Your shop coffee cup?

[Andy Griffith]

I make a pot of coffee or tea when working in the shop. I like the regular ceramic type coffee cups for in the house but find they don't keep the coffee warm when used in the shop.

I like to take my coffee cup around the shop to whatever location I happen to be working and inevitably it will get cold by the time I finish the cup.

Thought about getting one of those hot plates to set the cup on, but that would require the cup to come back to a central location and that's not going to fly.

Do they make quality insulated coffee mugs that really keep the coffee warm for a period of time? I see plastic mugs in the stores but just wonder if there are any that are actually better than others, or if there is little difference between them?

Thanks

 

[bazzateer]

Why not make up Thermos flask of your favoured hot beverage? Top up your mug from it. Should keep it hot for an hour or two.

 

[ambenz]

I use a Mug similar to this one..keeps it warm for over an hour...any longer and you need a fresh pot anyway!!!!

http://www.kitchencollection.com/Temp_Products.cfm?sku=00547073&RankThis=Y&Searched=mug&

 

[Flatland Dave]

My wood stove keeps my cup plenty warm.

 

[rickairmedic]

I prefer my drinks cold but with that said I use a Bubba Keg and have been quite happy with it keeping cold even in the high heat we get here in the summer months. I seem to recall they will actually keep hot beverages hot longer than cold beverages cold so theres my input.


http://www.getyourbubbakeg.com/?gclid=CP_c6-Tk9qUCFa5k7Aod_EBfqw



Rick

 

[robertgreen79]

This is just like the one i have:

 

[MalibuLX3]

I've got this one and it keeps my coffee TOO hot. REI Camp Cup with Clip Grip

It's a great product, price isn't too bad and it has held up extremely well.

Edit: NOT ACTUAL SIZE

 

[jay50]

I don't drink a lot of coffee but I do have a whisky flask stashed in my tool box at work.
A couple drinks in the morning and early afternoon keep me going.

 

[Jack Olsen]

There are a few in the cabinet that now have slag burns on them. I guess those are the garage mugs.

 

[larry_g]

There are a few in the cabinet that now have slag burns on them. I guess those are the garage mugs.

I have a couple of those and found out that they will hold slag that is NOT microwave friendly. I do preheat my coffee cup with hot water so that the coffee stays hot longer.

lg
no neat sig line

 

[scooby074]

I got a thermos "Element5" seems pretty good. Not a traditional cup though

http://www.thermos.com/product_details.aspx?ProdId=524&CatCode=

 

[Heavy Metal Doctor]

I have a few large (36oz??) Aladdin brand insulated cups that I cycle through - one is usually dirty in use in the shop, one is in the dishwasher and one clean in the cabinet. I like 'em cause theyre durable and cheap. I live on coffee, so there's allways one nearby and they get knocked off the work bench now and then - the metal ones get dented up or the cap gets broken in a fall like that. I can make an even half-pot of coffee in one cup and it'll last 3 or 4 hours in the shop. Mine all have permanent grease stains from life in the shop, but I'm very carefull to leave the cup far enough away from welding -- I have a fear of drinking that spatter!
These type of mugs are getting harder to find - most stores don't sell any that size anymore......that reminds me, I'll bet I can order 'em online.....

 

[cheap bastard]

I use a Thermos stainless mug. NPR sent an insulated ceramic mug with a silicone(?) lid as a premium during the fall pledge drive. It works surprisingly well. The coffee is gone before it gets to "piss warm" so I'm happy.

 

[wfochris]

I preheat the cup with hot water too. Drink it while surfing GJ then hit the garage.

 

[Daddy_Rabbit]

I use a Thermos stainless mug. NPR sent an insulated ceramic mug with a silicone(?) lid as a premium during the fall pledge drive. It works surprisingly well. The coffee is gone before it gets to "piss warm" so I'm happy.

I love it that you used the acronym NPR and the words "piss warm" in the same paragraph.

 

[UncleJoe]

I use a Stanley Insulated travel mug. While the coffee is brewing I pour hot water into the mug to preheat it. That way the hot coffee does not hit a cold mug and retains it temperature longer

 

[nw2571]

I got a thermos "Element5" seems pretty good. Not a traditional cup though

+1 on the Thermos branded stuff. I have several travel mugs and my 2 thermos brand keep coffee hotter twice as long as my others.

I have one similar to this.

Plus I have a cheap coffee pot out in the garage. One trip to the house for coffee grounds and water, and I'm in business!

 

[TheGrooveking]

Nissan vacuum tumbler, used them for over 15 years, their great, and they have been through dozens of tumbles.

TheGrooveking

 

[mpire]

My wife has dozens of those stupid insulated coffee cups. I will give you as many as you can carry any time you want to stop by.

She doesn't even drink coffee.

 

[Tigwldr]

I use a HYDRO FLASK for hot and cold liquids. I can put Ice and water in it in the summer time. Lay it in the sunlight and at lunchtime I still have Ice and water. Not sure what they do to them but they are very well insulated. I use mine everyday. I am not a coffee drinker but I drink other hot liquids, tea, Hot Chocolate that type stuff. Heck I can even warm up chicken noodle soup in the mornings and pour it in there and its still hot at lunch time. They are expensive to some at about 30.00 with shipping. But Its the best bottle I have ever owned and I have been through 30 or more.

http://www.hydroflask.com/

 

[sberry]

Cups are an issue, I finally toss all of them and buy styro at Sams and some lids, 23$ a thousand, re-heat in micro.

 

[davesnothere]

my old lady says her cuisinart keeps coffee the perfect temperature for hours.
i'm pretty sure it this one http://www.home-improvement-superst...tm_campaign=3leggedtoad&site=www.cashback.com

 

[hdossett]

Got mine from StarBucks about 10 years ago. Stainless Steal vacuum insulated. Good for two hours, long enough to carry one cup of coffee, go get some fresh after that!

This is the only thing I have ever bought from StarBucks that I like, I hate their coffee!

We bought a couple of SS ones kinda like this @ Costco a little while ago, but the lids were not recessed from the rim and my nose kept getting in the way, took them back!

H

 

[Falcon67]

 

[97Tahoe]

I get coffee at the corner store in 20 oz styrofoam cups with a plastic lid, it stays too hot to drink for at least 45 min on the way to work.

 

[camit34]

I've had really good luck with the Starbucks stainless mugs. They seem to keep the coffee quite warm for many hours. I've gone through 2 in about 5 years but only because I lost the 1st one...

 

[copterdoctor]

the REI brand thermos mug has always served me well... got stranded 2 years ago overnight when my truck went off the road... the coffee was warm until the next AM when my buddy finally found me... he was expecting to find a corpse, instead he found me with a smile enjoying my morning brew.. they are a little expensive, but it's not uncommon for me to pull the lid off 5-7 hours after pouring a cup, and steam is still coming off of the surface of the cofee...

 

[red baron]

Yuck, I will only drink coffee once or twice a years, if its really cold out. The rest of the time I have something for my Dr. Pepper.

 

[camit34]

Yuck, I will only drink coffee once or twice a years, if its really cold out. The rest of the time I have something for my Dr. Pepper.

BOOOO...!!!! Just kidding...to each their own!

 

[bart1]

The Nissan brand actual vacuum stainless ones are the best. I have one with a screw on lid for when I worked in the cold a lot. Couple plug in heaters keep me Plenty warm now. I have a stein with lid that I bought at a beer stein museum in Germany that usually accompanies me, filled with a good beer, of course.

I have one Nissan thermos that I ran over with my Jeep. It was smashed, but never leaked and still kept stuff hot until I bought another.

 

[bart1]

Like this:

 

[Lippyp]

In the summer I have some freebie china mugs advertising my brother-in-laws business (builders merchants) and for winter a stainless Starbucks insulated one. For the car I have a thermos brand one as the starbucks much is the wrong shape to fit a cupholder.

 

[robertgreen79]

I have some freebie china mugs

Yummm, I love me some BPA....

 

[rickycobra]

I make a pot of coffee or tea when working in the shop. I like the regular ceramic type coffee cups for in the house but find they don't keep the coffee warm when used in the shop.

I like to take my coffee cup around the shop to whatever location I happen to be working and inevitably it will get cold by the time I finish the cup.

Thought about getting one of those hot plates to set the cup on, but that would require the cup to come back to a central location and that's not going to fly.

Do they make quality insulated coffee mugs that really keep the coffee warm for a period of time? I see plastic mugs in the stores but just wonder if there are any that are actually better than others, or if there is little difference between them?

Thanks

I too Like the ceramic ones also. One of my ceramic ones came with a top to keep it warm. I know sell ceramic cups that look like Starbucks coffee cups I would look for one of those.

 

[RBailey]

Okay just discovered and love another of you damm jankies super inventions.
Been using a starbucks stainless cup for years, its good BUT my consumption is bigger than its size.
Bit of a search and landed on this thread.

So ordered a few Bubba Keg's the MASSIVE 52oz keg for the office and a 32oz that fits in the car drinks holders.

WOW !!@!@!! great lovely hot coffee that I don't drink in a single gulp.

 

[rickairmedic]

Okay just discovered and love another of you damm jankies super inventions.
Been using a starbucks stainless cup for years, its good BUT my consumption is bigger than its size.
Bit of a search and landed on this thread.

So ordered a few Bubba Keg's the MASSIVE 52oz keg for the office and a 32oz that fits in the car drinks holders.

WOW !!@!@!! great lovely hot coffee that I don't drink in a single gulp.

Yankee hell I'm a cracker born and raised in Florida just happen to like Kentucky better now . Besides with a Name like Bubba on it its gota be a southern thing .


Rick

 

[DanCo]

I use the Thermos Thermax, probably fill it up 3 or 4 times a day. Keep my own coffee maker too, saves about me $19 a week on just coffee

 

[jamesemery728]

+1 on Thermos brand stainless steel cups with lids. Coffee stays hot for much longer than anything else we have. The next best thing as others have said is to get a Stanley traditional green thermos bottle and take it out with you and dispense your coffee into your cup with it. It too will keep coffee hot for hours.

 

[1983Camperspecial]

Made in America styrofoam cups.