The Amerikana Bialetti makes it truly easy to make an American coffee with the aroma and flavour you really want. Just put the water in the heater unit of the coffee maker and coffee in the funnel (carefully following the enclosed instructions) and the Amerikana will do the rest by itself. Place it on the stove. As it boils, the water will come out of the column, passing through the funnel and the ground coffee to return to the heater unit. The coffee will continue following this "route" as long as you want it to, making the coffee stronger each time. The Amerikana makes 4 cups of American coffee, all of high Bialetti quality.