Sicilian coffee in the "Inspector Montalbano" TV series

[Stephen Tashi]

In the "Inspector Montalbano" TV Series, the characters often drink coffee in small cups and it is poured from a small silver colored container. I've read on the internet that typical Sicilian coffee is expresso. Is the series consistent with that? Do homes in Sicily usually have expresso mahines? Or is there a way to make an expresso type coffee in a small silver colored container?

 

[Frabjous]

I am unfamiliar with the series, but it sounds like a moka pot. A Venetian introduced me to them.

 

[DrClaude]

I guess this is a stove-top espresso maker (also called moka pot, as @Frabjous mentioned), such as
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000AN3QI/?tag=pfamazon01-20

(If you look at the pictures in that link, you will see how coffee is made using one.)

 

[Frabjous]

I guess this is a stove-top espresso maker (also called moka pot, as @Frabjous mentioned), such as
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0000AN3QI/?tag=pfamazon01-20

(If you look at the pictures in that link, you will see how coffee is made using one.)

I am paranoid about aluminum cookware, so I get the stainless steel version.

 

[JT Smith]

Is this what you mean?

That's not a moka pot. It's a stovetop pot that produces a kind of drip coffee. You flip it over so it's called a flip pot or Neopolitan pot or something like that. I've never used them but I've seen photos.

My understanding of coffee in Italy is that people just go to the corner coffee shop for a shot of espresso. Home espresso machines aren't that common. At home people use moka pots (or maybe pod machines have made inroads more recently?). But I might be wrong.

 

[Stephen Tashi]

Is this what you mean?

No. I'm thinking of the pot Montalbano uses when he makes coffee at his home. A lot of the homes he visits use the same kind of pot as Montalbano's.

However, the monarchist lady's Neopolitan pot is interesting. I myself always make drip coffee.