- Today we gonna talk about a moka pot.
Now, if you start making videos on YouTube, reviewing stuff,
very quickly, people will start sending you emails saying,
"Hey can I send you a free thing?
"Can you review it?"
And a lot of it is either
completely irrelevant to what you do,
or it's not really stuff you wanna review,
or they're just trying to get you
to give them good a review,
discount codes for the audience.
It's just, you just say no.
The whole point of the Patreon
was so I don't have to deal with these stuff.
But once in a blue moon, you get an email that says,
"Hey, do you wanna try this thing?"
And you look at the thing, and you're like,
"Yeah, I kinda do, that looks, in a good way,
"kind of ridiculous."
And that's what happened here.
So, I didn't pay for this.
These are about 25 pounds on Amazon,
so they're not expensive.
They sent one of these
and the reason that I wanted to play with it
is that it is, as you can see, a clear glass moka pot.
And I thought, maybe that'll look cool.
Now, this is not gonna be a how to make a moka pot video
because I've already made that video.
I made it with the wonderful people ChefSteps
- I can pop this in?
- Yep,
So when you put it together, just grab a towel
because the bottom is gonna be hot now.
I'll stick a link to that in the description down below.
If you wanna know how to make a moka pot
on my recommendations, go check that out after this.
Well this is a very quick review because frankly,
there's not a lot you can say about these things.
Now this is mostly an aluminum in construction
and if I'm honest, it feels a little cheap.
It's 25 pounds so it is cheap and it feels a little cheap.
The threading,
doesn't feel fantastic.
The way that the little basket in here sits,
it's actually quite difficult to get it out
of the main body sometimes, it sits a little bit
too deep in there.
And the sort of basket lip doesn't sit over the edge
of this properly, so it's a little frustrating
to empty, it's aluminum so you can't put it
in the dishwasher, it'll tarnish and get weird.
So it's a hand-wash only thing.
It doesn't work on induction hubs,
which is all I have here, but there's a way around that.
It's construction is okay, like the lid
there's like a little band here to try
and keep this in place.
It doesn't work super well.
I wish they'd made it out of better materials,
a better gauge of material, it just feel
just a little too light for me.
You are getting what you pay for here.
This is a pretty cheap little moka pot,
but half of it glass.
Maybe that's cool, maybe we should see
what happens when you brew with one of these things.
If you do want one, I'll leave a link
in the description down below.
It won't be an affiliate link, I do not want
to benefit from you if you buy one of these.
But really, the reason that I got one of these,
the reason that you're probably watching this video,
is you wanna know if it looks cool
and so in the tradition of YouTube,
let's finish this up with some unnecessarily
cinematic shots of making coffee in a clear glass moka.
I thought that would look better, I did,
I thought that would look cooler.
It wasn't easy to get good looking results out of this
I can't quite work out why this doesn't brew
a little bit like other moka pots,
it seems to brew a little bit differently
kind of a range of grind settings too.
I don't really understand why something
maybe in the way that the basket is inside this thing
I don't know.
But I thought it would look cooler, I did.
Cinematic brewing in a clear glass moka pot.
As always, thank you so much for watching,
and I hope you have a great day.
Melted some carpet on to that.
It's quite hot.