Saw the earlier post about the evil drip machine, figured I'd jump in and post my deranged coffee setup too. The picture contains both the tools and all of the ingredients that make up ~90% of my coffee intake. I have a moka pot and a french press and a grinder in the kitchen, as well as a little buzzy tool that froths milk that I use when I'm making coffee for any set of people larger than just myself. I even go to a local roaster so I can keep 3 or 4 exotic sounding bags of coffee beans around to make for/impress company. Nobody I know irl has ever seen the Taster's Choice setup of shame, yall can consider yourselves (un)lucky
I’m not too knowledgeable on instant, I just personally am very deligent about avoiding Nestlé. I’ve heard of some specialty roasters offering instant, that may be a route to take too. It’ll probably be a bit more expensive but it’ll be a small company, and likely fully traceable. Just something to consider. Outside of that I’m sure Lavazza probably has an instant offering. They’re a big company but they are still privately and family owned if that’s something that’s important to you. Your grocery store may have a store brand of instant as well. I know mine does, and I’ve heard at least mine is surprisingly good for what it is. But again, I don’t drink instant so I don’t know for sure.
Fuck Nestlé.