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.
Close up:
For reference, this type of cracking is called crazing.
That’s crazy
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.
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?
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.
Ceramic takes longer to heat up is a downside…
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.
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 :)
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.
I didn’t know there was a ceramic version of the Switch! But some mechanism must be out of plastic right?
Yeah, the bottom part that houses the actual toggle mechanism is plastic still. But a ceramic cone is probably “good enough”.
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
yearsdecades?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.
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
I believe Hario changed the plastic on these a few year back but even the current plastic, Acrylonitrile-styrene resin, is not super high heat resistant.
I’ll try to find out more about which polymer they use but I don’t think I’ll find much. I believe mine is the latest iteration but no way to be certain.
I use a borosilicate carafe with a black plastic basket and that has lasted me ~5 years of daily use. Clear plastics tend to crack due to thermal shock as they tend to be more brittle, so this isn’t surprising to me. I also have a Hario drip that is glass and I like that one a lot for immersion brewing that I would recommend. The silicone can be a bit too floppy at times though.
Mine did exactly the same thing.
I don’t have a V60, but my bonavita drip machine has a clear plastic window that has tiny cracks like that, but only exactly where the hot steam escapes between the dripper and the shower head, so I suspect we both have heat fractures from thermal shock. For me at least, it still is watertight so I’m not worried about it too much. Yours looks like it might be soon losing structural integrity.
I would stop preheating with boiling water straight from cold, can you first heat it with hot tap water for 30 seconds or so? Might reduce the thermal shocks if it’s already at 120 instead of room temp
I already rinse the paper with hot tap water but I don’t think the material retains heat long enough to make a difference once I pour the 95°C kettle water. No idea what 120 is, in my world water boils at around 100 :D
Oh sorry I should have been more specific. 996.84 BTU per gallon freezing water. Approximately. If your tap has a few more brits in it that’s probably OK, too.
This is your brewer telling you it’s time to upgrade to a suiren. Agree this should have lasted longer though.
I like the idea of it but not the execution. Plus, I don’t think it would bring much more durability.
I have 2 sizes of these, both this same material. They are both fine and look nothing like yours
Interesting. Do you preheat them with boiling water or do you pour directly into them while cold?
I never preheat
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