Viv Dunstan's Spring Thing & Autumnal Jumble 2025 impressions

[thealchemists]

Hi … I didn’t change the title — Echoes and Traces is just another term I used in place of End Credits
Thanks for the review - I enjoy reading it.

[vivdunstan]

@vivdunstan

Must resist buying a moka pot …

@strawberryfield

Don’t do it! I couldn’t live without the murmur of coffee in the morning. My son wanted to buy a capsule machine, I use it sometimes, but in the morning my wife and I use our old moka. It’s different.

@Piergiorgio_d_errico

10.000% concur and agree with Roberto. Viv, do yourself an huge favour and buy a good Moka !

@rovarsson

I must add my voice to those urging you to stop resisting the call of the Moka Pot. The Moka Pot is good. The Moka Pot will grant you soothing, fragrant, gurgling deliciousness. The Moka Pot will stay with you for the rest of your life. You will never know bliss until you buy your own Moka Pot.

Checking in some time later. Doing it guys! Just ordered this, using some Christmas present money:

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Close up of an aluminium Bialetti Moka Express coffee maker, a shiny coffee pot with a lid, and on the front the image of a little Bialetti man in black jacket and stripy trousers, with hat on, and arm raised up very high.

I am getting a 4-cup Bialetti Moka Express, because my husband would like coffee too. Having researched, this seems like the right size for the drinks we want to make.

[Piergiorgio_d_errico]

THE classical one ! congrats !!!

Best regards from Italy,
dott. Piergiorgio.

[vivdunstan]

This evening’s fun, making coffee with our new Moka pot for the first time. Remarkably successful and rather magical to watch. We will definitely do this again.

My husband usually adds gallons of sugar to his coffee, but didn’t realise until way through the coffee that he hadn’t added any! It was a lovely flavour, and not bitter at all. We did try to follow all the tips for making it in the best way possible.