It’s not bialetti but for a high grade stainless steel 10 cup moka pot at this price. It’s a deal..!
I always make one of these on a Friday night and drink these over the course of the weekend. Very convenient.
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if you have kids you’d understand…
That’s why I switched to monster ultra white energy. Decent caffeine kick and still drinkable even at room temp like 5 hours later
Why not just make cold brew? It stores well in the fridge, and if you desire, you heat it up when needed.
Not to mention, much easier to make a good brew….. I can never get good results out of my bialetti for some reason.
I find it has a different taste. Not that I dislike it. Just prefer this
good results
I found batch to batch used to wildly vary.
But in the end I got decent results with:
sticking to 1 type of bean/brand (in my case it was the aldi lazzio dark pre ground
pre heat up the chamber with boiled water (I actually used warm water not boiled to actually make the coffee - found it was less bitter than using boiled)
use a consistent heat source (in my case the small burner on the electric seemed to be way more consistent than the large burner)
*go easy on the tamp
*a touch higher than medium heat
*watch for the cues, stop it when it starts going a light honey colour.
I used to do the bialetti 9 cup on a Monday morn, have 2-3 hot before work, then fridge the rest. Top up with hot water and it would cover me Tuesday and Wednesday too.
Hopefully the coffee police in the fresh beans deals won’t come for you two in the dead of night.
You pay a lot for the Bialetti name. Have something similar from Casabarista and it works great including on induction. Thanks for confirming that I drink too much coffee. I drink the whole 10 cup by lunchtime.
Anyone can confirm if these 'brand name' Chinese knockoffs are any good?
Real stainless steel, no manufacturing defects, and no water leakage when boiling?
Moka pots are great and stainless steel version is superior to the aluminum models, but I get skeptical on these unknown brands especially when the description contradicts the pictures and its only gotten only 3 reviews in the last 10 months.
Picture is clearly UPOHYEE brand (whatever that is) but description says DAPRAINNO brand (is that supposed to be better?)
I'd stay away from it. You're boiling liquid in it and then drinking it - and relying on the pressure release to prevent explosion too.
Just go with a real brand.
does it work on induction ? says in the tittle but i’ve got a stainless one and magnet doesn’t stick , haven’t tried on induction but it’s a test if someone has one one of these.
For what it's worth I did a reverse image search to find other reviews using the same product images, and the only reviewers that mentioned induction mentioned it because it didn't work on their induction cooktop despite saying it does in the listing.
Weird, because the listing specifically says:
【The premium coffee pot】 made of 304+430 stainless steel, which is sturdy, durable, and resistant to high temperatures, allowing the coffee to emit all its aroma at high temperatures. The lower pot is made of 430 stainless steel, suitable for Induction cooking, which can be heated in various ways, convenient and comfortable.
So the bottom (detachable) pot part should clearly be magnetic (aka 430 stainless steel).
If it's not magnetic, then I wouldn't even trust it to be stainless steel.
Better just return it via Amazon claiming not as advertised/described.
Yep, and the Alibaba listing has a demo of it working on an induction burner, so one would wonder if maybe the base is smaller than the minumum size of many induction hobs (the one in the demo is a comically small portable induction hob)
Side topic - what replacement ~rubber gaskets do OzBargainers buy?
The bialetti ones are reasonably expensive (will cost more than your pot over the years), but I tried some cheap ones of Temu and they were a harder silicon and not an amazing fit. They barely softened over time and seem to encourage spitting out the top of the pourer.
Cheap ones work great with an aeropress filter, but I'm enjoying the recent Peru Chanchamayo Lime Blue coffee unfiltered, so I feel I should up my gasket quality to match the beans
The Bialetti ones last for years and years, I've only ever had to replace mine once so just stick with the genuine item.
Maybe over gas, but on electric they go sticky and their pores must be full of old burnt/rancid coffee oils. I replaced my 3-cup ones with bialettis and that one doesn't get much use, but the 6-cup needs replacing after about a year of daily use imho
Maybe you're using it on too high heat, or leaving it on too long after the brew ?
I use mine on the smallest gas ring on the lowest possible heat, and turn the heat off soon after the coffee starts coming through.
@Nom: TBH I'm probably just overly fussy about my gaskets. I'll post a pic of the one I benched if I can find it.
I'm on electric. Gas is like tenfold better specifically for mokapot. I try minimise time on the pot as much as possible by preheating the stove, cranking it to max and quickly bringing it down and off around 15 seconds before the coffee comes through (when I nail it) and cooled with water as soon as the brew is tapering off.
My in-laws have a similar round bialetti 6-cup (mine is traditional hexagon-styled) and their gaskets fair far worse because of even worse electric than us and no attempt to reduce heat on the pot.
Wow.