The Moka Pot: What is it?

If you’re going to make coffee, you might as well make it with style. 

For less than twenty dollars you can brew coffee every morning that mimics the result of a expensive high end espresso machine. 

The moka pot is a staple coffeemaker in Southern Europe and all across The Caribbean and Latin America. It brews espresso-like coffee by passing boiling water pressurized by steam through ground coffee.

In the Dominican Republic, Moka Pots, are best known as Grecas. You’re most likely to find a Greca in every Dominican house hold in the country. The strong smell of coffee brewing in a moka pot every morning and afternoon, is just part of the culture.

The Moka Pot was invented in 1933 by an engineer and aluminum metalworker named Alfonso Bialetti, who was inspired by the washing machine. Coffee as predominately available at Coffeehouse, but Mr. Bialetti change the coffee game forever as he made it easy and affordable for everyday people to make coffee at home.  After the Second World War, the Italian moka pot spread all over the South of Europe and became the standard way of domestically making coffee.

The moka pot has become an iconic design displayed in many famous museums across the world. Moka pots come in different sizes, making from one to eighteen 50 ml (2 imp fl oz; 2 US fl oz) servings. The original design and many current models are made from aluminum with Bakelite handles