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A community member
Mar 10, 2017
For a moka pot this is a solid reliable choice, especially if you want steel instead of aluminum. I used one of these for years and it gave me many cups of decent coffee--especially while traveling, since it's small, light, and durable. At home I drink hand drip coffee now, but the Ilsa is still the easiest coffee maker to bring on the road.
BiffsBiz
205
Mar 14, 2017
What is hand drip coffee? Not trying to be funny, just don't know what that means.
PotipharBreen
3
Mar 14, 2017
BiffsBizPouring hot water from a kettle onto ground coffee in a filter. Like a Mr. Coffee, except you do it by hand. That lets you make sure the water is the right temperature (with nearly all automatic makers, it is too cold) and soaks the grounds more evenly than most automatic machines will. Makes much better coffee.
BiffsBiz
205
Mar 15, 2017
PotipharBreenAh, okay. Yeah that's how I make coffee unless I use a French press. Thanks.
cino
104
Mar 15, 2017
BiffsBizWhat do you call a French press? Something like the Rok press?
BiffsBiz
205
Mar 15, 2017
A community member
Mar 16, 2017
cino"French press" is what English-speakers call a cafetière à pression or cafetière à piston. I think Bodum invented the term, but everyone says it. I only use mine for cold brewing.
cino
104
Mar 21, 2017
That was funny as first ever produced device by Ilsa was the napolitan cafetière (a sort of reversed Bialetti Moka) which was invented by a French.
A community member
Mar 22, 2017
cinoI didn't know the "Neapolitan cafetiere" was a French invention. All I knew was that people either love it or hate it.
cino
104
Mar 22, 2017
A parisian to be more precise, Morize was his name. I thought neapolitan users extinct! On another hand I don't know anyone using the milanese while it should be quiet popular among campers and such. Now that's an idea, getting a milanese for pique-niques!