Best Plastic-Free Pour-Over Coffee Makers
Manual drippers and glass brewers - Chemex, V60-style cones, and pour-over carafes. Hot water, your hand, gravity, and a filter.
Why plastic matters here
Pour-over is the easiest brewing style to make fully plastic-free, which is why it dominates plastic-free coffee recommendations. The catch is that the single most popular dripper - Hario's clear V60 - is plastic, and you pour near-boiling water straight through it every brew. The ceramic and glass versions of the exact same design solve that for a few dollars more.
What to look for
- Buy the ceramic, glass, or steel version of a dripper - never the clear plastic one
- Glass and ceramic are inert with boiling water; a stainless cone also lets you skip paper filters
- Check the filters - unbleached, PFAS-free paper, or a reusable metal filter
- A one-piece brewer-and-carafe (Chemex) means fewer parts and nothing to seal
Our picks
Glass, wood, and paper - the entire brew path is glass, with nothing to double-check, and it doubles as the serving carafe. The 80-year reference for plastic-free coffee.
A single piece of Arita porcelain: brew path is porcelain and paper only, for very little money. Just be sure to buy the ceramic (or glass) V60, not Hario's plastic one.
Hand-blown borosilicate carafe with a glass handle and a reusable all-stainless cone filter - fully plastic- and silicone-free, and the metal cone lets you skip paper entirely.
Considered, but not picked
Popular options that look plastic-free but aren't — and why.
Hario V60 Plastic Dripper (clear)
Hario's best-selling V60 is clear plastic and pours near-boiling water straight through it every brew. The ceramic and glass V60s are the plastic-free versions of the same design - buy those instead.
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