Cuisinox Liberta 6 cup Espresso Coffeemaker

Works as advertised. Makes excellent strong coffee/espresso (no crema). Easy to clean. Built like a tank (25 year warranty!), of solid 18/10 stainless. Looks good on the stove. Will yield 5 oz of excellent thick complex flavored coffee espresso if you run the heat medium-low and use 25gm of freshly ground-to-fine coffee beans. If you want less heaviness and more volume, move the heat to medium+ and the pot will deliver 8oz or so. About 7 minutes from heat to coffee. Be sure to pull off the heat at the first gurgle so you don't overdo the brew (bitter). As always good freshly roasted beans are a must. Don't tamp down the grind in the basket. Slightly overfill it and when you screw on the top section, that will do the tamping.

Also includes an insert for the basket that will do a half-batch, which will deliver the equivalent of two or three shots.

A few comments were negative on the quality of the basket/insert perforations. Mine are perfect.

For one or two people, pot works great. If you guzzle coffee by the 16 oz cup, not for you (unless you like Americanos).

Very happy with the purchase.

I bought this to replace a Bialetti stovetop maker I had for years. That one made decent coffee & was cheaper, but after a few years of use it started leaking water out of the bottom. I never dropped or dented it, so it appears to have just been thin and wore down so cracks developed after use. I'd never heard of Cuisinox but decided to give it a try based on reviews of this and other pots. The design is cute CUTE!! More importantly, though I've only had it a little while, the pot seems much more solidly constructed (despite being made in China), like a larger Bialetti I own. In fact, I think it's even heavier. It does have a metal handle & top knob which get hot, but I found the black rubber handles on other machines did too, so hello pot holder! This also makes coffee super fast and so far it's been a really smooth tasting cup. Love it!

The level reducer (to make 3 instead of 6 cups) also makes this a versatile pot! Extra gasket is a bonus.

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I splurged on this, replacing my aluminum pot. It makes excellent coffee, rather quickly (certainly faster than the aluminum one), in about 5-7 minutes. I notice the type of roast is very important this pot accentuates acidity of lighter roasts, and so I go with a locally roasted dark Italian coffee, ground to "fine" on a commercial Bunn coffee grinder at the shop, and use a medium-low flame on the stove. The coffee is just out of this world. Perhaps some of the unsatisfied reviewers came up against simply using a roast that doesn't do well with these pots.

I accidentally left the pot on the stove the other day for 20-25 minutes with flame, and boiled the lower chamber dry. Fearing the worst, I poured out (and enjoyed) the excellent coffee, and slowly filled the top with cool water. The bottom was very, very hot. It cooled, I disassembled and inspected perfectly fine, not a single bit of observable damage. This is a very fine pot.

And it's just so pretty.

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This is beautiful to look at shiny stainless steel that is obviously very high quality. However it just doesn't make coffee as good as my previous brushed stainless steel coffee maker takes for ever to percolate and it doesn't send all the water up through the percolator.

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Had this coffee maker for a month now and after daily use I can say this is a really solid coffee maker. I bought this after someone who will remain nameless ran my bialetti though the dishwasher. I had the bialetti for 10 years. I have to say the first few pots were disappointing until I got the temperature right. It definitely needs to use medium high heat while the bialetti made a richer cup at lower temp. I still haven't been able to replicate the bialetti, but the stainless steel is A LOT easier to clean-up. The whole unit is incredibly solid leading me to believe this will outlast my bialetti. The base holds more water than is able to get pushed though the coffee so you limit the risk of "burning" the bottom. You still need to catch this pretty quick. It is a lot quieter than the bialetti was so don't rely on sound alone -keep an eye on the stove. I like the fact that the gasket is silicon, it's easier to clean and doesn't stain like the bialetti gaskets. Only reason why I gave it 4 instead of 5 stars was that it doesn't brew as rich a cup of coffee, but admittedly I had 10 years of dialing-in the bialetti and just 30 days with this one.