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ZenoofElia t1_ix4nq6e wrote

Reply to comment by SelfDERPecating in Bialetti Venus 10 years old by Flussschlauch

I prefer lighter/medium roasts (because stronger caffeine, although I've heard not true correlation) and I call it espresso because of the extraction method, which checks out.

I grind it extremely fine (the grinder in pic does not grind fine enough) fill my holder till it's spilling over (using my left hand as a seal) and I then tamp it down. Clean the edges and put it all together. I heat it on high until I hear it crescendo and let run another 30 sec or so.

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HCHeer t1_ix593da wrote

I do the same except I let it on the stove a long time. Setting 4 out of 10 of my vitroceramic stove. The Moka brikka takes about 3 min to fill from when it starts coming out. A 2 person normal moka takes maybe 2 min. Low and slow.

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ZenoofElia t1_ix5iffe wrote

Too long and it destroys the seal. And I go on high because I'm impatient. When I had a gas stove or when I'm camping it's over medium heat.

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Minimalcarpenter t1_ix5syk2 wrote

The seal as in the gasket? They are easily replaceable luckily. They seem quite durable.

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ZenoofElia t1_ix64yz2 wrote

Yes the gasket. And yeah easy to replace. Cheers!

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SelfDERPecating t1_ix4pvbu wrote

Thank you! Saving this comment if I can ever get back to having coffee again.

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cherlin t1_ix750hr wrote

Light/medium isn't really a higher caffeine content. It is true that caffeine cooks away (to an extent) in the roasting process and because of that on a per bean basis, light roasts will have more caffeine.

That being said, we typically measure coffee by weight and the more you roast coffee the lighter it becomes (moisture loss). This means that you have more physical beans for the same given weight which offsets the loss of caffeine. I.e. 20 beans and light roast coffee has more caffeine then 20 beans of dark roast, but 20g of light roast coffee has about the same caffeine as 20g of dark roast

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TivTivyMagvaEsEtke t1_ixaf19c wrote

Everything in this post is wrong, but I liked the handler

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ZenoofElia t1_ixagekd wrote

Oh okay, thank you.

The original handle broke at Burning Man and I used what I had at the time. It's been on there the last 15 years doing it's job.

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ZenoofElia t1_ix8g87k wrote

I don't tamp hard like traditional espresso.

Until this post and peoples replies I've never heard of or called them moka pots. I bought it as an espresso maker, just fyi.

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