Jan 23 2009
Gourmet Coffee Can: Instant
You may not usually expect to hear talk about gourmet and instant coffee in the same article, since instant coffee is not exactly high on the coffee quality scale. But this is a bit of a misconception, as good quality coffee can be found in instant format as well.
The best gourmet coffee is still brewed from freshly roasted and ground beans, rather than instant. But when you really want some coffee in a hurry, you might as well use good quality instant.
Even very expensive gourmet coffee can be found as instant. You can get instant Jamaican Blue Mountain coffee with the brand name Jablum, and it’s sold from several different Jamaican coffee sellers online. Hula Girl makes a freeze-dried instant Kona coffee from Hawaii.
In case you are not sure what is actually in instant coffee, here is a bit of information on the stuff. It’s not made with some kind of artificial chemicals or fake coffee. Instant coffee is made with actual brewed coffee. The process usually involves spraying the coffee as a fine mist into a hot air tank, where it dries almost immediately into dehydrated coffee crystals. That’s pretty much all there is to it. So instant coffee, is actually just dry pure coffee.
When using instant coffee, a couple teaspoons in a cup of hot water is all you need. Sometimes you just can’t beat the convenience of an instant coffee.