I’ve Been Waiting for a Coffee Maker With No Plastic in the Brew Path. Caraway Just Delivered
Over the last two or so years, I’ve been slowly swapping out the plastic in my kitchen for better alternatives to avoid as many microplastics as possible. I use glass Pyrex for storage, bamboo utensils for cooking, a wooden cutting board for all of my slicing and dicing, glass dishes and reusable, stainless steel water bottles. But there was still one thing I knew for a fact contained plastic: my coffee maker.
Although I haven’t removed every single piece of plastic from my kitchen, I was extra cognizant of my coffee maker because every time it’s used, boiling water goes over the plastic and into the coffee. No, I don’t put my morning beverages under a microscope, but I feel like there’s a good chance that microplastics are leached during this process. And it seemed unavoidable, because every single drip coffee maker I’ve used has had plastic either in...
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