Does it matter if I heat water and mik together and pour it in the instant coffee altogether?
Often I have heard that first we need to add little hot water and then mix the coffee properly and then add hot water and then add milk to taste.
Since instant coffee can be mixed easily, will it make a difference if I heat water and milk together and put it all at once in the cup and coffee and then mix everything?
Best Answer
You can mix instant coffee with water, milk, cream, or any mixture of those, to your taste. It doesn't matter, and you don't have to do it in multiple steps.
This is different from fresh ground coffee. In ground coffee, you are making an extraction, which is a complicated chemical process. Your solvent has to get behind cell walls and get out again, this time with the solute in it. You never get full extraction anyway. Many factors such as heat, other stuff dissolved or dispersed in the solvent, etc. can hinder this already problematic process and give you a much weaker or different-tasting result.
Instant coffee is specifically made to be 100% soluble in water, so you only have a solution happening, not extraction. The process happens to be not very dependent on temperature (this is different for all combinations of solvent and solute). Maybe it is a bit slower in cold water, but the difference is not really noticeable in practice. The fat content in milk or cream is also not high enough to disturb the solution. So you can just do it any old way you want and you'll end up with 100% dissolved coffee.
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Unlike tea, when you can add milk before or after, you always add the milk after the water. If you're adding milk to decrease the strength, you can also try adding less instant coffee to the water to get the same result.Can you mix instant coffee with milk?
In a saucepan, add the water. Also add the milk, sugar and instant coffee powder. Heat the mixture while you stir the contents often, so it won't burn a the bottom of the saucepan. Once the mixture is heated the milk coffee is ready, so carefully pour the hot coffee to a coffee mug, enjoy!Should you pour boiling water on instant coffee?
Add a bit of cold water to the cup first: Boiling water isn't good for the coffee. The ideal is around 90 degrees centigrade, but your kettle's only going to knock off at 100 degrees. And if we can't hit 90, it's better to go cooler than hotter. So add between 5-10mm of fresh, cold water to the bottom of your cup.Can you put instant coffee in hot milk?
Mix 1 tsp of instant coffee per cup of hot water or hot water and milk solution. 2. Serve hot with desired amount of sugar.Sources: Stack Exchange - This article follows the attribution requirements of Stack Exchange and is licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0.
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