I was looking at the various hario v60 offerings and up came this bargain on Amazon.
Usually $10 at other retailers.
Clear size 1 only at this size.
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Yep
It depends on the size of your mug, but you usually can.
That's what it's made for
Plastic Dripper
For things like this - glass, ceramic or metal comes in highly recommend.
Plastic & hot water don’t go well together - including health-wise.
Fromy brief research, glass, ceramic and metal also cause the water to cool down much quicker than plastic.
So it's recommended to pre heat those other materials
+1
I use a $3 DAISO black plastic polypropylene (google 'a food-safe plastic with a high tolerance to heat') filter cone for my daily coffee, embossed on the bottom with 120 and -20 for rated temperatures, MADE IN JAPAN, and a 5 in a triangle
filtering into an Aladdin plastic insulated mug marked 'NASHVILLE TN … USA' - which I previously checked as BPA-free - if I recall Bisphenol Phosphate being associated with birth defects in babies or such - not a problem for us adults. Google says made of Tritan - 'the safest material' - which may be approved for medical devices.
many plastics used in food handling are rated to 140C - well above water's boiling point of 100C
I do pre-wet / pre-heat my filter paper (so it doesn't absorb the coffee flavour) in the cone and the mug with boiling water - then my coffee is nice and hot to drink straight from the mug (after I add a lot of milk). When I've tried ceramic filter cones, they're hard, heavy, awkward to hold, slippery, and dangerously easy to smash in a kitchen, and produce lukewarm coffee so I don't and won't use them.
Since you pre wet the filter the cone should get up to temp. Make sure your cup is pre heated too. I did indeed crack my ceramic cone but took ten years to do that so not a bad innings I reckon.
"Food safe" doesn't mean no microoplastics or leaching, sadly. Food safe plastics still leach and drop microoplastics when heated.
Speaking of DAISO, I've been using a relatively cheap ($6.60) ceramic dripper that I got from them this week with fantastic results.
It's only a small one, I assume size no. 1, and was an impulse buy.. I've always used a plastic V60 because James Hoffmann says they're easier to heat, but I feel the ceramic retains heat better once warmed, and I believe my coffee's are coming out hotter, I'm going to have to make a couple of brews and measure the resulting temperature to be sure because my results seem the opposite of yours.
I'd love to try the black DAISO one though, it sounds better quality than the others of theirs I've tried.. one, a small clear plastic 'Melitta style' one that doesn't fit flat filters properly, the other, a soft grey plastic one that is designed to brew two cups at once, they also have one that's designed to store flat, like a giant compressed spring, and I've never tried it because it looks like it would be a mess.
Where does it stop. If that's a concern, just have a clean cup of water - having coffee altogether might be a greater concern.
Moderate coffee consumption is associated with reduced all-cause mortality.
Agreed. Several cardiology-based papers have shown benefits of coffee on longevity.
Whataboutism much? Why would I stop drinking coffee just because I don't like drinking it from plastic?
Seriously, for five bucks don’t even ask the question.
Generally the plastic/resin v60 is well respected. Lower thermal mass and less breakable for travel.
Grab one folks. Can never have too much v60 gear on-hand in different sizes, materials and styles.
Edit: make sure you pickup some filters in the correct size if you don’t already have. Can’t be used without.
Which are the correct filters for this
@fookos: I have been using them but apparently not the best. Just picked up these.
https://www.amazon.com.au/Cafec-Medium-Coffee-Filter-100-Pie…
@HamesJoffman: Be sure to get the right size.
The one you linked is for 4 cups, where as this dripper is for 1-2 cups
@HamesJoffman: Yes, absolutely. Thanks for the reminder. The cafec -particularly the t90 - seem to the recommended ones at the moment. I think Lance Hedrick also speaks highly of them. Seems scientific testing has also shown them to be good - so it’s not just anecdotal. I’ve picked up some. Will try these before the t-92s, even though I’m a light roast kinda guy.
Says resin, so not heat-molded, that's a good first sign. I was wrong, it can be heat-molded. A lazy google says 160 degrees melt temperature. I'd use it.
The wiki page for AS Resin, it seems fine : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Styrene-acrylonitrile_resin
If you ever eat out of plastic, then this is fine and one of the best ones to use.
If you never eat out of plastic, well that's your choice.
From I've read, different materials will affect the thermals as you brew. If you decide not to use the plastic V60 - which is the most common and is the "default" as far as I'm concerned - then be prepared to adjust the recipes or spend a lot of time preheating.
OK, health-wise to the side for a minute. Why do you say they don't go well together?
Resin is not plastic
Yes it is. More specifically, in manufacturing, resin refers to the raw form of the plastic before it is molded into the finished product.
But when a seller says a product is made of "resin", this is 100% marketing bs, and it absolutely means it is made of plastic. "Resin" just sounds better than "plastic".
This specific coffee dripper is made of "AS resin", which means it is Acrylonitrile-Styrene, a plastic material that is a copolymer of acrylonitrile and styrene.
https://www.amazon.com.au/dp/B09W798WBZ?ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_f… this is what I have. Understood, $5 vs almost $30… But plastic for food preparation is a bit… no offence.
May as well use these https://www.amazon.com.au/Plastic-Durable-Resistant-Recyclab… with a little hole from a hot screw at the bottom. 10 cents a cup.
Slightly off-topic but… anyone have recommendations for making cold brew?
Hario cold brew bottle does the trick for me. You can also get one in pot form
Toddy all the way for me. Makes ~1.5L concentrate - bean dependant - which can be enjoyed diluted to taste but can expect to go 1:2 at least so up to 4.5L from one batch.
The Hario Mizusashi is lower volume and requires less beans but not as good in the flavour department IMO.
I use a 1.5L french press and cold brew overnight before pressing. Can adjust scoops of ground coffee by prefered strength.
I searched online for a very long time and IMHO there is no decent device on the market, it is to niche. But there is an alternative solution which could work better than any cold brew specific devices: just brew in any jar or suitable vessel without any mesh, and once it is ready, use a hario v60 type filter to filter it.
Think about it, this option offers lots of benefits and I can not see a lot of downsides so far.
'making cold brew?'
yair - tastes great but is a PITA to make - so I stopped.
and more expensive - I used twice as much coffee to get an equivalent flavour - due to less extraction from cold vs hot water
time and spare space in your kitchen and/or fridge - how long are you willing to store something basically sitting there as an apparatus - have you impressed yourself yet … ?
I tried just putting twice a much coffee in a plunger pot and leaving 24 hours - but it made a mud so dense that I couldn't push the plunger down, and if I tried using a filter paper cone, it clogged the filter paper and wouldn't go through
in other words all the ways I tried were a PITA - so I stopped.
Nice taste tho' - especially on hot days - as a strong start for an iced coffee topped up with a lot of milk
OOS
Oddly cant buy this off the link - it keep saying there is a problem
OOS
OOS. Great! I don't have to buy
oh yeah beware this cone needs pointy filter papers - not found in most stores, and the Amazon links, not counting Prime delivery costs, indicate 10-14c per filter paper
I was buying DAISO size 4 (med.large) filter papers like 90 for $3.10 so more like 3.5c each
but I prefer to buy from Nitori when I'm overseas as they come with a special easy-open notch so no faffing to open the paper cone, and they're slightly cheaper - more like 3c each
Also DAISO doesn't sell the pointy filter papers, I learnt they wern't compatible after buying some :(
My local DAISO has the cone style filters, but they've only had them in the brown paper for MONTHS, which require a heavy rinse if you don't want your coffee to taste like cardboard.
can you put this directly on the mug?