That's weird. In the mid 1980s everyone was tossing Aluminum percolators
You could get one at Woolworths for $3.99 and it would last for decades.
Risk assessment of aluminum, chromium and nickel exposure through ingestion of Arabica and Robusta coffee infusions prepared in aluminum and steel moka pots
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0889157524007634
