How to Brew with the Stove Top Bialetti Moka Express

Watch the Coffee Couple use the Moka Express prepare yummy espresso, fast and easy... and clean the shiny Bialetti!

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• bialetti
• moka
• express
• espresso
• stove top
• maker
• how to
• brew
• coffee
• couple
• stovetop

[p4rt1]

Thank you very much guys! My first coffee Moka with this maschine was aweful cause my Moka was boiling and it got bitter :( Now I know how to do it better! Is it also possible to let the lid opened to see when the top is full of Moka?

[MyBestCoffee]

@p4rt1 I'm happy this video helped you with your brewing. We do not recommend to open the lid during the infusion. You will ended up with coffee splattered all over the place. We opened the lid in the video so that you can see what's going beneath.

[CmanCorporations]

Hi, can someone tell me if this is good to make just ONE regular cup of coffee?

And what size do I need for just one cup of coffee?

I know expresso shots are concentrated so how would I make just one cup?

I just need one cup for my coffee mug for my commute to school in the morning.

Thanks.

[MyBestCoffee]

@CmanCorporations To enjoy one cup of coffee you can use a two cup stove top Bialetti. You can find more information here on our site

[cavemanc]

you guys are the best!!! thanks from BC canada!1

[MyBestCoffee]

@cavemanc Thanks we appreciate ;-)

[outinarizona]

I'd recommended throwing the used grounds in the trash or plants or compost rather than in the sink. Depending on the pipes and system, it could clogs things up.

[MyBestCoffee]

Hi xraymond, A percolator is a brewing system and a stove top espresso maker is another brewing system and they are not the same.

The percolator brewing system recycles the coffee over and over again to keep brewing that's why the taste tends to be bitterer than any other coffee maker.

Stove top extracts coffee under the pressure of water vapor and produces the coffee with the less bitterness and most aromas compare to a percolator.

I hope this help you;)

Luc

[ta1hrast]

It's not good to put coffee into the drain. It hardens in pipes!

[Retubetard]

Are you guys from Montreal ? I recognize the accent ..

I think it would be important to keep your heating element to "medium-medium/high" to avoid burning the coffee (even slightly, the taste is present) and I tend to lift the bialetti from heat only a few sec after the gurgling noises starts (for the same reason) and pour it right away.

And I do agree with @thevideotogo, bialetti machines correctly used gives the best coffee, imho. I use one daily for years now. Superb. You get to "know" it.

[TH6476]

Great demo, very useful. Which coffee do you use? Ground coffee beans or mixed coffee crumbles? Sorry my english is bad, hope you understand what i mean;

[ringkite]

one note: there is no fill line. all you see inside is the interior of the valve; other sites recommend to fill with water up to just below the valve-- do you agree?

thanks for this video (but there is no line as such, and i have been researching for a while now, so that part of the official instructions is frustrating to some people including me).

[louishemmings]

why throw coffee grinds down the sink when you can put them in compost or compost utility bin?!

[MrEmperor79]

@thevideotogo I appreciate your comments, I didn't know about extraction method difference, but I used a similar "machine" a few times and the espresso always tasted like crap. Was it coffee, was it me or was it the machine....I don't know but my bet is it's the machine that sucks. Maybe Bialetti is different and I should try it, I don't know.

[thevideotogo]

@MrEmperor79 Every household in italy owns at least one of these machines. Yes they don't produce creme because because the extraction method is different compared to a high pressure espresso machine, but if you use good quality coffee and the right grind you will have the most amazing coffee taste experience. You have no idea sorry.

[MrEmperor79]

These machines are absolutely useless, they couldn't make a decent espresso even if your life depended on it. Look at the video, the espresso has absolutely no crema on top of it, it's just black and bland, it's NOT expresso.

[istuddd]

what capacity do they come in ?

[norco806]

vous vous n'êtes évidemment pas québécois