I mean, this is definitely an unpopular opinion. But any post that includes “you guys” or something like it is just rage bait rather than a genuine opinion.

That’s just being a jerk with extra steps.

Truth? Any time an opinion comes down to criticising other people as the only support for your opinion, it’s a shitty opinion. Why? Because it’s flimsy. You made zero effort to back the opinion itself, that instant coffee is “grand”. Zero, zilch, nada.

Your only other argument is complication. The “machines and whatnot”. Since instant coffee used similar machinery to get into the jar you use to make yours, you might as well say that any coffee you didn’t make yourself is better than self brewed. You’d put in about the same amount of “complications” ordering a cup from the closest fast food joint, since you’d have to also drive to a store to buy your instant.

Only if you have your instant delivered to you can you say that you had a less complicated path to a cup of coffee. By that standard, I can tell my kid to make a pot after having ordered everything, and have my fresh coffee be less complicated than your instant, if you made the instant cup yourself.

So, I upvoted your post as being unpopular. But it’s low effort, shitposting rage bait, so I shouldn’t have.

preferring instant to fresh coffee is the more popular opinion in much of the world, but it’s mostly in the same places where people would rather be drinking tea anyway:

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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?

The only proper way to consume coffee is to eat large tablespoons of grounds.

Instant isn’t as terrible as a lot of people make out but you also don’t need to complicate fresh brewed coffee either, brewing in a french press is only slightly more inconvenient than instant but gives a much better tasting coffee.

What I can’t forgive is incorrectly brewed fresh coffee. People who use a drip coffee machine and leave it in the jug burning and going stale for hours, I just don’t get it instant would be better in that case. Then you have the people that microwave coffee until it’s bubbling and sunder why it tastes bitter.

Is instant as good as brewed coffee? -No.

is instant good to drink if you don’t have / want to take the time to brew coffee? -Yes.

instant coffee is bottom tier coffee. sure it is coffee, and I will drink it if nothing else available

It depends on your goal.

I frequently use instant, but will fall back to the ritual of espresso when I have time and wish to relax.

I’ve been experimenting with cheaper and cheaper ground coffee to see where my floor is, I haven’t found it yet. Aldi brand, Kroger brand, Folgers, it’s all fine to me. Perhaps I should try instant.

Downvoted because I agree with you.

Instant coffee is great. Hot water, stir… Fucking the bomb.

There’s some crappy instant coffee that gives me headaches. But so does certain coffee brands.

This might get more flammed than the person calling transgender people mentally ill.