Moka Express Black Caffettiera, Alluminio, 1 Tazza, Nero, 30 x 20 x 15 cm

What to say about this? Coffee requirements are different for people, but if you really love your coffee this is a pleasure. There are pitfalls - what size pot, what coffee, cold water or hot, how often to clean etc. Here is my experience. I have a coffee machine and only drink fresh coffee, it’s quick by forcing water through a sealed foil packet. I fancied something stronger and toyed with a super shop type machine with coffee grinding, tamping, steamed milk etc but never got to finalising. Then I stumbled on the Bialetti Moka. In short, if you like strong coffee, it’s nothing less than fantastic. And 10 times cheap than those big machines. It takes about as long to delivery your cup as it takes to toast a piece of bread. Some tips. - It delivers a small shot glass coffee from the 1 cup version. Don’t be fooled, you likely don’t need more so don’t scale up unless catering for a few people. I went for 1 cup pot planning to get 3 cup machine too, but I have that on hold at as this pot alters your drinking habits. Drink it short and your coffee cravings will be sated, add hot milk for an extra treat or hot water to make a longer drink. - You need to buy some extras at the same time, some ground coffee (I’m not convinced extra effort of grinding is worth the hassle), probably a reducer for your gas hob (only about £3, but without it you are likely to struggle as pot is tiny), a battery hand milk frother (again cheap at c£2 and 15 seconds to sort frothy milk hot or cold). - Some tiny expresso type cups to heighten the experience. Glass versions look neat. When preparing, don’t leave pot unwatched, the 1 cup takes no time and better for taste to take off heat just before it fully finishes. Apart from short time, it’s amazing to watch, keep the top lid up and marvel at the brief show! There is no spitting if you use correct heat - gentle. Finally, my experience is the stove pot does not replace routine coffees during the day - it prepares a treat at breakfast and later in the day with in between coffees from whatever route you currently follow. On line videos showing how to use are full of conflicting tips (use cold water, use hot, do your own grinding, add milk to top pot to heat up as coffee delivers, completely dismantle including seals on each use etc.). That just illustrates the variety of things you can experiment with and find your own preference. Cold water v hot - for 1 cup it’s so quick it’s hardly worth the extra to boil a kettle. Add milk to top - 1 cup machine top does not get hot enough in short prep time to heat milk. Grinding beans - the supermarkets are full of great ground coffee (I went for Lavazza Rossa) and it simplifies process. Maybe grinding is a step for later, if I can be bothered! Cleaning - pulling out seal each time is a step too far. I clean with cold water and fingers and will think about full dismantle rarely. If you love coffee, you should love this pot.

Perfect size for me and is great companion to the 2 cup bialetti. It produces enough concentrated coffee for a bit less than 1 full cup (with added hot water/milk foam). Compared to 2 cup model which produces 2 full cups. Extraction is less than 2 cup model cup, but can compensate by using hotter water in boiler. Really well made and fun to use!

Usual Bialetti good quality

I find this size hard to get a consistent, smooth tasting coffee. It seems to vary too much on how it turns out. The larger ones are far more consistent and always seem to produce the same consistency of coffee in my opinion. Update... I've just found a smaller heat source to use it on as my stove on low was slight to much, and it now works far better. I think you could almost use a candle to hear this little pot !!

tried different other brands, none as good as Bialetti. color is also very vibrant and the design is aestehtically pleasing. size is perfect for one espresso

I love it, it makes a great coffee.

Such a pleasure to use this product. Looks 100% great too.

The perfect coffee in my opinion, functions well besides the fact that it is almost impossible to scew the top on without coffee leaking out the side when heated with mine.

Moka bialetti nera .Spedizione perfetta e prodotto ottimo.

Is there any other espresso maker besides Bialetti? It’s hard to believe.

I needed the next size up

ガスコンロを使うときは火の大きさに注意です。これは小さいので取っ手に炎が燃え移ります。

The percolator looks very nice and works good enough. Apart from that it was defect as you can see by the pictures. Fr that I got 5 euro discount, I would have liked to send it back but I'd already used it and the seller told I couldn't send it back anymore so I went for the discount. Afterwards I have noticed that a little bit of water always stays in the bottom part of the bialetti after you make a coffee, and it shouldn't be like this. And I can easily say that since I've had many bialetti. Anyway I tried different solutions, less water, longer cooking, less coffee.. Nothing has worked. I will try to send it back again, maybe through Amazon directly. In the end, it looks bad for Bialetti and that's a shame, but to me it also looks quite strange that a company like Bialetti let these defect profucts go out of their factory...