it is a gimmick. The fad will pass.
Ok, clearly you have a very technical and broad knowledge of the machine at your husband's office, hence you must be correct and everyone else is simply not as smart as you.
The little packets that make "lattes" are instant coffee mixed with milk powder. The one at my husband's work has all sorts of coffee flavored, teas, etc. It is a table top machine. Maybe, green mountain? All instant crap. It definitely isn't fresh ground coffee. Plus, the machines don't get as hot as regular brewed coffee.
There are cartridges that have instant mixes of flavored lattes and cocoa, but there are also cartridges with true coffee grounds and tea leaves in the case of the tea cartridges. Sounds like your husband's place of work only stocks the cheap stuff, that doesn't make the concept a fad, it just means your husband's workplace procurement manager has bad taste.
Not sure if you realize the science behind conventional coffee brewers, they also force hot water over the coffee grounds and out comes the brown stuff. The Keurig just speeds up the process. But if you don't care for that, no problem. Some folks refuse to let go of their typewriters, others still cling to their rotary phones. No harm in that.
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