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:
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.