The Hario v60 is a pour over cone made by the Japanese glassware manufacturer Hario. The company has been around since 1921.
At first they specialized in making high quality heat proof glass ware for laboratories. In the 1940’s the company, then still known as Hiromu Shibata Works, started research an innovative glass melting technique.
The result was an extremely strong kind of glass that could withstand high temperature and large and sudden changes in temperature without breaking. They called this type of glass HARIO, which means “King of glass”.
Soon after this the company expanded into household glass. At one point they even produced tube for SONY televisions and headlights for car manufacturers. Along the way the company was renamed to Hario.
And rightly so, they are truly the king of glass.
The idea for the v60 was conceived in the early eighties but it took until 2004 for I to be reinvented, release and become a success.
The key features of the v60 are it conical design, the ribbed interior and the large hole. The conical design is v-shaped with its walls standing at 60 degrees, hence the name V60. The ribbed interior ensures a natural flow of the water. This allows for an extraction through the flow of water instead of a full emersion extraction.
The V60 comes in different sizes, materials and colors these days. There are V60’s made from glass, plastic and even metal. But the best known and most sold version is the ceramic V60.
The three available sizes have different capacities for making one or more cups of coffee at the same time.
The smallest has a capacity of one or two cups, the medium sized v60 can accommodate a maximum of four cups and the largest one can brew you a whopping six cups at a time.
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