Sola / Terra
Pure-material brewing equipment — zero plastic in your cup.
Every plastic component your brewing water touches is a leaching point. Hot water extracts microplastics from HDPE carafes, ABS grinder hoppers, and silicone gaskets at rates that dwarf what's in tap water. Studies now consistently find nanoplastics in human blood, lung tissue, and brain matter — and the concentrations correlate with heat and turbulence.
You filter your water. You source single-origin beans. You spend real money on a grinder. Then you brew through plastic, pour into plastic, and wonder why the cup tastes flat.
This is not a wellness trend. It is an engineering failure: materials chosen for cost, not contact suitability. We fix that.
Four inert materials cover every brewing contact surface. Nothing else.
Thermally stable to 500°C. Chemically inert. No coatings, no liners. What you see is what touches your water.
Surgical-grade alloy. Higher molybdenum content than 304 — zero off-flavors, no corrosion under acidic brew chemistry.
Fired above cone 10. No mid-range glazes, no lead, no cadmium. The raw mineral surface is the finish.
Unbleached cotton and linen only. No chlorine treatment, no synthetic binders. Compostable after use.
A complete pour-over kit with no plastic anywhere in the brew path.
We are not selling wellness theater. We are solving a material selection problem that the coffee industry has ignored because HDPE is cheap and consumers can't see what leaches at 93°C.
Every design decision here starts with contact surface first. If a component can be made from an inert material without compromising function, it is. If it can't — if there's a structural reason plastic is necessary — we go back to the drawing board until there isn't.
A piece that runs for 20 years and gets passed on is a better environmental decision than one that ships in recyclable packaging and fails in two. We are building for longevity over repurchase, and we intend to price it that way.
Interested in early access or materials testing? Reach out.