Tamping coffee in Moka pot?
Posted: Wed Feb 08, 2006 3:45 pm
A question about my moka pot:
When I make coffee with my moka pot I allways fully fill the filter and do not tamp it. But when I'm cleaning it and blowing the ground coffee out of the filter the ground coffee has become a nice whole piece, and when I break it, there are no weird holes in it. In fact it looks good. But I notice that the coffee is reduced to about 2/3 of the heigth of the filter. Obviously the hot water, when it comes up, presses the coffee up against the upper filter and "tamps" it a bit on the go.
1. Has anyone else noticed this?
2. Is this supposed to happen?
3. And should I, when filling it, tamp it bit so more coffee fits in and the water can't compress it any further?
When I make coffee with my moka pot I allways fully fill the filter and do not tamp it. But when I'm cleaning it and blowing the ground coffee out of the filter the ground coffee has become a nice whole piece, and when I break it, there are no weird holes in it. In fact it looks good. But I notice that the coffee is reduced to about 2/3 of the heigth of the filter. Obviously the hot water, when it comes up, presses the coffee up against the upper filter and "tamps" it a bit on the go.
1. Has anyone else noticed this?
2. Is this supposed to happen?
3. And should I, when filling it, tamp it bit so more coffee fits in and the water can't compress it any further?