If I get a Moka for 4 could I use it for just one or two cups or should I try and find a smaller one?

Normally I just need one or two cups of joe.
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if you have a four, you can only make four cups with it, or your coffee will not come out right. If you dont want to buy a smaller pot, just throw out the coffee you dont drink
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Or... freeze the left over coffee in an ice cube tray, then keep in a ziplock bag for cooking and baking flavour....
My wifey is doing this all the time for coffee flavour in cookies, squares etc.
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I use a 6 cupper and a 4 cupper, the six cup makes about 6 oz of Joe which is my 1 cup of coffee and I use the 4 cup for an afternoon shot. I suggest getting a 4 or 6 cup and a 10 cup for when company is over. Stainless Steel are not practical to do back to back pots since they retain heat so it is tricky to clean out the old where an aluminum pot does a better job at making crema and cools completely under some cold water and can be cleaned and reused immediately with no burnt hands.
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I have largest one available, I assume it's a 6 or 8 cup? It's uses a lot of ground coffee. If any mokapot is not filled up correct, you'll end up with something other than stovetop espresso. Whether you like it or not only you will know. I don't think the outcome is necessarily bad out of a half filled mokapot, but at that point, the French Press is a better choice.
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We have a smooth ceran stove so I've been warned not to use the moka pot on it. I used to put it on the edge of the burner so that the handle wouldn't get hot but if that leaves most of the burner uncovered that can damage the burner. So now I might have to get an electric moka pot. It's too bad because that's more counter space taken up.
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Pot holders to pour it. Would not worry about it.
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If you use a cast iron skillet or any flat bottom low side pan to cover the whole burner than place the moka pot so the handle hangs out the side, it will take longer but won't hurt your burners.
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One more thing, I have never used an electric moka pot and I am sure they work fine but I have been using a stove top for 20 years and well other than the gasket they last forever or at least a very long time.

I am looking at the bialetti site,
Bialetti Shop
the electric look interesting with a small hot plate, I wonder if it is the same pot that could also be used on a stove?
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I had an electric - really cute - a Bertone Design Velox. It was for sure $25 worth of fun (used, ebay) but not a great brewer. It was OK. I have the same vibe about other electrics - they're OK but tend to get too hot.

But hey! If Bialetti can't get it right (for $99) by 2009, who can? Neat little hotplate if you can put any mokapot on it. Can't tell if it has one of those prods up its' little six-cup butt or not. I am thinking it must be prodded. If so, too bad it only comes in 6-cupper.

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I just reread the description..."mobile power base"...I think the heating element is in the bottom of the moka pot, to bad.
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