Chemex 6-Cup Classic Pour-Over Glass Coffeemaker

Most coffeemakers are a chemistry problem disguised as a kitchen appliance — plastic reservoirs, silicone gaskets, aluminum heating elements, and non-stick baskets all sit directly in the water path between your beans and your cup. The Chemex does none of that.

The entire brew chamber is borosilicate glass, the same chemically inert lab glass used in chemistry beakers. There's nothing for your coffee to leach from, no warm plastics to off-gas, no coatings to degrade. The only other surfaces that touch the brew are paper (the bonded filter) and water. That's it.

The patented bonded filters — paired with this carafe since 1941 — are 20–30% thicker than a standard drip filter, and they pull out sediment, bitter fines, and microscopic coffee solids that thinner filters let slip through. That's the reason pour-over from a Chemex tastes noticeably cleaner than anything you can make with a standard paper cone.

The wood collar is hand-shaped walnut; the tie is real rawhide leather; the whole thing is still manufactured by the same family-owned company in Chicopee, Massachusetts that Dr. Schlumbohm set up eighty-plus years ago. If that isn't a Good Steward product, we don't know what is.

A quick note: the Chemex is only as good as its filter — the thinner filters designed for other brewers don't catch sediment and fines the way the patented bonded paper does. We pair this pick with the matching unbleached natural filters; you'll find them in the See Also section below, and you should buy them together.