April 6, 2006 at 5:32PM How to make your instant coffee taste better
Most instant coffee is crap, but if you’re left without a percolator (which is hardly the best way to make coffee anyway: boiling water is bad), a drip-brew coffee maker (better, but the coffee ends up tasting a little flat: use a metal filter rather than a paper one, kids), or a plunger (the best way, I think), it’s ok. I prefer Kenko Rappor or Maxwell House myself. They’re fine as far as instants go.
But I digress. If, like me, you like to ruin your coffee with cow juice, there are good ways of ruining it, and bad ways of ruining it. Most people ruin it the bad way. What’s that, you ask? By putting the milk in last. Big no-no.
You see, by putting the milk in last, you end up scalding the milk, which destroys its flavour because the proteins in it have become denatured, and destroys the coffee too. So what do you do?
What I do is I first warm up the mug with some hot water. Then I put the coffee granules into the mug and add a teaspoon of water to dissolve them. Next I pour in the milk and mix it with the coffee. Finally, I slowly add the hot water, stirring as I go. Doing so slowly heats the milk and prevents scalding.
Try it. You’ll find your instant coffee tastes an awful lot better, and you’ll find less need to add sugar to it too to mask the coffee’s bitterness.
1 On January 22, 2008 at 10:47, PaulLawlor wrote:
You’re talking shite!!!!!!!!!! Best way to make coffee is to put it all in a blender, add the orange juice, THEN!! the sausages and pour it over your cake AFTER!! you put the washing powder in.
Hope this helps. xx