/ck/ - Food & Cooking

After 1 full year of making coffee with multiple moka pots I reached this conclusion: it’s a meme.
I tried single origin beans, from all over the world, I tried blends, I tried dark and medium roasts, but despite all these coffees being described as having vastly different key aromas, to me all the cups I drank felt like weak “more of the same” coffee.

I was told that moka coffee was super strong and concentrated, and yet I’m still to find a coffee that tastes 100% good and satisfies me, the only relevant difference I could taste was the difference in acidity and that’s all.
Bread crust? Chocolate? Fruit? Berries? Strawberry jam? I can’t taste any of this, not even a hint, and I make my coffee correctly.

The only and I mean the ONLY coffee I really liked was Italian blends, probably dark or medium dark roasts, because these always have that distinct flavour of strong coffee that I love, because to me this is how coffee should taste like…but still, if I used the same coffee to make an espresso the result is miles better than the coffee from the moka.

I’m not mad, really, I’m just sad and disappointed because I can’t understand why so many people truly enjoy this method but I can’t, it’s frustrating.