Moka pot (Bialetti)
Cafetera moka (Bialetti)
- Date
- 1933 · confidence high
- Place
- Crusinallo, Omegna, Piedmont, Italy
- Credited to
- Luigi De Ponti and Alfonso Bialetti
- Field
- Life & health
What it is
An octagonal aluminium coffee maker in which steam pressure pushes water through ground coffee into the upper chamber. Cheap and needing no electricity, it became the domestic standard of Italian coffee.
The patent was by Luigi De Ponti, who sold it to Alfonso Bialetti; Renato Bialetti made it famous from 1946.
What it led to
- domestic 'espresso-style' coffee without a professional machine
- an icon of Italian industrial design
- mass-used aluminium coffee makers