Bialetti Moka Express

The Bialetti Moka Express was patented for the first time in Italy by the inventor Luigi De Ponti for Alfonso Bialetti in 1933. Bialetti Industrie continues to produce the same model under the name Moka Express. The moka pot is most commonly used in Europe (especially Italy, Portugal and Spain) and in Latin America.

Bialetti Moka Express Espresso Maker

The Bialetti Moka Express has become an iconic design, displayed in modern industrial art and design museums such as the Wolfsonian-FIU, Museum of Modern Art, the Cooper–Hewitt, National Design Museum, the Design Museum, and the London Science Museum.

The inner workings remained unchanged over the decades, apart from the reduction of the coffee outlet points from the original four to two and the addition of a safety valve. To this day, Alfonso Bialetti’s ingenious invention simply hasn’t been improved technically. The jugs are still so robust and durable that they can accompany their user throughout life. A corresponding number of emotions are associated with the personal Bialetti. You make your espresso with it on good and not so good days, on happy occasions and to cheer you up. And while you wait the two to three minutes until the rattle in the pipe announces the coffee rising, you have a little time to think about life. Alfonso Bialetti also made this possible with his invention.

Moka Express gallery