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Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by 2dvisio on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:13AM (#29348921)
Still using the first 3-cup ½ Moka pot I bought after moving to Uni when 18yrs old, now serving me for the past 20 years O_O. Have "burned" it three times by forgetting it on the hob and being awaken by the burned smell of plastic. Always managed to get it back to life with a good scrub and a new set of spares.

Some 13 years ago, for the office I got a "modern" Elettrika Bialetti which is a normal 2-cup ½ standard Bialetti with a resistor on the bottom to make it electric. It uses standard computer cables to get power. It powered 11yrs of PhD, postdoc, and academic work.

Last update for my Mokas (~6yrs ago) is to get seals made of silicone. They last a lifetime and now I don't even need to change the seal every four months anymore.

Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by fho on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:15AM (#29349561)
Similar experience here, I bought a aluminum one (knockoff I think) when I moved out from my parents, used that throughout higher education and just recently, almost 20 years later "upgraded" to a genuine Bialetti one.

But I somewhat dislike the aluminum ones as they tend to get somewhat yucky over time ... but Bialetti also sells a stainless steel one, the Bialetti Venus. Big fan.

Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by adolph on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:32AM (#29350045)
Oh wow, that looks almost perfect. My complaint about the Mika is that it is a pain to clean.
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by throw0101a on Friday November 26, 2021 @07:08AM (#29349520)
> 3-cup

The sizes of "cups" when it comes to coffee seems to be a bit chaotic.

Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by nabilhat on Friday November 26, 2021 @01:01PM (#29352423)
I've always found "Cup" as a measurement to be fun, in an engine of chaos kind of way.

Tasse - 120ml (4oz-ish), this is historically the base UOM of "coffee cup" originally encountered on coffee things. Often carelessly translated to "cup" in countries new to coffee, regardless of overlap with existing alternate meanings of "cup" as a measurement.

Demitasse - 60ml (2oz-ish), a cup for espresso.

Mug - Wikipedia says 8-12oz.

The USA definition of "coffee cup" as an amount one would serve themselves ranges anywhere from 8oz through over 20oz, depending on who you ask. USA-made coffee machine markings also vary, but are always smaller than consumers expect. Currently Black and Decker's "cup" is 5oz and Bunn's is 7oz, which means Bunn's standard 10 cup machine makes substantially more coffee than B&D's standard 12 cup machine.

Unless of course it is a cup of coffee in a recipe, in which case consider the provenance of your recipe and which standardized (or not...) version of a "cup" measurement is indicated before proceeding: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cup_(unit)

Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by aigo on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:29AM (#29350027)
It's wild. I believe the cup is somewhere between double espresso and Victorian teacup.
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by _dan on Friday November 26, 2021 @08:47AM (#29350141)
"3 cup" = 1 cup, "8 cup" = 3 cups
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by xenocratus on Friday November 26, 2021 @05:24AM (#29348964)
I have a 3 cup Moka pot from them too, recently replaced the seal with a similar rubber one but I'd be very interested in trying out the silicone one as well, but it doesn't seem like a common occurrence - mind if I ask where you got it from? Was it an online store?
Re:The Humble Brilliance of Italy's Moka Coffee Pot (2018) by 2dvisio on Friday November 26, 2021 @06:01AM (#29349134)
Online stores like Amazon or eBay have plenty of those (sometimes called also gaskets). The seal tends to become brown over time as the silicone absorbs some quantity of coffe in the process, but that does not affect the taste of coffee and the seal keeps doing its job impeccably (up until ~6 yrs at least, ymmv).