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Making better coffee?

As I go through the stages of life, my relationship with coffee grows ever stronger. It seems a pretty natural progression, one that many students take; stacks of books, hours spent on essays and cups/flasks of coffee often go hand in hand. Though I do have a fair number of friends who seem to survive even without this drug.

Sometime last year (I think), I discovered Rainforest Alliance-certified Kenco on Sainbury's shelves and have never wavered from their freeze dried instant coffee since. They even have eco refill packs, cos why would you need that additional glass jar?

So I've been pretty happy with my instant coffee, taken strong (a huge heap of tablespoon) and black (no milk or sugar) and requiring no more effort or time than making milo. In fact, it takes even less effort cos milo needs to be stirred properly and thoroughly, but coffee dissolves much faster and evenly and doesn't need stirring (one less spoon to wash!).

For my birthday this year, I was given a cafetière (French press) so I can enjoy (presumably?) better coffee:) really exciting, but I had to finish my current stock of instant coffee before buying ground coffee. Sadly, Kenco doesn't have ground coffee, but Sainbury's did have one brand of rainforest alliance-certified ground coffee - Taylors.

For once, I'm kind of ahead of my deadline (project presentation in about an hour's time) and I'm so done with statistical modelling (for the time being at least) that I felt I could take things at a somewhat slower pace today (just a bit more editing for the project report to go). So after lunch today, I thought why not give the cafetière a go? Main thought: too much effort. I have to:

Instant coffee takes me all of 2/3 minutes, however long the water takes to boil. Put the kettle on, while it's boiling pour out an adequate amount of instant coffee in my mug, once the water's boiled pour into my mug and yay coffee to go!

Taste wise, it is nicer I guess and the ground coffee does have less of a bitter taste, but I'm not much of a taste connoisseur. I can barely differentiate different tastes, let alone quality. Food for me is kind of split into terrible and acceptable.

Nonetheless, now that I've got my cafetière and ground coffee, I can be a bit of a coffee snob I guess :P
Posted by Jocelyne Sze at 15:03 Labels: life, random, uni

