Moka pots (like this one from Bialetti) work by forcing pressurized water out of a boiling chamber, up through finely ground coffee, and out a spout into a brewed coffee reservoir. I’ve captured the coffee filling that final reservoir.

I filmed this using two different cameras. The long shots are from a Canon EOS 6D Mark II DSLR with an EF 28-135mm f/3.5-5.6 IS USM lens. This footage is 60 fps 1920x1080p, 135mm (35mm equivalent: 205.1 mm) focal length, 1/500 shutter speed, f/8.0, and ISO 4150. The sorta choppy slow-mo shots come from my rapidly overheating Google Pixel 7 main back camera (6.81mm, 35mm equivalent 24.0 mm, f/1.85) at 240 fps 1920x1080p. Putting the phone close enough to the moka pot to get the shot also put it right in the hot air rising off the stove/out of the pot, and it got pretty hot. This is my best explanation for the numerous dropped/skipped frames in the full recording, which greatly limited what I was able to use in the final video. The video was edited entirely in DaVinci Resolve 19.

Music used under CC BY 4.0, 2024:
“stylish days” – snoozy beats
Accessed from Free Music Archive

For fun, I also threw some longer clips into an additional video, which you can watch here: