What is the difference between instant coffee and regular coffee? How is regular coffee made, and does it taste better than instant coffee or not? Also, how do coffee shops make their coffee, is it instant or regular? Thanks!

That’s a lot to ask in just one question! This is just a brief rundown of the differences.

1. Regular coffee is ground-up roasted coffee beans, which are the seeds of the coffee tree. instant coffee is made by, to cut a long process short, brewing coffee from regular coffee and then dehydrating it, leaving a powder that can be rehydrated to make "coffee".

2. Regular coffee tastes much better than instant coffee. Instant coffee is foul stuff; specialty (high-quality regular) coffee tastes good black.

3. Coffee shops make their coffee using regular coffee, of course! However, many coffee shops don’t use the drip method you would use at home. Instead they make espresso, which is a special type of coffee made by using an espresso machine to push a small amount of water through tightly packed coffee with great force, making a "shot" that’s only two ounces of coffee but has the coffee flavor of a whole cup. You can make espresso at home, but to make really good espresso requires an expensive machine and much practice.