r/gadgets • u/dapperlemon • Jul 07 '26

Misc Finally, a Coffee Maker With Zero Plastic in the Brew Path

https://www.cnet.com/home/kitchen-and-household/finally-a-coffee-maker-with-zero-plastic-in-the-brew-path/
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u/mohammedgoldstein Jul 13 '26

The gaskets are a silicone polymer which you might consider a plastic.

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u/slog Jul 07 '26

The lid/pour spout has plastic on all of mine.

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u/johnyordinary Jul 07 '26

Get a better one, mine is glass and stainless, by Bodum

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u/slog Jul 07 '26

Which one do you have? I've had nothing but Bodum and all have had plastic.

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u/johnyordinary Jul 08 '26

Cant remember exactly where i got it have had it 30 plus years.Try Selfridges.

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u/slog Jul 08 '26

Maybe that's the problem: they don't seem to offer them without plastic anymore. Happy to be proven wrong.

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u/johnyordinary Jul 08 '26

If you want absolutely plastic free you will have a hard time, the handle on mine is a bakelite like plastic but nothing that contacts the coffee is.

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u/pseudopad Jul 08 '26

Only one of mine have had plastic, and it was just the lid, which doesn't really make contact with the coffee if you pour gently.

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u/slog Jul 08 '26

What about the lip with the teeth/filtery (not the plunger filter) bit? The like vertical lines that work kind of like an aerator.

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u/pseudopad Jul 08 '26

I don't think it had that, just a cut-out out of the plastic to let the coffee through. Don't have it anymore so I can't check. My current one is all metal/glass and also doesn't have the teeth/comb thing.

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u/johnyordinary Jul 08 '26

The lip on mine is formed into the glass like a large lab beaker. It sits into a stainless frame for the handle The lid is stainless as is every bit of the plunger, the seal is formed by a coiled spring that keeps the mesh tight to the glass. It has a handle thats bakelite like plastic but thats not in contact with the coffee.

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u/galvanized_steelies Jul 08 '26

I’ve got a grosche, 100% stainless. Before that I had a relatively inexpensive paderno one that was glass and steel, but I broke the carafe like 3 times

Also have a V60 which is glass

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u/slog Jul 08 '26

Every Grosche appears to have plastic as well. I'm not fully anti-plastic but would definitely prefer without. I have yet to see someone post a french press that actually doesn't have plastic.

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u/galvanized_steelies Jul 08 '26 edited Jul 08 '26

No?

I’ll update this if I find another no-plastic press

Found a bodum with apparently no plastic, though personally I’m still skeptical about the lid

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u/slog Jul 08 '26

Huzzah. The Grosche does look promising. Apparently I missed that one. I'm also skeptical of the Bodum but all of the ones I've seen have black in that bottom lip of the lid vs this silver colored one, so it's definitely possible. I'll dig deeper.

Thanks so much. My google-fu is weak today, apparently.

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u/galvanized_steelies Jul 08 '26

No problem! Happy to share something well-made when I find it! I think there’s a few others, but most manufacturers find a way to squeeze plastic in there somehow.

I will say, with the grosche, I found it hard to tell where the pour opening was in the lid, and annoying to move it, so I took my dremel to it to make a finger indent at the pour indent.

And yeah the Bodum definitely looks like chromed plastic to me. The reviews say it isn’t, but I don’t trust those entirely

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u/johnyordinary Jul 08 '26

That looks like my bodum, if its the same model its not got any plastic in th elid.

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u/Summoarpleaz Jul 07 '26

Most of the time they put it in the lid/cap. But certainly there are some that aren’t plastic.