I’m…really not all that knowledgeable about coffee, most likely because I really don’t like coffee all that much, and didn’t drink it until I became a barista here in Melbourne.
That being said, coffee is a pretty standard part of every society I’ve ever lived in. I know about buying beans and grinders, and having a french-press for camping trips…
What I hadn’t ever seen, before I came to Australia, was this:
It’s this kind of coffee brewing invention where the whole thing gets unscrewed
The bottom part gets filled with water
and then there’s a colander-like bit
that gets filled with coffee
and then the whole thing gets screwed back together and put on the stove top.
The water boils up through the coffee grounds and then is collected in the top part of the coffee maker.
However, if you aren’t watching your coffee pot, and it boils over, you get a COFFEE EXPLOSION.
The best part of waking up is….
yeah. Really not that.
foxfinding 
It’s called a mocha pot. They started in Italy and is the general way Italians make coffee at home. Usually you use espresso beans instead of regular coffee beans. It’s quite delicious if done right. I made my home coffee exclusively this way for about a year.
Oh, and NEVER EVER clean a mocha pot. They are seasoned by use and if you clean it, you end up adding a nasty metallic taste. They are supposed to look brown/black and grungy inside 🙂
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Good to know! I shall never scrub the mocha pot. (The coffee we get out of it really is pretty good, when it doesn’t end up all over the walls and whatnot. 😛 )
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I think I should probably add that most mocha pots are aluminum, which is part of the reason you don’t wash them. I’ve never had a non-aluminum pot. Other rules may apply 😉
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Ahh! Good. Noted. (I have no idea what these are made out of, now that I think about it. I should acquire more skills for being able to tell apart different types of metal… Off to Google!!)
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I laughed out loud when I read this one. And the pictures just made it all the better!
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I laugh whenever the coffee pot explodes too. Then I feel like a terrible person.
I suspect it may be less funny to the people in the house who are dependent on the caffeine.
S-C-H-A-D-E-N-F-R-E-U-D-E!
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