Subject: Re: black plastics
1poorlady was pointing out that her coffee maker and electric kettle are both hard black plastic. There doesn't seem to be much about that, though I did find an article that says the coffee maker is OK if you replace the filter holder with a metal one (which are available). Which doesn't quite make sense to me since the entire tank before the filter is also plastic, and the water is heated there and then sent through the filter into the carafe.

Of course, ours are old enough that maybe everything already leached out of them. :-|

I advised dragging out our old tea kettle for heating water. Good ole stainless.