Someone Had To Do It – The Starbucks Instant Taste Test.

Welcome To Get Into Coffee! We hope that you find the information you are looking for! Please leave us a message or comment telling us what you like, don't like or would like to see us add.

But it wasn’t us. Sorry. Not going to take that one for the team. But the Sacramento Bee did – sort of. I wish they had done a double-blind test against regular brewed Starbucks, but alas no.

The bottom line was that they felt it was better than most instant but not very good value. They did come up with a use that sort fo made sense – camping – but to be frank, I’d take real coffee (preground) which doesn’t weigh much – and an Aerobie Press – which also doesn’t weigh much. The total extra weight (much less than a pound) would be completely worth it.

However, there are good uses for instant coffee – cooking springs to mind. Although I would still prefer fresh, I can understand the appeal of any easy concentrated form of coffee. Roll a chocolate truffle in instant coffee mixed with powdered sugar – that would be good. Whip some into whipped cream. Note that it is the fact that it is not just powdered but concentrated that would work here.

Any suggestions? Put them in the comments – we’ll see what we can come up with….

Related posts:

1. What Does It Mean That Starbucks Has Gone Instant?