I have recently come across a new line of “coffee”; instant capuccino, Instant mocha and Instant espresso. You just add hot water, stir like mad and hey presto- you are left with a tepid looking drink similar in appearance to Milo.
I personally find this pretty disturbing as it’s simply leading customers into thinking they’re purchasing something they’re not. Cappuccino is 1/3 Espresso, 1/3 Steamed milk and 1/3 foamed milk. Espresso is a process pushing steam through coffee at a high pressure. How this can be packed into a sachet, I do not know!
Whilst doing this the people producing the so called “coffee” like to make it worse with slogans such as “enjoy coffehouse coffee at home”. I”d personally beware of any magical, instant coffee drinks. In order to try and imitate the flavor, they probably include ingredients like hydrogenated oils and possibly even high-fructose corn syrup – ingredients not conducive to a long and healthy life. What’s more, it simply isn’t coffee for that matter.
“what is the point in this is it cheaper than normall coffee”
The point is that it supposedly creates capuccino instantly. If it actually did this, it would be pretty amazing. It however doesn’t, it’s simply chmicals which doesn’t taste very much like coffee. The people that want to buy this are people who don’t want to spend £300.00 on Capuccinno equiptment. These people believe that they are getting real cappuccino in a small sachet for a small price.
As to your reference to the price of cofffee. The answer is that this simply doesn’t matter. Coffee is very cheap to produce anyway around 15 Pence for one extremely good quality cup. Considering you get 8 sachets of cappuccino mixture for £1.80, that works out at more than a more than 20pence per sachet. Therefore this is more expensive and it’s nowhere near as good.
If you want to have a capuccino at home, look to my “cafe au lait” article which will give you something that will taste like capuccino.
so what you are saying is that it is just instant coffee with flavoring
U sad bastard Gary I done know where u get all this spare time from LOL from shauns touch !! Enjoy ur trip into town 2day mite see u if ur luky
gary will you blog on how instant coffee cos it is a fairly interesting so i have heard thanks!!!!!!!!!!!
Gary where are u! We (followers of ur blog) need more of your informative posts on coffee! If u are studying then tell us sorry I mean revising! K seeya
There is no such thing as instant cappuccino!