This is my 2nd Keurig coffee maker of this model. ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxBrV-RbF5Nk0Rlt9i15aao-YMzqzTG8Vf The first worked fine for more than 2 years, and I could still get a decent cup of coffee out of it if I fiddled with it when I decided to replace it. The problem I had with my first unit was this: When attempting to brew a cup of coffee, the unit would either keep brewing until the coffee was undrinkable or it would not run long enough and the coffee produced was way too strong. I cleaned the unit as best I could but it did not help. So in the end it was just too much trouble to get a good cup of coffee out of it, so I decided to replace it with a new one, which has been working great since I unpacked it.
I have a 6 cup aluminum Bialetti pot that I completely disassemble and clean. I think it is easier to clean than the smaller moka pots. But instead of using soap, I use a white lint free flour sack cloth to wipe every surface with which removes the left over coffee oil as well as dries the pot. I also pour water into a cup and agitate the the screen in the funnel. Coffee grounds always come out of there too since I am using a pre-ground espresso grind. That is the only surface I really cannot reach with a cloth; the underside area beneath the screen in the funnel. With the 6 cup aluminum pot, I can remove the gasket with my finger nail pretty easily. I also wipe the threads of the pot. I agree with Il Barista Italiano's main premise which to me is leaving left over coffee oil and grounds will make the flavor worse. I also occasionally twist a corner of the flour sack cloth into the pipe the coffee travels through to reach the upper container. If you think I am OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) about cleaning the moka pot, I would agree with you. I do enjoy the cleaning ritual as well as the brewing ritual. I drink half the coffee and store the other half covered with plastic wrap. Microwaved the next day, it still tastes good to me. I drink it with no sweetener or dairy so if there were off tastes, I probably would notice them.
thanks a lot William for your support and precious advises, I do not think of you as a OCD moka pot cleaner at all, instead I think of you as a meticulous Moka pot user. I found all your advises very interesting beside the leftover that you store for the next day :D , but I actually never tried before and perhaps I should try it at least once. Buon espresso!
thank you so much! I assumed that it could not be opened and the bitter taste was because the cafetera was old. Thanks to you my coffee tastes good again
Thank you! I bought my first Mona Pot stovetop brewer (8 cups) two weeks ago and love the coffee it makes. There are many very informative videos on brewing coffee using a Moka Pot, but very few on how to properly clean a Moka Pot. I appreciate your dispelling the misinformation Moka Pots should NOT be cleaned using a dishwashing detergent. I use my Moka Pot at least twice a day so I give it a thorough dish detergent cleaning twice a week. Between dish detergent cleans, I clean my Moka Pot after each use with very warm water and white distilled vinegar; 1.5 cups warm water to a quarter of a cup of distilled white vinegar. I bought some inexpensive microfiber towels and a soft-bristle bottle brush to clean. the top chamber. I have ordered a smaller soft bristle bottle brush to clean inside the column of the top chamber. For stains, I put Baking Soda on a moist/wet soft microfiber towel/bottle brush. DO NOT use steel wool pads or even soft scrub pads on stains because they will eventually damage the soft metals (aluminum) most Moka Pots are made from and embed microscopic fibers on the inside. One observation, I suggest NOT using a metal instrument like a knife or fork to remove the gasket and screen and the bottom of the top chamber of the Moka Pot. Instead, use a plastic spoon or a wooden coffee stirrer to remove it. While most people might be careful not to damage or cut the gasket, some overly enthusiastic Moka Pot beginner could damage their gasket by accident using a metal implement.
Stop! You are going to ruin it. The aluminum is porous. You are going to permanently discolor it and give a permanent soap taste to your cafe'. Do not use soap. Just follow the written instructions it came with.
You did not discuss cleaning the reservoir in this video so did not have the opportunity to mention one of the most important parts of cleaning the Moka, which is drying it. The inside of the reservoir needs to be dry before storage. I dry other parts, as required, with a cloth but I put the reservoir back on the hob after washing to dry it in the flame, then let cool before reassembling.
I totally agree with you Jeremy, and thank you very much for mentioning it here in the comments, I actually made another video on the cleaning of the moka where I also touch the drying of the moka parts before storing it. Cheers
I have had a Giannini moka pot for a few years now. I have a coated magnet that I keep on my drying rack from a childproof cabinet kit. I use it to pop the screen and gasket out after every brew to rinse and dry. Only takes a second, and I don’t have to pry and risk damaging the gasket.
I'm new to Moka coffee or Italian cafetera. I do clean mine with water and I remove the pieces and let them dry before I use it again. It's a little bit tedious but Its part of the job. I prefer this than an electric coffee machine. I once had a really bad coffee at a coffee shop because the machine was dirty. The difference it makes when it's clean and not, it's huge!
I always boil it with only water and it cleans it fairly fine. I once used neutral soap and it left some taste in it for a few months. If you use soap, do use a mild one and if possible one of the natural ones with flavours that don't collide with coffee too much. You'll be eating soap, but if it has cinnamon scent, it's not as invasive. I think that if you boil-clean it at least once a week, you should be fine.
@@zizz956 fill the boiler with water or water and vinegar just below the valve. Put it on the fire or electric stove. Brew. Pay attention to it because coffee will sputter all over the place if the heat is on high. remove. Let it sit for fifteen minutes. Discord. Rinse. Dry. Brew your coffee for the first time after the cleaning.
@@sO_RoNerY Thanks for the reply haha, I ended up just disassemble everything and rinse them clean, wipe off water and leave to dry every time I brew with mokapot, maybe a bit too much effort for someone but I kinda got used to it:)
Great info. Could be producing a bitter coffee if not cleaned. Should also mention to keep our eyes open for replacement gaskets. May be hard to find in different sizes. Keep some on hand.
I've never washed my Bialetti Brikka and the coffee tastes fine from it. I just rinse the collection chamber with a little boiling water so it isn't full of dried in coffee the next time I use it. I've had it for about 10 years and I use it every day.
I think this is the way! A lot of people don't want to wash this, and they get VERY corroded and awful looking in time. I hear people say this is better, I don't believe it! I'm in Miami, it's very easy to get new gaskets, even clear silicone gaskets. I feel like some mild detergent or some alkaline cleaner would clear this up and rinse away easily. The suggestion to dry everything immediately might be the thing that FINALLY lets us keep one of these things in good condition. I'm going to get a new pot (a cheap one, sold everywhere locally, usually not even in a box) and try this, starting from the beginning.
Molta gracie!!!!!💖 I have always known this and always washed it with dishwashing liquid!!!! Because of course you would otherwise get smelly rancid oil!!!! Its logic. If you want a nice clean coffee you need to wash it with dishwashing soap and clean the filter as you showed! Every now and then I put vinegar water in the bottom with no coffee let it boil then second time with water only no coffee and then when i make a coffee i get a full amount and its clean and tasty!!!!!👍🍵☕💞😊
Bro, it's on the instruction manual that comes with Bialleti moka, no soap! The aluminum is porous and absorbs the soap that then goes into your coffee. Plus the oil that you remove keeps your coffee from having metallic taste. Use only water and then remove any remaining coffee stains with a paper or regular towel.
Thanks for sharing your opinion, if not using soap is a safety matter I would be agreeing with you, but if it's just about taste I have to disagree, in my case I drink a different blend everyday and I don't want to have the previous brewing coffee taste in my coffee. I agree with you on washing the moka with hot water, it's a good solution.
I feel so attacked! But I am so grateful for your instructions and advice. It makes so much sense. I will clean all three this week and learn to love homemade coffee again. I stopped brewing my own when it started to taste “dirty”. PS: I have 3 moka pots and a 4 french press because friends/family think, “oh she likes coffee, let’s get her this”.
Wow! Very glad that I watched this video. I just got my first moka pot, and I want to make sure that I know the proper way to use it. I kept seeing people saying not to use soap: I guess they like the taste of dirt. I'll stick to listening to the professionals about how to use, and care for my moka pot! Thanks so much for this video!
@@msbdag4227 Pidgin, e parlo Itaiano y hablo un poco de Español. The problem is he didn't make his genders agree in what is supposed to be his native language. I don't think that he is Italian. If he is he us from the North and what do they know anyway?
I clean mine by separating the three main parts. Fill the kitchen sink with hot water and immerse and shake each part under water for nearly a minute and then rinse each part under the tap.
It sounds like a very good way to clean and rinse the moka, thanks a lot for sharing it with us! I believe that beside the different ways of cleaning the moka, the most important part of the process is the drying process, it is very important to dry it with a towel before storing it back. :D
@@darranthompson8202 if you learn how to brew coffee with a moka (which is not trivial) and use good coffee (which most people don't) you CAN make the best coffee you have ever tasted. The moka ALLOWS you to do it, but it is up to you. Check on YT how to brew perfect coffee with moka. There are a lot of things people do not consider when brewing it. Probably the first 5 - 10 coffees you brew will taste like garbage, but it is normal. It is like cooking. Practice makes perfect.
Thanks for fighting for the clean Moka pot 😃 all the stuff about keeping a layer of oily coffee on the pot does not make sense...it goes rancid and make the coffee taste worse.
Thanks for your support Koby :D , the oily layer is a legend handed down since the Moka was invented, but nobody should believe it anymore. Enjoy your daily ( clean ) espresso ! Cheers
I think that you may get some problem with aluminium if you scratch the Moka severely, and that would be the same for fry pan and pots as well, but I never actually mentioned to scratch, I only think that the tendency is to not wash the moka at all ( especially in Italy ) and that is the worst. Also if you noticed in this video I focused more on the dry cleaning in the inner part of the moka, and in another video ( in Korean language) I show how I use a very soft sponge to clean the moka with a neutral light soap. By the way many people have your same thinking and I wonder, try to make some Bolognese pasta on a fry pan and keep the oily surface for the next use, its pretty much the same thing, does it make sense to eat a carbonara on a pan with oily bolognese sauce left over ?
Argentina is one of those places where these coffee pots have been used for decades with no real issues. Yes, coffee acidity can be a factor, but no one is reported of having health issues having a moka pot.
Aluminium forms a oxidised layer, so clean the oily residue, but don't scour the surface so you have to season it again. The oil is not helping to prevent the taste of aluminium, aluminiumoxide has got that covered .
I tried not using soap at first I just washed it with hot water But it didn’t improve the taste, it was still bitter. And I stripped it down and use a little bit of soap to clean the metal parts and the gasket let it all air dry, the next time I used it, it made a huge improvement I. The quality of the coffee ☕️ . Grazie.🙏
I'm trying a preventative maintenance strategy. I use a wooden pop stick to get the gasket out, use hot water, cleaning the spout with a paper towel like you do, then wipe dry. After that, I use a heat diffuser heated for 30 seconds, turn off the flame and let the radiating heat completely dry the pot of any moisture. So far, I have avoided having to descale the pot. To stop the build up of coffee oil and staining, I wipe the pot with a tasteless cooking oil after cleaning and drying it, then wipe the oil off. Canola oil is both tasteless and cheap for this. Again, I haven't had the build up of baked on oil staining the pot.
It's very easy, same thing with French press, people often never realize you can easily dissemble, or just don't do it, but it's even easier. I do it after every use, takes like one minute.
Bravo this is what internet needed. To those who are saying not to wash with soap or not wash at all. Leave your pot cleaned with water only for a few weeks or months and see how rottenness is developing. After that only what you can do is to put it in the dishwasher to see how dishwasher destroys coffee maker.
I fill mine with fresh water then heat it to run steam through the filter to clean mine. I then strip it and polish with a clean soft cloth. Sterile yet no soap to tarnish flavour.
You can clean it with water and a clean cloth and it's fine. A little dark residue doesn't hurt anything. Check the filter and gasket once a month. Your just going to wreck the gasket picking at it all the time.
I rinse every single part with hot water every single time, sometimes with soap too. I figured it all out on my own. It's nice to know that I'm doing it all correctly 😊
You are not doing it correctly. You are violating the manufacturer's instructions which explicitly say do not use soap. You are doing it wrong and are eating soap with every cup of coffee.
@@tedolphbundler724 The only time I ever use soap is unintentionally (if my little dish cloth (which hardly ever gets used) still has dish was residue on it). I always try to rinse and wring as much soap as I possibly can out of all my cleaning cloths before I use them to lightly wipe coffee out of pots etc.
You need also to wash Moka inferior tank with vinegar from times to times because the calcium crystals present in the tap water could deposit into limestone and block the safety valve. So then in case Moka filter is clogged, and the valve too, the coffee machine becomes literally a dangerous grenade... 😨
Il Barista Italiano Well. Not really necessary. It is really very rare people being so dumb to made filter and valve both clogged at same time, but as long as 80% circa of Anericans and Anglosaxons are not even capable to boil an egg, it is better to advice them that any steam based machine (Home Espresso, Moka or even steam cookers) must be used with care. I seen once an American who didn't put water in the tank and she toasted all coffee powder to carbon, an error that I could made when I was 12 years old. 😨
Robert Caplin Considering the facts a very high percentage of Americans is not even capable to boil an egg fry it, or scramble it with some bacon, or in any case they are uncapable to cook any kind of food in order to provide by themselves to their upkeep, and the fact there are about 450 cooking home fires any day in US of which 30% are caused by misuse of equipments, with almost 500 deaths per year, please allow me to be a little skeptic about your statement. 🤔
@@raffaeleirlanda6966 we're rich here in America we can just buy another one. IDK what the hell you're talking about? I've never me anyone who can't boil an egg. 80%??? stop making false statements it makes YOU look dumb.
maria I: I don't see the point of being rich and buying a new Moka with your lots of money if the first one had exploded due to bad maintenance causing you serious harm... It is better to advice you first and avoid you causing severe damage to you and any of your family members, teaching you that you are not buying a toy... And yes I am gratuitously offending Americans and I am dumb. Saying that from a country that requires advice on cars exterior mirrors how to use them: "Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"!!!!! 😨😅😯 Well if drivers in US are so dumb that require an advice to teach them how it works a mirror, that's not even dumb... It is just freaking pathetic and reveals you American are literally a danger for anyone else who cross your path while driving... 🤦🤦🤦
It's really important to remove the gasket and clean the bottom of the upper part! I didn't clean it at first and after multiple uses, no coffee came out when I hit it up.
The next morning: Went out in deserted Miami FL to buy a moka pot, found many styles and spare parts, too. Bialetti brand was available, plus many superficial imitations, some cost as little as five dollars! The Bialetti was about thirty dollars US for the 6 cup Moka express. It seemed much heavier in construction. I washed before and after use with ordinary dishwashing detergent, rinsed in hot water, dried immediately. It's easy enough! The machine looks exactly as new, doesn't smell oily. I guess if you're not going to maintain this machine you should get one for five bucks and replace it every year or so? But you're still going to get rancid coffee oil residue in every cup, and also I just don't like the boiler to look all corroded inside. No, I think Il Barista Italiano has shown us the way! I have to hurry up and type this before I start getting too shaky from drinking too much coffee. It came out good enough. I just used cheap promotional Cuban Coffee, which sometimes is one dollar for a little ten-ounce brick. Also, because it's Miami I put some sugar beaten up with coffee the way they do, but it was possible to drink it black. Thanks, IBI!
The biggest problem is not so much that oil is greasy, but that oils, especially food oils, putrify. So oil residue that might smell ok right after use is going to smell gross several weeks later. He's absolutely right. Wash with soap after every use and once in a while pill out that gasket and clean it.
I've got one that is over 20 years old and still looks new. I've always washed it with soap and an old toothbrush to clean the crevices when they get bad and then dry it. I use a cotton dishcloth so as not to scratch the surface, which will only hold in dirt. If you think of it microscopically, you've created thousands of little crevices for dirt to get trapped. Also, the oxidation of aluminum helps to create a barrier so that chemicals don't leach out of the aluminum. If you are scrubbing it, then you are removing that layer. I don't see how this ever got started. Why would you want to be leaving old stale coffee in there to be mixed with fresh? Seems illogical to me.
My guess is that a layer of coffee oils prevents the next brews from contacting with the metal. I've read somewhere that aluminium is known to change the taste of the brew. Anyway, a thorough cleaning once a week is alright! Remember the taste of cheap espresso? That's what it tastes like when one doesn't clean his utensils. :D
The worshipful pronunciation of 'coffee' is beautifully complemented by the handling of the word, 'dirty', and then, to top it off, 'black' x 2. Bliss.
The patina safes your coffee from the aluminium Thats also the reason why you should throw away the first few coffees you prepare when the moka maker is new When you wash it with soap ita very bad for your health This dude right right talks about some dirt but he dont ask for the reason why you should only wash with water Company Bialletti which produce the moka maker says the same You should know that 😉
The nice patina of oily residue that sticks to the inner walls of the coffee maker will eventually become rancid. Cleaning the coffee maker will improve the flavor of your coffee.
I dont wash my moka pot with soap at all. I wash it with water occasionally 😂 But most of the time, I just discard last morning's coffee remains and refill with coffee and go. That's how I float my boat. You are free to float your boat in any fashion you deem suitable. For me, I like the idea of my moka pot aging and god I love the waves on the sides and memories that it brings me. That's my thing, go do your thing.
Based on what my Italian friend taught me, this is correct in cleaning classic aluminum Italian moka pot (cafetiera). Just a thought on the practice of washing the pot without soap... Perhaps the instructions to wash only with water are meant for the designs of moka pots containing carafes that are made from less porous, highly polished materials- such as stainless steel, ceramic/porcelain, glass/vetro, etc. Just a wild guess ☺
Very hot water and soap with additional acid is great for removal of oils. Submerge the top half in soapy water & vinegar or ascorbic acid for 30 minutes then scrub before rinsing with hot water. To keep the gasket supple, or if storing rub in silicone oil. You need just a small amount, 1-2ml depending on the size of your pot. Leave over night then wash with very hot water and washing up liquid. To remove tarnish, that dark grey colour that occurs after long term storage. Bring vinegar and water to the boil, at 30% vinegar. Multiply the volume of water used by 0.3 to work out how much vinegar is needed. Place your pot in the liquid, let it cool until you can handle it then brush using a nylon brush. PS, don't use brillo pads.
You don't want to remove the oils! That is how it gets seasoned. Why do you think that the instructions tell you to make one pot and throw it out before you make a pot to drink ?
The main reason to use soap in washing a coffee machine is that lipids turn rancid over time. Traditionally we cleaned mokas by using vinegar or bicarbonate which removes the leftovers without spoiling the flavour too much. I say "too much" as that "rancid" taste is part of what makes coffee good just like mold is the whole point of blue cheese.
You forgot to mention the part that holds the coffee, this has the fixed plate with holes in it that isn’t designed to be removed which is a very bad design flaw. It means it cannot be washed inside unless you do what I did and popped it out by ramming a chop stick down the end. It was very dirty but now gets washed with everything else
I think he means the "funnel" that holds the ground coffee; the disc is held in place by a crimp. That part shouldn't get dirty since only clean boiling water goes up the inside.
It *is* designed to be disassembled like that. Bialetti even sells new gaskets and filters for when they get too rancid. But they also shouldn't get too dirty, so there is no need to do it every time you make coffee.
I forgot to take my 6 cup pot off the stove the other day and it cooked the gasket. Instead of ordering a new one, I made my own using a sheet of 1/8" thick rubber and a razor blade. Only suffered one day without espresso
@@sadieesther9721 sure does. I usually back it off a couple turns before I leave for work. I can tell if I'm on point that day if I've managed to get that much right before I head out. The rubber sheet was originally the roof on the now defunct grocery store in town. I could make thousands with all the rubber they got rid of.
Personally, I clean mine with vinegar and baking soda. I use a brush and dish cloth to clean the inside and out. Oil build up causes a sour, harsh taste after a while. To the people who say that cleaning will strip the pot of its shine; I'd rather my coffee taste good than have a shiny looking pot.
Thank you for the tip with the fork and cleaning that part too. I always used warm water but the problem is smell...Especially when you want to try different kind of beans...you want it as pure as possible. Warm water not always help. Soap i didn't try because i thought it wil destroy the aluminum or something like they recommended but if you say(and some other people below here) no problem then no problemo! Its just soap...still strange why they say so probably just for you too buy a new 1 because over the years it gets stinky and dirty. In the past i didn't had a bur grinder and used illy grounded(almost powder texture). Which tastes actually fine too...extra strong why not . Its time to clean all that dirt out.
thanks for taking your time to leave a comment. I believe that everything is fine to clean a moka, but is better not to scratch it at all, or just use a very soft sponge. I 100% agree on what you said above, I also like to taste a different coffee everyday, why in my moka there should be the dirt of the day before? cheers
I have the same feeling. It's good stainless (like 18-10 I think) and you can just wash it or put an alkaline cleaner and rinse it off, it looks like new!
Thank you so much for this great tuturial. I just disassembled my moka pot and cleaned the gasket and filter for the first time. Keep up the great work.
After each use i dissasemble my mokka pot clean everything with water and a toothbrush. Also the water tank. The filter where the coffee is put into should be soaked completly in a cleaning solution every two weeks.
Dude, I don't want to be disrespectful - but you're wrong. Bialetti Moka Espresso Pot is made out of aluminum. Dish soap is causing corrosion and pitting to your Bialetti - it's just chemistry. If you'd like to do a deep cleaning you should try using water & vinegar instead.
I always clean it inside out. I use a brillo pad to clean the dark stains. I also take the filter cover off where the coffee grounds go it gets awfully dirty. I use a long screw 3-4 inches to push it out.
I hope you enjoy all those aluminum particles you are consuming now that you have scrubbed off the seasoning layer and the oxide layer from the inside of the boiling chamber!
For me - I never use soap on the Moka. I use a solution of vinegar | water to clean it - using a toothbrush as needed. Also, I run brewing cycle with the vinegar | water solution thru it - cleans the boiler (removes lime, scaling, etc.) plus cleans the filter and internal spout. Works quite well.
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.
I'm in between a 6 cup and a 9 cup moka coffee maker. I read somewhere that the 6 cups is the biggest size you should go, because the 9 and 12 don't make very good coffee. Is that true? Also can I use a 9 cup coffee maker to make less coffee?
It depends, most people who buy and use Mokas are interested in drinking espresso, if you buy a bigger moka in order to make a strong Americano for instance it doesn't make much sense to me, I think that regarding Moka... the smallest the better the coffee is, because the amount of water and coffee is very concentrated. Cheers
I would have appreciated if you would have shown how it's put back together because I really can't figure out how to put the rubber back on it perfectly.
You just smoosh it back in there. Filter first, so there's a recessed area around the filter, then press the gasket back in, pressing around the edges till it goes in.
I accidentally removed the gasket when drying it once, and I thought it wasn't meant to come out so stuck it back in, luckily I've only had the moka pot for a week now! Also wondered what on earth that bolt thing was for on the side of the pot - I thought it might have been for connecting pots together or additions like a milk frother or something... now after doing more research I've found that's a safety valve and it shouldn't be covered with water - glad I've found that out now as I've just seen the video of someone's kitchen after one exploded, although having said that the pot I got was only a cheap one - reduced to £5 in Sainsbury's so I doubt the valve is of any good quality anyway!
Hints for the happy homemakers: "Remember to sweeten your Sunbeam percolator with a good scrubbing out with bicarbonate of soda. Or a vinegar solution, depending on the manufacturer."
Don't need soap if you use warm water after each use. Dry with a clean cloth or paper towel, then let air dry. Doing this with mine for years and it looks like new. If you wash it once a week then you are drinking coffee with old rancid residue most days.
Hi and thanks for watching. I partly agree with you, I actually dry the moka myself, I never let it dry by air itself and also mine always look as a brand new. I agree that you may not use soap in case you wash it only with hot water everyday. Cheers !
Eddy P420 we love our Nonne they gave us unconditional love, but not real knowledge about coffee. Still that the best food and coffee is made with heart from our mothers and grandmothers.
I also do a montly clean by putting the moka pot on stove with water only. The steaming process cleans the spout. I also leave the gasket and the filter in while i boil the water in the water chamber just like you would when making a coffee.
Should be thoroughly washed with detergent and thoroughly rinsed after every use. For best results, final rinse should be with reverse osmosis/ demineralized/ deionized/ distilled water. No residues whether old stale coffee or detergents.
What kind of soap do you use? I'm afraid some chemical residues are going to stay there and will get to my cup of coffee. How about using vinegar+baking soda or salt?
I have a question, I have a 6 cups venus since Dec last year, and I noticed that the exterior of the bottom chamber (where you put the water) started to darken and have discoloration, what is the remedy for that and how to avoid it? I'm using it on a gas stove. Thank u and I look forward to your reply.
Do you believe the tradition of "don't wash, just rinse" may have had to do with the quality of soaps and cleaning materials that have existed -- that to keep people from using an abrasive soap or cleaning pad the makers said "just use nothing"?
@@ilbaristaitaliano494 been filling my cleaned moka with boiling water to reduce time on the fire. Using Ethiopian beans fresh ground in an old Greek coffee mill. Fantastic flavour, not cooked, bit more acidic and fruity.
This is my 2nd Keurig coffee maker of this model. ua-cam.com/users/postUgkxBrV-RbF5Nk0Rlt9i15aao-YMzqzTG8Vf The first worked fine for more than 2 years, and I could still get a decent cup of coffee out of it if I fiddled with it when I decided to replace it. The problem I had with my first unit was this: When attempting to brew a cup of coffee, the unit would either keep brewing until the coffee was undrinkable or it would not run long enough and the coffee produced was way too strong. I cleaned the unit as best I could but it did not help. So in the end it was just too much trouble to get a good cup of coffee out of it, so I decided to replace it with a new one, which has been working great since I unpacked it.
Seems you commented on the wrong video. Your comment has no relation to a Moka pot.
god i cant stand that whissle music anymore
no sane person can stand it. it's torture.
It makes me want to end it all.
Yeah I hate it so much.
The only thing that can make it worse is some non speaking youtuber who does everything really slow on camera.
You're really going to hate the videos about cleaning your tea pot than
it should be made illegal.
I have a 6 cup aluminum Bialetti pot that I completely disassemble and clean. I think it is easier to clean than the smaller moka pots. But instead of using soap, I use a white lint free flour sack cloth to wipe every surface with which removes the left over coffee oil as well as dries the pot. I also pour water into a cup and agitate the the screen in the funnel. Coffee grounds always come out of there too since I am using a pre-ground espresso grind. That is the only surface I really cannot reach with a cloth; the underside area beneath the screen in the funnel. With the 6 cup aluminum pot, I can remove the gasket with my finger nail pretty easily. I also wipe the threads of the pot. I agree with Il Barista Italiano's main premise which to me is leaving left over coffee oil and grounds will make the flavor worse. I also occasionally twist a corner of the flour sack cloth into the pipe the coffee travels through to reach the upper container. If you think I am OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder) about cleaning the moka pot, I would agree with you. I do enjoy the cleaning ritual as well as the brewing ritual. I drink half the coffee and store the other half covered with plastic wrap. Microwaved the next day, it still tastes good to me. I drink it with no sweetener or dairy so if there were off tastes, I probably would notice them.
thanks a lot William for your support and precious advises, I do not think of you as a OCD moka pot cleaner at all, instead I think of you as a meticulous Moka pot user. I found all your advises very interesting beside the leftover that you store for the next day :D , but I actually never tried before and perhaps I should try it at least once. Buon espresso!
thank you so much! I assumed that it could not be opened and the bitter taste was because the cafetera was old. Thanks to you my coffee tastes good again
Thanks for watching and enjoy espresso!
Thank you! I bought my first Mona Pot stovetop brewer (8 cups) two weeks ago and love the coffee it makes. There are many very informative videos on brewing coffee using a Moka Pot, but very few on how to properly clean a Moka Pot. I appreciate your dispelling the misinformation Moka Pots should NOT be cleaned using a dishwashing detergent.
I use my Moka Pot at least twice a day so I give it a thorough dish detergent cleaning twice a week. Between dish detergent cleans, I clean my Moka Pot after each use with very warm water and white distilled vinegar; 1.5 cups warm water to a quarter of a cup of distilled white vinegar. I bought some inexpensive microfiber towels and a soft-bristle bottle brush to clean. the top chamber. I have ordered a smaller soft bristle bottle brush to clean inside the column of the top chamber. For stains, I put Baking Soda on a moist/wet soft microfiber towel/bottle brush. DO NOT use steel wool pads or even soft scrub pads on stains because they will eventually damage the soft metals (aluminum) most Moka Pots are made from and embed microscopic fibers on the inside.
One observation, I suggest NOT using a metal instrument like a knife or fork to remove the gasket and screen and the bottom of the top chamber of the Moka Pot. Instead, use a plastic spoon or a wooden coffee stirrer to remove it. While most people might be careful not to damage or cut the gasket, some overly enthusiastic Moka Pot beginner could damage their gasket by accident using a metal implement.
Vinegar in aluminum. Nice way to get poisoned, or Alzheimer's. Investigate the effect of acids on aluminum cookware
Stop! You are going to ruin it. The aluminum is porous. You are going to permanently discolor it and give a permanent soap taste to your cafe'. Do not use soap. Just follow the written instructions it came with.
You did not discuss cleaning the reservoir in this video so did not have the opportunity to mention one of the most important parts of cleaning the Moka, which is drying it. The inside of the reservoir needs to be dry before storage. I dry other parts, as required, with a cloth but I put the reservoir back on the hob after washing to dry it in the flame, then let cool before reassembling.
I totally agree with you Jeremy, and thank you very much for mentioning it here in the comments, I actually made another video on the cleaning of the moka where I also touch the drying of the moka parts before storing it. Cheers
I close the lid and blow up under where the sprout tube is and wipe the inside of the lid dry. Q-tip helps to clean the sprout tube too.
I have had a Giannini moka pot for a few years now. I have a coated magnet that I keep on my drying rack from a childproof cabinet kit. I use it to pop the screen and gasket out after every brew to rinse and dry. Only takes a second, and I don’t have to pry and risk damaging the gasket.
The coated magnet is genius! I think I ruined my old bialetti by burning everything. But I’m gonna try this when I get a new one!
Mine is aluminum. The magnet did nothing. Maybe yours is steel?
I used baby bottle cleanser to remove the oil, and stains. it has no fragrance, and it’s formulated specifically for oil removal. Very good!
You just solved all of my problems! Thanks!
I just knew that the gasket can be taking out manually using fork👍 Thanks man, it helps a lot.
Tito Adiyanto thanks for watching and leaving a comment!
I'm new to Moka coffee or Italian cafetera. I do clean mine with water and I remove the pieces and let them dry before I use it again. It's a little bit tedious but Its part of the job. I prefer this than an electric coffee machine. I once had a really bad coffee at a coffee shop because the machine was dirty. The difference it makes when it's clean and not, it's huge!
Thanks for watching the video and most of all to let us know your tips on the subject. much much appreciated! cheers
Manually dry it. Don't let it drip and dry its self or it'll rust and oxidation will happen.
I always boil it with only water and it cleans it fairly fine. I once used neutral soap and it left some taste in it for a few months. If you use soap, do use a mild one and if possible one of the natural ones with flavours that don't collide with coffee too much. You'll be eating soap, but if it has cinnamon scent, it's not as invasive. I think that if you boil-clean it at least once a week, you should be fine.
Sthefanie Delgado hi mate, so do you just disassemble all parts and put them in boil water and keep boiling them for minutes?
@@zizz956 fill the boiler with water or water and vinegar just below the valve. Put it on the fire or electric stove. Brew. Pay attention to it because coffee will sputter all over the place if the heat is on high. remove. Let it sit for fifteen minutes. Discord. Rinse. Dry. Brew your coffee for the first time after the cleaning.
@@sO_RoNerY Thanks for the reply haha, I ended up just disassemble everything and rinse them clean, wipe off water and leave to dry every time I brew with mokapot, maybe a bit too much effort for someone but I kinda got used to it:)
Great info. Could be producing a bitter coffee if not cleaned. Should also mention to keep our eyes open for replacement gaskets. May be hard to find in different sizes. Keep some on hand.
I've never washed my Bialetti Brikka and the coffee tastes fine from it. I just rinse the collection chamber with a little boiling water so it isn't full of dried in coffee the next time I use it. I've had it for about 10 years and I use it every day.
The gasket and filter should be replaced after some years though. Bialetti even sells those parts separately.
Wooow I've never cleaned it for months, I just used to shake it for about 15-20 strong shakes, thanks for the info.
jihad shari most people do as you do, that is why I made this video. Thanks for watching man.
I always wash it. The residue, Mason (Black Ops videogame reference hehe).
@@ReligionAndMaterialismDebunked 😂 I don' remember the story but I thinks it is washing a weapon maybe !? Or maybe the numbers 😂😂
I think this is the way! A lot of people don't want to wash this, and they get VERY corroded and awful looking in time. I hear people say this is better, I don't believe it! I'm in Miami, it's very easy to get new gaskets, even clear silicone gaskets. I feel like some mild detergent or some alkaline cleaner would clear this up and rinse away easily. The suggestion to dry everything immediately might be the thing that FINALLY lets us keep one of these things in good condition. I'm going to get a new pot (a cheap one, sold everywhere locally, usually not even in a box) and try this, starting from the beginning.
Molta gracie!!!!!💖 I have always known this and always washed it with dishwashing liquid!!!! Because of course you would otherwise get smelly rancid oil!!!! Its logic. If you want a nice clean coffee you need to wash it with dishwashing soap and clean the filter as you showed! Every now and then I put vinegar water in the bottom with no coffee let it boil then second time with water only no coffee and then when i make a coffee i get a full amount and its clean and tasty!!!!!👍🍵☕💞😊
Nadia Fedorenko thanks a lot for your appreciation and your suggestions! Ciao 👋
You know nothing.
What kind of Italian name is Fedorenko anyway?
Also, you need to learn how to make your nouns and adjectives agree.
Bro, it's on the instruction manual that comes with Bialleti moka, no soap! The aluminum is porous and absorbs the soap that then goes into your coffee. Plus the oil that you remove keeps your coffee from having metallic taste. Use only water and then remove any remaining coffee stains with a paper or regular towel.
Thanks for sharing your opinion, if not using soap is a safety matter I would be agreeing with you, but if it's just about taste I have to disagree, in my case I drink a different blend everyday and I don't want to have the previous brewing coffee taste in my coffee. I agree with you on washing the moka with hot water, it's a good solution.
@@ilbaristaitaliano494
Obviously you have no taste buds left.
Olá, obrigado pelas explicações. Eu sempre usei água e sabão para lavar a cafeteira. Moka é o melhor método e faz o mais gostoso café do mundo.
I feel so attacked!
But I am so grateful for your instructions and advice. It makes so much sense. I will clean all three this week and learn to love homemade coffee again. I stopped brewing my own when it started to taste “dirty”.
PS: I have 3 moka pots and a 4 french press because friends/family think, “oh she likes coffee, let’s get her this”.
Why do you feel attacked? Maybe clean it like you're suppose to and you wouldn't feel offended.
2:10 "It is extremely dirty". Comparing it to my Bialetti: Oh NO!
Wow! Very glad that I watched this video. I just got my first moka pot, and I want to make sure that I know the proper way to use it. I kept seeing people saying not to use soap: I guess they like the taste of dirt. I'll stick to listening to the professionals about how to use, and care for my moka pot! Thanks so much for this video!
MARSOC 5th Pltn Tier1 Tier2 thanks for watching and leaving a comment, I cannot call myself a professional but at least I stick with my common sense!
What makes you think that, "il Barista Italiano" is a professional? He doesn't even know how to make his pronouns and nouns agree.
@@tedolphbundler724 Wow,come on now,English is obviously not his first language; are you seriously going to sink to this level?
I've just looked at his chanel and see that he also speaks Korean. What languages do you speak Tedolph?
@@msbdag4227
Pidgin, e parlo Itaiano y hablo un poco de Español. The problem is he didn't make his genders agree in what is supposed to be his native language. I don't think that he is Italian. If he is he us from the North and what do they know anyway?
I clean mine by separating the three main parts. Fill the kitchen sink with hot water and immerse and shake each part under water for nearly a minute and then rinse each part under the tap.
It sounds like a very good way to clean and rinse the moka, thanks a lot for sharing it with us! I believe that beside the different ways of cleaning the moka, the most important part of the process is the drying process, it is very important to dry it with a towel before storing it back. :D
I just rinse mine under the tap and have done over 10 years, coffee tastes great and I'm not dead yet
Am thinking about buying one how does the coffee taste? Cheers
@@darranthompson8202 I'm a recent convert and can assure you it's the best way to make coffee!
@@DavidSmith-xd6wi cool il give it a go cheers David.
@@darranthompson8202 How's your moka experiment going?
@@darranthompson8202 if you learn how to brew coffee with a moka (which is not trivial) and use good coffee (which most people don't) you CAN make the best coffee you have ever tasted. The moka ALLOWS you to do it, but it is up to you. Check on YT how to brew perfect coffee with moka. There are a lot of things people do not consider when brewing it. Probably the first 5 - 10 coffees you brew will taste like garbage, but it is normal. It is like cooking. Practice makes perfect.
Even if Bialetti comes back to life and tells you to wash it with only water you shouldn’t believe him 😂😂
The instructions do say to only rinse in water.
If his ideas were so great, why did he die?
@@MrBoxxedfalse
Thanks for fighting for the clean Moka pot 😃 all the stuff about keeping a layer of oily coffee on the pot does not make sense...it goes rancid and make the coffee taste worse.
Thanks for your support Koby :D , the oily layer is a legend handed down since the Moka was invented, but nobody should believe it anymore. Enjoy your daily ( clean ) espresso ! Cheers
hi, and the aluminum? do you think that it makes more sense to drink some aluminum each time you drink coffee?
I think that you may get some problem with aluminium if you scratch the Moka severely, and that would be the same for fry pan and pots as well, but I never actually mentioned to scratch, I only think that the tendency is to not wash the moka at all ( especially in Italy ) and that is the worst. Also if you noticed in this video I focused more on the dry cleaning in the inner part of the moka, and in another video ( in Korean language) I show how I use a very soft sponge to clean the moka with a neutral light soap. By the way many people have your same thinking and I wonder, try to make some Bolognese pasta on a fry pan and keep the oily surface for the next use, its pretty much the same thing, does it make sense to eat a carbonara on a pan with oily bolognese sauce left over ?
Argentina is one of those places where these coffee pots have been used for decades with no real issues. Yes, coffee acidity can be a factor, but no one is reported of having health issues having a moka pot.
Aluminium forms a oxidised layer, so clean the oily residue, but don't scour the surface so you have to season it again. The oil is not helping to prevent the taste of aluminium, aluminiumoxide has got that covered
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I tried not using soap at first I just washed it with hot water But it didn’t improve the taste, it was still bitter. And I stripped it down and use a little bit of soap to clean the metal parts and the gasket let it all air dry, the next time I used it, it made a huge improvement I. The quality of the coffee ☕️ . Grazie.🙏
I m glad to hear that. thanks for watching and for sharing your thought.
Il Barista Italiano btw when do you replace the gasket? As mine is getting darker even though I clean it regularly
I'm trying a preventative maintenance strategy. I use a wooden pop stick to get the gasket out, use hot water, cleaning the spout with a paper towel like you do, then wipe dry. After that, I use a heat diffuser heated for 30 seconds, turn off the flame and let the radiating heat completely dry the pot of any moisture. So far, I have avoided having to descale the pot.
To stop the build up of coffee oil and staining, I wipe the pot with a tasteless cooking oil after cleaning and drying it, then wipe the oil off. Canola oil is both tasteless and cheap for this. Again, I haven't had the build up of baked on oil staining the pot.
It's very easy, same thing with French press, people often never realize you can easily dissemble, or just don't do it, but it's even easier. I do it after every use, takes like one minute.
Bravo this is what internet needed. To those who are saying not to wash with soap or not wash at all. Leave your pot cleaned with water only for a few weeks or months and see how rottenness is developing. After that only what you can do is to put it in the dishwasher to see how dishwasher destroys coffee maker.
Thanks Pedro to share your opinion with us !!
I figured washing with soap and water made more sense, thanks for the confirmation 👍🏼
That’s not true though. The oils get permanently stripped.
I fill mine with fresh water then heat it to run steam through the filter to clean mine. I then strip it and polish with a clean soft cloth. Sterile yet no soap to tarnish flavour.
Just rinse it with water. That is all you need to do.
Add vinegar and you are golden
You can clean it with water and a clean cloth and it's fine. A little dark residue doesn't hurt anything. Check the filter and gasket once a month. Your just going to wreck the gasket picking at it all the time.
I had a moka pot (before the town went up in flames), and I found it wasn't difficult at all to clean.
You are first man that i saw you say we should wash the this set.Thank you
THANK YOU SOO MUCH!!
all fairy tales disproved! especially the last cleaning; nobody told me so!
I thought the lower left black dot was a spot on my screen and tried to scratch it off....
🤣😂🤣🤣🙏🏼
Omg me too hahaha
Grazie mille, barista! I didn't knew that I need to disamble my Bialetti Moka and now I know how important it is, in order to obtain a good coffee.
Thanks. I didn't think of cleaning the stem part. Will see how dirty it is...
I rinse every single part with hot water every single time, sometimes with soap too. I figured it all out on my own. It's nice to know that I'm doing it all correctly 😊
thanks for watching and sharing with us your way, you are doing it right!
You're not.
Skip the soap. A rinse and wipe is fine but don't scrub it.
Don't use soap. Don't scrub off the oxidation from the lower chamber.
You are not doing it correctly. You are violating the manufacturer's instructions which explicitly say do not use soap. You are doing it wrong and are eating soap with every cup of coffee.
@@tedolphbundler724 The only time I ever use soap is unintentionally (if my little dish cloth (which hardly ever gets used) still has dish was residue on it). I always try to rinse and wring as much soap as I possibly can out of all my cleaning cloths before I use them to lightly wipe coffee out of pots etc.
You need also to wash Moka inferior tank with vinegar from times to times because the calcium crystals present in the tap water could deposit into limestone and block the safety valve. So then in case Moka filter is clogged, and the valve too, the coffee machine becomes literally a dangerous grenade... 😨
is always best to use mineral or filtered water in your moka pot. thanks for your advises!
Il Barista Italiano Well. Not really necessary. It is really very rare people being so dumb to made filter and valve both clogged at same time, but as long as 80% circa of Anericans and Anglosaxons are not even capable to boil an egg, it is better to advice them that any steam based machine (Home Espresso, Moka or even steam cookers) must be used with care.
I seen once an American who didn't put water in the tank and she toasted all coffee powder to carbon, an error that I could made when I was 12 years old. 😨
Robert Caplin Considering the facts a very high percentage of Americans is not even capable to boil an egg fry it, or scramble it with some bacon, or in any case they are uncapable to cook any kind of food in order to provide by themselves to their upkeep, and the fact there are about 450 cooking home fires any day in US of which 30% are caused by misuse of equipments, with almost 500 deaths per year, please allow me to be a little skeptic about your statement. 🤔
@@raffaeleirlanda6966 we're rich here in America we can just buy another one.
IDK what the hell you're talking about? I've never me anyone who can't boil an egg.
80%??? stop making false statements it makes YOU look dumb.
maria I: I don't see the point of being rich and buying a new Moka with your lots of money if the first one had exploded due to bad maintenance causing you serious harm...
It is better to advice you first and avoid you causing severe damage to you and any of your family members, teaching you that you are not buying a toy...
And yes I am gratuitously offending Americans and I am dumb.
Saying that from a country that requires advice on cars exterior mirrors how to use them:
"Objects in mirror are closer than they appear"!!!!! 😨😅😯
Well if drivers in US are so dumb that require an advice to teach them how it works a mirror, that's not even dumb... It is just freaking pathetic and reveals you American are literally a danger for anyone else who cross your path while driving... 🤦🤦🤦
I wasn't washing the bottom chamber properly because I always thought it was steam, now I realised it's the water pushed up :(
It's really important to remove the gasket and clean the bottom of the upper part! I didn't clean it at first and after multiple uses, no coffee came out when I hit it up.
The next morning: Went out in deserted Miami FL to buy a moka pot, found many styles and spare parts, too. Bialetti brand was available, plus many superficial imitations, some cost as little as five dollars! The Bialetti was about thirty dollars US for the 6 cup Moka express. It seemed much heavier in construction. I washed before and after use with ordinary dishwashing detergent, rinsed in hot water, dried immediately. It's easy enough! The machine looks exactly as new, doesn't smell oily. I guess if you're not going to maintain this machine you should get one for five bucks and replace it every year or so? But you're still going to get rancid coffee oil residue in every cup, and also I just don't like the boiler to look all corroded inside. No, I think Il Barista Italiano has shown us the way! I have to hurry up and type this before I start getting too shaky from drinking too much coffee. It came out good enough. I just used cheap promotional Cuban Coffee, which sometimes is one dollar for a little ten-ounce brick. Also, because it's Miami I put some sugar beaten up with coffee the way they do, but it was possible to drink it black. Thanks, IBI!
You will absolutely ruin it if you use dishwashing detergent.
U tell them bro.
This is great. Very important message across but in a funny way (you are drinking dirt :) ) I laughed out loud. Thank you. This is awesome.
Amen Sam thanks for watching and sharing your appreciation
I had been just rinsing mine until today. Gave it a good clean just like this. Wow it was filthy 🤦🏻♀️😂
The biggest problem is not so much that oil is greasy, but that oils, especially food oils, putrify. So oil residue that might smell ok right after use is going to smell gross several weeks later. He's absolutely right. Wash with soap after every use and once in a while pill out that gasket and clean it.
I've got one that is over 20 years old and still looks new. I've always washed it with soap and an old toothbrush to clean the crevices when they get bad and then dry it. I use a cotton dishcloth so as not to scratch the surface, which will only hold in dirt. If you think of it microscopically, you've created thousands of little crevices for dirt to get trapped. Also, the oxidation of aluminum helps to create a barrier so that chemicals don't leach out of the aluminum. If you are scrubbing it, then you are removing that layer.
I don't see how this ever got started. Why would you want to be leaving old stale coffee in there to be mixed with fresh? Seems illogical to me.
David Brieske well said!! thanks for let us know your opinion. Logically perfect! cheers!
My guess is that a layer of coffee oils prevents the next brews from contacting with the metal. I've read somewhere that aluminium is known to change the taste of the brew. Anyway, a thorough cleaning once a week is alright! Remember the taste of cheap espresso? That's what it tastes like when one doesn't clean his utensils. :D
Then why does the official manual say that you can't use any detergents?
Just rinse it out with water and wipe it with a sponge. Do not use soap. Follow the instructions.
Thank you! Just had one gifted to me that needs a good cleaning, I was fighting to get the gasket out and didn't want to damage it.
Thanks for the info about how to remove the casket and the filter. I had no idea you can get behind them.
Thanks for watching and for letting me know your appreciation. lets share this video so other people may know about this too. cheers!
Thanks for sharing this, I'm happy with French plunger
The worshipful pronunciation of 'coffee' is beautifully complemented by the handling of the word, 'dirty', and then, to top it off, 'black' x 2. Bliss.
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I really meant to enphasize!
Il Barista Italiano Awesome job, buddy.
I liked the "DIRT" the most. :) "You are DRINKING D I R T"
The patina safes your coffee from the aluminium
Thats also the reason why you should throw away the first few coffees you prepare when the moka maker is new
When you wash it with soap ita very bad for your health
This dude right right talks about some dirt but he dont ask for the reason why you should only wash with water
Company Bialletti which produce the moka maker says the same
You should know that 😉
The nice patina of oily residue that sticks to the inner walls of the coffee maker will eventually become rancid. Cleaning the coffee maker will improve the flavor of your coffee.
Totally agree Cristobal!! Cheers
Totalmente agree con lei!
Nonsense, I’ve never cleaned inside the pot, there’s no burning, only coffee residue
Is that what you do with your cast iron fry pans too?
Exactly. Too many misinformed people saying that you need the patina.
I dont wash my moka pot with soap at all. I wash it with water occasionally 😂
But most of the time, I just discard last morning's coffee remains and refill with coffee and go. That's how I float my boat. You are free to float your boat in any fashion you deem suitable. For me, I like the idea of my moka pot aging and god I love the waves on the sides and memories that it brings me. That's my thing, go do your thing.
"You are free to float your boat in any fashion you deem suitable" thats very generous of you
My Parents: Go scrub the toilet.
Me: .. god I love the waves on the sides and the memories that it brings me. That's my thing, go do your thing.
@@007Elvisofnazareth Don't use your tilet to make coffee then...
Based on what my Italian friend taught me, this is correct in cleaning classic aluminum Italian moka pot (cafetiera).
Just a thought on the practice of washing the pot without soap...
Perhaps the instructions to wash only with water are meant for the designs of moka pots containing carafes that are made from less porous, highly polished materials- such as stainless steel, ceramic/porcelain, glass/vetro, etc.
Just a wild guess ☺
Don't guess. Follow the instructions.
You make so much sense. TQ for the advice and video.
Very hot water and soap with additional acid is great for removal of oils. Submerge the top half in soapy water & vinegar or ascorbic acid for 30 minutes then scrub before rinsing with hot water.
To keep the gasket supple, or if storing rub in silicone oil. You need just a small amount, 1-2ml depending on the size of your pot. Leave over night then wash with very hot water and washing up liquid.
To remove tarnish, that dark grey colour that occurs after long term storage. Bring vinegar and water to the boil, at 30% vinegar. Multiply the volume of water used by 0.3 to work out how much vinegar is needed. Place your pot in the liquid, let it cool until you can handle it then brush using a nylon brush.
PS, don't use brillo pads.
You don't want to remove the oils! That is how it gets seasoned. Why do you think that the instructions tell you to make one pot and throw it out before you make a pot to drink ?
The main reason to use soap in washing a coffee machine is that lipids turn rancid over time. Traditionally we cleaned mokas by using vinegar or bicarbonate which removes the leftovers without spoiling the flavour too much. I say "too much" as that "rancid" taste is part of what makes coffee good just like mold is the whole point of blue cheese.
rancid coffee is gross. It makes the next brew bitter.
Grazie Gionatan, Viva Italia! I appreciate you teaching me how to make good coffee, bless you!
Thank you john, thanks for sharing your appreciation! Viva L'Italia e viva il caffe'!!
You forgot to mention the part that holds the coffee, this has the fixed plate with holes in it that isn’t designed to be removed which is a very bad design flaw. It means it cannot be washed inside unless you do what I did and popped it out by ramming a chop stick down the end. It was very dirty but now gets washed with everything else
Dave Purcell you mean the filter?! You are right that is the nastiest part to clean. Thanks for your advice.
I think he means the "funnel" that holds the ground coffee; the disc is held in place by a crimp. That part shouldn't get dirty since only clean boiling water goes up the inside.
It *is* designed to be disassembled like that. Bialetti even sells new gaskets and filters for when they get too rancid. But they also shouldn't get too dirty, so there is no need to do it every time you make coffee.
A child`s small head toothbrush works well for cleaning the top part of the Moka.
Thanks a lot Gavin for your useful suggestion!!
Beyond dumb.
Just rinse it out like everyone else in the world.
Why are people so gullible?
@@tedolphbundler724 Not everyone enjoys rancid coffee oil. Sorry. My moka is over thirty years old, clean as a whistle and still making great coffee.
@@TM1Alan
Got you beat. Mine is from the 1970's and has only been rinsed out-like everyone else's. Gasket has been changes twice though.
@@tedolphbundler724 bet it really reeks also
I've clicked the "Like" button.
Say no more.
I would suggest using pipe cleaners for the central collumn. It does wonders
thanks for your precious suggestion.
Every few months I just clean by using as normal without coffee.
Thanks for watching and for sharing your opinion with us! Cheers
That's a much better idea.
I forgot to take my 6 cup pot off the stove the other day and it cooked the gasket. Instead of ordering a new one, I made my own using a sheet of 1/8" thick rubber and a razor blade. Only suffered one day without espresso
Panther Platform I think I did the same.... the rubber constantly sticks to the part that holds the coffee
@@sadieesther9721 sure does. I usually back it off a couple turns before I leave for work. I can tell if I'm on point that day if I've managed to get that much right before I head out. The rubber sheet was originally the roof on the now defunct grocery store in town. I could make thousands with all the rubber they got rid of.
Panther Platform its not espresso
Grocery store roofing rubber? Bialetti. Must be turning over in his grave. 😂
@@juliahunsinger3070 it's 1/8" thick rubber. If you only knew what else they use rubber for...
Personally, I clean mine with vinegar and baking soda. I use a brush and dish cloth to clean the inside and out. Oil build up causes a sour, harsh taste after a while.
To the people who say that cleaning will strip the pot of its shine; I'd rather my coffee taste good than have a shiny looking pot.
Well said Gary, baking soda is also good for cleaning, but I would avoid vinegar. cheers!
It doesn't strip it of its "shine". It strips it of its seasoning, and in the lower chamber its oxide coating.
@@tedolphbundler724 Just dry it snd let it air out.
@@sO_RoNerY That is exactly what I said below?
Moją mam 10 lat i jeszcze nigdy nie rozkręcałem jej tak, jak to pokazałeś. A piję codziennie 3 kawy. Myję tylko wodą.
Thank you for the tip with the fork and cleaning that part too. I always used warm water but the problem is smell...Especially when you want to try different kind of beans...you want it as pure as possible. Warm water not always help. Soap i didn't try because i thought it wil destroy the aluminum or something like they recommended but if you say(and some other people below here) no problem then no problemo! Its just soap...still strange why they say so probably just for you too buy a new 1 because over the years it gets stinky and dirty. In the past i didn't had a bur grinder and used illy grounded(almost powder texture). Which tastes actually fine too...extra strong why not . Its time to clean all that dirt out.
thanks for taking your time to leave a comment. I believe that everything is fine to clean a moka, but is better not to scratch it at all, or just use a very soft sponge. I 100% agree on what you said above, I also like to taste a different coffee everyday, why in my moka there should be the dirt of the day before? cheers
you are the only one to show how to clean the filter .. a could find it before you
If you run water with some pressure at the gasket at an angle it will lift enough to get your finger under. No tools required.
I have not cleaned the upper part of my moka pot for 3 years, since I don't even know it can be seperated like this. Thanks for your video.
You don't need to "clean" it. Just rinse it out and wipe with sponge.
i use sodium bicarbonate (on my pans too). modern dish soaps have such a strong smell it is impossible to get rid of it.
Thank you for sharing this nice tip, really really appreciated!
@@ilbaristaitaliano494 it is the manufacturers instruction actually
How about adding vinegar to the mix? Does is risk oxidizing the aluminum?
@@rbmanb adding vinegar to soda neutralizes both. it is of no use here.
@@guguigugu How about Vinegar alone? Would it do any good to the pot?
I just bought a stainless Bialetti, so I can keep it clean without worrying about discoloration. No, I do not want rancid coffee flavor.
I have the same feeling. It's good stainless (like 18-10 I think) and you can just wash it or put an alkaline cleaner and rinse it off, it looks like new!
Thank you so much for this great tuturial. I just disassembled my moka pot and cleaned the gasket and filter for the first time. Keep up the great work.
After each use i dissasemble my mokka pot clean everything with water and a toothbrush. Also the water tank. The filter where the coffee is put into should be soaked completly in a cleaning solution every two weeks.
Once a month check/clean gasket & rinse after use with running water will do.
Dude, I don't want to be disrespectful - but you're wrong.
Bialetti Moka Espresso Pot is made out of aluminum. Dish soap is causing corrosion and pitting to your Bialetti - it's just chemistry.
If you'd like to do a deep cleaning you should try using water & vinegar instead.
I always clean it inside out. I use a brillo pad to clean the dark stains. I also take the filter cover off where the coffee grounds go it gets awfully dirty. I use a long screw 3-4 inches to push it out.
thanks for watching and for your precious suggestions!
I hope you enjoy all those aluminum particles you are consuming now that you have scrubbed off the seasoning layer and the oxide layer from the inside of the boiling chamber!
Can you use a bottle, straw, brush to stick in the skinny funnel part?
For me - I never use soap on the Moka. I use a solution of vinegar | water to clean it - using a toothbrush as needed. Also, I run brewing cycle with the vinegar | water solution thru it - cleans the boiler (removes lime, scaling, etc.) plus cleans the filter and internal spout. Works quite well.
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.
I'm in between a 6 cup and a 9 cup moka coffee maker. I read somewhere that the 6 cups is the biggest size you should go, because the 9 and 12 don't make very good coffee. Is that true? Also can I use a 9 cup coffee maker to make less coffee?
It depends, most people who buy and use Mokas are interested in drinking espresso, if you buy a bigger moka in order to make a strong Americano for instance it doesn't make much sense to me, I think that regarding Moka... the smallest the better the coffee is, because the amount of water and coffee is very concentrated. Cheers
I would have appreciated if you would have shown how it's put back together because I really can't figure out how to put the rubber back on it perfectly.
You just smoosh it back in there. Filter first, so there's a recessed area around the filter, then press the gasket back in, pressing around the edges till it goes in.
Just use a sponge
No dirt remains...
Nice video and cute accent. Thank you.
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Muy bueno el vídeo y la explicación. Me acaban de obsequiar una moka y voy a disfrutar de ella. Saludos desde el Perú.
Saludos Juan! muchas gracias.
Grazie per il consiglio!
I have always used soap, because of the oils. I want no smell of coffee in the clean pot. I did not know to remove the gasket and filter. Thanks.
Macnutz420 Thanks for watching and leaving a comment. cleaning kitchen appliances is simply common sense. Cheers!
you can remove them carefully with a plastic stick or a fork
yes, I have done it since this post. Thanks.
I accidentally removed the gasket when drying it once, and I thought it wasn't meant to come out so stuck it back in, luckily I've only had the moka pot for a week now! Also wondered what on earth that bolt thing was for on the side of the pot - I thought it might have been for connecting pots together or additions like a milk frother or something... now after doing more research I've found that's a safety valve and it shouldn't be covered with water - glad I've found that out now as I've just seen the video of someone's kitchen after one exploded, although having said that the pot I got was only a cheap one - reduced to £5 in Sainsbury's so I doubt the valve is of any good quality anyway!
This is totally wrong. You will never get a good cup. Do baristas at coffee shops clean out the coffee holder with soap after each use?
Hints for the happy homemakers: "Remember to sweeten your Sunbeam percolator with a good scrubbing out with bicarbonate of soda. Or a vinegar solution, depending on the manufacturer."
The Sunbeam is made of chrome, NOT aluminum. Unless you knew that, in which case I applaud your efforts. ;D
Don't need soap if you use warm water after each use. Dry with a clean cloth or paper towel, then let air dry. Doing this with mine for years and it looks like new. If you wash it once a week then you are drinking coffee with old rancid residue most days.
Hi and thanks for watching. I partly agree with you, I actually dry the moka myself, I never let it dry by air itself and also mine always look as a brand new. I agree that you may not use soap in case you wash it only with hot water everyday. Cheers !
Thank you for this!!
Thanks for watching and leaving a positive comment.
My italian friend told me how to use and clean my moka pot which his nonna gave me so i think ill listen to him
Eddy P420 we love our Nonne they gave us unconditional love, but not real knowledge about coffee. Still that the best food and coffee is made with heart from our mothers and grandmothers.
@@ilbaristaitaliano494 easier to just buy new cafeteria each week
@@lL-cc8uo 😂🤣😂 sounds like a good solution if you can afford it. Cheers
@@ilbaristaitaliano494
You never had a Nonna. A babuska maybe but not a Nonna.
I also do a montly clean by putting the moka pot on stove with water only. The steaming process cleans the spout. I also leave the gasket and the filter in while i boil the water in the water chamber just like you would when making a coffee.
Should be thoroughly washed with detergent and thoroughly rinsed after every use. For best results, final rinse should be with reverse osmosis/ demineralized/ deionized/ distilled water. No residues whether old stale coffee or detergents.
Just curious. How many people have this thing stucked in back of their cupboard for years just like me?
And then one day some of these people try it out and never go back to french press again. :D
I have 6 of them and use them all.
What kind of soap do you use?
I'm afraid some chemical residues are going to stay there and will get to my cup of coffee.
How about using vinegar+baking soda or salt?
I have a question, I have a 6 cups venus since Dec last year, and I noticed that the exterior of the bottom chamber (where you put the water) started to darken and have discoloration, what is the remedy for that and how to avoid it? I'm using it on a gas stove. Thank u and I look forward to your reply.
Do you believe the tradition of "don't wash, just rinse" may have had to do with the quality of soaps and cleaning materials that have existed -- that to keep people from using an abrasive soap or cleaning pad the makers said "just use nothing"?
Mille grazia...excellent video. I'm going to clean my pot right now!
seamanjive thank you and enjoy your moka everyday!
@@ilbaristaitaliano494 been filling my cleaned moka with boiling water to reduce time on the fire. Using Ethiopian beans fresh ground in an old Greek coffee mill. Fantastic flavour, not cooked, bit more acidic and fruity.
This is great!! Grazie Mille!
So how come the cleaning instructions on Bialetti's own web site say not to use soap?
It's because they want you to make your pot so dirty it can't be cleaned anymore and you have to buy a new one
@@alekswanson7309 lol
Because is aluminum? Light soap and wash generously with water, should do it
@@crazydubwise true
@@crazydubwise thank you