Moka pot ritual
Feb. 6th, 2026 06:01 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
vivdunstanEnjoying our new Friday afternoon ritual, making us a Moka pot of coffee to share. Still remarkably fun to watch, and tastes so good.
We got a 4-cup (4 espresso sized servings of coffee) Bialetti Moka Express stovetop coffee maker, which I figured would work for both of us (though not the hugest serving size for two), and also at a push for just one of us (hyper caffeinated!). Moka pots are not designed to be half filled to make a smaller portion size ... Our Moka pot makes remarkably good coffee, which we serve with heated oak milk (MOMA, my usual milk with coffee now). The coffee we're using is Lavazza Crema e Gusto pre ground coffee for an easy time, bought in our local supermarket, perfect for a Moka pot, traditional Italian flavour, if not quite as wow as freshly ground beans. But it's convenient, and tastes great. We heat the Moka pot on the cooker hob on a very low heat, using pre-heated water, and the resulting coffee is not at all bitter. Neither of us feels the need to add sugar, even Martin who usually adds it by the shovel full.
We got a 4-cup (4 espresso sized servings of coffee) Bialetti Moka Express stovetop coffee maker, which I figured would work for both of us (though not the hugest serving size for two), and also at a push for just one of us (hyper caffeinated!). Moka pots are not designed to be half filled to make a smaller portion size ... Our Moka pot makes remarkably good coffee, which we serve with heated oak milk (MOMA, my usual milk with coffee now). The coffee we're using is Lavazza Crema e Gusto pre ground coffee for an easy time, bought in our local supermarket, perfect for a Moka pot, traditional Italian flavour, if not quite as wow as freshly ground beans. But it's convenient, and tastes great. We heat the Moka pot on the cooker hob on a very low heat, using pre-heated water, and the resulting coffee is not at all bitter. Neither of us feels the need to add sugar, even Martin who usually adds it by the shovel full.
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Date: 2026-02-08 12:49 am (UTC)Obligatory Carrot in Guards Guards reference.
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Date: 2026-02-08 09:32 am (UTC)And yes, the Moka pot coffee is very strong. We feel very caffeinated for many hours after. Quite buzzing, which Martin doesn't usually get from coffee! And that's sharing the Moka pot's coffee between us two. One person could drink it all themselves ...
Oh and on the subject of strong drinks, we ordered in 2 more bottles of Somerset Ice Cider recently. So yes, we're sorted.
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Date: 2026-02-09 03:43 am (UTC)I really enjoyed the Sky adaptations of a number of Discworld novels and always hoped they'd do one of Guards! Guards! The recent TV show Does Not Exist (TM). The only thing I'll say about that is that it seems to have killed Narrativia as a TV producer, which is a pity in some ways, although if that was the standard of what they were going to do with the material, then better dead and buried.
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Date: 2026-02-09 09:58 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-02-10 12:49 am (UTC)Nope. Just nope. It take all that's great about PTerry's work, throws it on the ground and stomps on it, then takes a completely inappropriate tone and violates the core of a number of the characters.