(This is a re-post from a new website I have created called un-riddle.com. My focus is to post on current and relevant interesting topics that I come across. )
I was visiting my friend from Italy, as the day progressed the conversation shifted towards coffee. Having recently acquired a great appreciation for this intense beverage in the Netherlands, I said “Ja! Alstublieft” ( on second thought maybe I should have said “Si! Grazie!”). In any case, my need was understood and my friend moved ahead to pull out this strange looking apparatus to prepare coffee.
It was so new to me, I simply had to have it on my blog. The apparatus is the topic for this week for me and is called a “Moka Pot”. The name Moka comes from the Yemeni city of “Mocha” which is pivotal in the earlier discovery and marketing coffee.
A Moka pot is an electric coffee maker that brews by percolating pressurized steam that has passed through ground coffee beans. It was invented by Luigi De Ponti and was patented for the first time by Italian engineer Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. Interestingly, Bialetti is still the most popular coffee maker and also sells Moka pots under their tradename “Moka Express”.
The pot I saw at my friend’s place is in fact a “Brikka” which is a modified manufactured pot that incorporates a weighted value as pressure regulator on the top of the nozzle, allowing pressure to build up inside the water tank in a manner similar to a typical Indian pressure cooker ( This will be a topic for later). The animation below describes the principle.
If you want to delve more into the details of Moka pot please refer to the following Wikipedia link. Moka Pot. I can assure you're the quality of the coffee is on a different level and as my Italian friend explained to my ignorant self, this was how “real” coffee tasted like! Ciao!
I was visiting my friend from Italy, as the day progressed the conversation shifted towards coffee. Having recently acquired a great appreciation for this intense beverage in the Netherlands, I said “Ja! Alstublieft” ( on second thought maybe I should have said “Si! Grazie!”). In any case, my need was understood and my friend moved ahead to pull out this strange looking apparatus to prepare coffee.
It was so new to me, I simply had to have it on my blog. The apparatus is the topic for this week for me and is called a “Moka Pot”. The name Moka comes from the Yemeni city of “Mocha” which is pivotal in the earlier discovery and marketing coffee.
A Moka pot is an electric coffee maker that brews by percolating pressurized steam that has passed through ground coffee beans. It was invented by Luigi De Ponti and was patented for the first time by Italian engineer Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. Interestingly, Bialetti is still the most popular coffee maker and also sells Moka pots under their tradename “Moka Express”.
The pot I saw at my friend’s place is in fact a “Brikka” which is a modified manufactured pot that incorporates a weighted value as pressure regulator on the top of the nozzle, allowing pressure to build up inside the water tank in a manner similar to a typical Indian pressure cooker ( This will be a topic for later). The animation below describes the principle.
If you want to delve more into the details of Moka pot please refer to the following Wikipedia link. Moka Pot. I can assure you're the quality of the coffee is on a different level and as my Italian friend explained to my ignorant self, this was how “real” coffee tasted like! Ciao!
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