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Can someone ELI5 how instant coffee works? (startrek.website)
submitted 10 months ago by to c/coffee@lemmy.world
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FWIW, I understand freeze-drying. My question is more about how instant coffee is prepared versus brewing. When you brew coffee, you run the water through the grounds while filtering them out. When you make instant coffee, the grounds just dissolve into it?

What am I missing here?

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[–] [S] 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

Ah, that makes sense. Thanks. I guess I've just always thought it was the grounds that were freeze-dried and somehow that made them dissolve-able.

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