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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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 :)