Italians do love their coffee, and any true-blue Italian will tell you that the best way to get your coffee fix isn’t a pour-over, it isn’t a French Press, and it sure as hell isn’t those instant coffee mixes… it’s a Moka Pot. Invented in 1933 by Bialetti, this pot is now practically a standard fixture in every Italian household. Heck, I’m not Italian and even I have one! The pot relies on clever fluid dynamics to brew strong coffee, which percolates upwards into the pot’s upper container. What you’re left with is more potent than any French Press or Chemex-brewed coffee. It’s thick and velvety, just like an espresso… and the pot itself is so iconic, someone gave it a LEGO remake!
Put together by LEGO builder marky_lefty, this pot miniaturizes the iconic Moka Pot, but retains every exterior detail that makes the pot such a crowd favorite. The octagonal cross-section, the hourglass design, the grey aluminum exterior, the handle, and the lid with its tiny grip for easy operation. The pot splits apart into its two distinct halves too, and look closely and you’ll even see the safety valve on the bottom half. Finally, each Moka Pot is paired with a tiny espresso cup, adorned with the colors of the Italian flag.
Designer: marky_lefty
“The original design object is based on the principle of the pressure cooker where the water contained in the lower aluminum tank, boiling, evaporates upwards through the ground coffee powder placed in a central filter, dissolving it and dispensing it in liquid form in the upper container,” says marky_lefty. “The Bialetti Moka coffee maker is a design object that represents a totally Italian way of making coffee but is also known abroad and is therefore an iconic object of immediate visual association with everything it has represented and still represents today, in this set proposal it has been combined with the classic cup to serve traditional Italian espresso coffee.”
marky_lefty’s rendition replicates the Moka Pot beautifully. It has a hinged lid, a spout for pouring, and for all intents and purposes, it’s exactly proportionate in size given the details. The only caveat is that this isn’t a SNOT build (Studs Not On Top), which means the MOC, or My Own Creation, has the classic LEGO studs visible on the outside. It isn’t a big deal, but I assume that if LEGO does take this up and turn it into a box set, they’ll want to do something about the studs to hide them.
That being said, this MOC is currently in its voting stages on the LEGO Ideas forum. For the uninitiated, the forum is an online network that allows LEGO fans to build and share their own creations and vote for their favorites. Creations with over 10K votes get sent to LEGO’s internal team to review, following which the MOC gets turned into a retail box set. If you want to see that happen, go ahead and give this Moka Pot your vote on the !
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