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The moka pot is a stove-top or electric coffee maker that produces coffee by passing boiling water pressurized by steam through ground coffee. It 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 and in Latin America. It 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. Moka pots come in different sizes, from one to eighteen 50 ml servings. The original design and many current models are made from aluminium with Bakelite handles. == Variations and brands == Traditionally, moka pots are made of aluminium and are used over a flame or electric range. The aluminium moka pots cannot be used on induction stoves. There are, however, also many stainless steel models available.〔(【引用サイトリンク】 url=http://www.espresso-machines-and-coffee-makers.com/stainless-steel-stovetop-espresso-maker.html )〕 Electric self-heating moka pots are also available, as well as induction specific moka pots made of a titanium-alloy base.〔Induction Moka Pots: (【引用サイトリンク】title= Induction Moka Pot )〕 "Brikka" is a modified moka pot manufactured by Bialetti. It incorporates a weighted valve as a pressure regulator on top of the nozzle that allows pressure to build up inside the water tank in a manner similar to a pressure cooker. As pressure builds up more quickly in this method (since there is much less leakage of vapour) compared to the standard moka pot, it reaches the level required for water to rise through the ground coffee in a shorter time. However, the weighted valve allows pressure to accumulate and temperature to rise somewhat further before the liquid bursts through the nozzle. The result is coffee brewed at a higher pressure and temperature than the standard pot, making it more similar to espresso, and therefore with more visible crema. "Mukka Express" is a modified moka pot also manufactured by Bialetti that allows milk to be frothed and mixed with the coffee during brewing. The name, "Mukka", is a pun on the Italian for milk-cow, ''mucca''. Bialetti also manufactures several stainless steel moka pots, e.g.: Musa, Class and Venus. Alessi is an Italian kitchenware manufacturer known for their moka pots. Cuisinox also markets several models of moka pots in both aluminium and stainless steel. Also the high quality and design oriented Italian kitchenware manufacturer Serafino Zani is known for his moka pots: "Finlandia" designed by Tapio Wirkkala, "Mach" designed by Isao Hosoe and awarded with the Good Design Award (Chicago) 1993, "Thema" in stainess steel with titanium and "Genesis" in stainless steel and copper, both designed by Tarcisio Zani. Vev Viganò is an Italian manufacturer that specialises in stainless steel moka pots. Their product lines include Kontessa, Itaca, Vespress and Carioca. In 2004 they produced a caffettiera'UFO' designed by Vinod Gangotra that allows you to brew two cups simultaneously by inserting the cups directly into the machine. The upper part is made from cast aluminium whilst the lower from stainless steel Bellman makes a stainless steel moka pot, the "CX-25 Series", operating at higher pressure and capable of creating a crema. It also has a wand to steam liquids, such as milk for cappuccino.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Bellman Cappuccino Maker reviewed )〕 The brand Volturno has been manufacturing moka pots in Argentina for many decades;〔(【引用サイトリンク】title= Volturno - Cafeteras Express )〕 the name Volturno is sometimes used synonymously with moka pot there. Top Moka, another Italian manufacturer, offers two different styles of moka pots in a wide variety of colours. The more traditional Top Moka pot comes in sizes varying from two- to six-shot boilers. They also make mini moka pots in one- and two-shot sizes that use dispensing arcs rather than the standard collection chamber. Both are available with aluminium boilers for standard cooktops or titanium-alloy boilers for induction stoves.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Company home page )〕 G.A.T. is also an Italian company based in Brescia involved in the production of Italian moka coffee-makers since 1986. The range of coffee-makers that G.A.T. proposes is wide and complete (more than 50 models) and it allows to choose among various products, materials and prices, following the different market needs or personal liking. After the Second World War, the Italian Moka expanded all over the South Europe and it became the standard way of domestically making coffee. Its popularity lead to non-Italian South European manufacturers making copies or new designs inspired in the original Italian design. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Moka pot」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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