Why not BIGGER than 1-3 cup Mokapot?

[gvarsity]

I have a 6-cup and 12-cup. Used to make the sixer for myself every day in grad school. (yes I vibrated a lot through grad school) The 12 cupper is great for parties. Do the MOO and get one of every size.

[TOB9595]

OK, NOW I understand.
They all work well....
Most people buy bigger than they will really use when they start out.

Sigh...I'll now have to hunt out the next size up...or maybe two sizes up..
I have to think on that..
I'd like to make 2 shots at a time...
YEAH!
I can handle 2 shots....heeheeheeheeheehee

GOOD GRIEF!
The door is opened to a whole new world!!!
Thank youse
Tom

[Mister Moo]

Originally Posted by TOB9595

The door is opened to a whole new world!!!

Here's another take on mokapot sizes, Tom. It IS a new world when you finally get a pot to make a killer brew, isn't it? However, when new-to-it folks get to making bad brew with a mokapot four, five or six times in a row they usually bail out and go back to something easier and more familiar. Learning to brew well with a large pot can be frustrating and it does burn thru a lot of coffee per pot. For this reason I think the small pots are where to start.

I think lots of folks assume a large pot (e.g. 12-cup) is what they want/need because they can drink a whole pot of drip coffee. I don't think of myself as being particularly sensitive to caffeine but two pots from a 2- or (absolutely from) 3-cupper gets all my brain molecules vibrating and my muscles twitching - unpleasant feeling. While YMMV, too much moka is easy for me to drink but WAY bad for how I feel. The **** is sneaky-bad if I drink too much. Maybe that's partly to blame for my large-pot prejudices. Large pots are for crowds, not individuals, in my view.