Thanks for the suggestion, I'll give that a try. Both yesterday and this morning, I boiled the water, took it off the stove, and then immediately poured it into the cup where the instant coffee was already waiting. Next time, I think I'll still boil the water, but I'll wait a bit longer before pouring it into the cup.
Perhaps I should have known better. I remember drinking Turkish coffee when I worked in Saudi Arabia years ago. You always had to have either coffee or tea when visiting clients. (The coffee was either Turkish, or "American" which meant instant.) It was almost a law. One of my clients made the best Turkish coffee I ever had. So I asked if I could watch them make it. Apart from using good beans and the right amount, the trick to making it full-bodied was to not let the coffee boil in the open pot before removing it from the heat. The timing had to be just so. It didn't occur to me that the same principle might apply to instant coffee in the sense that the water should not be boiling when pouring it into the ready cup.
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