Black magic
The Italian purist
Alfonso Bialetti's coffee pot works like this: fill the bottom tank with water and scoop finely ground coffee beans into the coffee basket. Place the pot on hot coals or over a gas flame. The water boils and the steam rises through the ground beans. Coffee then collects in the tank at the top. It makes enough coffee for one cup.
Volume 200 ml
Price R699 at Cape Union Mart
The inventive American
Place a paper filter in a holder, screw the holder to the bottom of the sylinder, scoop ground beans into the sylinder followed by boiling water. Place it on top of a coffee cup, insert the piston at the top
