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Still using the first 3-cup ½ Moka pot I bought after moving to Uni when 18yrs old, now serving me for the past 20 years O_O. Have "burned" it three times by fo

Still using the first 3-cup ½ Moka pot I bought after moving to Uni when 18yrs old, now serving me for the past 20 years O_O. Have "burned" it three times by forgetting it on the hob and being awaken by the burned smell of plastic. Always managed to get it back to life with a good scrub and a new set of spares. Some 13 years ago, for the office I got a "modern" Elettrika Bialetti which is a normal 2-cup ½ standard Bialetti with a resistor on the bottom to make it electric. It uses standard computer cables to get power. It powered 11yrs of PhD, postdoc, and academic work. Last update for my Mokas (~6yrs ago) is to get seals made of silicone. They last a lifetime and now I don't even need to change the seal every four months anymore.

xenocratus 5y ago
I have a 3 cup Moka pot from them too, recently replaced the seal with a similar rubber one but I'd be very interested in trying out the silicone one as well, but it doesn't seem like a common occurrence - mind if I ask where you got it from? Was it an online store?
- 2dvisio 5y ago
  Online stores like Amazon or eBay have plenty of those (sometimes called also gaskets). The seal tends to become brown over time as the silicone absorbs some quantity of coffe in the process, but that does not affect the taste of coffee and the seal keeps doing its job impeccably (up until ~6 yrs at least, ymmv).
throw0101a 5y ago
> 3-cup The sizes of "cups" when it comes to coffee seems to be a bit chaotic.
- aigo 5y ago
  It's wild. I believe the cup is somewhere between double espresso and Victorian teacup.
- _dan 5y ago
  "3 cup" = 1 cup, "8 cup" = 3 cups
- nabilhat 5y ago
  I've always found "Cup" as a measurement to be fun, in an engine of chaos kind of way. Tasse - 120ml (4oz-ish), this is historically the base UOM of "coffee cup" originally encountered on coffee things. Often carelessly translated to "cup" in countries new to coffee, regardless of overlap with existing alternate meanings of "cup" as a measurement. Demitasse - 60ml (2oz-ish), a cup for espresso. Mug - Wikipedia says 8-12oz. The USA definition of "coffee cup" as an amount one would serve themselves ranges anywhere from 8oz through over 20oz, depending on who you ask. USA-made coffee machine markings also vary, but are always smaller than consumers expect. Currently Black and Decker's "cup" is 5oz and Bunn's is 7oz, which means Bunn's standard 10 cup machine makes substantially more coffee than B&D's standard 12 cup machine. Unless of course it is a cup of coffee in a recipe, in which case consider the provenance of your recipe and which standardized (or not...) version of a "cup" measurement is indicated before proceeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)
fho 5y ago
Similar experience here, I bought a aluminum one (knockoff I think) when I moved out from my parents, used that throughout higher education and just recently, almost 20 years later "upgraded" to a genuine Bialetti one. But I somewhat dislike the aluminum ones as they tend to get somewhat yucky over time ... but Bialetti also sells a stainless steel one, the Bialetti Venus. Big fan.
- adolph 5y ago
  Oh wow, that looks almost perfect. My complaint about the Mika is that it is a pain to clean.

xenocratus 5y ago

I have a 3 cup Moka pot from them too, recently replaced the seal with a similar rubber one but I'd be very interested in trying out the silicone one as well, but it doesn't seem like a common occurrence - mind if I ask where you got it from? Was it an online store?

2dvisio 5y ago
Online stores like Amazon or eBay have plenty of those (sometimes called also gaskets). The seal tends to become brown over time as the silicone absorbs some quantity of coffe in the process, but that does not affect the taste of coffee and the seal keeps doing its job impeccably (up until ~6 yrs at least, ymmv).

throw0101a 5y ago

> 3-cup The sizes of "cups" when it comes to coffee seems to be a bit chaotic.

aigo 5y ago
It's wild. I believe the cup is somewhere between double espresso and Victorian teacup.
_dan 5y ago
"3 cup" = 1 cup, "8 cup" = 3 cups
nabilhat 5y ago
I've always found "Cup" as a measurement to be fun, in an engine of chaos kind of way. Tasse - 120ml (4oz-ish), this is historically the base UOM of "coffee cup" originally encountered on coffee things. Often carelessly translated to "cup" in countries new to coffee, regardless of overlap with existing alternate meanings of "cup" as a measurement. Demitasse - 60ml (2oz-ish), a cup for espresso. Mug - Wikipedia says 8-12oz. The USA definition of "coffee cup" as an amount one would serve themselves ranges anywhere from 8oz through over 20oz, depending on who you ask. USA-made coffee machine markings also vary, but are always smaller than consumers expect. Currently Black and Decker's "cup" is 5oz and Bunn's is 7oz, which means Bunn's standard 10 cup machine makes substantially more coffee than B&D's standard 12 cup machine. Unless of course it is a cup of coffee in a recipe, in which case consider the provenance of your recipe and which standardized (or not...) version of a "cup" measurement is indicated before proceeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

fho 5y ago

Similar experience here, I bought a aluminum one (knockoff I think) when I moved out from my parents, used that throughout higher education and just recently, almost 20 years later "upgraded" to a genuine Bialetti one. But I somewhat dislike the aluminum ones as they tend to get somewhat yucky over time ... but Bialetti also sells a stainless steel one, the Bialetti Venus. Big fan.

adolph 5y ago
Oh wow, that looks almost perfect. My complaint about the Mika is that it is a pain to clean.