offending coffee.

Gokei

Every type of coffee seems to be inferior to something.


Someone in work actually said this in the canteen in front of real people;
"i cant believe you drink nescafe, you should be drinking nespresso"
While, elsewhere;
"why are you drinking that piss nespresso?, You should be drinking coffee made by people who care"

repeat ad nauseam..

So what constitutes good coffee these days?

Gran Hermano

Same as ever, start with freshly roasted and freshly ground.

P. Breathnach

Gokei wrote: »

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So what constitutes good coffee these days?

The coffee that you enjoy.

llatsni

It's not just coffee: anything made with appreciation and understanding of the quality of the component parts, the importance of the processes involved and with true consideration for the people using it, is a better product.

Zombienosh

I also find that how it's prepared can change everything too.

Johnny_Fontane

Zombienosh wrote: »

I also find that how it's prepared can change everything too.

true, but it goes back to Gran Hermano's freshly roasted, freshly ground basis.

Zombienosh

I'll take a filter over a machine made coffee any day though

maxwell smart

Surely it's whatever you enjoy, isn't it? Or are people that snobby that they don't understand that others don't like what they like?

Jezek

maxwell smart wrote: »

Surely it's whatever you enjoy, isn't it? Or are people that snobby that they don't understand that others don't like what they like?

Definitely your favourite coffee can be nescafe instant. However, by some measures that coffee is not as good as some freshly roasted, freshly ground coffee. Even if you love the instant, you can realize that quailty wise it's not the best coffee in the world?

Gokei

quailty wise it's not the best coffee in the world?

By what measure?

Jezek

Gokei wrote: »

By what measure?

By best, I mean best in regards to taste!

Instant is not the best as it is not grown in the best conditions, not the most carefully picked, not the most carefully roasted. Then its processed in a method that favors convenience over flavour.

Generally produced to make it as cheap as possible and as easier to make.

And then you could get into tasting - that is subjective, but it is widely agreed that it doesn't taste as good.

maxwell smart

Taste is subjective. Which is why some people will go to extraordinary lengths to prepare an espresso every morning and others use a Nespresso machine. Nobody can say that either person is wrong in their conviction that their method gives them the coffee they like.

For example, I was in 3FE around 6 weeks ago with some work colleagues and had the 'trio'. We ordered 5 of them, it took 18 minutes, they were incredibly bitter and very cold. Yet people swear by the place. Who is wrong? At the time I was there it was poor. Yet I'm sure the day before someone had a delicious coffee there. So taste is totally subjective. And yes, while instant coffee is usually made of lower grade beans, some people love it.

srsly78

I'm not a coffee snob. I am however a cheapskate - that's why I stopped using Nespresso :P

JPA

Instant coffee tastes like instant gravy, I'm sure they have overlapping ingredients.


People drink instant coffee but wouldn't drink instant tea or instant beer would they?

L-M

I have a nespresso machine, makes some good coffee but it'll never match the proper machines.