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I normally try to get the water right off the boil for brewing (I recall seeing a video where the slurry temp was measured and it never got about 93-94 even with water right off the boil due to heat loss from the kettle to the cone). Most of my filter is done with a Chemex so I normally just give it a good swirl after it's finished brewing to bring the temp down. That's hands down the worst part of brewing with a siphon, it takes so damn long to cool to drinking temperature.
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The plastic got pretty hot tbh. I don't bother with a temperature controlled kettle or anything, I usually let it boil, turn off, and give it 20 seconds to cool a little but with this I just poured it straight in to the Hario. Also I boiled more water than needed so I could top up the Hario, I figure the less water in it the quicker it'll cool.
If I end up using slightly too cool water I'm fine with that cos it means I can drink it quicker.