Bialetti Moka Pot (6 Cups) - Black

Italian moka coffee, although pronounced similarly, is entirely different from American mocha coffee; no chocolate syrup is needed to prepare moka.

You can find small, two-chamber moka pots in almost every home in Italy; they are easy to use, and the coffee you get is full-bodied and richly flavored. Invented in Italy in the 1930s and produced by Bialetti since the early 1950s, the iconic 8-sided Bialetti Moka Pot (6 Cups) - Black moka pot consists of a cylinder (lower chamber), a funnel-shaped filter, an upper chamber where the coffee collects, and a second, detachable filter attached to the bottom of the upper chamber via a gasket.

Water heated in the lower chamber rises with 2 atmospheres of steam pressure, passes through the ground coffee in the filter, and collects as liquid coffee in the upper chamber. Although the working principle of the Bialetti Moka Pot (6 Cups) is this simple, making a good moka requires some practice, a keen eye, and the use of properly ground coffee – never use finely ground coffee.

To prepare moka with the Bialetti Moka Pot (6 Cups):

• Fill the lower chamber with drinking water up to the lowest point of the valve on the chamber's surface;
• Place the funnel-shaped filter filled with ground coffee freely, without pressing it down, onto the lower chamber;
• Ensure that the gasket and filter in the upper chamber are correctly installed, then tightly screw the two chambers together – do not force the handle on the upper chamber to tighten or loosen;
• Place your moka pot on the smallest burner of your stove, ignited on low heat – keeping the lid of the upper chamber open will help you catch the moment the coffee starts to emerge;
• Remove your pot from the stove just before the coffee starts to form air bubbles as it comes out of the column in the upper chamber – this way, you will get the best parts of the coffee;
• After a short wait, you can stir your coffee with a spoon and serve it;
• Clean your pot, which is made of cast aluminum, by rinsing it only with lukewarm water; do not wash it in the dishwasher, and do not use soap or similar materials when washing it.