instant-coffeeI have wondered what the differences are between instant coffee and regular coffee? They certainly seem to have the taste down to an art and I can’t really taste the difference.

How do they make it?

Best Answer:

The world has become an instant society in many ways and it certainly applies to coffee as well since instant coffee has seen continued growth throughout the last 20 years. A primary advantage of instant coffee is that it allows the customer to make coffee without mechanical equipment. One only needs hot water, a cup and a spoon.  In fact instant coffee manufacturers have made great gains in reproducing that brewed coffee taste.

It is wide believed that the earliest version of instant coffee was developed in Britain in 1771. In 1906, George Constant Washington, a British chemist invented the first commercially available process for making instant coffee while living in Guatemala, and was called Red E Coffee. The Nestlé company began manufacturing Nescafé for the US military in 1938, using a co-drying extraction process and sold over one million cases during World War II.

Instant coffee was made by using hot water extraction followed by a dehydration process. However, Maxwell House introduced their freeze-dried coffee granules in 1963 which was quickly found to taste much like freshly brewed coffee. During the few years, the other major manufacturers jumped on the band wagon and introduced their own freeze-dried versions. By 1990, 42% of the instant coffee consumed in the United States was reported to be freeze dried.

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