Anyone else got a favourite mug?

looks like this

Cos it was bought for me by someone nice, it's big and fits one of those silicon lids so the tea stays hot.

The Mrs picked up a big, 500ml Starbucks "Central Park"mug from a charity shop about 10 years ago.

It's my favorite and nearly always my daily driver, unless the dishwasher hasn't been on.

Like this one.

Yeah just stuck it in the bin this morning after enforcing dishwasher duties on the teenagers…

British Museum Lewis Chessmen mug.

My favourite is a big Starbucks one too, which I stole from a Starbucks outside Chesterfield :scratch:

It's the perfect size - big enough to hold a proper drink, but no so big it's got cold by the time you're two thirds through (Mike Trashley XL Sports Direct mug, I'm looking at you...).

Back in the days where I hosted roleplaying game sessions, I got sick of washing up a hundred mugs at the end of the night so I had everyone provide their own mug and took the rest to charity.  You want a brew, you rinse out the one you're using.

Fast-forward to today, I have "my" mug.  Then every birthday/christmas/easter someone gives us a "world's greatest mum" mug or some such and we've got a hundred of the $%^&ing things again.

My collection of big Petes Eats mugs (the cafe in Llanberis for those who don't know). Got my first in probably late 80s and must have 4 different ones. Haven't been back for years now...wonder if they have changed the design

This one, used multiple times daily for about 16/17 years.

Mine is a Mr Bump mug, standard size.

Got a large collection of Dyfi Enduro mugs.  Can't imagine ever buying a mug to be honest, we have too many.

I should say the mug with my first born's footprint on. But the stw mug I have is pretty bloody good (per desperate's post above).

Even if I did end up having to pay for postage on it :bitter:

My Singletrack Lockdown 2020 mug.  Its so good, I bought two for a bit of tea drinking fault tolerance.

Got a large collection of Dyfi Enduro mugs.

I still have one of these circa 2011 vintage!

At work I have one specific mug for black tea, one for green tea, one for coffee and one for lemon and ginger tea. You can't drink different drinks from the same mug!!!

my Brighton big dog 2010 race mug.

the later year mugs i bought were slightly differnt shape and mug wall thinkness and not so nice to drink from. this one is great. i`ll be sad if it gets broken.

My old STW mug, now stripped of lettering by the dishwasher, but still getting envious looks in the office.

This is mine - I'd really like the Kathy Burke one about being Woke (caution, naughty language) to replace it if this one breaks.

My MiL bought me a gift set for christmas about 10 years ago with this mug in it and its been my default one ever since. It perfectly fits in a Grande Americano from the Tassimo perfectly! 🙂

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The mother inlaw bought this back from Florida over twenty years ago, and still my favourite work mug

It's Dopey and she meant to get Grumpy

Then when we went to Florida with the kids I bought one of these, the lid has long gone but it lives in my kit bag

And for camping I have an enamel mug with a swiss mountain scene, which if anyone else uses I get a little annoyed

Is it just my ocd

If it helps, no, a love of a mug is not a seriously debilitating condition?

I've got one of these.

I have four, all the same size, optimal for tea, all bone china, with different designs. I have a cupboard of bone china mugs of varying sizes and designs. Also a few more conventional mugs, and pottery. But these are my favourites.

https://arthouseunlimited.org/collections/mugs

Mugs imo have to be the correct colour and material

I have a cool personalized mug given as a gift, buts it's navy blue and for some reason just ruins a drink. It just does

I have a strathpuffer mug too, it's lovely but horrible to drink out of. Some sort of fired hipster clay

My favorite is probably my ' Peoples Republic of Leith' mug. Reminder of a previous life, a bit battered, but tea tastes perfect. Underneath it's just a common or garden white mug

The whole collection of Brighton Big Dog mugs!

*Edit - no idea why that won't post. But there's a very nice cup of tea in it right now.

Mine is a Nescafé red mug. It's the right size and it amuses me to drink good quality coffee out of it.

I have three.

A morning coffee mug.
A tea mug (that's general for tea and can be used at any time)
An afternoon coffee mug (one of the STW "not jumpy, not grumpy" pint mugs).

There are other mugs in my cupboard, they don't get a look in.

The three main mugs are not interchangeable.

If I had to use the afternoon coffee mug in the morning, that'd be a fairly serious upset for the rest of the day.

Yes, I'm weird. I don't care that you're judging me.

My mug, bought from Grange in Samoens. I just like it!

My work mug. The shift at my last place of work got it for me, can’t think why…

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And no it doesn’t need cleaning out, it adds to the flavour ? 😉

Got a soup mug when  I started working at my current company. It was the only spare in the office so I purloined it.

That was 33 years ago. Its still going strong. with 3 -4 cups of green tea a day.

Oh I give up trying to post a photo either on Safari or Chrome

Footie mug that must be close to 20 years old & has lost most of the image on it.

Also quite attached to the Chris King coffee cup I got around the turn of the century.

Sill can't upload photos for some reason.

My go to mug for years now has been my classic orange Le Creuset mug. Feels nice and weighty, like i'm getting a workout to go with my brew.

Though i now also have a new mug on its way thanks to TiReds link to Arthouse Unlimited, along with some other treats to help support a great cause. Thanks @TiRed

We have loads of cups/mugs, but I typically only switch between three, my fave being "I'd rather be cycling" mug.

For my pre-bedtime cup of herbal tea I have to use my Wildlife Trust mushrooms mug

https://thewildlifetrustsshop.com/product/mushroom-mug/

Yes, I am aware what a pretentious throbber that makes me sound.

I have different ones for coffee and tea. The material the mug is made from can really affect the taste of the beverage in my opinion.

HebTroCo Don’t be a dick mug for tea

A pastel blue and white mug with a picture of a teddy bear on it for coffee.

Yes, and like @crazy-legs I have specific mugs for specific times of the day. Big glass IKEA mug for my morning litre of tea, Porsche 2.7RS mug for afternoon tea or occasional late morning coffee - it's perfect for this as it's got a green band on the inside so I can always get the aeropress coffee to milk ratio bang on - and a big Starbucks mug liberated from some Starbucks somewhere for my evening tea. I used to have a few of them, as I figured I'd paid for them anyway from my share of their tax avoidance.

Got backup mugs for the evening times, but couldn't drink evening tea out of the morning mug or vise versa, so always have to make sure the dishwasher goes on every evening.

This bad boy. It's insulated so when a call drags on my brew doesn't get cold. Also being all metal it's unlikely to break.

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Yes.

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Starting to show a bit of wear and tear and even though it's been through many many dishwasher cycles, it still has good colour.  I was a massive Simpsons fan BITD - this was (obviously) bought for my 30th birthday - and I'm now 51.  They don't make them like they used to...

I smashed my coffee mug on lunch today - it was one of those ones that used to change colour when hot and looked like a rocket took off into the sky but by the end it basically did nothing. Anyway, went to google to get another and obviously put the wrong search words in because the top result was this -  https://uk.ember.com/products/ember-mug-2?

£150 for a 'smart' temperature regulating mug! Just wow

Just made a brew....My theory of evolution...

Doesn't little Rishi have one of those?^

It's a branded version of this....

https://www.bananaindustries.co.uk/products/rambler-mug-12oz-340ml

My collection of big Petes Eats mugs (the cafe in Llanberis for those who don’t know). Got my first in probably late 80s and must have 4 different ones. Haven’t been back for years now…wonder if they have changed the design

@nuke I've got some sad news for you. It's been closed for over a year.  Supposedly being revamped to be opened again at some undetermined point in the future. Some mock-up photos I saw made it look more like a hipster cafe than the iconic mountaineering cafe and accommodation we know and love.  Smashed avocado on sourdough rather than full fry ups and pint mugs of steaming tea.

Yep, a Land Rover mug but the handle fell off 🙂

Kind of sums up Land Rovers :yes:

I did glue it back on but not risking a repeat performance.

I really like my rapha one that someone bought for me.  Feels really nice to use and fits my coffee just right

The question seems to be who doesn't have a favourite mug, and why are they so odd?

My favourite was the Singletrack 100 cover by Jo Burt. I was gutted when I dropped that at work!!!

The question seems to be who doesn’t have a favourite mug, and why are they so odd?

I don't and I deny being odd!  Its you lot that are weird

Favourite is my "coffee ride coffee ride coffee ride coffee ride coffee rest coffee ride coffee ride coffee beer".STW mug. 2nd favourite is my 2016 Brighton Big Dog. Joint 3rd are bone china (maybe, they're not big thick mugs) 'bean cycling' and 'hairy bikers' cups which are preferred for coffee before cycling to work..

Chunky ol' STW mug. No idea how old, but used every day.

My favourite pint glass (the only pint glass in the house in fact) primary purpose of which is as vessel for drinking water... Is a Wells Bombardier Premium Bitter (straight walled and wider at top so hand fits inside to wash furthest reaches easily). Left behind by previous tenant of a flat we moved into over 10 years ago.

My wife is a compulsive mug buyer, so we've probably got 40 or 50 knocking about. Most of them never get used because they're not great to drink out of, even if they arguably look good. I don't have a single favourite, but a favourite type, we've probably got 4 or 5.  Thin bone china.  Coffee and especially tea, just tastes better out of bone china than a thick pottery mug.  Decent bone china mugs as opposed to cups, especially plainish ones without gopping floral prints on them are surprisingly hard to find.

Several, mostly bikey ones. Though a nice one from York.

Love our collection of Big Dog mugs. Have one or more from every year except the first (as I went there by train and bike and didn’t have any way of carrying it away. Still regret that!)

They are divided arbitrarily but definitively into tea, coffee and ‘both’ mugs. No, I don’t know why but it feels wrong o use the wrong ones.

nearly always my daily driver, unless the dishwasher hasn’t been on.

Say what, now? Is that what things have come to? People are too sodding lazy to rinse a cup out under the tap? Deary, deary me!
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I’ve aquired a bunch of mugs over the years, these are my favourites, the ones I actually use all the time, not always for tea.

The STW mug is usually used for soup, ‘cos it’ll take a whole can of soup; The blue and grey striped one came from Tate Modern, from a Mark Rothko exhibition; the Elbow one from a gig, the Batman one from a comic shop in Bristol probably around thirty years ago, and was my tea mug at several places of employment, now it’s more often a soup or hot chocolate mug; the Cazoo mug was my mug at my last job, a great place to work, and who were incredibly helpful through probably the worst time of my life; the Portishead mug came from a gig, it was one of my most used at home, until it fell out of a cupboard and the handle snapped off - I’ve glued it back on, but it’s been retired now, like me; the Talisker one isn’t a tin mug, it’s ceramic, and lovely to drink out of, it was part of a special edition issue of the spirit.

And they all get rinsed out or washed in a bowl of hot soapy water, so always available when needed!
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Back in the days where I hosted roleplaying game sessions, I got sick of washing up a hundred mugs at the end of the night ...

Were you roleplaying grumpy Mum of teenagers?

I've always got a favourite mug, until Mrs Reeksy breaks it (accidentally).

The most important characteristic for becoming a favourite mug is that it has to be white inside. No idea why, but any other colour is bad. Dark blue or black is horrific. :negative:

A Tim Hortons Always Fresh coffee mug.

Liberated from the Tim Hortons in Halifax, Nova Scotia back in 2002.

Was negotiating for it when the owner came out and said, "I don't know what he wants but he's causing a queue so give it to him".

Drinking my morning coffee out of it right now 🙂

Finally learned how to upload pics and it's changed again ?

Yep, a Land Rover mug but the handle fell off

Kind of sums up Land Rovers

I did glue it back on but not risking a repeat performance.

Probably should have riveted it back on.

tjagain

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The question seems to be who doesn’t have a favourite mug, and why are they so odd?

I don’t and I deny being odd! Its you lot that are weird

There's always one, and it's usually TJ!

My bright red Friday mug, came with the goody bag I got from my first marathon back in 2013. Only use it for coffee and only use it on the last day of the working week.

And a couple of favourite mugs for tea, both white on the inside of course.

This is my favourite work mug.

Nope still won't let me add photos 🙁

I have fairly weathered STW 'riding, writing and grinding'one that's a really nice balance of size and wall thickness, perfect daily driver.

My 'best' mug is a glorious hand made earthen ware wolftooth jobbie which is almost too nice to use as I'm terrified of dropping it.

For workshop use its all about the stainless steel Yeti ramblers, nice to always have an object to hand that could be used to fend off a rabid dog if required.

@Beagleboy glad it's not just me ?

I have a ridiculously pricey mug from Highland Stoneware that has been the only mug I have used at home for 2 years now. I dunno how they do it but I've dropped it quite a few times and it just bounces.

It's a simple mug with a good size handle, it has a drink based pun on it and it's my favourite film. Ticks all the boxes.

Only problem is that I prefer coffee to tea.

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My favourite was the Singletrack 100 cover by Jo Burt. I was gutted when I dropped that at work!!!

I have a spare, still in the box if you want it for a small fee... too tiny for my cuppas.