/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>19388793
The coffee it makes is good, broken valve
or not.

Now you’ve really annoyed me, get fucked and ignore my posts from now on and get your meds so you stop getting triggered by my posts.

>>19388800
Which coffee are you using?

With my pot I can go as fine as the coarse end of espresso range, but I can’t do the same with a Bialetti pot, you need to find the perfect spot for your own moka.

If the coffee is bitter you either grinded too fine or you let the coffee boil, or you’re brewing robusta trash that’s bitter as fuck by design.

When the pot bubbles and gurgles remove it immediately from the heat source and remember to always keep the lid opened to allow the steam escaping from the chamber.

I brew 100% arabica and never found a bitter coffee at all (I use stainless steel moka pots), but being a highly concentrated coffee full of grit, a pinch (little amount) of bitterness is normal and you can offset it by adding a small amount of sugar to rebalance the cup. Don’t be afraid of adding just a pinch of sugar, it makes the coffee taste better.

Of course if your moka is dirty as fuck full of rancid coffee oils then this can be your problem, but I don’t think that’s the case at all.

Look at the flame under my moka: that’s what you need to aim for (even a bit more if you like), just don’t let the flame exceed the boiler footprint. When coffee starts being brewed you can also lower the flame a little.