Italian coffee Brewer

Even those people who aren't acquainted the Moka cooking pot by-name would recognize it: The octagonal stovetop coffee maker features a devoted following for its capacity to make a stronger, espresso-like elixir with no need for an expensive machine. Renato Bialetti, the man just who made the Moka pot popular, died the other day — and fittingly, their ashes were laid to sleep in one of the iconic pots, reports Italian news origin your local.

Following Bialetti's demise last Thursday, "a stove-top espresso machine filled with [his] cremated stays had been taken up to a chapel in the home town of Casale Corte Cerro, Piedmont, where it had been endowed by a priest during a funeral service, " claims the area. (La Stampa features a video clip associated with strange service.) While Bialetti, who had been 93 years of age, would not actually invent the cooking pot, he was responsible for a gigantic 1940s marketing campaign mainly paid with popularizing it. It's calculated more than 300 million Moka containers have-been sold worldwide.