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Instant coffee is grand (lemmy.ml)

submitted 9 months ago by frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml to c/unpopularopinion@lemmy.ml

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You are all overcomplicating coffee. All those machines and whatnot.

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[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 8 points 9 months ago (3 children)

How do... how do you think the coffee becomes instant? Do you suspect that a coffee grinder, filter, and hot water is more complicated and machine laden than the process that turns beans into soluble powder?

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 7 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Do you saw your own wood? Do you mill your own flour?

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

If I did, those would also be simpler and less mechanized processes than the industrial ones.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago

Read theory 🙄

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 1 points 9 months ago (1 children)

How do… how do you think the coffee becomes instant?

I looked it up. Basically they make coffee the normal way (hot water) and then sublimate the water away.

[–] agamemnonymous@sh.itjust.works 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

Precisely. More complicated, more machines. You just outsourced the overcomplication.

[–] frightful_hobgoblin@lemmy.ml 4 points 9 months ago

Exactly. I outsource the complication.

[–] Piemanding@sh.itjust.works 1 points 9 months ago

Guess it's a lot of work for you and not too much, comparatively, for some massive scale corporation. Though I have found that I like it either from grounds or freshly ground.