UPDATE AT BOTTOM. Read to the end of this review for the good, the bad, the ugly about this little Moka pot. I bought this specifically so I could have a serious kick-in-the-butt cup of Moka in the afternoons at work. My 3-star rating reflects this use case.
The good? It doesn't get as hot as I thought it would and it does allow me to have a nice cup of Moka anywhere. As an added bonus, this little pot only consumes 170 watts... so it may be possible to run this off of one of those cup-shaped cigarette lighter inverters. In a PARKED car, of course, when it's warm inside the car. Also, the connector on the Moka pot itself is a standard IEC C13 connector- so you can use any common computer cord to power this pot.
I'm taking away two stars because the product description, while correct, leaves out a few important details. The quality of the Moka Pot itself is good- common of what you'd expect from Bialetti. But the usability is not so good if you want your Moka quickly. This is not really "designed for 120v-240v" but rather, "designed for 240v but it happens to kinda work on 120v". So if you don't mind waiting a half hour to an hour for your Moka, using the included US adapter is fine and makes this a handy little pot. (The fact it uses a standard computer connector brings up the possibility that you might be able to use this Moka pot with a US-based 240v outlet- look for a "NEMA 6-15 to C13" cord to do so. But I haven't tried this, so I'm not responsible if you burn your house down.)
The first photo shows a comparison between this pot and Bialetti's 1-cup, 3-cup, and 6-cup stovetop pots. The second shows the cord that comes with the pot, and the third shows the cord I used to brew my first cup.
So the nameplate says it consumes 170 watts. I was curious about this, so I connected the Moka pot up to an inverter I have that measures watts. What did I find? This thing consumes a total of... 19 watts! Very interesting...
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Reviewed in the United States on September 9, 2017
The good? It doesn't get as hot as I thought it would and it does allow me to have a nice cup of Moka anywhere. As an added bonus, this little pot only consumes 170 watts... so it may be possible to run this off of one of those cup-shaped cigarette lighter inverters. In a PARKED car, of course, when it's warm inside the car. Also, the connector on the Moka pot itself is a standard IEC C13 connector- so you can use any common computer cord to power this pot.
I'm taking away two stars because the product description, while correct, leaves out a few important details. The quality of the Moka Pot itself is good- common of what you'd expect from Bialetti. But the usability is not so good if you want your Moka quickly. This is not really "designed for 120v-240v" but rather, "designed for 240v but it happens to kinda work on 120v". So if you don't mind waiting a half hour to an hour for your Moka, using the included US adapter is fine and makes this a handy little pot. (The fact it uses a standard computer connector brings up the possibility that you might be able to use this Moka pot with a US-based 240v outlet- look for a "NEMA 6-15 to C13" cord to do so. But I haven't tried this, so I'm not responsible if you burn your house down.)
The first photo shows a comparison between this pot and Bialetti's 1-cup, 3-cup, and 6-cup stovetop pots. The second shows the cord that comes with the pot, and the third shows the cord I used to brew my first cup.
So the nameplate says it consumes 170 watts. I was curious about this, so I connected the Moka pot up to an inverter I have that measures watts. What did I find? This thing consumes a total of... 19 watts! Very interesting...
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Good build quality, but brews VERY SLOWLY at 120v!
By Joshua Kramer on September 9, 2017
UPDATE AT BOTTOM. Read to the end of this review for the good, the bad, the ugly about this little Moka pot. I bought this specifically so I could have a serious kick-in-the-butt cup of Moka in the afternoons at work. My 3-star rating reflects this use case.By Joshua Kramer on September 9, 2017
The good? It doesn't get as hot as I thought it would and it does allow me to have a nice cup of Moka anywhere. As an added bonus, this little pot only consumes 170 watts... so it may be possible to run this off of one of those cup-shaped cigarette lighter inverters. In a PARKED car, of course, when it's warm inside the car. Also, the connector on the Moka pot itself is a standard IEC C13 connector- so you can use any common computer cord to power this pot.
I'm taking away two stars because the product description, while correct, leaves out a few important details. The quality of the Moka Pot itself is good- common of what you'd expect from Bialetti. But the usability is not so good if you want your Moka quickly. This is not really "designed for 120v-240v" but rather, "designed for 240v but it happens to kinda work on 120v". So if you don't mind waiting a half hour to an hour for your Moka, using the included US adapter is fine and makes this a handy little pot. (The fact it uses a standard computer connector brings up the possibility that you might be able to use this Moka pot with a US-based 240v outlet- look for a "NEMA 6-15 to C13" cord to do so. But I haven't tried this, so I'm not responsible if you burn your house down.)
The first photo shows a comparison between this pot and Bialetti's 1-cup, 3-cup, and 6-cup stovetop pots. The second shows the cord that comes with the pot, and the third shows the cord I used to brew my first cup.
So the nameplate says it consumes 170 watts. I was curious about this, so I connected the Moka pot up to an inverter I have that measures watts. What did I find? This thing consumes a total of... 19 watts! Very interesting...
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