The mocha pot is a coffee maker or electric coffee maker that makes coffee by passing boiling water suppressed with steam through ground coffee. Named after the Yemeni city of Mocha, it was created by Luigi De Ponti. It was patented for the first time in Italy by an engineer named Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. Bialetti Industrie continued to produce the same model under the name "Moka Express."
Spread from Italy, current mocha pots are most commonly used in Europe and in Latin America. It has been an iconic design, featured in modern industrial art and design museums such as the Wolfsonian-FIU, the Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper-Hewitt, the National Design Museum, the Design Museum, and the London Science Museum. The Moka pot has different sizes, ranging from one to eighteen portions of 50Ã, ml (2Ã, impÃ, flÃ, oz; 2Ã, USÃ, flÃ, oz). The original design and many models are currently made of aluminum with a Bakelite handle.
Video Moka pot
Variations and brands
Moka pots are used on fire or electrical range and are traditionally made of aluminum, although sometimes made of stainless steels or other alloys.
"Brikka" is a modified moka pot produced by Bialetti. It incorporates a weighted valve as a pressure regulator above the nozzle that allows pressure to build inside the water tank in a manner similar to a pressure cooker. As the pressure rises more rapidly in this method (due to much less steam leakage) compared to standard moka pots, the pressure reaches the level required for water to rise through ground coffee in a shorter time. However, a weighted valve allows the pressure to accumulate and the temperature rises a little farther before the liquid splashes through the nozzle. The result is a brewed coffee with a higher pressure and temperature than a standard pot, making it more like an espresso and therefore with a more visible crema.
"Mukka Express" is a modified moka pot that is also produced by Bialetti which allows the milk to be frothy and mixed with coffee during brewing. The name, "Mukka", is a pun in Italian for cow-milk, mucca . Bialetti also produces several stainless steel mocha pots, for example, Moses, Classes, and Venus.
Alessi is an Italian kitchenware manufacturer known for their mocha pots. Cuisinox also markets several models of mocha pots in aluminum and stainless steel.
Also Italian manufacturer of design-oriented Italian kitchen appliances Serafino Zani is known for its moka pot: "Finnish" designed by Tapio Wirkkala, "Mach" designed by Isao Hosoe and awarded with Good Design Award (Chicago) 1993, "Thema" in stainess steel with titanium , and "Genesis" in stainless steel and copper, both designed by Tarcisio Zani.
Vev ViganÃÆ'² is an Italian manufacturer specializing in stainless steel moch pots. Their product lines include Kontessa, Itaca, Vespress, and Carioca. In 2004 they produced a 'UFO' caffettiera designed by Vinod Gangotra, which was designed to receive two cups of coffee sitting in an overdraft at the top of the machine and collecting coffee during brewing. The top is made of cast aluminum while the lower one is of stainless steel.
Bellman makes stainless steel mocha pots, "CX-25 Series", operating at higher pressures and capable of creating crema. It also has a stick for liquid vapors, like milk for cappuccino.
The Volturno brand has been producing mocha pots in Argentina for decades; the name Volturno is sometimes used synonymously with a mocha pot there.
Top Moka, another Italian manufacturer, offers two different types of mocha pots in different colors. The more traditional Moka Top Pot comes in varying sizes from two to six-shot boilers. They also make mini mocha pots in one and two-shot sizes that use a spending bow rather than the standard collection room. Both are available with an aluminum boiler for standard cooktop or titanium-alloy kettle for induction cooker.
G.A.T. also an Italian company based in Brescia which is involved in the production of Italian mocha coffee maker since 1986. The range of G.A.T. proposes broad and complete (over 50 models), enabling one to choose among various products, materials, and prices, following different market needs or personal desires.
After the Second World War, Italian mochas flourished throughout Southern Europe and became the standard way of making coffee domestically. Its popularity led to a non-Italian South European producer to make copies or new designs inspired in the original Italian design.
Another part of the Italian mocha world which was achieved after the Second World War was Australia. Most post-war Italian migrants used pots of mocha in their homes which eventually caused many Australians with non-Italian backgrounds to also use pots in their homes. It's widely available in many deli and Italian-style supermarkets in Australia.
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Brewing coffee with pot mocha
The boiler (marked A in the diagram) is filled with water almost to the safety release valve (some models have water level marks etched) and a funnel shaped metal filter (B) is inserted. Fine ground coffee is added to the filter as shown below. Then the top (C, which has a second metal filter at the bottom) is tightly screwed into the base. The pan is placed at an appropriate heat source, the water is brought to its boiling point, and thus the vapor forms in the kettle.
A gasket ensures the unit is tightly closed and allows pressure to build safely at the bottom, where the safety valve provides the necessary discharge if this pressure must be too high (with a clean filter, which should not happen).
The vapor eventually reaches high enough pressure to gradually force the boiling water around the funnel through the coffee powder and into the upper chamber (C), where coffee is collected. Although the "boilers" in pot moch contain vapor at high temperatures and pressures, the soil imposed water is no hotter than that used in other brewing methods - up to 90 ° C, depending on the extraction stage.
When the bottom space is almost empty, the bubbles of bubbles mix with boiling water, producing a distinctive gurgling sound. This "strombolian phase" allows a mixture of steam and water to pass through coffee, leading to undesirable results, and therefore brewing must be stopped by removing the pot from the stove as soon as this stage is reached.
Maintenance
The mocha pot requires periodic replacement of rubber seals and filters, and checks that the safety release valve is not blocked. When a new rubber seal, it may change the taste of coffee, as well as some "run dry" without coffee or by using coffee powder for "prime" it.
pot dimensions Moka
Moka pots are available in various sizes based on the number of 50Ã,ÂμL espresso cups (2Ã, impÃ, flÃ, oz; 2Ã, USÃ, flÃ, oz) they produce. The following table is the standard size for Bialetti Moka Express.
Coffee Moka Characteristics
Coffee pot mocha flavor is highly dependent on peanut varieties, roast level, smoothness of grinding wheel, water profile, and heat level used.
Moka pot is sometimes referred to as a stove top espresso maker and produces coffee with an extraction ratio similar to (but somewhat higher than) a conventional espresso machine. The resulting beverage has improved the extraction of caffeine and flavor from the bottom versus coffee filters, producing a stronger beverage than those obtained by dripping drops. Furthermore, depending on the peanut varieties and milling selection, the pot moka can create a foam emulsion, known as crema.
However, mocha coffee is generally extracted at a relatively low pressure of 1 to 2 bar (100 to 200 kPa), while the standard for espresso coffee sets a pressure of 9 bar (900 kPa). Therefore, mocha coffee is not regarded as a true espresso and has different flavor characteristics.
See also
- Coffee percolator
- Coffee Maker
- Neapolitan flip coffee pot
Note
References
- Rombauer, Irma S.; Marion Rombauer Becker; Ethan Becker (August 1997). The Joy of Cooking . Scribner. pp.Ã, 28-29. ISBNÃ, 0-684-81870-1.
- Schnapp, Jeffrey T. (2004). "The Romance of Aluminum and Caffeine". At Brown, Bill. Things . Chicago: University of Chicago Press. pp.Ã, 209-239.
External links
Media related to pot Moka on Wikimedia Commons
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