I really need to find a great big, stainless steel travel mug that will keep coffee hot for, like, ten hours. If you have a line on such a beast, I’d like to know, because I’d pay very well for a mug that actually worked.
Over the past few years I’ve tried taking coffee to work in several different thermal vessels, most of then not inexpensive. None of them kept my coffee hot — really hot — for longer than an hour or so.
After several such failures, I purchased another rather expensive cup, naively believing the “guarantee” written on the packaging, and optimistically anticipating a cup of coffee that would never grow cold. As soon as I got home I boiled the kettle and poured in the water, anticipating that my test cup would stay hot forever. An hour later it was lukewarm and I was bitterly disappointed. Continue reading “Would you like some coffee with that whine?”