News for hackers. Stuff that matters.

A comment on The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018). Parent comment

Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by lapinot on Friday November 26, 2021 @04:47AM (#29348786)
> The problem with traditional moka pots is that they can not be used on induction stoves.

Wrong. Any kind of ferromagnetic sheet of metal (ie even your random iron pie pan) will pick up induction. I regularly use a standard moka pot on my induction stove.

[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by zdragnar on Friday November 26, 2021 @09:32AM (#29350504)
Aren't a lot of them aluminum? Or are those not "traditional"?
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by compiler-guy on Friday November 26, 2021 @11:51AM (#29351823)
The traditional ones are aluminum and therefore need an adapter to use on an induction stove which can be a simple ferrous sheet. The gp was quite obnoxious about saying that though.
[ Parent | on HN ]
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by lapinot on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:29PM (#29355848)
Well then TIL that my moka is not a standard one... It was bought recently tho (like ~5 years ago), so perhaps it's gone standard to put some ferrous thing at the bottom, idk.
[ Parent | on HN ]