Well, this one isn’t about coffee. To be precise, it’s not about a specific coffee (pod), but all coffee.
Well, most coffee. I know some of you don’t put milk in your coffee. Some don’t even put sugar! Heck, some don’t even put water. But I do.
I put milk. Specifically, cool milk with foam. I don’t like it warm or hot or lukewarm. When I get a café latte from the local French coffee shop, I tend to wait for the coffee to cool down before I enjoy it.
The setting on my Nespresso for milk is – don’t change the temperature, but make it frothy AF.
I recently changed that. The seasons are a changing. I got influenced by that and decided to up the milk temperature to “normal”. I’ve also been experimenting with reducing the sugar I ingest with my coffee. It’s not a lot – one spoon. But I removed that too recently.
The result? Disaster. When my milk was fridge temperature, the coffee was good, tasty, sweet even!
But as soon as I set it to normal, the final result is kadwa! Sorry, bitter (kadwa is bitter in Hindi). It became so bitter!
So here’s my question for all you coffee drinkers – is your hot coffee bitter without sugar? Why?? This isn’t an acquired taste situation, which you must get used to in order to enjoy something. Alcohol, caviar, spicy food, blue cheese, natto come to mind. There are ways to mitigate their tastes too, but they’re largely enjoyed exactly as they’re meant to be, so it makes sense to acquire those tastes.
But coffee comes in so many forms! Why would you suffer through the bitterness if you’re having hot coffee?
End of rant. I’m now going to go change the temperature back to what’s normal for me.
Have a good hump day!