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It's almost essential with instant coffee, which tastes like poison without milk.Why would you put milk in coffee?
I take proper coffee with or without. I often have milk just to cool it down a bit.
I prefer instant, to be honest.
The secret to a nice coffee? UHT Milk it seems..
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I take proper coffee with or without. I often have milk just to cool it down a bit.
I prefer instant, to be honest.
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pretty much this. i had a bimbo at work exclaim that the pizzas she had in italy were all crap.
she's likely used to eating dominoes her whole life and now that is what she likes.
The difference can sometimes be the difference between £800 speakers and £8000 speakers, as in, not massively better but better, big price small gains.
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I am part Italian and brought up Italian. 95% of the time i prefer a filthy takeaway pizza because when i want it, it's usually when i am having a cheat meal, on the drink or I have just watched the episode of breaking bad where he throws a pizza on the roof.
I don't think you can compare. It's apples to oranges. Instant vs bean to cup is a much more reasonable comparison but I will agree with the other poster that it is like comparing mash and smash but if that is what OP likes, then good for him.
Btw i actually believe this thread is just an attempt to bait a middle class troll discussion on overpriced instant coffee.
Instant has its place, 10 day trek across the Canadian wilderness for example . Bad instant coffee is just not drinkable. The best instant coffee is, OK, it isn't really very pleasurable though. It is like drink a bottle of water, or maybe say a cheap apple juice or something. Its OK, serves a purpose, doesn't taste bad, but is totally unremarkable. And you soon get really bored of it as there is very little complexity or depth, just a mild generic coffee flavor. Perfectly find if you are carrying up a mountain, or in an an emergency in the office, but why you would bother at home I don;t know. Price isn't an argument, drinkable instant coffee is more expensive than grinding your fresh beans.
This is also something uniquely British. No other country I have been to ever uses instant coffee except for the aforementioned emergency circumstances or practically of not carrying an espresso machine or cafetiere. Same with margarine instead of butter, tasteless black tea, and tasteless white bread - although the latter is shared with America.
This is also something uniquely British. No other country I have been to ever uses instant coffee except for the aforementioned emergency circumstances or practically of not carrying an espresso machine or cafetiere. Same with margarine instead of butter, tasteless black tea, and tasteless white bread - although the latter is shared with America.
I'll never forget the look on my friends' faces when I first moved to Holland and made instant coffee. This was herecy, I lay awake at night waiting to be sacrificed to the coffee gods.
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It was this, I remember it was £600!
https://www.ikawacoffee.com/product...JFG-eAPw9y7vMPaOvdKfihoKlV1N9yYBoCzisQAvD_BwE
But I think this is probably more fun to experiment with.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/i/2328239312...&rk=6&rkt=21&sd=142757021933&itm=232823931250
But this seems better value.
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/OTTIMO-J...m=153413804703&_trksid=p2047675.c100005.m1851
I'd like a drum roaster but you have to be very careful when using them indoors, especially the larger ones. The beans lose their husks during roasting and they collect inside the drum. They're highly flamable and could be exposed to a naked flame through the holes in the wall of the drum.
People are lazy. Takes time to peel and boil spuds rather than pouring a mix and boiling water into a bowl.
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when i went to italy i only went to tourist places and although the pizza wasn't world class. it was still 100 times better than dominos.
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That's not exactly a sensible measure, though, is it? EVERYTHING is better than a Dominos!!
Maybe she does indeed frequent some fantastic pizza place over here that is vastly superior to anything Italy can manage.
Maybe her rich boyfriend has a thing for bimboes and often takes her to the finest dining establishments imaginable.
After all, I've seen some pretty nasty, filthy, chavvy types at restaurants with more Michelin stars that they've had teenage abortions!
It appears you did not actually ask, before pronouncing judgement, which place(s) she goes to that does pizza so well... which would be the sensible thing to do, juuuuuuuuuuuust in case there's something amazing you're missing out on.
She's from cumbernauld. Her basic diet is Gregg's sausage rolls.
You may want to Google cumbernauld now
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Because of this we end up paying over the odds for a 'real' coffee. It's seen as a luxury thing and people are happy to pay £3+ for one. Go to European countries like Spain, Italy etc and you can get a coffee for a euro.
One of the best pizzas I ever had was in Rome, you could buy it by the slice, and it was about 5cm thick, like a slice of cake.
I’d point at it, and they’d say, caldo o freddo ? (hot or cold?), I liked it cold.
The most consistently good pizza I had, was at a little mom and pop place in Chelsea, New York City.
That’s how I am with tea, no idea if it tastes rancid, I don’t drink it, just the smell makes me nauseous.
Being a black coffee man, I go for café solo in Spain, uma bica, or um café in Portugal.
