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Starting from cold means that the top half heats up way more, and you can end up boiling your coffee as well as the water.
Starting from cold, the extra time for the water to come through doesn't, afaik, translate to more water / coffee contact time.
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d more or less time heating it up, but that's it. What should make more of a
The idea is that it stops the coffee getting burnt while you are waiting for the water to warm up. James Hoffman explains his process on YouTube.
If you're switching from cold to hot water you will need to have the heat turned down since it doesn't take much to get the water coming through and hence not have it come through too fast.
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Any regular moka pot brewers use hot water in the base? I tried it the other day and was not sold. The water seemed to come through really fast and result in a pretty weak brew (by moka pot standards). I felt like cold water would have spent more time bubbling up through as it came up through a simmer to a proper boil.