Best Coffee Travel Mug
Posted by rashidakay on 08 Feb 2010 | Tagged as: Coffee
Everybody knows that we live in a busy world. Time is one of the most valuable assests anyone has. Anything that can be done to save time is worth considering. One of the ways that we save time is to multitask, so why not take your morning coffee with you on the road when you drive to work? Two things must happen – you have to have your coffee and you have to get to work.
In order for this bit of multitasking to work, a person must have the best coffee travel mug that he can find. When you get up in the morning it is very easy to make a single cup of premium coffee using a k-cup, but what do you put it in so you can take it with you? Of course, you can just reuse the coffee cup and lid you got at the donut shop over the weekend, but why do that when there is a tremendous variety of travel mugs available? In order to choose just the right mug, there are several things you must consider. How long will you be commuting? How long will you want the coffee to stay hot?) What kind of cup holder do I have in my car? How much coffee do I need to drink in the morning, and how big does my travel mug have to be? How secure must the lid be? How much do I want to spend? Somewhere in the answers to these questions a person will be able to come up with which travel mug is just right for them.
Prices vary widely for travel mugs. The best quality mugs range in price from to . There are many different materials from which travel mugs are made, including metal and plastic. Some may have handles while others do not. Handles make the cup easier to grab and hold onto, especially while driving. Some of the mugs have a screw-on lid, while others have a lid that snaps on. A screw-on lid is probably a better choice as it is more secure than a snap-on, which is sometimes hard to tell whether it has been properly attached. There is nothing worse than a lid falling off and hot coffee spilling all over you or your car.
There are tons of different sizes of travel mugs. There are mugs with wide bases that will be steadier when placed on a flat surface, and mugs that are narrower to fit into cup holders of cars. Travel mugs also vary greatly as to how long they will keep the coffee hot. The amount of insulation in the cups is different for each manufacture. How quickly you tend to drink your morning cup of coffee will determine the amount of insulation in your cup you will need. It boils down to that the most expensive mugs have the most insulation.
So the question is, what is the best travel mug? That depends upon how you answer the questions I have posed. Whichever mug you choose, you can use a k-cup to make your coffee in the morning to fill that mug for an enjoyable drive to work and the start of a day of multitasking.
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