Top 6 MISTAKES with MOKA POT!!
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Sooooo.
Tomorrow morning, an Italian friend of mine is coming by and I showed him I had a Moka pot.
He said; If you know how to properly make a coffee with it, I'll certainly take one.
And I raised an eyebrow internally.
Looked on Youtube and found your video.
Turns out… I DIDN'T know how to use it. 🥲
Gulps
So!
Luckily, I've been keeping it very cleaned. Which is okay.
But everyrhing else? It never scratched my mind…. so!
Tomorrow, I will apply your method.
IF it works and he loves my coffee, I'll come back and give you a Follow because you may have just helped me save face in front of my italian friend who knows what true coffee in a Moka Pot tastes like. 😅
Question: how does the mocca machine work in high altitudes ie on the Alps? At 1750m water boiling temp is around 94°c (not 100°C)… How do we go around this problem?
The only real – italiano style tutorial on here
Thanks for the tips, however I do use the tamper to compress the coffee in the basket but with a gentle pressure and it works perfectly, no channeling and no bitterness. Ciao Mateo
How about the water temperature? Some say put cold water while others say one should warm water?
Sempre ottimi consigli Matteo ! Is that your better looking younger brother 😂
My first coffee in my moka pot came out thick like an espresso. But every one after is thinner, like very dark coffee. I am not packing down the coffee, i fill up the bottom with hot water below the valve and a heat on low. I dont know what in doing different from the first time. Im using a moka pot Venus.
I have a problem with my small moka pot, the coffee does not come out smoothly, its comming like bubbles, any suggest?
I got a Bialetti Moka pot via Freecycle. It had never been cleaned and there was a 1mm thick coating of 'tar' under the filter behind the white rubber gasket.
With a little care I also removed the filter from the coffee basket/funnel which had the same degree of filth on its hidden side.
If you compress coffee,water will come through BUTwith a high pitched sound and the filter will get warped badly.I know,because I've done exactly that.
You want your coffee smell great? Try another nose piercing.👃
A friend of mine from Sicily once told me to clean the Moka pot with running water only. Soap is forbidden.
What do you think about filling the chamber with hot water? Is it really good or not?
My moka pot do not push all the water through. What can be the problem?
The mistake I made was I forgot to clean it immediately after use and then left it for some time with some water still in the bottom chamber causing oxidation of the aluminium which is impossible to remove.
Aluminum is a metal that can be absorbed into your bloodstream and cause brain damage the same as lead or other heavy metals can. Never cook with uncoated aluminum cookware. Aluminum cookware coated with non-stick surfaces are even more dangerous, so never use them either. Just use stainless steel of carbon steel pans, cast iron to cook food with. Not trying to ruin your day, but you are harming yourself otherwise.
40 years, 2 moka pots and have never paid any attention to these points… just get on with the coffee, eyes shut, and survival manifests reality… or is it the other way round🤔
#7 Don't wash it in your washing machine..I only use hot water uner the tap, no detergent.
Nice to the point….
never buy an aluminium moka,only stainless steel
And don’t wash your moka pot in the dish washer🤦🏻
As a kid of Italian migrants, I grew up in Australia around my mum, relatives and family friends using their cafeterias (Moka pots) to make espresso on a daily basis. It was weird that my Aussie friends didn’t know what espresso was! When I left home, mum gifted me her old cafeteria which I still use over 30yrs later (needs a new gasket though). The pot is well used and well trained!
Those are 6 great tips. Two additional tips I’ve picked up:
1/Use hot water – the coffee will extract sooner without the puck potentially overheating / drying out during the time the cold water takes to reach extraction temperature. Use a tea towel to hold the boiler when screwing the top on!
2/ if storing for a long time, wash well, dry completely and drop some fresh ground coffee in the boiler.
And bonus 3/ don’t plunge the hot boiler into cold water or under running water (some channels advise this at the end of extraction – crazy idea). It can condense the steam in the boiler which will create a vacuum that can suck the basket into the boiler. Bye bye pot if that happens.
Salute!
Would you advise washing the moka pot with detergents? I know that stripping the metal of all the residual oils will lead to a metallic taste in coffee — is that even true?
From my experience, try Ethiopian Sidamo, that’s my favorite! find a coffee roaster/ grinder close to your home ( I can’t stand the coffee grinder noise 😂) You can store some of it inyour freezer , so you can have a stash for a few weeks, there’s nothing like a Bialetti 🤗👍👍👍& for me using hot water is no issue at all.
My biggest mistake: no water in the lower part of the pot.
I love your accent and sense of humour! I wanted to avoid having to buy a big bulky coffee machine and didn't know much about moka pots. Then came across your channel and am hooked; I've learned so much and am now more certain that I don't need a big coffee machine! Terrific videos – thank you so much!
No. 8: Dont wash an aluminium moka pot in a dishwasher.. o_0
I bought this stainless one from Kaldi Japan.
Aluminium first mistake prefer stainless steel for health ….
Thanks. I lived in ltaly for almost 20 years so wasn't making those mistakes but, it was really interesting to learn WHY not to do them. Still use the moka pot that my friends gave me as a farewell present 30 years ago too. I use it everyday so, it was lucky they included a supply of gaskets and handles in the gift, as it was many years before they were available here in Aotearoa/ New Zealand. I still remember how silly l felt holding a moka sobbing my heart out. Off to clean mine now though, as l've realised it's been a while.😊
Using quality coffee is number 1 in my books.
Thanks for the tutorial !
Glad utube is around to tell us how we do everything WRONG from turning over our lawnmower to brushing our teeth nothing like a little negative feedback
I forgot to put the filter in and I noticed all the grains were coming out of the spout. That’s when I pierced it with a knife.that’s when the explosion happen and I had coffee grains all over the kitchen and me. Took a while to clean the room. If only I could do that with paint I could cover the whole room in a few seconds.
Bravissimo! 👏
I wish you would say more about HOW to clean the Moka pot. Since we are not supposed to use soap, what do you recommend?
amazing, how much wrong you can do with such a simple, ingenious device. Sometimes it helps to read the manual 😂
I've been making coffee in my little moka pot every day for almost 10 years. I like to lightly tamp the grounds – it makes it a little stronger. I've also always made it on a big burner, but place it so that the handle isn't over the flame. I've been totally brain dead and put in the grounds with no water, so that after a while I figured it out when it smelled like it was burning. It still didn't seem to damage the pot or the gaskets.
Thank you! I now enjoy my coffee while using an Italian accent!
Thank you ! ..learnt some good tips ☕️
Thanks for the tips on cleaning the pot. FAIL
Thank you. Useful and fun.
Oh boy, I've been blowing it here – thank you for the tips!