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I think I'm a coffee snob

  • 11-09-2019 10:18AM
    #1
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Back in the day a good old cup of Maxwell house with the red label used to do the job. Now, the only instant coffee I can stand is Nescafe Azera Americano. I normally make filtered coffee and sometimes those little bullet things that I put in my wife's Nespresso machine. Have we all become a nation of coffee snobs with the amount of choice nowadays? I'm a bit bored at home and this is the only thing running through my head right now.


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  • #2
    Good jib!
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 96 ✭✭Good jib!


    Nothing wrong with wanting to drink nice stuff. I've always been amazed at the amount people spend on rubbish (crap coffee, crap beer, crap food) when for feck all price difference you can get other nicer stuff.


  • #3
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Good jib! wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with wanting to drink nice stuff. I've always been amazed at the amount people spend on rubbish (crap coffee, crap beer, crap food) when for feck all price difference you can get other nicer stuff.

    €4 For a tub of Azera when it's on special and I'd say I get at least 30-40 cups out of it. Over €4 For a cup of slop on some places in the city


  • #4
    LukFwd
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 103 ✭✭LukFwd


    Maxwell house should be illegal


  • #5
    Feisar
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,015 ✭✭✭Feisar


    Good jib! wrote: »
    Nothing wrong with wanting to drink nice stuff. I've always been amazed at the amount people spend on rubbish (crap coffee, crap beer, crap food) when for feck all price difference you can get other nicer stuff.

    If beer is an acquired taste one may as well acquire a taste for cheap beer.

    First they came for the socialists...



  • #6
    is_that_so
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,132 ✭✭✭✭is_that_so


    LukFwd wrote: »
    Maxwell house should be illegal
    Noooooo! Junkies will always need a fix!


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  • #7
    utyh2ikcq9z76b
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,213 ✭✭✭utyh2ikcq9z76b


    Your drinking Nescafe Azera Americano & Nespresso that's far from a snob, you need to be drinking some organic arabica taken down the mountain on the back of virgins and washed with holy spring water before being transported in some carbon neutral way.


  • #8
    [Deleted User]
    Posts: 5,422 ✭✭✭ [Deleted User]


    Each to their own. I lived for a spell in Italy, instant coffee simply doesn't exist over there. Certainly opened my eyes. You stop by a hatch on the street, sip your espresso normale and walk on. At home, the moka pot is ubiquitous. I brought one back with me, which now serves as my morning ritual. Lavazza Qualita Oro, a few minutes heating on the stove & the day is off to a flier.


  • #9
    banie01
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 19,169 ✭✭✭✭banie01


    Coffee snobs grind their own, and flick at least a bean a day.

    Coffee snobs don't have a preferred instant, as instant is akin to drinking the piss one arranges an Atari jaguar to blast the azera with!


  • #10
    Effects
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 9,741 ✭✭✭Effects


    Gerry G wrote: »
    I normally make filtered coffee and sometimes those little bullet things that I put in my wife's Nespresso machine.

    You are nowhere near being a snob yet. Nespresso is for people who just think they are coffee snobs.


  • #11
    Chris_Heilong
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,972 ✭✭✭Chris_Heilong


    In my book drinking anything that sounds Italian makes you a snob. But then again I gave up on coffee way before starbucks and the like arrived in the country so what do I know.


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  • #12
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,790 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Mod: Not really current affairs, OP (although it is important!)
    I'll move this to After Hours.


  • #13
    Stevieluvsye
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 2,907 ✭✭✭Stevieluvsye


    Tesco own brand instant.

    Does me, but i'm not a big coffee drinker


  • #14
    ollkiller
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 970 ✭✭✭ollkiller


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Back in the day a good old cup of Maxwell house with the red label used to do the job. Now, the only instant coffee I can stand is Nescafe Azera Americano. I normally make filtered coffee and sometimes those little bullet things that I put in my wife's Nespresso machine. Have we all become a nation of coffee snobs with the amount of choice nowadays? I'm a bit bored at home and this is the only thing running through my head right now.


    Nescafe GOLD Espresso instant is lovely as well. I lived on the Azera for about a year but this one is nicer tasting and smoother.

    Also if you put milk in your coffee you're not far removed from wolves.


  • #15
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    Mr E wrote: »
    Mod: Not really current affairs, OP (although it is important!)
    I'll move this to After Hours.

    Cheers Mr E, wasn't really sure where to put it. I think there should be a special section for people like me who think they are snobs but as it turns out may not have reached the acquired snob level just yet. I have heard of the coffee beans that are extracted from wild animal poo in some far flung corner of the world. When I graduate to this I'll have fully made it.


  • #16
    Infernal Racket
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,413 ✭✭✭Infernal Racket


    ollkiller wrote: »
    Nescafe GOLD Espresso instant is lovely as well. I lived on the Azera for about a year but this one is nicer tasting and smoother.

    Nescafe gold is piss. They stick a shiny label on it, that's the only difference between it and the regular red label stuff


  • #17
    gwalk
    Closed Accounts Posts: 1,107 ✭✭✭gwalk


    Nespresso machines pffft.

    everyone knows that a filration vacuum like Gale in breaking bad is the way to go

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  • #18
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,790 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Gerry G wrote: »
    Cheers Mr E, wasn't really sure where to put it. I think there should be a special section for people like me who think they are snobs but as it turns out may not have reached the acquired snob level just yet. I have heard of the coffee beans that are extracted from wild animal poo in some far flung corner of the world. When I graduate to this I'll have fully made it.

    No worries. Have a look at the Coffee and Tea forum too... :)


  • #19
    LollipopJimmy
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 5,253 ✭✭✭LollipopJimmy


    Nespresso is barely a step up from instant. I use a glass cup, grind my own and generally spend a while selecting a coffee, a quirky wee one I'm on at the moment is Red Rooster which isn't bad at all. I don't consider myself a coffee snob so I reckon you have a way to go!


  • #20
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    Colombian gold packet in lidl

    Nicer than lavazza in my view and I like lavazza


  • #21
    Duane Dibbley
    Closed Accounts Posts: 418 ✭✭Duane Dibbley


    I have a DeLonghi Magnifica S machine which produces my perfect coffee using Lavazza Crema e Aroma Coffee Beans.

    I used to drink instant in work but now I work from home, I invested in a proper coffee machine.


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  • #22
    ytpe2r5bxkn0c1
    Closed Accounts Posts: 32,688 ✭✭✭✭ytpe2r5bxkn0c1


    Most instants are dreadful, especially Maxwell House and Folgers.


    A decent strong Java in a filter drip does me nicely.


  • #23
    WB Yokes
    Banned (with Prison Access) Posts: 370 ✭✭WB Yokes


    Never drank a cup of coffee till i hit 30, im no connoisseur but maxwell house seems like piss water.

    Im on the Kenco millicano atm, good stuff.


  • #24
    Agricola
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 6,547 ✭✭✭Agricola


    That's not a snob. Sure I traveled to Columbia in the hold of a freight ship to source my own, exclusive and very special variety. That way, I was able to experience both the true joy and exhilaration of solo travel and to demonstrate my awareness of the importance of carbon neutrality. All the while drinking very good coffee indeed.


  • #25
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Stevieluvsye wrote: »
    Tesco own brand instant.

    Does me, but i'm not a big coffee drinker

    a kindred spirit.. I cannot get to Tesco any more but supervalu 98 cents super rich roast is better than nescafe gold by far.. Oh and I get sent folgers singles from the US from a friend ie ground coffee .


  • #26
    Mad_maxx
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,496 ✭✭✭✭Mad_maxx


    I have one of those old Italian moka coffee pots, prefer the experience to a near instant coffee machine


  • #27
    Graces7
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 32,634 ✭✭✭✭Graces7


    Mr E wrote: »
    No worries. Have a look at the Coffee and Tea forum too... :)

    I did years ago; took a look and fled!


  • #28
    my3cents
    Closed Accounts Posts: 9,762 ✭✭✭my3cents


    Jesus Dry Triangle wrote: »
    Your drinking Nescafe Azera Americano & Nespresso that's far from a snob, you need to be drinking some organic arabica taken down the mountain on the back of virgins and washed with holy spring water before being transported in some carbon neutral way.

    Not as far from the truth as you may think but .....

    Kopi luwak is made from coffee beans plucked from civets’ feces.


  • #29
    Plumbthedepths
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,653 ✭✭✭✭Plumbthedepths


    [Deleted User] wrote: »
    Each to their own. I lived for a spell in Italy, instant coffee simply doesn't exist over there. Certainly opened my eyes. You stop by a hatch on the street, sip your espresso normale and walk on. At home, the moka pot is ubiquitous. I brought one back with me, which now serves as my morning ritual. Lavazza Qualita Oro, a few minutes heating on the stove & the day is off to a flier.
    One of my joys of my regular trips to Italy. Love the coffee over there. Making coffee there is almost an art form.


  • #30
    magic_murph
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,545 ✭✭✭magic_murph


    Gerry G wrote: »
    €4 For a tub of Azera when it's on special and I'd say I get at least 30-40 cups out of it. Over €4 For a cup of slop on some places in the city

    Read the back of the Azera packet - its something like 90% ground coffee (same as the maxwel house stuff) and 10% 'fancy coffee' - I agree though it is the nicest instant coffee.

    The Nespresso stuff is hard to beat in fairness but the cost does add up over a year when compared to what you would spend on instant.


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  • #31
    Aceandstuff
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 735 ✭✭✭Aceandstuff


    I'm still working through all the bricks of coffee I got in Lidl for 1.50 each a few years ago. And the beans from the cute little barrels they have at Christmas!
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