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The Coffee Lab
(Image credit: Tom's Guide)I'm Erin, and welcome to the ninth episode of The Coffee Lab, the series where we forget coffee snobbery. The Coffee Lab is all about making coffee fun. Join me as I help you kickstart your coffee journey!You've been asking, and I've been listening — you are sick of plastic in your coffee makers. Coffee lovers desperately want a plastic-free coffee machine. The plastic-free SimplyGoodCoffee Brewer is your answer if you want a drip machine, and the AeroPress Premium is a glass-and-metal manual gadget.The SimplyGoodCoffee Brewer has arrived at The Coffee Lab — it's due on the dissection table as soon as possible — and I'm super excited to get testing. But you want plastic-free coffee makers now... so, please, let me introduce you to the Ratio Four.The Ratio Four is a delightful coffee maker. There's nothing else quite like it. Although it's not entirely plastic-free, hot water never comes into contact with internal plastic — with a caveat that the filter basket is plastic, but you use a paper filter, or use a metal Kalita Wave or Hario V60. The carafe is made from borosilicate glass, not plastic. And the joint-best part is that it makes delicious, nuanced, complex, coffee-snob-approved coffee with zero effort — just like any other drip machine.Perfect for plastic haters
