The Difference is Night and day

So, my wife bought me a stove coffee pot – also known as a moka pot.

Until this week, I had never used one of these. I kind of understood the theory behind them, but it’s much easier to understand in practice. The pressure from the steam pushes hot water up through the coffee grounds, and into the pot at the top. Anyhow, the design is very simple, but very effective. When using this, you can actually make coffee that tastes (to my opinion at least) similar to that which you buy at a coffee shop. And depending on which grounds you use, sometimes better. :)

This week I have been using Lavazza coffee, which I like anyway. I prefer it from a drip machine more than from a French Press style coffee maker. But when made in the moka pot, this is a great taste. Experiments with the amounts of coffee, length of time,  heating, amount of warm milk to use etc will take place starting next week.

all in all: Highly recommended. If you like coffee when you are out and about, but don’t like the taste when you make it at home, I bet this would sort you right out. If, like me, you like coffee anyway, this will make it taste even nicer, in my opinion.

By the way, I snatched the image and legend text from Wikipedia.