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Comment by jan_Inkepa | Hacker News Reader

My flatmate keeps forgetting his moka pot on the hob and needs to buy new rubber seals pretty regularly.

And the great thing is Bialetti sells these parts for pretty cheap: https://www.bialetti.com/us_en/accessories/spare-parts.html

I love that products and companies like these still exist, sad indeed that they have such a hard time to survive.

I got in the habit of setting an alarm on my phone for 5 minutes after I put the pot on. Even if I think I'm going to stay in the kitchen and watch it, I set the alarm. It's amazing how I get distracted, forget that I put the damn thing on as if it never existed, then the alarm goes off and I think "oh yeah!! the coffee!".

The electric moka shuts itself off with the same system as a rice cooker and is extremely durable as long as it is an all metal exterior. I don't know why they are so hard to find.

To accompany the simple moka pot, buy a simple mechanical bell timer.

Brew time is pretty much precisely 6 minutes.

Set pot on stove, set timer. When bell rings, coffee is ready.

(A timer built into your cooker / microwave can also work, I find their alarms are not loud enough.)

It really depends on high you turn on gas/electric

Presuming high heat, it's pretty consistent. I've noted this across a dozen or more cooktops.

The surface area of the pot bottom is the limiting factor more than anything else.

Sure, low heat and widely-divergent hobs exist. Standards and conventions help ensure reasonable convergence.

In my experience it had more to do with how high the person making the coffee was.

Good point.

Check my comment above about Silicone-made seals

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