Talk:Instant coffee

message: Who's Dave Kovacs and why does it matter if he inhales coffee grounds?
Chuck Norris' brother  — Preceding unsigned comment added by 86.188.186.92 (talk) 16:33, 30 December 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Dave Kovacs

message: wast up and hi
Is maxwell house coffee considered instant coffee, or just bad coffee?--4.237.23.16 18:11, 22 October 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  Good to the Last Drop? or is it? 

message: Yup, I too think that instant coffee tastes worse than "classic" coffee. However, upon paying this problem a little bit of thought, this might be simply the case because the source products (the coffee beans) are of lower quality. While I have no evidence for this, I still noted that coffee beans of higher quality are treated with more care (high quality coffee reaches the customer in the form of beans and is ground just before the coffee is prepared, while "standard quality" coffee typically reaches the customer already ground. The consistent quality of "standard" coffee is achieved by mixing different batches and types of beans in varying ratios, eliminating changes in quality over the seasons and the years, but also disallowing to achive the topmost quality (this is also common practise with other products; the goal is not highest, but consistent quality)).
Does anyone know of a manufacturer which uses the same coffee source products for both instant and "classic" coffee, or of any tests which have been done with identical source products? --Klaws 10:59, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Taste and quality of source products 

message: http://www.slashfood.com/2006/03/30/spring-cleaning-shelf-life-of-common-pantry-items/ says the shelf life is 1 year unopened and 3 months opened...Of course, they mention those are only "suggested" and one should follow the shelf/expiration on the package. http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&pid=S0101-20611998000100006&lng=es&nrm=iso also has a formula available...but that looks complicated hehe. --70.157.222.46 21:55, 1 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  citation for shelf life 

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message: Some places in the web (do google) suggest that Kato invented it in 1881 and not in 1901. Any way to find the correct year?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.171.92.111 (talk) 09:57, 1 February 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Kato

message: There seems to be very little information on the new VIA instant product being launched by Starbucks - can anybody provide further information on whether this is truly a new production process or just slick marketing - don't really want to add a section or link if it's just marketing.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 194.155.80.1 (talk) 14:19, 30 March 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: It's a combination of instant coffee and "microground" coffee. While the instant coffee is coffee that has already been brewed and then dried to a powder, the microground coffee is liquid soluble and has not yet been brewed like standard instant coffee has. Kiwisoup (talk) 04:47, 29 June 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: Starbucks New Process - VIA Instant

message: Is there any reason why there is a bit about decaffination in this article.  It doesn't have anything to do with the instant coffee process or product.  There is also a perfectly good article on decaffination of any coffee.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 207.81.196.8 (talk) 23:00, 19 April 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I agree, there's already an article on Decaf and this article duplicates a good deal of the info. I'm going to cut the section. oknazevad (talk) 19:58, 16 May 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Decaf

message: I have checked the source claiming that instant coffee has higher acrylamide, however, the source only said there were two instant coffee products that contained high acrylamide, not all of them. Maybe switch to another source or remove this?--UnknownC (talk) 08:12, 21 March 2013 (UTC)
thread_title: Acrylamide

message: What is the purpose of this sentence in the very beginning except for advertising? Vagr7 (talk) 09:06, 9 October 2014 (UTC)
thread_title:  Examples of popular instant coffee brands are..... 

message: Some anonymous coward posting from a bare IP address removed the section "Non-food use" re: photo development, claiming "blatant advertisement". Advertisement for what? There's no commercially available product called Caffenol; it's a tongue-in-cheek name that was made up as a joke on commercially-available developers, many of which end in -ol (e.g. Dektol, metol, etc.) Nothing is being advertised here. If you (anonymous coward) have a problem with this, post your name and we'll have a discussion about it, but simply deleting a useful and referenced section from the article with no explanation or justification is not acceptable.Shalom S. (talk) 16:12, 2 May 2016 (UTC)
thread_title:  Reverted edit that removed section "Non-food use" 

message: The patent numbers given for the French invention of instant coffee, while nice, clog up the article and would be better displayed in a post article note section. 31173x (talk) 15:59, 13 September 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Patent numbers 

message: The Regulation section says
:In the EU, regulations include the following details:
:* Species of coffee bean
:* Geographical origin
:* Processing detail
:* Year of crop
:* Solvents used in decaffeination
:* Caffeine level
Where is that information displayed?.Moriori (talk) 20:19, 27 January 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  Incomplete 

message: In other countries, such as South Korea, instant coffee commonly comes pre-mixed 
Mixed coffee, often called "3-in-1" being common in so many countries (e.g. Thailand, Philippines) that there is no point in arbitrarily choosing one (South Korea). Should this be removed?
Gentleman wiki (talk) 20:14, 28 June 2020 (UTC)
thread_title:  Mix? 

message: I'm genuinely curious as to whether we've been hoaxed for a couple of years when it comes to who can claim to be the inventor for instant coffee. Alphonse Allais is a French humorist and writer — he hasn't been credited for any other real inventions or patents, but he did have a newspaper column where he proposed absurd inventions. In fact there's a museum of them in France.
"The Alphonse Allais Museum, also called Le Petit Musée, in Honfleur, claiming to be the smallest museum in France (8 m2), consists of a small collection of "rarities", including the skull of Voltaire at age seventeen and a true piece of a False Cross (cf. True Cross), as well as inventions such as a special Chinese teacup made for left-handed people" — quoting from his Wikipage
Another researcher came out with similar conclusions. 
"It is also claimed that he invented some sort of instant coffee and was awarded a patent in 1881. Below is a very hard to decipher image of a French patent numbered #141,530 (not 141520 as is reported ad nauseum on various coffee lists) that is claimed to be authentic. I have not found independent verification of a patent of this number, nor any image of a French patent of this era to compare it to. Allais’ father was a pharmacist and Allais himself had some scientific training, so it is possible. However, after a search of spectacular proportions, I am not convinced that this wasn’t an elaborate practical joke. In spite of this, I may have become a fan of his work." — https://procaffeination.com/the-invention-of-instant-coffee-who-what-where-and-how/ 
There's multiple quite strong sources for the claim that David Strang had invented coffee in New Zealand, so I've restored that as the primary evidenced claim. Someone needs to find some stronger sources for this French person, or otherwise it smells like a hoax. Donkeypeep (talk) 05:10, 7 August 2021 (UTC)
replies: text: I've just been trying to find better evidence as to who was the inventor and have been a little confused. I then saw the above comment and it does make sense. I remember a few years ago in a wikipedia article there was a long standing English translation of a Latin name for an extinct dog. The English name sounded a little odd and my Latin was good enough to know the translation was wrong. It turned out to have been put there unknown by a normal editor's teenage son a few year's earlier. Whatever, this instant coffee inventor should be given proper secondary sources. Currently the sources used are primary or low grade secondary. Roger 8 Roger (talk) 07:07, 8 April 2023 (UTC)
thread_title:  Alphonse Allais