We ordered this mocha pot just for the second time. The first is now about 5 years old and that is still running but the upper coffee container is slowly unsightly and is porous. That's the only reason why I deducted a star. Perfect the pot would be when the upper part of glass would. The upper part is made of plastic and therefore pleasingly light, but is aging. Operation is not simple. Water pure, ground coffee, screw and. 30m is the finished coffee kept warm. The transparent upper part you can see how far whatever is the coffee. We have approx 4x changed the pot in daily use and in 5 years the rubber seal. I think that's OK. The pot comes with an additional filter which allows you to brew coffee to half the amount.