Bialetti Stovetop Espresso Pots | CR Comparison 

I love the look of the original Moka, If they could switch out the aluminum for stainless steel I would definitely replace my Venus with it.

Okay, you got the stainless pots misnamed. The flared bottom is the VENUS and the tapered bottom is the MUSA.

Good thing about the stainless steel ones is that they work on an induction hob or at least the one I bought did.

I find espresso grind is too fine: I tend to set the grinder between espresso and drip. The Bialetti Brikka is interesting because it has a pressure-cooker-style weight on the central column, which bumps up pressure in the grounds basket and gives you a much more tasty cup than the traditional moka pot. It's still not espresso but it's good. When I pull an espresso on my Lelit machine I use 15 grammes of coffee for a single shot. No caffeine problems. 15g in a 10 cl Brikka shot stands me on my ear. So: strongly suggest you have a look at the Brikka. It's fun, too. Oh, the 2-cup (10 cl) model gives better results than the bigger models. Cheers, and thanks for the great videos!

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I have the bialetti and use it too infrequently. I tested a multitude of grinds from true espresso to extra course trying to perfect the cup I get from the bialetti. When I finally determined that a course espresso grind kept grinds from over saturation of the coffee the problem became making 4 cups for the road in a timely manner. Bottom line, good coffee makers do not have to be expensive.

great memories when i was a teen and mom making the coffee on the classic, Geez the kick of caffeine lasted all day.

I read that Bialette did make the original moca pots. The aluminum ones were made on some of the original machines in the same factory, until quite recently. I used one for years but changed coffee habits and forgot about it. A year ago I was given a stainless steel mica pot and I have used it regularly. I start almost every day with the moca pot and Lavazza's creme e gusto or Rossa. I no longer use aluminum cook ware of any kind so I was pleased to see the stainless steel pots appear.

Bought my first one, before watching this video. Was in the store and had no idea the sleek models were just newer versions of the old model. But I took them apart and they appeared to work the same. In the end I bought the old model because its design is so unique and interesting even if maybe not as pretty as the newer models.. More of a conversation starter I think.

I use my mokka almost every day. Currently with Hawaii kona and honestly even when you use a cheap mokka pot you still get an excelent tasting coffee...Hungarians call these kotyogo which refers to the sound of the sizzling coffee escaping from the middle valve.

Waited for "comparison". It never came. Perhaps properly naming the videos might be a good change. Unless the idea was click-bait.

Bialetti actually was the first company to make a stovetop coffee pot!

Nice as usual, you missed (as others have noted) the arguably "best" Bialetti, though: the Brikka! More pressure than the three versions you have shown and thus a little more espresso-like coffee. Now you have to make another review with just the Bialetti Brikka! ;-)

Great video! I only just noticed the newer models and was looking for an explanation

You mix up the names in the beginning. the one with the wing on top is the musa the one with the simpler design at the top is the venus

I have been using this mocha pot for years, and own the 3-cup-, 6-cup and 9-cup versions (the 3-cup is my most often and easiest to use). Unfortunately, the effort is not "Minimal" as shown in the video description. To get the very best from these mocha pots requires some additional investment of both money and time. The quality of coffee you get strictly depends on the quality of the coffee you use. Fresh, dark, whole bean is the best, but a good grinder investment is required. Buying your coffee pre-ground usually results in getting stale coffee. Even coffee that is ground fresh will lose most of its flavor within a few days. Whole bean stays fresher for a longer period of time, and holds the natural oils which are important to the overall taste. Grocery store beans are good to learn with. The problem here is that you really don't know exactly what the beans are or how old they are. You can look online for reputable coffee sellers who will roast your beans to order, then ship them out immediately. By the time you get them, they will be totally degassed and ready to use. However, expect to pay more for this service. I typically order 24-ounces at a time to insure freshness. With shipping, that comes out to about $35 ($23 per pound). Unfortunately, that's the cost if you're after the best. The flavor, though, is night-and-day. That light brown topping you get on the coffee is not creme, but rather foam. This is a good indicator of the bean quality. Freshly roasted and ground beans will produce a good layer of that foam. Stale beans will produce very little, if any. So, if you're not getting that delicious-looking brown foam at the end of your brew, your coffee sucks. Compared to drip coffee makers, prep time can be long. Start to finish, 10-12 minutes. You need to be there the whole time, especially when the coffee is brewing. Don't boil the water in your mocha pot as instructed in this video! That's way too hot! Use a medium high heat. The water does not have to be boiled to produce enough steam to make this pot work! If your water is too hot, it will produce a more bitter pot of coffee.

You got the names backwards the musa is the one with the butterfly handle on the lid

The old Prodotti Stella where great sold stainless steel moka pots I have had one for seventeen years, still works fine, I wanted a smaller one and found out that Prodotti sold there designs to De'but a Taiwanese company, bought one and there a Beautiful moka pot and work superbly,

Have both and I prefer the stainless steel due to the fact it’s better quality. Used them for 5 months and the classic boaletti corroded and had to be thrown away. The stainless steel is still going strong. My experiences and others can be different.

Short, clear and informative. Nice!

I have the Bialetti Venus moka pot. I love the high quality coffee that it produces. I have found that, in its upper chamber, in the circumference crevice below the bottom of the upper chamber, some slightly thicker oil residue doesn't come out with rudimentary cleaning. Inserting some folded, pressed napkin or paper towel into that circumference crevice does remove some of the resudue. Do you know of a method or substance that will help to remove the almost invisible coffee oil residue from below the bottom surface of the Bialetti Venus Moka Pot 's upper chamber? Thank you. Hope to hear back from you.

Stainless steel > aluminum, particularly if you are like me and are too lazy/impatient to let the thing cool down sufficiently enough to be able to handle/unscrew the thing to clean and wash the parts. You don't want to let the coffee residue to sit for too long in the reservoir or the hopper as the grinds and liquid are quite acidic....... and we all know what acid does to aluminum. Sure, acid can eventually corrode even stainless steel, given enough time and the right temperature conditions..... but at least stainless steel is a bit more resilient to corrosion than aluminum, especially when we're talking about the level of thickness used for construction of the pots. I also mentioned this elsewhere on other RU-vid videos, but I do two types of grind...... 'normal' and 'espresso' (aka fine to extra fine). I make 3 layers in the hopper: normal - fine - normal...... so, kind of like a sandwich. This allows slightly more pressure to build up than normal. It does trigger the release valve a few times, but at least it is doing its job.... and I get a stronger brew.... which I like.

I loved in Italy and until 1990 this was all that was available in the house. The ones in the caffés cost $10,000. I think the pro.iferation of a chain from your home city made "espresso" popular and pushed the market for home machines. Possibly they were made but when you could have the real deal 100' away it boiled couches to two. Anyway coffee in the home tasted like this. I did get a semi-automatic but moved to a place where they don't drink espresso. So I didn't need to be pulling shots. So I need a stovetop that makes 3 cups or 1. A single cup of coffee seems to be difficult. Little pots are hard to control. I recently broke my right shoulder so the "camping" option is out. Also I always kept the top open while the water boiled and the coffee came up. There's a little screen in the shape of a tiny cup that goes on top of where the coffee comes out. I don't know the word in English so I can't search it. It was just "screen" in Italian which doesn't help. Can you help?

you can put milk instead of water and chocolate instead of coffee?

It would had been good if U had done a demostration with them.

Why no one shows how to clean it well & how often?? 🥴

I have the Venus 6 cup and we had this 4 cup in my old house. It's a big improvement on the famous Decagon shaped design; screws together easier, better spout that deals with enthusiastic pouring better, and the central tube points the coffee down, so should you check it early, you don't spray the kitchen in coffee.

What is an ounce in liquid ? Surely it's millilitres ?

What about percolators? Are they better or worse and what are pros and cons?

I love lattes and Spanish coffee. I have a Rancillio Silvia with Rocky grinder. I also have the 12 oz. Bialetti original. Using the proper grind and very good beans there is no difference in end product. Save yourself a thousand dollars and grab a Bialetti.

My question to you is on a stainless steel bialetti Moka pot the four cup size does one hold more coffee grounds than the other again in the four cups size

So sad that you dont carry them on your website anymore

the aluminum ones work well if you have soft water, but if the water has a lot of minerals in it the lower boiling pot corrodes rapidly..

How does one tell when the coffee from the bottom chamber has risen to the top?

Do any of these have the possibility of making half a pot? I'm replacing an Alessi 9090. One day I needed a cup of coffee, put it on the stovetop and fell asleep. It was a 3 cup but I could put a plate in the grind holder and make half a pot. Very convenient. I also have melted rubber that I have got no idea how to clean off and the company doesn't service their products or tell you how to clean them. I'm stuck. So it's back to the classic. However. If I want a single cup the little ones are difficult to regulate and overheat.

lady did a great job, thanks

Hi, The temp of my coffee brewed with cold water is max 60C and with boiled water max 85C. Pouring to a cup, I lose another 10C, so coffee is undrinkable. Any idea what can be wrong? Note that I'm grinding the coffee with timemore c2 using 13 clicks.

This didn't really answer questions about pros and cons of stainless versus aluminum (I think the aluminum makes coffee much faster than the stainless models). Bialetti's site also says not to put even the aluminum models in dishwashers. Are all the parts inside aluminum? Or is the filter basket the same as the old aluminum model? It also doesn't talk about cleaning. I've tried these since the 1980s and they always seem to have cooked coffee oils and off flavors within just a week or so. Some Italian guy did a great video about prying out the gasket and cleaning all the black junk in there that otherwise you'd be drinking, but nothing about that here. How to clean? Pros and cons of aluminum versus stainless. Also, I know it's not true espresso, but when new before those oils build up it's a pleasant alternative. They also have the Brikka model that supposedly makes crema. They used to have a 2 cup and 4 cup version. Now just the 2 cup version. Did it simply not work with the 4 cup version? Two cups isn't much when it's demitasse cups.

what about the brika? stove top with pressure.

you can put milk instead of water and chocolate instead of coffee

Do you have to use espresso or can you use other grounded coffee?

I'm a big fan of your videos, and I'd love to see you compare a couple of portable espresso makers. I'm very interested in the Minipresso GR by wacaco, compared to the Handpresso. The minipresso is a newer product so it's hard to find many direct comparisons between the two, and it'd be awesome to hear an opinion from a knowledgeable source. Thanks!

thank you for this quick explanation. I am in the middle of doing my wedding registry and trying to decide if I should add the stainless steal one or get a Nespresso. What do people recommend?

Can you use instant coffee?

Great video thank you

i have those .i forgot that i had them cuz i dont use stoves. can you provide me a link to were i can buy that mini electric stove ?

sometimes i use my 3 cup moka and cut it with more coffee. those days i only need one "cup" to get me goin!

My brand new Venus Bialetti after two coffees the bottom water tank turned brown from gas flame I guess, I can't remove it. Is it normal that stainless goes brown right after the flame touches it ?

Stovetop Espresso Coffee Maker stainless steel bowl metal is flaking off ?? is anyone find any of this Stovetop Espresso Coffee Maker stainless that is NOT flaking out metal or rust in the bowl ?

What is healty; aluminium or steel?

if a cuban coffee is made right. you can get somewhat of a crema. its more like frothy suger.

if you get a 3 cup can you make just 1 cup in or do have to fill it up every time.

Can I add coffee in the filter & milk on top reserve at the same time as to make a cappaccino? I asked as I saw a video where a Bialette moka Expresso pot that froth the milk after the coffee got into the top part. if I can which moka pot would it be?

I got one of the old bialetti stovetops as a present, its not the big one you have, one size smaller. However, the sealing ring is damaged after 3 years of usage, do you know how I can tell what size of ring I have do order? On Amazon they are sold like "bialetti for 4 cups ring" etc., I dont know how many cups my is supposed to have. And I cant see a declaration anywhere on the thing. Thanks.

I thought you were going to actually make the moka! Bummer. M, Il

How big can I get them I have a electric one 6cups but would like at least double 12 or 18 ;-) Would love your input.

Anyone know of stainless steel stovetop espresso makers made in Italy?

Thank you ........ ☆☆☆☆☆

What about the Neapolitan? There are no videos of, any repute, on the "flip-pot", "Neapolitan" or "Cuccumella" anywhere on RU-vid. Well, ones that aren't in Italian. I've a little ILSA model. It looks like a health and safety NIGHTMARE. If the thing comes apart mid-flip, it looks like 3rd degree burns to me.

the traditional one is known as the "moka express" I would have thought?

Any Bialletti that works on an induction burner?

lots of videos on bialleti...theyre all like 2 minutes long..like: water here, coffee here, screw together, hot. How they stretch them to 2 minutes I don't know! I know this, I have one and the coffee it makes is serious and wonderful...all on the dirt cheap.

Did she say, "add cream to it"?... ARE YOU KIDDING ME BELLA?? MINCHIA!! YOU NEVER ADD CREAM OR MILK TO A SPRO!! ITS LIKE PUTTING KETCHUP ON YOUR LASAGNA BRO, DISGRAZIA!!!

Can't you just put less coffee into the basket so it is a weaker brew? I've never used one of these.

Hey why didn't you show me how to make a cup. I feel like I wasted four minutes of my day.

I have the Venus but I perfer my aeropress any day of the week

1 cup= 50 ml . Pls dont tel us cups,tel us ml (6 cups = 300ml)

"bee-uh-lettie" 🤔🐝 I guess it's great Americans don't pronounce it as "buy-uh-let-tie" 😂

Is she high!

Shes so biased. Like shes to upses with her expresso machine.