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Main components of a Bialetti Moka Express pot. Bialetti completed his design for the aluminium Moka Express in 1933. It may also be referred to as a Moka, Moka pot, a Bialetti, a percolator or a stove-top coffeemaker, and in Italian as la Moka, la macchinetta ("the little machine") or la caffettiera. [3] The blueprints for the Moka Express are ...
The moka pot [1] [2] is a stove-top or electric coffee maker that brews coffee by passing hot water driven by vapor pressure and heat-driven gas expansion through ground coffee. Named after the Yemeni city of Mocha , it was invented by Italian engineer Luigi Di Ponti in 1933 [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] as an improvement on the coffee percolator .
Moka brewing (invented 1933, Alfonso Bialetti [10]) uses a bed of coffee grounds placed in a filter basket between a pressure chamber and receptacle. Vapor pressure above the water heated in the pressure chamber forces the water through the grounds, past the filter, and into the receptacle.
In 1933, Bialetti founded the brand and focused on manufacturing moka pots. The company was later operated by his son Renato Bialetti. [3] After a period of crisis in the 1970s and 1980s, Bialetti merged with Rondine Italia in 1993 [4] and founded a new company named Bialetti Industrie S.p.A., based in Brescia. [5]
I drink a fairly strong black coffee but my Moka pot coffee is the closest thing I've seen to espresso. I think it was on the manufacturer's page that I saw that Moka pot coffee was half way between regular coffee and espresso, sort of like a Café Americano.--Doug. (talk • contribs) 18:24, 23 February 2008 (UTC)
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A stove-top, Italian style coffee maker A 2016-model electric coffeemaker. A coffeemaker, coffee maker or coffee machine is a cooking appliance used to brew coffee.While there are many different types of coffeemakers, the two most common brewing principles use gravity or pressure to move hot water through coffee grounds.
A moka pot stove top espresso maker. Moka pots, also known as stove top espresso makers, are similar to espresso machines in that they brew under pressure and the resulting brew shares some similarities, but in other respects differ. As such, their characterization as "espresso" machines is at times contentious, but due to their use of pressure ...