How We Use Instant Coffee at Full Spectrum

How We Use Instant Coffee at Full Spectrum

Instant coffee has always been treated like a shortcut.

Our goal wasn’t to make a better shortcut — it was to rebuild instant coffee so it behaves like real coffee. That means how you use it matters just as much as how it’s made.

Rather than thinking about skill levels or recipes, we think about experiences.
The same coffee can deliver very different moments depending on how you prepare it — and none of them are more “correct” than the others.

Here’s how we think about it.

Experience 01 — A Really Great Instant

Familiar. Comforting. Better than expected.

This is instant coffee as most people already know it — just done properly.

You use:

  • Your favourite mug

  • Hot (not boiling) water

  • A spoon

Add the coffee, pour the water, stir.

That’s it.

The experience here isn’t about technique — it’s about expectation.
It should taste clean, balanced, and recognisably like real coffee. No bitterness. No artificial flavours. No surprises.

If this is all you ever do, you’re using Full Spectrum Instant exactly as intended.

Experience 02 — The Home Barista

Structured. Familiar. Slightly elevated.

This experience suits people who already enjoy making coffee at home — even if it’s a little rough around the edges.

Here, instant acts as your espresso-style base.

A small change that makes a noticeable difference is how the coffee is reconstituted.

Instead of adding hot water straight away, we often dissolve the coffee first.

How we do it:

  1. Add the instant coffee to your cup

  2. Add a small amount of cool or ambient water

  3. Stir until fully dissolved

  4. Top up with hot water or textured milk

This simple step softens the mouthfeel and gives the coffee more structure before it’s diluted — closer to how an espresso behaves before milk or water is added.

We also think about dosing the same way cafés do.

Roughly speaking:

  • 2 g behaves like a single espresso

  • 4 g behaves like a double

It’s not a rule — just a reference point.
It helps explain why sachets are sized the way they are, and why this preparation method works so well.

From here, you can:

  • Add hot water for a long black–style drink

  • Stretch milk on a home machine

  • Use a stovetop steamer or basic tools

Instant works exceptionally well in this context because it’s forgiving.
It integrates cleanly with uneven milk texture and still meets the expectation of a home-made latte or flat white.

Experience 03 — Café Quality, Anywhere

Textured. Intentional. Polished.

This is where instant starts to surprise people.

With properly textured milk — whether from a home machine or a simple milk foamer — instant can closely emulate the experience of a café-made flat white.

This is also where:

  • Foams

  • Spritzes

  • Cold drinks and summer builds start to come alive.

Air, agitation, and texture unlock behaviour that this instant coffee was deliberately built for.

This is instant without compromise — not because it’s complicated, but because it’s capable.

A Note on Tools

You’ll see us using things like milk foamers and small bench-top tools.

They’re not requirements — they’re accelerators.

The coffee works without them.
They simply expand the range of experiences available.

We’ll make some of these tools available in the future, once we can do it properly. For now, the focus stays where it should: on the coffee itself.

One Coffee. Three Experiences.

Same coffee.
Same ingredients.
Different moments.

You don’t need to progress through these experiences in order — and you don’t need to reach the last one to get value.

Choose the experience that fits your moment, your setup, and your expectations.

That’s the freedom instant coffee was meant to offer.

Explore Full Spectrum Instant → HERE
Available in jars and sachets.

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