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moka pot

MATERIALS

✓ Moka Pot
✓ Filtered water
✓ Kettle or pot
✓ Oven mitt or towel

COFFEE SPECS

Grind

Fine

INSTRUCTIONS

1

prepare your moka pot

Fill bottom chamber with hot, filtered water just below the steam valve.

Tip:

To avoid burnt flavors, pre-boil water in a kettle before pouring into the bottom chamber. This preheating step decreases the time that the coffee grounds are in contact with the hot water.

2

add the coffee

Fill basket with coffee, leveling the coffee bed with your finger or a wooden stirrer. Place the basket into the bottom chamber.

3

SCREW ON THE TOP

Tightly screw top and bottom chambers together.

Tip:

Use an oven mitt or a towel for this step, as the bottom chamber will be very hot!

4

HEAT THE MOKA POT

Place Moka pot on a medium-low flame, making sure that the flame is directly under the pot.

Tip:

When you hear a hissing, gurgling sound, your coffee is done!

5

SERVE

Remove from the flame immediately and serve.

GENERAL TIPS FOR BETTER TASTING COFFEE

Coffee is 98% water, and the quality of the water you use to brew your coffee directly affects the taste in your cup. Running your tap water through a filter like Brita or Pur will affect the taste of your coffee for the better, yielding more clarity and sweetness.

If you are using pre-ground coffee, use less coffee to decrease brew time and use more coffee to increase brew time.

Coffee beans have different densities and sizes, so scooping to measure your coffee recipe becomes less and less reliable. Instead, weigh your coffee on a gram scale to make sure you have the right recipe.

Coffee tastes best when ground right before you brew, and burr grinders give you a much more even grind size. When the grind size is very different, you get a mixed extraction - the water pulls out less from the biggest pieces (giving you the sour flavor of underextraction), and too much from the smaller pieces (the bitter flavor of overextraction)

You may need to adjust the grind size to manipulate the brew time. A coarser grind size will decrease the brew time and a finer grind size will increase the brew timeYou may need to adjust the grind size to manipulate the brew time. A coarser grind size will decrease the brew time and a finer grind size will increase the brew time