Morning coffee is extremely important to many of us. If you’re like 99.875% of population it’s likely that you grab it on the go and not savor it while overlooking a mountain range from your villa. But driving while drinking coffee presents many challenges. A good coffee mug should:
- Be big enough to hold the proper quantity of coffee. For most Americans that’s about 16 ounces. For our European friends, you go and you enjoy your 30 milliliters of tar.
- Fit into your vehicle’s cup-holder.
- Keep the coffee warm for a good amount of time, perhaps two hours if you’re on a road trip.
- Provide resistance to spills.
For years I have been using the popular pictured Contigo Autoseal. It does all of the above very well, with perhaps the exception of keeping the coffee hot for as long as I’d like it to. It’s splillproofness (I just made that word up) is amazing but it’s wider bottom (I like wide bottoms and I cannot lie) makes flimsy in some cup-holders. But I’m on my fourth one (I keep losing them) and I really haven’t seen a mug that’s better yet.
People seem to love their Yeti mugs so much that they put the company stickers on their cars. Hydroflask has a mug with a handle on it, so that won’t work in a car or tumblers with a lid that won’t prevent spills. Same for the RTIC brand. So today we ask – what do you think is the best coffee mug for drivers?
Bonus question – what am I driving?
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