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Chris Liss | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +3 
 I once put the plug in coffee maker at an Air BNB on the electric stove, realized something was wrong when I smelled burning plastic from the other room.
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ponymontana | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 one morning I put the moka (the tipical italian machine for homemade coffee) on the gas without water, it burned all the plastic around.
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mleku | 1 months ago (raw) | root | parent | reply | flag +1 
 is that the aluminium type where it boils water in a bottom chamber and does a bit like espresso, forcing the water through a funnel neck up through a plug of coffee grounds?

ah yeah, it is... i hate those things... they always overcook the coffee compared to a proper espressio machine

the OP might consider getting the type of small espresso cups like the madeiran "bica" type like ones i have, they have tiny little knobs on the side on the top so you really can't get them upside down even in the dark