Stainless Steel Insulated Mugs?

K Williams

K Williams

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I'm planning on getting a stainless steel insulated mug. It has to be able to hold at least 14oz. of liquid and keep it warm for 2 hours, and fit in a car beverage holder. Any suggestions? Thanks!
 
I kind of collect those things, or at least I accummulate them. None of them will keep your coffee really hot for two hours. The only way to keep it hot that long is in a real thermos bottle. The Thermos brand "Travel Tumbler," middle top row of the first link in the previous post, is about as well insulated as you can get in a mug. It's good for maybe an hour.

They all lose heat through the top....
 
Um ... that would depend on how much you want to carry in it, wouldn't it?

A half liter is quite a bit of coffee if you're going to drink it all yourself.
 
I've got a full litre thermos from WAY back in my grandfather's youth...

Keeps the coffee hot for about 5hrs(4 if you open and close to fill your mug every hour), drinkably warm for another 2hrs... without warming the thermos up before the morning pour(get an extra hour if I pre-warm the thermos).

Still can't find a travel mug that gets more than an hour of hot coffee.
 
Nissan stainless ( I think it is now Thermos). Mine keeps the coffee warm for three hours.
 
Those Nissan stainless bottles are really good. I got mine from Campmoor (sp?) online for a good price and have been very happy with them.

I think Thermos bought them, the other way around. The newer "good" Thermos bottles appear to be Nissan bottle with a different sticker glued to them.

With mugs, tumblers, bottles, etc., remember to put boiling water in them first so the the container is already HOT, that way your coffee isn't warming the stainless steel. That will give you a lot of additional time to drink hot coffee.

For size, the small 16 oz / .5 Liter Nissan bottle is really handy because it is so small in diameter you can stick it anywhere. The one Liter bottle is large enough in diameter that it won't fit in a standard briefcase for example where the smaller one will. YMMV
 
I've got a question that is sort of off topic but, related -

Why does fresh brewed tea in my stainless Nissan mugs taste so metallic. If I dump boiling hot water in on top of a tea bag, it is totally undrinkable.

Cold (iced) brewed tea does much better.

Does tea contain some ingredients that react with stainless steel that coffee does not have?

I also should note that I called Nissan/Thermos about this and they said I should use denture cleaner in the mugs to get them sparkling again. Those Efferdent tabs worked great and are so much cheaper then similar products from Camelback and others. Unfortunately, they did nothing for the metallic taste of tea. They are ready for great tasting coffee again though so, overall I am very pleased.
 
What type of water ? Tea does better with hard water and coffee better with soft water. Is your water acidic or alkaline ? Real water [well] or city water with chlorine ,flourides etc ? You don't need special cleaners just use detergent and baking soda . Baking soda has been used for many, many years to remove smells and tastes from food containers cloths etc.
 
I use a cup from Starbucks that holds a nominal 16 ounces and has a top that fits on with a bayonet type fitting rather than screw type threads. It uses a soft plastic coated plug to seal the sipping hole and it will keep hot things hot for at least 5-6 hours. When I am going out to a living history event, I fill one with coffee for the drive over and the other with very strong iced tea with extra ice. I leave it in the car, and the car sits in the sun all day. By the end of the day, the cup is full of very cold iced tea of normal strength with a reasonable amount of ice left in it. What more could you ask of a cup. These are, however, pretty expensive, at about $25, IIRC. Oh, and they also have a carabiner type clip built into the handle, allowing them to be clipped to all sorts of things.
 
I use this one:

http://www.lnt.com/product/index.jsp?productId=1770604#product_

Doesn't keep the liquid hot for too terribly long, but how long does it really take to drink what is essentially a large cup of coffee? The reason I picked it up is for the nifty push button feature. Nothing to unscrew or twist or pull up. Just push the button and drink. Push the button and its sealed. Which is perfect for the drive to work.

Mark
 
mete said:
What type of water ? Tea does better with hard water and coffee better with soft water. Is your water acidic or alkaline ? Real water [well] or city water with chlorine ,flourides etc ?
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My water is really hard. I'm not sure what the Ph is but, is extremely hard on kitchen appliances, water heaters, etc. Colorado River water should help with the hardness when if finally gets here.

You don't need special cleaners just use detergent and baking soda . Baking soda has been used for many, many years to remove smells and tastes from food containers cloths etc.
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Arm and Hammer baking soda is great stuff. However, that's not what the factory recommended when I called in to see if they could help with my foul tasting tea.

At home when I drink tea from a china cup, I use bottled water for my tea. I think the water is distilled or reverse osmossis because there is absolutely nothing in it.

People were giving us grief for using bottled water without flouride thinking they were being good to their kids. Then it was pointed out that the City of Tucson which supplies water to a large number of people does not have flouride in it either.
 
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