Café Stal BEC-06M Café Stål Bellux Range 18/10 Stainless Steel Espresso Coffee Maker Classic Style Stovetop Italian Moka Pot Design, Hollow Cool Touch Handles, 6-Cup (280ml )

A very well made stainless steel coffee pot; good quality stainless steel and the size is just right for two cups of coffee. Easy to clean, but the edges inside the water container are sharp, so watch your fingers when washing and drying. The lid is strong and the overall quality is very good.It does spill if you tip it too far when pouring the coffee, since the spout is small - but what coffee pot doesn't. Not a negative for me. I use it on my MSR camping stove and obtain great results. I've also used it on my hob but lots of heat wasted because the pot base is a lot smaller than the hob ring. Modern stoves may be able to accommodate this size.Overall, an excellent quality purchase. I would buy again.

We originally purchased a 6 cup but this proved too small capacity-wise so we returned it. We were most pleased with the returns procedure and the rapid refund of the purchase price to our credit card account. We then ordered the 10 cup version which arrived very promptly and which was pressed into service immediately atop a stove top heat diffuser. The coffee maker is aesthetically pleasing to look at, the reservoir holding around 500ml (just below the inner valve) translating after around 5 minutes to 2 medium-sized coffee cups of excellent coffee - and without the metallic taste our old coffee maker had begun to produce. Highly recommended.

Totally agree with leon123, the mocha looks great, even more when you hold it or see it for real. It looks very sturdy and durable, wich is what I was after. I just found out how to use the perforated disc, so I din't have chance to try it yet, although I did make some espresso and taste good.Anyway, a very simple explanation manual would have been very useful, which is why I am giving 4 stars and not 5.I will add more in a few months, after using the mocha more than what I've done so far.The delivery was fine.Update (Nov 2012): the mocha pot is good quality but the rubber gasket is rubbish, it does not last long enough.Maybe for the novice this does not look like something particularly annoying, but an old gasket means a leakof steam and therefore less water brewing the ground in the filter, in a few words a little less coffee in your mug,and to make it worse, when you will pour your coffee, it will spill from the same leak. And I am using my mocha pot only 2-3 times a week, if you will use yours more often this is definitely something to keep in mind.This is the only negative point. Taste wise the brewed coffee is ok, but not special. I would buy the mocha for its look and stainless steel build but not for the taste of the coffe.Recently I found other mocha pots, like lavazza carmencita, now out of stock,or the German Freud, which represent really good alternatives.

Start with the basics: it makes good coffee if the coffee is good. Upside: well built, stainless steel.Downsides: if you were expecting more than six very very small cups please note the base takes 400ml of water before the pressure release valve covers up. It makes (nominally) about 250ml of coffee. Not six cups unless these are 42mls each. The balance is in the gap between the bottom of the pressure tube riser and the base, and that absorbed in the coffee grounds.It looks good because of the tapered base: but the heat rises up the side and heats the handle etc. And very prone to 'boil the coffee' post perc. You would need a narrow burner support if using gas. I had to find a secondary metal support to sit on my gas burner. Products now available it seems.Filters stop the coffee grounds passing up to the prepared coffee: the upper one is held in place by the rubber sealing ring: took a bit of intuitive instruction-less guess work as to 'where does it go' and it dropped out a couple of times. Its now habituated into place so it needs to be prised of for cleaning: rubber seal risk event. The other sits on top of the coffee itself. The small knob facing upwards, so you can remove it causes the plate to bend under the upward pressure of water. Turned down, of course it dosn't bend but you don't have the knob to remove it. When the knob drops off a short while later its sorted.The design of the upper and lower halves means the coffee flows into a narrow recess in the top, before filling the upper container. This needs a brush to clean down into but could be good for catching unfiltered grounds if your grind is 'too fine' for aforesaid filters. Pressing the grind down with a spoon or something (watch your local barista) helps minimise crunchy bits post slurp.This product wasn't cheap, and the unit should remain serviceable for many years but if you need want like 250ml of coffee, which I do, its a 4 star. Product description then? BTW the metric cup is 250ml so its actually a one cup maker.I'd probably review some other designs next time. It certainly beats the daylights out of pouring boiling water over coffee in a very breakable glass jar for taste and the smell enhances any kitchen day or night. I have another one of this type of coffee maker back in Oz: must be over 30 years old and its brilliant. Addition: sadly passed on with 'hole in base' probably from not killing the heat once perc'd: finding a replacement again demonstrates 'not all percs are equal' especially when price is factored inHope this helps.

I bought both the 3 cup and 6 cup Moka pot, both same visual design. the 3 cup is induction ready but 6 cup is not. this needs to be stated much more clearly in the description

I've had the 6 cup version of this exact model for 10yrs now and it has been used every day without fail (unless I have overpacked the coffee or when it needs a new o-ring). It still works perfectly but I needed a bigger version for our coffee loving household. They are brilliant. Even goes on campfire or BBQ and is dishwasher safe. And this 10 cup is exactly the same quality. Other aluminium ones that I have used taste metallic and do not last. The little seive plate that comes with it goes knob down into the basket before the coffee goes in to make the basket half capacity. Without the seive in, if you fill the basket up half way it works and tastes exactly the same.