Coffee - Moka Pot

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Coffee - Moka Pot

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I love strong coffee. I walked by a moka pot today and decided to buy it. I recalled watching a video on YouTube on how people made espresso-like coffee with this stove top brewing process.

Does anyone have suggestions as to a widely available espresso roast to try?

The stronger the better...

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Post by maskaggs »

Illy seems like a quality go-to brand. I had a moka pot once upon a time and drank Illy when I could afford it. You should be able to find it at a lot of standard grocers.
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Moka pot is also good for regular strength coffee. I use mine every morning.
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Post by fallingwickets »

I use the starbucks expresso.....it does the job, but ive also used the pot with regular coffee and its just as tasty......well the whole process from start to finish gives a cup of coffee that extra appeal.

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Post by GregPQ »

I've had good luck with Peets Major Dickason's blend.

Here's a trick that will reduce any metallic taste you may notice in the moka brew: preheat the water before you fill up the moka pot--almost to boiling.

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Intelligentsia Black Cat is the espresso to die for! (not cheap!)

http://www.intelligentsiacoffee.com/pro ... project/hb
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Intelligentsia Black Cat
thanks for the rec

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Post by RazorRamone »

Thanks for the suggestions. I enjoy my new panic attacks as a result of high caffeine levels. Hahaha!!
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GregPQ wrote:I've had good luck with Peets Major Dickason's blend.
Greg, I would be worried if you hadn't! I love that stuff.

Moka pots are fun, but don't let yours boil too much or it will spray evil, hard-to-remove coffee tar all over your stove. :7(
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Inspired by this thread, I bought a stainless steel Primula 6-cup off of Amazon. So far I've used Folgers run through a burr grinder (about as you'd expect) and some Sumatra that I roasted myself (via Sweet Maria's and much better). It is a bit more acidic and inferior to my Aeropress, but better than the average shot I get from my 15-bar DeLonghi (except when I got very lucky.)

Roasting your own is as easy and cheap using a popcorn popper.
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I;ll look for the link later (hopefully if i can remember) but yesterday there was a story out about moka pot that works in the microwave oven :shock:

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cjc15153 wrote:Roasting your own is as easy and cheap using a popcorn popper.
I tried this and was unable to get the darkness of roast that I desire. I ended up using a dry frying pan.

One thing I will say is that the roasting process stinks ... literally. I was surprised.

Now grinding freshly roasted coffee ... *that* was something special.
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My beans roast to oily smoking black if I'm not careful. My complaint with the popper method is that I only roast 100 grams per batch, which is annoyingly small.

And yes it smells arguably worse than boiling beer (though I've grown to like that smell.) And sometimes there is chaff flying around.

But the lower cost per pound, and the smell of the roasted beans and the coffee itself keep me at it.
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I grew up about two blocks from a shop that roasted their own coffee, and that's about the minimum distance for the smell to be nice.

My parents -- more than comfortable in the kitchen -- tried roasting some green beans themselves and we ended up fleeing the house! Good times, good times....
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And yes it smells arguably worse than boiling beer
tried roasting some green beans themselves and we ended up fleeing the house!
a far cry from the bloggers. merchanters etc who romanticize the ^#$#& out of roasting at home.....LOL

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A few years ago, there was a local coffee plant sitting alongside a well traveled thoroughfare. It was on the way to a state college where a great many of us commuted on a daily basis. On the days they roasted the coffee, it was common to see folks (who didn't know what the smell was, obviously) pulled over with the hood up, peering down to see if the car had caught fire. True. It happened to several of our college friends.
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Tonight it was raining as I drove home, so the thick smoke from the Autocrat Coffee plant -- which next to the freeway, merely behind a row of trees -- had settled across the road like a wall of fog.

I blasted my A/C to suck in as much as possible and took deep, joyous breaths of the lovely stink until it dissipated.

Love it! I just won't live in it!

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cjc15153 wrote:And yes it smells arguably worse than boiling beer (though I've grown to like that smell.) And sometimes there is chaff flying around.
Haha. I homebrew as well.

Before the hops go in, the boiling mess smells like breakfast.

After the hops go in, it smells. I like it too. Back when I first learned how to homebrew, a friend and I brewed our first batch together (this was in 1993). After the hops went into the boil, his father, an Air Force Senior Master Sergeant, said "it smells like a five dollar whore in here." I had a great belly laugh over that one, lol.
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