sidss Senior Member Joined: 14 May 2002 Posts: 104 Location: Ann Arbor, Mi Expertise: Pro Barista
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Posted Fri Feb 20, 2004, 7:03pm Subject: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
I need to get a quality stove-top MokaPot. What is a good brand and model to get? I would prefer one that was made of stainless-steel instead of the aluminium ones. Thanks in advance -Sidney
Frogman Senior Member Joined: 3 Feb 2004 Posts: 41 Location: Canada Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Bialetti Brikka Grinder: Rocky Doserless Vac Pot: None Drip: Kitchen Aid Roaster: FreshRoast Plus 8 / Zach and...
Posted Fri Feb 20, 2004, 7:55pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
Check out the Brikka which is a new design by Bialetti. It uses a special floating valve to give a slight increase in pressure and a more creamy extraction.
It is aluminum but lets face the Italian's swear by their little aluminum mokas and have one in every house. The coffee really only sits in the top for a few seconds anyway.
Needless to say, I respect your desire for stainless, a lot of people like it and frankly, had the Brikka been available in stainless, I would have bought it.
Posted Sun Feb 22, 2004, 5:16pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
I use a cheap aluminum pot with the name Marimba on it. It's fine but I respect wanting to go stainless. Sweet Maria's carries a few decent stainless moka pots. Some of them are kinda fancy for my taste.
Posted Tue Mar 9, 2004, 1:44pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
Many think the case against aluminum is overstated. You can do a search at the forums here and find links to sites that point out that using aluminum for non acidic cooking is really no hassle...
Posted Tue Mar 9, 2004, 2:12pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
i had an aluminum , man the part where the water goes looked pretty scanky no matter what i did to clean it,ive since changed over to a stainless steel guido bergna which i purchased right off the shelf at a supermarket in miami,but are also available on the internet.see espresspeople.com
Posted Tue Mar 9, 2004, 2:47pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
i brought a stainless gb back from italy 2 years ago. used it daily until i got miss venus. had to replace the pressure relief valve once, but other than that, it was/is rock solid. --scott
Rawman Senior Member Joined: 14 Jun 2003 Posts: 966 Location: SF Bay Area, CA Expertise: I love coffee
Espresso: Expobar Office Control ,... Grinder: Mazzer Mini Vac Pot: Silex Vintage Vac Pot Drip: Bodum chambord FP, Melitta... Roaster: Buzzroaster, HG/DB
Posted Tue Mar 9, 2004, 3:27pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
I got a stainless steel GB 'Musa' at Bed Bath and Beyond. It was in the 30 dollar range. I don't see it on the online store, but it's there in the retail store.
Jon R
Rawman the Expobarbarian.. AKA the Original Jon R.
auerbach Senior Member Joined: 30 Oct 2002 Posts: 18 Location: Durham Expertise: Intermediate
Espresso: Isomac Zaffiro Grinder: Gaggia MDF Vac Pot: Hario Nouveau Drip: Krups Aroma Control Therma
Posted Tue Mar 9, 2004, 4:37pm Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
I've had an Alessi stovetop since about 1981. A perfect and beautiful pot. The base is tapered, so that it is broader at the flame-end, a good idea. The spout does a perfect dripless pour. I think that these days it is ridiculously expensive; back then it was new, and I was spending cheap francs in Paris. (Of course, I had to have beans sent to me from USA, since it was impossible to find decent beans in France.) One unique feature of it is that the top doesn't screw onto the bottom-- it clamps. The handle is the clamp. Clever and it works. Well it has worked for over two decades.
Posted Wed Mar 10, 2004, 8:37am Subject: Re: What is a good brand of stove-top MokaPot?
Concerning "scanky" looking aluminum: I had a non Bialetti Aluminum whose boiler looked like a mineral cave and was scary to use...but the Bialetti Aluminum, besides some black spottiness, looks fine. (Now the spots may look "scanky" too...but seem liveable to me.) best, myron
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