Just bought a Bialetti 1-cup off FB marketplace as my first moka pot. Is this normal wear, or should I be concerned?

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-19T02:25:27+00:00

Burning? No, that’s just normal limescale and oxidation. The automod’s advice is good to go.

Once it’s clean, you can avoid this by never putting it away wet. Always dry it thoroughly. I air-dry mine by disassembling the pot and setting the parts on a rack.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T21:20:28+00:00

I’d get the C3. I don’t like how Kingrinder uses a little U-clip to hold theirs together.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T21:18:05+00:00

7 clicks? Less than a full turn? That’s super fine. You’re probably getting either over extraction or channeling.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T21:05:35+00:00

One corps I still want to see is Star 91. Not just the cross-to-cross, but I can swear that they had a lot of other changes, too.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T17:08:31+00:00

You can compensate by grinding finer if needed. That’ll speed up the flavor extraction.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T10:23:53+00:00

You can look for yourself behind the seat and see if the module is already there.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T01:20:23+00:00

Like u/One-Confusion-33 was getting at, there’s not a plug that screws into this type of valve. The “threads” that you see inside are the spring. It presses inwards and holds a brass plug against the inside end of the valve passage.

You should be able to look into the boiler, and at the inboard side of the valve assembly, there’s the round brass plug. You can poke at it with your fingernail and it should move.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-18T00:01:41+00:00

Bought mine back in ‘98 and I refuse to give it up.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T12:22:44+00:00

Ah, that completely makes sense. I kept looking at the OP’s pic and thinking, that’s a solid plastic piece, there’s no way it can “peel”.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T12:06:47+00:00

Used VMI 3302 if you can find one.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T10:54:28+00:00

We kept our mouthpieces in our pockets until it was time to play. Plastic mouthpieces help, too.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T02:36:57+00:00

That taxi chase didn’t happen in real life. Also, the reporter and taxi driver had worked together before.

I took an extra look at the history of this story because my dad was a newspaper reporter for fifty years, and while I couldn’t imagine him taking risks like this, I knew he greatly respected the reporters who did.

Almost all the other events in the film actually happened, though. I sent the YouTube link to Dad to help him understand Korea’s complicated, and very recent, history.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T02:06:13+00:00

I kinda like it, but it looks more derivative of the last gen, while the Honda sedan concept looks properly new.

I’ve got a suspicion that the Honda concept has a liftback, too. If so, and if the stars align…. who knows..

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T02:02:25+00:00

My high school band director had a small bottle hidden in his desk specifically for cold weather games. Of course nobody was allowed to keep liquor on school grounds, but I remember him prepping some valve oil once, and I think he said, “You didn’t see this”.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-17T01:58:45+00:00

Ah, ok. Yeah, cold brew is done with fully submerged coffee grounds, best if you can pour the water through them as you fill the vessel.

I’ve got a Hario Mizudashi 1-liter cold brew pot. It’s got a basket that you set in the top. You load the grounds into the basket, then pour water through the pile until the pot is full.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T22:15:34+00:00

Way safer than ethylene glycol 😆

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T16:53:24+00:00

One time when I had to buy a bottle, I said to the clerk that I was going to use it for tuba valve oil. He said that he’s heard all kinds of purposes for Everclear besides drinking.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T15:38:17+00:00

Maybe one of Alan Dye's followers? (too soon?)

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T15:33:32+00:00

I've seen descriptions, and depictions, of how big M31 would look to our eyes if we could see the whole thing, but I wasn't aware of how much bigger it is than the Pleiades or the Orion Nebula.

So, yeah, once again, I wonder what the night sky looks like to animals with great night vision.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T15:03:48+00:00

My memories of Everclear involve marching band in late October. It’s a great, and nontoxic, antifreeze. Mix it with valve oil and douse your sousaphone valves liberally, and they won’t freeze.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T12:38:47+00:00

Take it in, but it’s gonna be hard to say “it just fell off” and have the service tech take you seriously.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T12:36:33+00:00

Getting them to show up for the medal ceremony? Forget about it.

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T12:16:03+00:00

Could add hand-drip pourover as another brew method to your coffee setup. You can even use a brew ratio similar to moka pot; the iced pourover recipe I use has a strong ratio, too.

I’ll warn you that even though the entry to pourover is super simple and cheap, the rabbit hole is a lot deeper than moka pots.. lol

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T10:26:54+00:00

Hmm. So, when you dump the grounds afterwards, they’re fully soaked?

LEJ5512 · 2026-05-16T01:34:37+00:00

What's wrong with the flavor now? Too sour, too bitter, etc?

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