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.
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.