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not my first choice but better than nothing
Instant coffee ? Yes or no?
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Already doing it. Don't forget creamer/sugar, if you use them.
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I've thought the same thing. trouble is, instant coffee has that.....well.....INSTANT taste. I'm pretty picky on coffee. I've been grinding my own bean blends for so many years, it's hard to think about instant. There is the fact that instant stores well if vaccuum sealed. I just cannot find one I'd be willing to call tasty enough to do so.
I am an avid coffee drinker and was just forced to go through 44 days of no coffee due to surgery I had. Today is my first cup since surgery and it is indescribable how good it tastes.
It is nice to know that when SHTF and the world runs out of coffee at some point I will live through it but I have been prepping for a few years to try and keep that final cup of coffee from running out.
I have been stocking my favorite ground coffee (French Market with Chicory) and also some instant coffees', one instant is Maxpresso single serve packets. It is a vietnamese coffee that is actually espresso and cream and sugar that's been freeze dried. I got it for Christmas years ago and tried it, it was pretty good so I keep a 100-150 packets in stock. I also have some Starbucks Instant that I got not long ago and really like. It's their Blonde roast and is a mix of freeze dried instant and micro-ground beans. I keep a can of it in my GHB and the can claims it is good for around 40 cups of coffee. I believe it is closer to 30 cups but it nests well in my gear and taste good so I'll probably start adding more to my preps.
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It is nice to know that when SHTF and the world runs out of coffee at some point I will live through it but I have been prepping for a few years to try and keep that final cup of coffee from running out.
I have been stocking my favorite ground coffee (French Market with Chicory) and also some instant coffees', one instant is Maxpresso single serve packets. It is a vietnamese coffee that is actually espresso and cream and sugar that's been freeze dried. I got it for Christmas years ago and tried it, it was pretty good so I keep a 100-150 packets in stock. I also have some Starbucks Instant that I got not long ago and really like. It's their Blonde roast and is a mix of freeze dried instant and micro-ground beans. I keep a can of it in my GHB and the can claims it is good for around 40 cups of coffee. I believe it is closer to 30 cups but it nests well in my gear and taste good so I'll probably start adding more to my preps.
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I stock BC powder as a prep. BC powder is basically a mixture of aspirin and caffeine in individual dose sized wax paper packets. Nasty tasting stuff but it works.
Yep, Starbucks stole the add micronized coffee beans to freeze-dried instant idea from the Vietnamese* and uses it in all their instant coffee. You just have to find a Starbucks blend/roast that you like. And not balk at the price, which is 3 or 4 times that of Vietnamese instant.
Note that there is one drawback to those convenient little instant coffee packets. They all contain exactly the amount for an arbitrary-sized cup of coffee. For Vietnamese brands, that is usually the amount for around a 5 oz cup (dinner china coffee cup size). For Starbucks it is 8 oz. So if you like your coffee in a 10 to 12 oz or pint mug, you will likely need to do some packet juggling unless you use just the right amount of milk in your coffee to match a standard packet size to your mug. I prefer loose instant that you can measure to suit, but the packets are convenient if they work for you.
*Some day many more instant coffee brands may do this, since it does make for a bit better instant coffee, just as many slowly changed from spray-dried to freeze-dried instant. But Nestle and others don't invest in new expensive processing equipment very often, so that is undoubtedly going to take a while. As long as few people have tasted a micronized instant to notice any difference and continue to buy current instant coffees, there's little manufacturer incentive to do an upgrade. (Plus there's always the danger that if that bottle of Folger's crystals suddenly started tasting a bit more like actual coffee, the customers who actually like that stuff would stop liking it. If Nestle Classico changes its formula, it may no longer make the perfect iced coffee frappe, and there goes their whole Greek market.
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NoDoze and Vivarin for caffeine preps, too.
Be advised.... the lid on the starbucks cans is fairly loose so once it is opened you will need some way to secure the lid or a small, ziplock bag to put the coffee into when moving around with it in a GHB. I carry a ziplock bag for just such occasions
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Even during the Japanese Army's pilferage of WWII Hong Kong and the post WWII civil war and other great political disturbances, those private citizens who were prepared had quality teas and coffees.
Where ever I am, my coffee / espresso making kit, is "my Patmos".
Glad to learn surgery complete to get you home for some of the good stuff.
Take care.
Even during the Japanese Army's pilferage of WWII Hong Kong and the post WWII civil war and other great political disturbances, those private citizens who were prepared had quality teas and coffees.
Where ever I am, my coffee / espresso making kit, is "my Patmos".
Glad to learn surgery complete to get you home for some of the good stuff.
Take care.
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No. Starbucks and instant aren't even in the running.I'd rather do without.
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Freeze Dried coffee has been on my radar for a while now. I keep a jar at work, having heated water in the microwave and stirring in the crystals - into a big ceramic mug.
Then I tried the water fountain. It has a filter and the water is cold but not icy as such. So I dumped some freeze dried into a big water bottle from the fountain and shook it up. It tastes the same only cold. But easily drinkable within seconds.
Freeze dried coffee "is" coffee - not coffee grounds as in actual bean material. They brew coffee and then it is frozen repeatedly and deeply. I am not very knowledgeable on the process, but you are "rehydrating" the drink itself and not coaxing it from beans.
It follows that you do not need "hot" water as such from a fire, stove or microwave - that hot tap water works and water from a canteen works as well. Just experiment for the coffee to water ratio that you like.
I am researching freeze dried for storage in mylar with absorbers. A lot of it comes in plastic "jars" so I am not overly trusting on those. Others come in class, with a "foamy" disc on top under a plastic twist cap. The cap usually "cams" on and is not fine threaded. The glass also for me is problematic - I wouldn't want to lose a whole jar to breakage.
I do not know if an opened container will brick-up as some things do. But being coffee, for most of us such long term air exposure would not be a concern 😉
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if it is the paw and its the caffeine I need then its caffeine pills.
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one of us with a home freeze drier should give it a shot and see what they can come up with
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Chicory grows wild right in my yard. Indian Maiden Tea makings grows here too. I ran out of coffee last week and have switch back to tea - black Lipton with French Vanilla Bigelow.
The Mt Hagen freeze-dried I buy comes in glass jars with a snap-on thick plastic cap with a "foamy" plastic liner inside. The jar, itself, however, is also sealed with foil underneath that until opened. And I think I could drop one of those jars 3 floors down on the cement without breaking it They are really thick, sturdy rounded-rectangle glass jars that I save for storing other things in. So it depends.
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Folgers instant coffee is all I drink. I stock regular and decaf and buy it by the case. I keep a jar in the truck just in case.
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"Ersatz" (a German word meaning "substitute") coffee was made from all sorts of things during World War I--acorns, chicory, etc.
I have a picture in a book on World War I what some of these "substitutes" looked like. It is't pretty.
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