Luca Veneri's "Loca" takes the simple, effective and well loved moka coffee pot and modifies to use expensive, wasteful and environmentally questionable coffee pods.
The moka is a classic, and can be found in almost every kitchen across western Europe. I have used one daily for most of my adult life. It's cheap, easy to use and makes a good, strong faux-spresso.
Podular coffee, on the other hand, uses overpriced single-serve capsules which then need to be recycled. In a machine that delivers a known and exact pressure, they make a great espresso. In the rather more primeval bubbling of a moka, things aren't so precise.
So the Loca, as Veneri's design is fittingly named, gives the worst of both worlds: pricy, high-maintenance coffee and an imprecise, low-pressure machine. It does look pretty cool, though.
Lemme See You Percolate [Yanko]
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