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  • Re: Moka Pot

    From August Abolins@2:460/256 to Kurt Weiske on Tue Jun 29 17:03:02 2021
    Hi Kurt,
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    I broke out my moka pot this morning after watching a
    YouTube video on MP tips.

    I never heard of those things.

    You've seen them - they're that ubuquitous multi-sided, 2-piece aluminum stove-top coffee pot. Put water in the bottom part, coffee in a basket in the middle, screw the top on, and the water boils, forcing steam past the coffee. It goes up a chimney in the top part and collects there.

    The coffee lands somewhere north of drip coffee and south of espresso.


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    I've never seen one IRL. But a search on the net revealed that I've seen them on the 'net before.

    The closest to percolated coffee that I've seen in operation is a standard precolator. But those are generally meant for larger quantities of coffee.

    I started using a single serve electric one. I forget the brand (Braun perhaps?) Anyway.. I started getting frustrated with the cost of those single pods and all the plastic waste they created. So, now I use the machine as an instant hot-water machine only, and use my own ground coffee in a cone filter that sits in a holder on top of the cup.

    Ciao!
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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to August Abolins on Wed Jun 30 06:57:00 2021
    August Abolins wrote to Kurt Weiske <=-

    I started using a single serve electric one. I forget the brand (Braun perhaps?) Anyway.. I started getting frustrated with the cost of those single pods and all the plastic waste they created. So, now I use the machine as an instant hot-water machine only, and use my own ground
    coffee in a cone filter that sits in a holder on top of the cup.

    For single-serve coffee, Black and Decker makes an innocuous little single- cup coffee makes called a "Brew 'N Go" that sells for under $20, and coffee afficionado web sites love it. It's one of the only coffee makers that gets the coffee to the right temperature - hot enough to maximize flavor
    extraction and not too hot to boil the grinds. It makes a great cup, comes with a thermal mug and its own gold filter.

    I have one at my desk at work, saves me the indignity of making Keurig
    coffee.


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