Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years, so far, where’s the value in a glass one?
Plus you could buy 4 plastic ones for the cost of 1 glass that could far more easily break.
I’m all for glass in a LOT of stuff. I even kind of like it here (for the reasons you’ve stated), I just can’t get behind the cost.
I tend to go for better/best quality in most things, I hate buying stuff twice. But there’s value in being able to replace a less robust device for 1/4 the cost of the “higher quality” version.
Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years
Micro plastics can be released as soon as a water bottle is first filled. This isn’t the structural integrity of the plastic failing, it’s your endocrine system and who knows what else being affected by tiny pieces of plastic that start shedding immediately.
Look, I’m not saying this isn’t a cash grab because the serial inventor who made the aero press sold a controlling stake in his company and the new firm is squeezing as much money out as they can before the patent expires, BUT some of us do care about micro plastics. Not that I give my daughter coffee, but now that I have a toddler we’ve eliminated as much food related plastic as we can.
Stuff is genuinely damaging and yet we keep using it because it’s convenient. And people wonder why the Romans used lead containers.
Value for me would be that the glass one doesnt acquire stale coffee taste, no matter how well I try to clean my plastic one it seems to have some residual taste. Try brewing a cup without coffee grounds , just hot water and tatse it.
Plastics may degrade, but (as others have mentioned) if a plastic one lasts 10+ years, so far, where’s the value in a glass one?
Plus you could buy 4 plastic ones for the cost of 1 glass that could far more easily break.
I’m all for glass in a LOT of stuff. I even kind of like it here (for the reasons you’ve stated), I just can’t get behind the cost.
I tend to go for better/best quality in most things, I hate buying stuff twice. But there’s value in being able to replace a less robust device for 1/4 the cost of the “higher quality” version.
Micro plastics can be released as soon as a water bottle is first filled. This isn’t the structural integrity of the plastic failing, it’s your endocrine system and who knows what else being affected by tiny pieces of plastic that start shedding immediately.
Look, I’m not saying this isn’t a cash grab because the serial inventor who made the aero press sold a controlling stake in his company and the new firm is squeezing as much money out as they can before the patent expires, BUT some of us do care about micro plastics. Not that I give my daughter coffee, but now that I have a toddler we’ve eliminated as much food related plastic as we can.
Stuff is genuinely damaging and yet we keep using it because it’s convenient. And people wonder why the Romans used lead containers.
Value for me would be that the glass one doesnt acquire stale coffee taste, no matter how well I try to clean my plastic one it seems to have some residual taste. Try brewing a cup without coffee grounds , just hot water and tatse it.