Do you take sugar or sweeteners in your coffee?

Sugar14%
Sweeteners8%
None78%
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Used to but gave it up mid-teens. Now, I can drink tea or coffee, black or with milk, but either with sugar just tastes of sweetness, and kills any enjoyment dead. Yuck.

There are some shots that when I drink the coffee at lukewarm stage it tastes as if I had put sugar in it. These I count as my best. Unfortunately it doesn’t happen every time but often enough 😀

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I used to have sugar until I went on holiday somewhere that didn’t have any so I just had milk and realised that the sugar wasn’t necessary if you have milk

I used sweeteners until I re-discovered real coffee about 7 years ago. Haven’t used a sweetener or sugar since.

I haven’t had sugar on coffee, or tea, or fresh squeezed juices since forever.

My dad used to say “life is sweet enough - why do you need added sugar?”

I suppose that stuck with me. 🤣🤣🤣

Only in Irish/liqueur coffee. I wouldn’t rule it out if served a very bitter cup, but more likely just to leave it.

My girlfriend always has sugar (and milk) in coffee if we drink it out (she enjoys black V60 at home without) and whenever I taste hers it just tastes like generic, coffee essence flavoured drink. Not horrible, or bad, but when buying single origin, distinctive coffees, it seems counter intuative, to me, to add sugar.

  • Espresso - nothing
  • Filter with no milk - nothing
  • Ling drink, Americano or Filter with milk - sweetener
  • Double shot, very small milk lattee - half a sweetene, or no sweetener.

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Indian Chai does typically require a quarter to a half tsp of sugar or ¼ sweetener. We don’t buy the readymade Indian Chai, which is s*** and full of sugar. We buy the red label and add cinnamon powder, freshly grated ginger, green Cardamon powder, black pepper powder and1/4 to ½ tsp of sugar per cup. Milk is also added to the boiling tea!

I use a ½ tsp in a cappuccino. One tsp in non milk drinks. But I only have two drinks a day. I have used sweeteners, but find that this imparts a different taste. Still I suppose I should ditch the sugar.

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On the odd occasion I make an iced coffee, I find I need a little sugar but a latte with the same amount of coffee/milk doesn’t need anything. The heat definitely makes the milk more sweet.

    If one likes Turkish coffee boiled in a djezve (special Turkish vessel made of copper), please see picture below, the recipe is to boil together the finely ground coffee with sugar. I used to like it but since 2004 when I stopped using sugar, I no longer enjoy the art of Turkish coffee making, in its very tradition it needs to be heated up sitting on hot sand. Go figure. (a possible rational-ish explanation might be the different heat transfer that the silica/sand ensures and make the coffee being heated at slower pace?)

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    I felt bad about having sugar in my coffee until I went to Venezuela and a Colombian gave me some coffee from a flask that he said was made ‘as everyone makes it in Colombia’. It was espresso with sugar in it.

      In my opinion, if a recipe needs sugar in it, it would be silly not to add it. For instance, @LMSC ‘s chai recipe: it needs sugar. I tried without it before, and it’s just not the same thing. So if I were to make that, I’d definitely put sugar, as it’s just part of the taste of the final product.

      ps: I’m a big fan of the Chai Massala @LMSC. I had Indian neighbours before and they invited us over for a family event. The dad (rest his soul) introduced it to me. Needless to say, courtesy of them, I went back home with all the ingredients I needed to make it for the next few years! 👍😉😊

        DavecUK In Naples most of them have sugar with the espresso

        Maybe this is due to the amount of Robusta and very dark roast?

          DavecUK In Naples most of them have sugar with the espresso

          Yeah. I think it’s the norm, rather than the exception, to have sugar with espresso, whether it’s in Italy, France or Portugal. I don’t, not even in Naples. 😊😉

            Sometimes sweeteners but I prefer it black always with nothing.