There is no "stovetop espresso", there is only good, strong Moka pot coffee.

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Any coffee aficionado will tell you that espresso is its very own thing. True espresso (N.B. not 'expresso") is made by a machine that uses pressures of around 8 atmospheres to force very hot water through a dense cake of finely-ground coffee. It needs a particular build of machine to make it, and nothing else comes close to it. When people use the phrase "stovetop espresso", they mean a generic moka pot and possibly specifically, the Bialetti Moka Express. I admit (opinion incoming) that this is one of the things that grinds my gears when people use the phrase, and I'd happily see it expunged from language along with "pre-ground coffee".

The moka pot will make a good, strong, hearty cup of coffee, anything from 1 cup (and by that, read 'demi-tasse espresso-size cup) to a family-sized 18 cups. It is not close to

"Yes, beans, because I am coffee snob, also I am also a realist who trusts the science."
—me

"Coffee snob(noun): [One who has] a true epicurean appreciation for the fine art of all things coffee. This is far and above the myraid [sic] of lemmings who ritually congregate at the local Starbucks, trying like hell to appear hip and trendy."
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American lawyer, politician, racist, and the second-worst Chief Justice of the United States Supreme Court (1777-1864). Taney was born in Calvert County, Maryland to a wealthy family of slavers running a tobacco plantation. His older brother was going to inherit the family plantation, and his father encouraged him to study law. He was sent to Dickinson College at the age of 15; after graduating in 1796, he studied law under Judge Jeremiah Townley Chase in