I take a 2 hour commute to school every day. My Stanley thermos, which was gifted to me by my very consumerist aunt, doesn’t keep my moka pot coffee hot for 2 hours.
Although it is a pretty good thermos it seems to be leaking a lot of heat from the metal section near the cap.
Is there any thermos that has every section of it isolated? Like, I shouldn’t even be able to tell if there is a hot liquid inside
Another thing to check, do you pre-warm the bottle? If not, it will absorb the heat of (ie, cool down) the coffee as soon as you pour it in. But if you get scalding hot water from your faucet or a kettle, pour it in, wait a minute, and dump it you will have a warm bottle that won’t feel the need to take as much heat from the coffee.
Zojirushi is the GOAT as far as I’m concerned. No other brand I’ve used has kept my coffee hot for as long as they do.
My only gripe is that they like to over-engineer the cap/pouring mechanism in their travel mugs, which makes them tough to clean.
It’s been awhile since I’ve had to replace one, but if I recall you want to get the plain stainless interior for coffee / tea, as it picks up less staining and odors than the coated interior.
Slightly off topic, but there is a product called Astonish, which is amazing for cleaning travel mugs and other things that collect coffee oil buildup. Its hard to find in the US at least, but can be found on Amazon.
Lots of people recommended Zojirushi in this thread. Will definitely give it a try. Thanks
I use polident to clean my Zojirushi container.
I’ll have to give that a try, especially if it means one less thing I rely on Amazon for.
Klean Kanteen has worked great for me. Kept tea that my girlfriend and I made at 7:00 too hot to drink at 13:00. And that was at a snowy mountain lake – the time in between was spent snowshoeing up a mountain trail in the middle of January.
Maybe a silly question, but do you preheat the inside of your thermos with boiling water before adding the coffee from the moka pot?
If not, that small amount of coffee would be quickly cooled by the inner walls of any thermos.
I don’t, but I am pretty sure it doesn’t get cooled down by the inner walls as it stays too hot to drink for at least an hour.
Will check out your recommendation.
One with glass insulation but those are breakable. Moka pot coffee kept hot that long will probably taste like crap anyway though.
Yeah probably. It’ll all get stale and burnt ig. Didn’t think about that much
Coffee outside is expensive and pretty bad though. I need to carry my own coffee to school but no idea on how to do it.
Drinking it at home is not very viable since I already wake up at 6am and don’t wanna add another 30 minutes to my morning routine
Can you heat water at school? Or just bring hot water and instant coffee. Or an aeropress if you’re a coffee snob. I like Vinacafé on the go, and have just found something similar whose name I can check tomorrow.
Yeah they do sell hot water.
Currently planning to pack a french press. We’ll see how it goes, but I still want the thermos.
Since I use Hoffman’s french press technique the only thing I do is to dump coffee in water and wait anyways. So I might cut the filter from a french press and put it inside a thermos. I could then get it set up at home and just add water™
They SELL hot water? What a scam. Maybe bring an immersion heater?
It is pretty commonplace to sell hot water in my country?
Because bringing a heater with you is hard, the places which sell tea will also fill up your cup with hot water. For a fair price usually +5TL (~0.1 cent) more compared to bottled water of the same amount.
I can bring a heater and spend my university’s electricity for it but why would I so that when hot water is already very cheap.
edit: I just remembered my school’s water dispensers have a hot water tap. Students drain those very quickly though so I gotta go there right after my lecture ends
Bottled water is another scam though! Yes, use the hot water tap. But, doesn’t Hoffman’s French press method require near-boiling water? A hot water tap is typically maybe 60C at most.
Here’s the type of heater I was thinking of: https://www.ebay.com/itm/311442084287
That’s a US version (120V) but I’m sure they have 230V ones if you need that. Another idea is a camp stove.
incredibly inconvenient
Imagine sitting in the corner near the plug with your weird resistive heater waiting for the water to get hot. You’d probably become the laughing stock of the whole campus pretty quickly
Also, things get pretty heavy when you have a 4 hour daily railway commute. There has been times when I didn’t take a bottle of water because it hurt my back
So I’ll just stick to carrying grounds and buying hot water. It costs practically nothing compared to my current habit of buying coffee which is a huge hole in my budget
