How to make coffee with a Neapolitan coffee maker.

How to make coffee with a Neapolitan coffee maker.

Making "upside-down" coffee with a Neapolitan coffee maker. The Napolitan brewer on the right, with a hand coffee mill on the left. The Neapolitan coffee maker looks a bit odd. When you’re heating it on the stove, it looks like it’s upside-down, with the coffee spout pointing down. Weird. It was invented in 1819 – almost 200 years ago - by a Frenchman named Morize, but then became wildly popular in Italy, notably in Naples. Advertisement: Unlike the other popular Italian brewer, the Bialetti, this brewer doesn’t push water through the ground coffee under pressure as the water heats. Instead, you heat the water, then turn the whole thing upside down, off the stove, and the hot water drips through the coffee. In that sense, it’s more like a drip brewer. Here’s how it works... There are three parts to the brewer. 1. A water chamber at the bottom. 2. A coffee filter chamber wi...

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