Dear coffee juice estimators, I’ve had this V60 02 dripper for 3,5 years and some hairline cracks have been building up all over the cone. At one point, a bigger horizontal crack appeared and a short time ago a bigger vertical one took off while pouring - I really heard and felt the plastic creaking. It has almost never seen the dishwasher, mainly only rinsing and hand washing.

I’ve used this V60 regularly, more often in the last year than the years prior, but I wanted to ask if someone experiences the same degradation with other colors of plastic? I have two AeroPress devices that are like new, one being older than this dripper…

It looks like a very poor material choice, but maybe it’s due to the crystal clear transparency.

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  • lime!@feddit.nu
    7·
    7 days ago

    i think the older aeropresses (with gold labels) have some iffy chemicals in them for the sake of the plastic not cracking. my V60 is fine after a few years but i don’t use it as much as i want to.

    i do kinda regret not getting a ceramic V60 though.

    • Etnaphele@lemmy.worldOP
      6·
      7 days ago

      My AeroPresses are newer than that and should be less toxic (l’ll never believe they don’t release anything bad into the beverage, but ultimately we have to die of something…).

      I had a beautiful white ceramic one that crashed on the floor, so I went for the polymer one. Is yours transparent, too?

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        5·
        7 days ago

        oof, that’s a shame.

        yeah, i have the exact same model as in your picture. it does have some of those diagonal cracks but not at all as bad as yours.

      • lime!@feddit.nu
        5·
        7 days ago

        also holds the heat longer, so if you give it a pre-rinse it’s less sensitive to bad pours if you don’t have a gooseneck. i can never get the speed right with my plastic v60 and old-style kokkaffe pot which is the only kettle i have.

      • Etnaphele@lemmy.worldOP
        4·
        7 days ago

        Yep I know, Mr Hoffmann got me there and that’s the second reason I went with plastic. But I watched some Lance lately and he talked temperature stability a bit down, so I would try again with preheating vs cold brewer once I get a new ceramic one :)

    • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
      2·
      7 days ago

      i do kinda regret not getting a ceramic V60 though.

      Yeah me too, although it’s giving me a greater incentive to consider a ceramic Hario Switch.

      • Etnaphele@lemmy.worldOP
        3·
        6 days ago

        I didn’t know there was a ceramic version of the Switch! But some mechanism must be out of plastic right?

        • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
          3·
          6 days ago

          Yeah, the bottom part that houses the actual toggle mechanism is plastic still. But a ceramic cone is probably “good enough”.

          • Etnaphele@lemmy.worldOP
            2·
            6 days ago

            Yeah but I like the simplicity of the V60 as it is, plus the ceramic+silicone looks hideous to me. I’ll get a plain white porcelain V60 and hopefully be well served for years decades?

            • Coelacanth@feddit.nu
              2·
              6 days ago

              Well sure, if you’re not interested in the brewing recipes you need the Switch for then just buying a ceramic V60 will be fine. But I was thinking about wanting a Switch anyway so this might just push me to it. And I don’t think something like this looks hideous, although taste is of course subjective.

              • Etnaphele@lemmy.worldOP
                2·
                6 days ago

                I’m a bit out of the loop regarding new recipes making use of the Switch, I will look into it! I also saw some colored versions with color-matched silicon base that look much better to me. In the end though, it’s a tool and aesthetics are not that high priority