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by jrudolph
1670 days ago
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> Espresso machines, then and now, are gigantic, expensive, difficult to use, and incredibly inefficient from an energy perspective. Interestingly that's not my experience with Moka Coffe Pots. The 2-pot Bialetti I have takes a long while to heat and is almost always too small for the heat source I have available. Electric stove fields are too wide, and camping gas heaters seem to wrap the flames more around the pot than boiling it properly. After the water is steaming, you also need to sustain the heat for a bit to let the steam travel through. In total, it feels like a lot of wasted heat energy for a little bit of coffee. I have a Flare Espresso machine (piston, manually operated) that just requires boiling water that I can get from a more efficient source like a pot matching the stove, a water boiler or even a good thermos (!) when travelling ;-) And the result I get out of that is a "proper" espresso because you can easily hit 10 bars of pressure, by applying gentle pressure on the lever. |
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Do you put cold water in the bottom thingy and heat it up on the stove? When I started using moka pots, I read that you should put pre-boiled hot water in there and then put it on medium to low heat on the stove. Even with that I still find it a bit too quick sometimes.