[jarvist]

A key quality of life improvement for me was to realise that you can eject the grounds from the filter funnel by putting the tube to your lips and blowing gently, ejecting the coffee puck into the food waste / compost bin. The Moka pot then becomes an almost zero-cleanup way of making coffee.

You need to do this after the pot has cooled enough that the aluminium won't burn your lips, but soon enough that the coffee grounds haven't continued to swell and wedge themselves in place.

[trumbitta2]

I just knock twice on the side while keeping it face down, and it drops right into the bin even if it's still hot.

[everybodyknows]

> blowing gently, ejecting the coffee puck

This works similarly well with the Flair brand espresso maker filter cup -- though suggested nowhere in Flair's written or video instructions. Too undignified an act I suppose for prospective customers to imagine themselves performing every morning in future.

[jonnycomputer]

Should try that. You definitely don't want to tap it (denting it will lead to a bad seal).

Every morning I walk out and fling the grounds into the front yard.

[tedmiston]

I've tapped to eject the spent puck for many years and it is not a problem. Maybe if you were aggressively whacking it against something much harder than the metal funnel it might become an issue, but against a hand or some soft plastic it's not an issue at all; there's been no change to the seal or shape.

[christkv]

I just drop it directly in the compost pile.

[mplanchard]

I do this too! I press my grinds down a bit with my fingers before brewing, and then at the end I get a nice puck out.

[smcl]

Just make sure you're emptying it into a bin that doesn't smell too badly :D

[dguest]

I put the tube under a weak stream of water from the sink, so the water pressure blows them out. Then I send the grounds down the drain.

[jfim]

This may cause your drains to clog though. Compost or trash can is better from that perspective.

[dguest]

I've seen that happen, but every time there was some other obstruction in addition to the coffee: popsicle sticks, silverware, pencils, etc. Usually something too long to make it around the trap. Those things will eventually glob up with hair or worse and clog the drain anyway.

In my experience if you wash grounds down the drain with plenty of water there's never any problem.

[cassepipe]

Another common myth among moka machine coffe drinker is that ground coffee is somehow "good" for your drains. I believed it naively until my landlord came and unclogged a ground coffee-filled drain.