It’s Italian and it has a little Italian guy on the front. It’s a percolator basically, but it’s cute as snot and I had to find one and make it mine.
Backstory… I had an old picture come up in my Facebook memories. It was a dented car bumper that – instead of doing bodywork – someone just drew a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle on the car, with the turtle teeth drawn strategically in the dent. Pure artistry, friends.
The genius that came up with this low-cost solution has an Instagram account at z32drifter and since I hadn’t seen this particular picture in a while, I wondered if I was missing out on more genius from this cat.
Off to Instagram I went, and I immediately learned two things. 1. Dude doesn’t speak much English and 2. He has a super neato way to make coffee. After reading the many comments, I Googled the name of the shiny pitcher thing he was using for his brew. I do alright as a sleuth, so I determined quickly that I could buy a Bialetti Moka Express at my local Kroger Marketplace in Benton, Arkansas. Yesssss… I looked at the 6-cup model at first, but I think by “cup” it maybe means an espresso cup. You are not going to fit 6 Imperial Measurement cups in there. No sir. It should say “6 teensy weensy cups.” I settled on the 9-cup model and brought the little Italian guy home.
I have to say that I watched a few how-to videos myself before purchasing, because I wanted assurance that the process would be in line with both my skill level and my “ain’t got time for that” threshold. ‘T’was! Then when I got it on the stove, I wanted to document my efforts of course, for you faithful readers. Herein lies the results.
Yeah, so that happened. I think maaaaaaybe I had the burner set a little high. Since it was on high, that is. Medium will do the job. Here are some actual instructional videos I watched.
LONG HOW-TO:
SHORT HOW-TO:
shellicooks 