Haven’t finished cleaning the outside yet (hence the sticker residue) but the inside has been deep cleaned. It took about 19 minutes to do 200ml of coffee, and the end result was horribly burnt and bitter so I’d definitely not recommend it, but it’s a cool novelty! It will never be used again I doubt, unless I’m trying to commit taste bud murder, as this was genuinely the worst tasting liquid I’ve ever tried, but I might put it on a shelf as a decorative piece or something. The design is truly really cool, it’s a real shame it doesn’t make decent coffee. Maybe I need a better technique, but I love regular moka pot and used this one in a way I thought might make good coffee, so it might just be a bad brewer. If anyone has experience with it though I’d love some advice, maybe I just can’t make good coffee out of it and it’s a skill issue. I hope that’s the case, I’d love for it to make good coffee, but I don’t think I can assault my taste buds with that monstrosity again so I’m worried about playing with it.
Would you post the inside? Does the hot water get pushed sideways through the puck?
A courser ground should make the coffee less bitter as the water will have less time and pressure causing overextraction.
I’ll try to get pictures later if I remember.
The water goes up through the puck and then gets funneled to the side after, so from the puck’s POV it’s pretty similar to a regular moka in that regard.
I’ll try a coarser grind at some point probably, but this thing is quite large so if the coffee turns out bad it’s a pretty big waste. It’s a fair bit bigger than my 6-cup moka, so I’m guessing it’s probably the size of a 9-cup or maybe even a 12-cup.
Also interested!