[Closed] Insulated travel mugs that actually keep things hot?

warm it up fiorst by filling it with hot water leave for a few minutres and refill with TEA.

My Stanley one is pretty good. Last an hour or so on the way to wok.

Certainly helps to warm it up first though. Boiling Water from the kettle in it with the lid on for 10 mins before making a brew.

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Bodum do an excellent mug. Pricey though!

http://m.johnlewis.com/mt/www.johnlewis.com/bodum-travel-mug-0-35l/p183775

*edit* I use mine every day, one of the best things I've ever bought 🙂

You may not like the coffee but whoever makes travel mugs for Starbucks does a great job. The metal ones, not so much the plastic. I have a cup holder on my bike and my coffee can still be acceptably warm when I reach the station after making it at home.

Zojirushi make the best I've used. I used to have one but I lost it !!

Like a cross between a flask and a mug, you can keep it in your bag without spilling, but the lid flips so you can drink from it like a mug. And last around 2 hours at a decent temp if warmed first.

I've got a Thermos one that def works. Just look for a vacuum one - foam insulated ones leak heat

Agree with chojin the Bodum one is good, better if it is on special/sale though.

They used to make [url= http://www.bodum.com/gb/en-us/shop/detail/K11067-294/ ]a coffee press attachment[/url] which was probably more a gimmick

I've got a Contigo one and it's almost too good. Drinks are kept hot for a good hour or two.
If I take it into the garage when working on the bikes, I often end up taking the lid off to cool it quicker.

No vanman. - i travel alot - bodum press and a bag of coffee are first things into the bag. They are ace - and really keep the coffee warm !

+1 Contigo

I have a LifeVenture one that seems very good so far.

Oh, and agree re heating it up before filling.

+2 Contigo

Look nice as well

I've had a few and happily settled on a wide mouth [url= http://www.kleankanteen.com/unitedkingdom/products/klean-kanteen-insulated.php ]Klean Kanteen insulated bottle[/url] with [url= http://www.kleankanteen.com/unitedkingdom/products/klean-kanteen-accessories.php ]Wide Café Cap.[/url]

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I can heartily recommend the Starbucks stainless steel travel mug - keeps a coffee warm for ages. So much so I have to let the coffee cool a bit before I put the lid on or I don't have time to drink it before I get to work - and that's an hour away!

Got a Contigo as a Xmas pressie,works very well ,but almost too hot to sip from early on,so I end up pouring it into a mug at work.
Mrs H has a Bodum,also very good but she thinks the plunger/press thing is a bit of a faff.

http://www.lifeventure.co.uk/products/cookware/thermal-mugs.html

Used by the military for good reasons. Keeps tea boiling hot for at least an hour and a half.

Also got a Lifeventure one, cost eight quid or so from the outdoor shop in Betswy. Filled it at half five Mon morning, drove to Lincoln, did a site visit and drunk a nice hot brew at half one in the afternoon 😆

Those Lifeventure ones look good.

When does a mug become a flask? 😉

Life venture too. Keeps contents very warm and actually fits in cup holders.

Good thread this, I've been thinking about getting a decent insulated travel mug, and I'd seen the Lifeventure ones in Itchy Feet in Bath, but it seems I can get one in town, so I'll be checking them out on Saturday. They look really good, thanks for the tip! 😀

I ordered one of the Bodum cups with the coffee press yesterday for work though I only paid £20 inc delivery.

When does a mug become a flask?

When you need to completely remove a lid to drink from it.

That's odd, I posted up a thank you for this thread earlier, in particular concerning the Lifeventure mugs, and my post seems to have vanished! How peculiar. 😕

The Bodum travel mug's are on special offer at Curry for £10.
Just ordered one myself.

Morrisons have an awesome little flask/mug for travelling, its fully sealed keeps drinks warm and has a great lip for drinking out of, normally £4.00, they had them on offer for £3.00 last week. Best mug I've ever used.

Best £4.00 on a mug I've ever spent.

It even fits in my mug holder in my van!

Here's a link that I got the original idea from Stoner was the person who put us onto them.

http://singletrackmag.com/forum/topic/travel-mugs

Do the Bodum mugs fit in a standard car cup holder?

Homesense and tk maxx have the bodum ones for a tenner too, just picked one up myself.

Top tip for mugs - make sure the inside is metal as well as the outside, and the metal is one piece over the lip. If there are two pieces fitting together at the lip (as with most cheap ones) then coffee gunge gets trapped in the crack.

And there's nothing worse than getting gunge trapped in your crack...

Singlespeedstu: Every car is different, but the Bodum fits in my T5 and in the missus' Skoda Rapid.

*edit* I can confirm they also fit into BMW cup holders!

Sounds like it'll fit in an Octavia then.

Width wise I'm sure it will. Height wise, if you have stupidly placed holders that sit in the cubbyhole under the stereo you might struggle.

No height restriction sits in the center console.

Do any of them fit a bike bottle cage? Mrs Average would like to cycle to the station with hot tea.

Those life adventure ones linked on the previous page are the DB's maybe not for driverists but everyone else yes.

Do any of them fit a bike bottle cage? Mrs Average would like to cycle to the station with hot tea.

I've been through this research process. Generally no they do not. I have a 'short' sized (8 fl oz) one from Starbucks that fits into a Specialized plastic bottle cage, but that's not a big enough drink to last a long train journey. And that particular cup was plastic and not that good.. and it broke...

There's a Trek bottle cage and cup combo that fits on the Soho bike - they apparently have been available separately but possibly not any more as nowhere had stock when I checked. The cup's not that great either, I think it's plastic insides.

So I ended up with the [url= http://www.wiggle.co.uk/pdw-bar-ista-coffee-cup-holder/?lang=en&curr=GBP&dest=1&utm_source=pla&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=uk&kpid=5360475054 ]PDW Bar-ista[/url] and after a long search I found a conical Starbucks cup in a shop that fits in it perfectly. They haven't got the cups on their website currently but I reckon [url= http://www.starbucksstore.co.uk/stainless_steel_tumbler_16_fl_oz/011010925,en_GB,pd.html?&srule=Featured&start=0&sz=16&prefn1=size&cgid=tumblers-and-travel-mugs&prefv1=Grande ]this[/url] would fit.

This:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/BESTEK-Stainless-Insulated-container-BTVT550/dp/B00AX0Y7OW

Used daily, rattles around in a bag without a leak, coffee is still PIPING hot over an hour after filling (to the point where I have to put some cold water in now too, so I can actually drink it)

Oh, and I reckon it would go in a bottle cage (can't say for definite though)

Contigo is excellent.
Keeps coffee hot for too long if anything. If you fill with a freshly made hot drink it remains too warm to consumer for best part of 30mins...

mr_average - Member
Do any of them fit a bike bottle cage? Mrs Average would like to cycle to the station with hot tea.

molgrips - Member

Do any of them fit a bike bottle cage? Mrs Average would like to cycle to the station with hot tea.

I've been through this research process. Generally no they do not. I have a 'short' sized (8 fl oz) one from Starbucks that fits into a Specialized plastic bottle cage, but that's not a big enough drink to last a long train journey. And that particular cup was plastic and not that good.. and it broke...

There's a Trek bottle cage and cup combo that fits on the Soho bike - they apparently have been available separately but possibly not any more as nowhere had stock when I checked. The cup's not that great either, I think it's plastic insides.

The Contigo one does. molgrips asked about this a while ago and I think I said that if he wanted, I would try mine and take some pics, but never got a response.
I was in the garage a while after and remembered that I hadn't tried it, so did and it fitted fine into a Specialized Rib Cage. Fitted really well in fact. I did take some photo's, but God knows where they are (they'll be in one of my many 'waiting to sort out' folders!

I will try and dig them out and post them this evening.

This is the one I have:

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I got the green one, but should have got the plain stainless steel one. The coloured ones aren't dishwasher safe, whereas the plain stainless steel one is.

I said that if he wanted, I would try mine and take some pics, but never got a response.

Ah.. sorry.. forgot about that!

S'alright. Just meant I didn't bother doing it, until the next time I was in the garage and had the mug with me. Like I say, the pics are on my 'pooter somewhere. I will endeavour to dig them out!

stu - bodum doesnt fit the cup holder in the peugeot.

fits in my vauxhall though.

Thanks for the advice guys. Sounds like Contigo will fit the bill as it gets a general thumbs up on this thread too.

No need for insulated mugs with these:

[url= http://www.joulies.com/# ]Joulies[/url]

Co-irker with expensive tastes (and a slightly over the top analytical sensibility) swears that they do exactly what they say on the tin.

STL

Just in case anyone has an octavia and is thinking of getting a bodum mug.
It fits in the center rear holder but not the center front holders.

Worked great for taking advantage of the free drinks machine at the factory i visited today too. 🙂

Contigo ordered, thanks all.

I find I have to make my coffee and let it cool without the lid on for about 5-10 mins before I leave otherwise it stays too hot to drink. Oh and coffee always seems to taste better than tea, which I find stews a bit in a travel mug or is that just my poor preparation!?

Do any of them fit a bike bottle cage? Mrs Average would like to cycle to the station with hot tea.

Get the Kleen Kanteen on the previous page. Comes with a leakproof top, fits in a bottle cage for the ride to the station, switch to the sippy top when I get there. Contents normally still dangerously hot by the time I get to the office, 90 minutes later.

Found the pics of the Contigo....

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That's a Spesh Rib Cage and it fits nice & snug.
The Contigo seals watertight so it can go in any orientation and nothing will spill out. Mine won't fit in the cup holder in my car, so I put it in the space between the seat and the door on it's side and it's never leaked. Just have to be careful when you pick it up you don't squeeze the button.

My wife got a Bodum one a couple of weeks ago and nice as it is she can't get the lid to stay on, I would guess it may have been over tightened once and now it won't stay put, so be careful it may be the weak spot in an otherwise good design.

PSA Bump

Morrisons seem to have some stock of their "On the go flask". Just picked up another one. £4. Same one PePPer refers to earlier.

Best insulated flask Ive owned. However, while it does "fit" in a bottle cage, it's not a snug fit. You might want to consider wrapping it in an inner tube for example to stop it rattling.

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Well, after reading through this thread, and weighing up the options, I thought I'd pop into Morrison's yesterday afternoon and have a shufti at the travel flask Stoner posted up. Looked good, only four squids against sixteen to twenty-odd, what's to lose.
Tried it this morning, made up some tea in a jug, heated the flask and put the tea in, this at 7.40am.
Finished the last dregs, still quite warm, at 10.20am, made another, and that I finished, again last dregs, still warm enough to be drinkable, at 2.00pm! Most of the time the drink was too hot to do more than sip, thus lasting such a long time. Colour me bloody impressed!
Going to get another one, in fact I might get a couple, just in case, because at that price they're a steal.
I did have a though re: fitting into a bike cage; get a large capacity water bottle, cut the top off, and stand the flask in the centre of the water bottle, and fill with expanding foam, then you could just pull the flask out of the bottle, leaving it secure when riding. Just a thought.
Great flask/travel mug, thanks for the heads-up, really chuffed with mine, thanks all!
😀

OK, so these mugs keep things hot, but do they make the coffee taste strange, and do they drip coffee down your shirt?

I've got a ceramic travel mug with a silicone lid at the minute. No taste, but it does like to drip coffee all over the place...

Tron, nope, and nope. The Morissons one is all stainless steel, the only plastic is the lid, and the lip bit where you drink from, doesn't drip. Certainly the two lots of tea I had in mine today only differed in the make of bags used, which changed the taste slightly, otherwise, just tasted of milky tea.
Four quid? Absolute bargain.

superb! 🙂

I think I said in the earlier post, if I make a coffee brew, I have to leave the lid open for a long time until its cooled enough to drink 🙂

If it wont fit into a bottle cage securely then try one of these

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http://www.cyclemiles.co.uk/product/monkii-cage-bicycle-bottle-cage/#.UwvlCs5vbsl