Does the water ever touch plastic or rubber parts? The spout looks like possible plastic and maybe a plastic junction that is the grey area?
1456831
Yes, the spout is made of plastic which contains carbon. I still can't figure out why the controls and spout are located where they are, but anyway. Other than the spout being plastic the jar is glass. I had nothing but problems with mine. I'd recommend you save a couple hundred dollars and get something else. This machine is very slow and customer service is terrible.
1456832
The output feds a plastic union that connects to a plastic body carbon filter. Other than that, the unit is of high quality construction of stainless steel and a finned aluminium condenser coil.
1456833
Yes, those parts are plastic, but by that point, the steam had condensed to water and it is cooled down. The dwell time in the plastic is very low. We have not had any issues with our unit. It is well built.
1456834
The spout is plastic. There is also a plastic connector near the spout. We choose to neutralize any possible affects
1182814
Not that I can tell the only thing that I believe is plastic on this faucet is the nozzle where the water comes out of.
283148
I have had trouble with the spigot. You have to open the top so that the spigot will work but it seems to jam up. I have pipe filtered it but it doesn't work like I would want it to, it should be metal. With that said the rest of it is great I just use the spout instead. It is really great for aging it really smoothed out the high and low spots
1704801
Mine is stainless, and yes it is metal. Where the water comes out of the nozzle is black probably plastic with metal for corrosion purposes that makes sense. The spout, arc and control are all metal....
836401
Yes, plastic. What I like most about it is the small hole in the spout. Something I have found hard to find.
1107934
I use a quick connect for all my sprinklers so upon removing it and looking I see that the filter has a few small rust spots (which is surprising as aren't they usually stainless?), but it's in good shape and have encountered no problems so far. I don't see how it could be removed and replaced if it did fail but doubt that would happen under normal use.
1480803
The only sign of what seems to be some form of plastic is on the small filter at the spout. Does not seem to cause any problem!! We are highly satisfied with this kettle and would recommend it to you.
1194060
We've had ours for about 1 year and like it BUT we just noticed black rubber bits coming out of the faucet! I talked to Delta and they're sending out a new hose free but I asked if this was a known issue. The customer service rep said "yes, but it's very rare". I've been in engineering/manufacturing for 20 years and asked if they made any improvements to the hose and he said no, it was just a certain production run that had this problem. It's gross though since we drink quite a bit of water and I don't know how much EPDM rubber my family's consumed.
1063691
You'll have ask Chef's Choice about the composition of the plastic. They have a customer service number on their website. The body of the unit is glass. The top is plastic, so the water is only in contact with it when pouring.
1027880
I have not seen that it touches plastic anywhere. There is a silicon gasket between the glass metal part of the lid, but it doesn't get liquid on it.
1471616
I wrapped all plastic/rubber areas with a plastic cover just in case. However I didn't see any damage to the plastic itself. Just make sure water don't touch the treated area.
1487650
have had the faucet for about a yr., live in Fla. where the water has a lot of sulfur and no problem yet. without taking the faucet apart most of the parts look plastic...
722359
The whole distiller itself including the coil is stainless steel with the exception of a plastic spigot that's supposed to hold some charcoal. The water that touches is is lukewarm, so it won't react with plastic as it leaves. If you are allergic to plastic, just run the distilled water through a Brita water filter which has charcoal... but then the Brita water filter is made of an inert plastic.
1518763
The metal spout is fixed to one side. You actually have to slip the metal part into a plastic component.
74405
There are plastic parts.. still best spout i have used in a very long time.
1110036
the whole thing is plastic. It might last longer if you got a soft water filter to keep from the hard water deposits from building up. Also if you dont have very good water pressure its not worth it
182225
Yes, it does have plastic in contact with the water (not much, but some), plus the lid and spout filter parts. It's still enough plastic that I can taste and smell the chemicals which leech into the water.Disappointing, because I bought this kettle thinking it might be better than some of the others. As far as I can tell, there isn't a single plastic-free electric kettle on the market (in the US) right now.