- Origin: Italian
- Availability: Rare find
The moka pot was patented by Alfonso Bialetti in 1933 and remains the most common home coffee brewer in Italy. It is sometimes called "stovetop espresso," but it brews at roughly 1.5 bars of pressure rather than the 9 bars of a true espresso machine, so the result is a strong concentrate without the crema or extraction profile of an espresso shot. It is a home device almost exclusively. Brooklyn cafés rarely brew on it.