/ck/ - Food & Cooking

Thing about a moka pot, okay, is that the moka pot makes shitty fucking coffee. The entire apparatus heats up like a motherfucker and scalds your brew, giving it a bitter-ass taste. Yes, you can avoid this with some technique, but it's still a crap shoot and who's even got time for that bullshit apart from some kind of neet fuckup. The design is so fucking flawed that you have to learn to work around it. Its a flawed design...why do you schmucks buy it?
The Aeropress, however, doesn't have this problem. It's designed well and works with you instead of against you.
The moka pot has lots of small inaccessible places that are difficult or impossible to clean. Sure, people say you should season it, but one mans seasoning is another mans rancid coffee oil that makes everything taste stale. That's without going into the problem with mould if you store it without use for a long time. Aeropress? Easiest thing in the world to clean.
Moka pots are also susceptible to corrosion and pitting over time. Aluminum + heat + water = corrosion. Aeropress is made of plastic. Sure it might crack and discolour and wear out over several thousand brews, but it won't impart any off flavours to your coffee.
Aeropress is far, far more versatile. You control coffee dose, brew water and contact time. Long steep with a coarse grind? Go for it. Short steep, fine grind? Absolutely. Coffee concentrate? Sure. Regular strength, single cup brew? Why not. Moka pot? Sorry, just a poor imitation of espresso.
tl;dr: Aeropress makes better coffee, is easier to clean, is comparably durable and is more versatile. I don't know why anyone would get a Moka pot instead unless they were a fuckkin mook.