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.
The trick to Mokas, is to fill the chamber with hot water, and carefully assemble, then put it on the burner.
Yeah that’s what I did, it’s what I’m used to from the regular mokas I make. I have a feeling if I did cold water I’d fall asleep before it finished brewing!
I do the same. If it took 19 minutes from cold, I suspect this version will probably over-extract in any case, but starting with hot water will definitely help.
It was actually 19 mins from water just off the boil.
Oh, wow! I guess you've already checked if the pipe is obstructed?
Yeah I couldn’t see anything, but at the same time the coffee was sort of spitting out the whole time, almost as if it were obstructed. It’s like if you leave a regular moka on for too long and it spits everywhere at the end, but for the entire brew. I did try my best to clean the pipe but it’s not the easiest thing to get at, so it’s possible I missed something.