Is there a way for this coffee to actually taste good? I’ve tried almond, soy, less sugar, more sugar – still tastes like shit. Nescafé gold also deserves a mention
Is there a way for this coffee to actually taste good? I’ve tried almond, soy, less sugar, more sugar – still tastes like shit. Nescafé gold also deserves a mention
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Unfortunately not. Its made from ground up grannies.
My brother in Christ, buy an Aeropress. Life-changing.
Why not just get a different coffee?
Coffemate. Makes piss taste better.
Have you tried mixing it with proper coffee?
Take 1 teaspoonful of Maxwell house, 1 teaspoonful of Gold Blend, 1 teaspoonful sugar, dash of milk, boiling water
Add gold blend, sugar and milk to mug, stir briefly, add hot water stir well. Discard Maxwell house
Get an aeropress – pretty cheap and you can use it wherever.
Nope, unfortunately only short answer is stop drinking that muck and (if you genuinely want to get into coffee) get yourself an Aeropress & decent beans from the likes of 3FE or Cloudpickers, it won’t break the bank (off the top of my head I think they’re only around €30 – €35 quid) and will give you some absolutely amazing coffee. Equipment wise, it’s probably the best bang for your buck with regards to investment and your equipment ‘growing’ with you as your brew skills increase.
A French press is also a great bit of kit at a very attainable price point.
Be careful though! Coffee as a hobby is fucking addicting (literally). I went down the rabbit hole at the start of the pandemic and now own a espresso machine, x2 high end burr grinders, a Moka pot, v60 pour over, French press & Aeropress.
EDIT: If you’ve any questions around the subject matter please by all means PM me! I’m by no means an expert! But, I’d like to think I’ve learned quite a bit over the last couple of years.
Make a concentrated shot. Drink something fatty, like milk, to coat your tongue first, then down the shot, then chase it with something sour/acidic to strip out anything that might linger as an aftertaste.
Jameson
I think the only way that would taste good is if you licked a badgers arse immediately before for comparison. And even at that it’d be close.
As others have said – aeropress. And you can even get a fancy mini travel one now too.
I’m going to say I do like a nice instant. An eropress etc is lovely but there is something I like about a good simple instant.
Anyway my one big tip is to get a small container or jar of coffee, so it’s always pretty fresh. Them big tubs. Yes cheap but thry go stall over time.
I’m more a fan of nescaffee Azera or the Alta Rica stuff.
No
Use it as fertilizer.
With instant coffee like this I find that if you put the milk in before the hot water it can improve the taste slightly. Appareby it doesn’t burn the coffee as much then. Also try substituting milk for cream.
I got spoiled by proper coffee and now Nescafé gold blend makes me almost throw up
Fuck that shit.
I see in another comment this is the office coffee.
Buy an Aeropress and some pre ground coffee. You can ask the barista to grind it for you.
If you like it, you can look into getting a hand grinder and grinding it yourself for freshness.
You may catch some flack from others in the office, I’ve experienced this. Some people can’t wrap their head around the aeropress and think it’s too much effort or that you have notions. Fuck ’em, let them drink their cup of hot brown while you have delicious coffee!
pinch of cinnamon or brown sugar?
Bake yourself a coffee cake. The sugar and fat will completely disguise it.
Even people who hate coffee snobs hate this. It’s like someone mixed Bisto and charcoal and buried in the garden for a year.
Add chef brown sauce.
Buy a quality thermos and bring coffee from home.
Freez dried shite is shite. Go to a nice coffee place and get an amercano, black no sugger. Small bit of an acquired taste and lots of restaurants still use shit coffee, but if you find a nice one and like it, it’s a good sign you’ll like the following. For the cheapest setup for basic nice coffee at home, that is relatively low effort, get a drip filter machine from Argos for 20 odd bucks (this is like the machines they have in cop movies with the big jug of coffee. In this, the coffee goes in the top, the water is automatically heated and then dripped over the coffee grinds, before collecting in the jug below), and tescos own brand french roast ground coffee (it’s the pink one). That’s the cheapest setup for the nicest cheap coffee going. A few years later if you have cause to celebrate, buy a Bean to Cup machine and start to use fresh beans.
Professional they say..
Granules are a tad better, but only when you run out of real coffee .
The worst coffee there is
Yep. Put some Baileys cream in it. 😋
“Maxwell House: the coffee for people who hate coffee.”
Equivilant to hot muck in a mug
Go Vietnamese style.
Need a [phin](https://nguyencoffeesupply.com/blogs/news/vietnamese-coffee-phin-filter-stainless-steel) and some sweetened [condensed milk](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71jq0NZey4L._SL1500_.jpg) (the shite for baking cakes isn’t sweet enough.)
I’d say you could find em in an asian market in town, or I could bring you one even. I’m back in Ireland end of October for a couple weeks and the phins are shockin cheap here (Vietnam.)
Best coffee going.
Coffee like that is what they sweep up off the floor.
I was reared on it, but can’t stand it now. We have moved on a lot in our coffee tastes since this was all the rage. If you must have it mix it up with milk and sugar b4 adding boiling water.
A hefty drop of brandy and a sinfully big scoop of whipped cream.
It’s fine for making [Dalgona coffee](https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/dalgona-coffee) .
Which I have made, oh, three times ever. So I’d never get through a tub like that, it’d have to be buried with me.
Teaspoon and a half of it, add milk, sugar to taste, boiled water and leave to sit.
Then chuck it down the sink and get a proper coffee
This thread is a good read.Left Ireland 15 years ago and there wasn’t much of a coffee culture. Majority of people drank tea and if someone offered coffee it was instant.
Putting it in the bin will help
Lidls Belstrom coffee is nicer than Nescafé and Maxwell house and is a fraction of the price
I throw in enough sugar to make it taste nice like 1 table spoon and a bit
Nothing could make that taste good I’m afraid 😧
Did you get this as a gift? Why would you buy 750g of coffee if you didn’t know how it tastes?
Absolutely fucking not .. Even if it was free I wouldn’t drink it . There is absolutely no difference between this and tap water
Ask them to switch to Kenco