Imusa USA Aluminum Stovetop 6-cup Espresso Maker (
$14.99
Price: $14.99
(as of Mar 02, 2025 16:34:53 UTC – Details)
This IMUSA Aluminum Coffeemaker has the classic style your looking for in a stove top espresso maker, with the quality of a IMUSA brand product. IMUSA has been producing coffeemakers for over fifty years and is considered one of the top manufacturer of coffeemakers in the world. This coffeemaker makes 6 cups. It brews a traditional Espresso Coffee in minutes. Made for the stove top, it can be used on all gas, ceramic or coil surfaces. The bakelite handle provides for easy handling. Made from durable long lasting aluminum. Recommended hand wash only.
Note: 1)Too coarse a grind, too little coffee, or insufficiently tamping the grounds before brewing can all lead to inadequate pressure for a proper brew. 2)It is important to note that the amount of espresso extracted will vary depending on the grind size and amount and reprogramming may be needed when the size and amount are adjusted
Made with Durable Aluminum that Keeps Coffee Warm
6-Cup Capacity with Cool Touch Handle and Knob for Easy Handling
It’s Small and Portable Design Makes it Easy for Sharing Espresso
Designed with a Flip up Top and Side Pour Spout for Easy Serving
Ideal when Making and Serving Espresso
Jim –
Sometimes century-old tech still works!
First off, this design has literally been around for a century and as such, there are few moving parts, very little complexity, and it doesn’t require electricity. This makes it super easy to clean. Second, it is small. Unlike the one I remember my Grandmother using back in the day, this makes 3 cups of espresso, and espresso cups are small. I included a picture for scale.I used to have a regular drip coffee maker, then a smaller version of an espresso/cappuccino like you’d see in a fancy coffee shop, and then settled on a Keurig. That spanned about 30 years of my coffee making history. The Keurig is starting to have scaling problems despite every method I had tried to descale it, and before I bought another to replace it, I thought of getting something like Grandma had. I was skeptical that I was retiring a $100 appliance with a $6 one that could use regular coffee grounds.It’s super simple. Unscrew the bottom and fill with water up to (but not covering) the safety valve. Place the funnel that holds the grounds in it and add 2-3 tsp of ground coffee. Screw the top on and put it on the stove. (I set it a little off-center so the handle doesn’t get hot on my gas stove.) On medium heat it takes about 4 minutes for it to start brewing, and 30 seconds later you can hear it gurgling, which means it’s done. If I’m in an espresso mood, I pour some into a little glass and metal cup. If I want Americano style coffee, I dump the entire contents into a coffee mug and add hot tap water to dilute it down to regular strong coffee.It’s cheap to buy, cheap to operate, easy to clean, and easy to use. I no longer leave a Keurig plugged in all day on the chance that I may want a cup of coffee. I don’t have to buy wasteful k-cups. I load this with water and grounds, put it under the fire, set the timer for 4 minutes, and go back to what I was doing. When the timer goes off I come back into the kitchen, watch for it to start brewing, and then turn it off a half minute later. Once it starts it brews quickly as the water only passes through the grounds once, unlike perked coffee.If you like a good cup of coffee at home, I suggest giving this a try!16 months later, it’s still going strong. It doesn’t look as pretty anymore – a combination of daily use for over a year, as well as someone putting it in the dishwasher when I wasn’t looking. But it still works great. If I want to speed it up, I let the sink hot water run until it gets piping hot and use that to fill it. With that step I can get the cook time to just under 3 minutes. If you work form home and often just want to make a single cup of espresso or coffee, this is a great way to do it.
pueo –
Better Late than Never (or, A Late Start is Better than No Start)
Warning…Rambling review by an old geezer…read only if you have too much time on your hands, lol…Turned 77 this Christmas and just recently discovered the joys of Moka. I love strong coffee…drink my coffee black, my espresso straight, and enjoy fooling with my Aeropress…and was totally blasé about moka pots. Weirdly, a scene with a moka pot in an action K-flick (making espresso outdoors with a small camp stove) piqued my curiousity, and thus began my odyssey into the world of moka pots. Thank you Netflix movie Ballerina…lots of John Wick style revenge action by the petite protagonist, and if you like strong kick a– female leads, this is a good one! Check out the opening scene to see if it’s your cup of tea, err espresso lol. After researching and watching way too many YouTube videos, I looked to Amazon for something cheap to fool around with. And here we are with the subject of this review: the 3-CUP IMUSA MOKA POT.The key word is “cheap” as I only wanted to test the waters. Incredibly, I snagged this Imusa for less than a Starbucks flat white…a fraction of the $30 for a Bialleti. Surely a moka pot for less than $5 must be poor quality right? Wrongo! What I got was solid, nice build quality, highly polished, equal in appearance to pictures of Bialleti…and proved every bit as functional. It even has a real silicone gasket, unlike Bialleti’s rubber gasket that always hardens and cracks, as revealed in many videos. Imusa made it right and gives us a louder bang for our buck. In one “Top 10 for 2023” list on YouTube, Imusa was #1 and the original granddaddy, Bialleti Moka Express was #8. $5 vs $30…go figure.With clear ideas of what I wanted, I invested the good part of a morning brewing 12 test pots to decide on the brewing process for me. The constants were the coffee (Lavazza Italiano), the grind (mid-fine), water quantity (touching the relief valve), and the heat (medium, then off after 1st drops). I must confess having a strong bias for generations-proven traditions over new techniques. So instead of coffee experts like James Hoffman, I trusted hosts who learned moka from their mothers or grandmothers. I also wanted to learn about Cuban coffee. Cubans adopted the moka pot (cafetera) as their own to make cafecito, their own sweet version of espresso (imo, the best dessert coffee hands down). Cafe Cubano is a big reason why Miami makes the list of top 10 coffee cities in the US.After my tests, I decided to use the classic methods that have worked for generations of Italian and Cuban families…including a couple of steps that many consider disputable (even wrong).Going against common advice, I pack my grounds. Unlike the classic Itallian method, Cuban families have packed their grounds for generations. Don’t think “tamping” which is typically 30 lbs pressure for espresso…think “squishing.” As one Cuban host said “We like it strong and dark, so we fill it to the top and squish it down, and fill it some more.” Using a 54mm dosing funnel, I overfill a couple extra spoons, stir with a WDT tool, then pack (squish) it down to the top of the funnel. I consistently get a creamier, smoother, overall better coffee…that’s a little bit closer to true espresso…with no increase in bitterness using proper heat management (keep it to a dribble). For me, packing the grounds is a must and no one will convince me that loose is better.Following (blindly?) coffee guru Mr. Hoffman, many have been jumping on the bandwagon and preaching as gospel to use preheated water…based on some “theory” that using room temp water will “overheat” the coffee grounds while the water heats up, resulting in a bitter brew. Huhh? Coffee is roasted between 180 to 250°C (356 to 482°F) for up to 20 minutes. Is it even rational to believe that a few short minutes in the low temperature of the moka pot while the water is heating up (less than 100°C) will overheat the grounds enough to alter the extraction? Doesn’t that just mess with your common sense? After four test pots, my palate couldn’t detect any difference. I believe that the palates of those preaching this would also not be able to taste a difference. In fact, one host admitted he couldn’t taste a difference, but just recommends preheated water to speed-up the brewing, lol. It’s an EXTRA (and unnecessary) step folks. Stay off the bandwagon and just do as generations of families across Italy and Cuba have done and still do…just fill your pot with tap water (filtered if your tap is bad). I’m blessed to live in a city with tap water from deep underground basalt aquifers that annual independent testing (Purdex) prove purer than every bottled water tested, including big names like Aquafina, Crystal Geyser, Dasani, Fiji, Pure Life, and others.Do I regret ignoring moka pots till now? Yes. But as my headline suggests, I’m thankful and delighted to be starting now. If you’re sitting on the fence, take a leap of faith and jump into the world of moka…start enjoying a different style of coffee. The price of admission is just one Starbucks drink. My $5 Imusa is as solid as they come and I don’t feel a need to upgrade (spend more). I look forward to brewing gallons of joy before I’m done, one demitasse at a time. I can’t wait for my moka pot get that used patina like those dull, well-seasoned ones in the videos. And like the millions of moka pots drying on sinks across Italy and Cuba, my moka pot will also never be touched by dish soap. Lol… ツ
Amy Andrea Salazar Pantoja –
Y de muy buena calidad.
Brian –
I had an IMUSA 12-cup percolator for the longest time, but needed to downsize. I bought a 6-cup one of a different brand at my local shop and it got really nasty after around 2-3 months. I threw it out and bought this IMUSA 6-cup one and it has been great! Easy to clean and it doesn’t deteriorate like other cheaper brands. It’s not the prettiest or fanciest but… it works for its main purpose: making coffee/expresso.
Juan Martin Alvarado Baerga –
Café perfecto en cada ocasión. Hay que tratarla con mucho cuidado y mantenerla limpia y seca. No usar jabón para lavarla.
Cellya Sylva –
E bem peq perfeito pra uma pessoa. Ela e muito linda amei.
EDINA C. O. RECHI –
Muito bom, mas ficou muito pequeno para o fogão, tem que fazer uma adaptação.