A brainwave led from the Neapolitan flip coffee pot to the Moka pot. In 1933, Arturo Bialetti was watching his wife doing the laundry with a type of copper boiler featuring a metal tub with a steel tube running up through the middle of it. It was heated from below so that the boiling water would spray through the laundry and spread lye through it evenly. It inspired him to create the first prototype moka pot. Since then, the popularity of coffee has driven the spread of moka pots and they have become cherished possessions in countless…
