I got up this morning and thought "I need a coffee". I'm not interested in pour overs, I want that shit ready when I get up. Are people still doing drip coffee makers in 2026? Or are they all bullshit machines full of vendor lockin?
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Drip machines are cool. I do pour over instead but just because I don't really trust plastics and boiling water. If there was a simple Mr. Coffee with a glass reservoir, metal shower head thing, and metal basket I'd be all over that.
The bigger food service brewers are sometimes plastic free, at least where the hot water is. I've thought about getting one since it makes brewing coffee for events easier (I basically do a big batch of passive french press now). But I can't imagine using one every day for myself lol
I know that you can get reusable gold plated metal coffee filters that will work with any drip machine. They are sometimes available at thrift stores for cheap.
For filters I like paper actually! It cleans out some stuff that makes the coffee taste worse imo. And I vaguely recall studies about coffee and health drawing a line between filtered and non, where the negative effects (aside from caffeine) basically go away if you use a filter.
Basically there's 3 spots where there's plastic and it's not my favorite:
It's one way to get exposed to endocrine disruptors every day, basically.