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Re:A brief history of instant coffee on Monday April 06, 2026 @11:52AM (#47662547)
All depends on the concentration you are trying to achieve. If you brew 16g of coffee, you'd usually end up with around 260g of finished brew.
Re:A brief history of instant coffee on Sunday April 05, 2026 @09:41PM (#47655972)
If you (for some reason) want low-acidity coffee, it’s better to just get a darker roast (if you can stand the taste defects).

Ideal brewing temperature depends on a lot of factors but even ultralight roasts don’t require anything near boiling.

Re:A brief history of instant coffee on Sunday April 05, 2026 @09:37PM (#47655945)
The 7-10 times seems quite off. It’s pretty close to 5 times assuming common extraction yields about 20%. So instead of brewing 16g of coffee you could dissolve 3.2g of instant.
Re:Kenya and "the decline of the greatest coffee" (2021) on Monday December 02, 2024 @09:22PM (#42302500)
Coffee that isn’t acidic is realistically the weirder thing, considering what coffee is. Decades of bad coffee have created the expectation of every coffee having to taste like low-grade coffee with all the acidity burned out of it.

Taste is subjective and you can call them snobs but they have a great point. Even if you love burnt flavors, there are far more ethical options than Lavazza.