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I use an old insulated Bodum stainless steel coffee mug, mostly because that is what I had around that fit my coffee cup criteria, and because it has proven Grumman-like unkillable.


The Bodum cup works, but it is heavy, metastable tapered \_/, and, being all metal, it cools off rather quickly.
The criteria:
Well insulated. Really well insulated; if I pre-chilled the inside maybe I could use it for (discrete) beers. Mostly I want a lingering 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] cuppa to last an hour while I pack up and load the boat. I like hot coffee, I like cold coffee. Tepid coffee, not so much.
Holds 2 cups, cylindrically shaped, with no packing space awkward handle. A little flare or flange at the base would be nice for stability, but weirdo /__\ shapes do not pack efficiently.
With a lid to keep the bugs out. Something gasket sealed, easy to orient and screw in place without bleary eyed where’s my coffee cross threading. Don’t expect too much out of me without morning caffeine.
And, perhaps most importantly, a lid that sips, and first scalding nectar slurps, without leaks, drips or misaligned dribbles. Who the hell designed this lid that dribbles coffee down my beard and onto my shirt? Seriously, no one in the design team tried to actually drink from this thing?
We have a storage box full of sundry insulated travel mugs accumulated over the years, and most of them are crap for one reason or another. Too heavy, poorly insulated, hard to grasp/hold, awkward to orient the sip lid in the correct handle direction, drippy.
I’m ready for an improved camp coffee cup. What do you use?
Maybe two new coffee mugs. My Toyota Tacoma has cup holders that do not work well with most travel mugs. I have an (awful in every way) REI insulated coffee cup that does fit in the cup holders. Sometimes it fits too well and gets stuck. And it is a sip lid dribbler. If I could find a proper Tacoma travel mug I’d go to the dump just to throw that thing as far as I could.
A driving mug needs a handle, so I can orient the sip-spot facing my lips unseen at O-dark-thirty without pouring coffee on my shoulder. Maybe a 3 or 4 cupper for the truck; all the better to take into a convenience store and ask “How much to fill this up?”


The Bodum cup works, but it is heavy, metastable tapered \_/, and, being all metal, it cools off rather quickly.
The criteria:
Well insulated. Really well insulated; if I pre-chilled the inside maybe I could use it for (discrete) beers. Mostly I want a lingering 2[SUP]nd[/SUP] cuppa to last an hour while I pack up and load the boat. I like hot coffee, I like cold coffee. Tepid coffee, not so much.
Holds 2 cups, cylindrically shaped, with no packing space awkward handle. A little flare or flange at the base would be nice for stability, but weirdo /__\ shapes do not pack efficiently.
With a lid to keep the bugs out. Something gasket sealed, easy to orient and screw in place without bleary eyed where’s my coffee cross threading. Don’t expect too much out of me without morning caffeine.
And, perhaps most importantly, a lid that sips, and first scalding nectar slurps, without leaks, drips or misaligned dribbles. Who the hell designed this lid that dribbles coffee down my beard and onto my shirt? Seriously, no one in the design team tried to actually drink from this thing?
We have a storage box full of sundry insulated travel mugs accumulated over the years, and most of them are crap for one reason or another. Too heavy, poorly insulated, hard to grasp/hold, awkward to orient the sip lid in the correct handle direction, drippy.
I’m ready for an improved camp coffee cup. What do you use?
Maybe two new coffee mugs. My Toyota Tacoma has cup holders that do not work well with most travel mugs. I have an (awful in every way) REI insulated coffee cup that does fit in the cup holders. Sometimes it fits too well and gets stuck. And it is a sip lid dribbler. If I could find a proper Tacoma travel mug I’d go to the dump just to throw that thing as far as I could.
A driving mug needs a handle, so I can orient the sip-spot facing my lips unseen at O-dark-thirty without pouring coffee on my shoulder. Maybe a 3 or 4 cupper for the truck; all the better to take into a convenience store and ask “How much to fill this up?”