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Instant Coffee
Instant coffee constitutes over eighty percent of all the coffee drunken in the United Kingdom. It was first commercialized by an English man named Mr. G. Washington, in 1909. Three years earlier while he was sitting in his garden in Guatemala waiting for his wife to come and drink a cup of coffee with him after lunch, he noticed there was fine powder on the neck of his silver coffee maker. He thought that it might have been produced by the evaporation of hot coffee and immediately started looking for possible ways of achieving the same effect commercially.
For anyone that is a coffee freak, instant coffee cannot be considered real coffee at all, and Mr. Washington, in this sense, kind of “tainted the idea of real coffee”. However new methods of fabrication, which are becoming more sophisticated, have made it possible that the highest quality instant coffee can be better than a fresh cup of prepared coffee that is not made right, even when high quality coffee beans are used. Instant coffee has the notable advantage that it is possible to make the cheaper categories of coffee taste, definitely much better than they would taste if they were toasted and ground.
There are two traditional methods of fabricating instant coffee, but in both the coffee grains are toasted and ground the normal way in big coffee jars. In the dry and freeze method however, which is newer and better (and more expensive), liquid coffee is frozen in long tablets that are ground and end up in small particles and grains. Since this requires a considerable amount of heat, it is the same as boiling coffee, and it causes it to lose some of the flavor and aroma. In order to compensate this loss, the beans or powder is sprinkled with a coffee or essence or oil.
Coffee Essence
The fabricators of coffee essence are a little hesitant about giving out the secret as to how they make it, which makes it kind of suspicious as far as to what it contains. However, although it isn’t nice to drink, it can be used in some coffee recipes when you are looking to add in a strong coffee flavor without adding in an excess amount of liquid. It also provides a consistent result.
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