Need to stop pissing away money on takeaway coffee

[sailorvenus]

Help me. I fully realise I am pissing money away each day. But especially now it's colder and the guy at the station makes such wonderful coffee, I am being WEAK.

I have every single coffee maker going at home, so there's really no excuse for me not to make one at home then take it with me, but I really can't make the reusable cup a part of my life.

I must have a million reusable cups that are scattered between home and work. I find them difficult to clean and just not something I want bouncing around in my bag when I already travel pretty heavy to work. I also don't find the clunky metal conducive to a nice tasting coffee- everything tasting metallic and weird.

But I know this is wasteful and terrible for our planet- so I can't continue.

I'm wondering if there are some single use biodegradable cups that I can use to pour a cafetière into, then recycle? Or a wonderful, fantastic, easy to clean bottle/cup that I won't leave in work because it's amazing and I won't want to be parted with it?

Recommendations please!

As Spam88 says - a glass Keep Cup. Dishwasher safe (as long as you don't get the one with the cork on it). There is also a plastic one as well.
Keep cups are barista designed to fit underneath the group heads on the coffee machines.
This way you can still have your coffee, but not ruin the planet.

Ceramic don't keep stuff warm, no.

I have a Contigo but I can't work out what the fuss is about. I filled it with hot choc and took it on my walk last weekend and having made it at about 9am and stopped to drink it at 1pm it was stone cold. My normal thermos would have been better.

I also don't like drinking out of silly little holes in lids. But I think that's just a me thing, everyone else seems happy to do it.

You can buy the disposable plastic/paper coffee cups from b and m

Another vote for the Ecoffee cup. Light, easy to clean and very pretty. DH and I have one each plus a spare.

Fine to shove in your bag as long as it is dry.

The pound shop sells the double walled card board takeaway cups. They're £1 for 10.

This is the Bodum one but if you're already finding a normal travel mug annoying to wash up this won't solve that problem.

www.amazon.co.uk/Bodum-Travel-Press-Coffee-Maker/dp/B0042RU4X0/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ref=plSrch&keywords=bodum+cafetiere+cup&dpPl=1&dpID=41MDMCoG8bL&pi=AC_SX236_SY340_FMwebp_QL65&tag=mumsnetforum-21&ie=UTF8&qid=1538984298&sr=8-1

The cardboard hot drink cups aren't recycleable because of the plastic film inside, unfortunately. Glass is prob best for taste. I read an article recently about how vegware means farming more corn, manufacturing etc still for non-essential single use and how what really needs to happen is that we rethink what we think we 'need'. I'll send if I can find the link.
Honestly there's no ideal solution apart from wait til you get to work and make it in a mug! But we're consumers plus the coffee guy has a business to run. Maybe compromise - have station coffee once or twice a week?

John Lewis also sell the silicone collapsible cups, so it folds down after you're done to a few cm high, and easier to store in your bag then.

I prefer the glass ones with the silicone lids, so it depends how far I'm going and how much I'm carrying as to which one I'll take.

All the silicone lids make me feel a bit like I'm sucking on a sippy cup towards the end, as they're thicker than the disposable plastic lids, but I'm willing to put up with that for the sake of not wasting a lid.

This sort of thing is what I meant from John Lewis (and other places)

www.johnlewis.com/stojo-collapsible-reusable-pocket-cup-355ml/black/p3417065

Here's the link - not sure if it's clicky
www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2018/sep/06/save-earth-disposable-coffee-cup-green

I don't always agree with George but he has the facts here I think.

I've one of these and don't find it leaves a metalic taste, it keeps the drink very hot. Easily washed too.
www.sainsburys.co.uk/shop/gb/groceries/travel-bottles--mugs---flasks/thermos-stainless-king-travel-tumbler-red-470ml-130085284-p

Oh bum. I didn't know that the cardboard ones aren't recyclable. I've been treating myself to the nescafe azera ones recently as they've been on offer. Will need to nip that in the bud.

I had contigo and thought it was pants. My drink was lukewarm 4 hours later.

Lots of the reusable cups aren't meant to keep it hot - you need to check if it's a thermos type one or not for that. Many of them are meant to replicate the take-away experience: the right size cup for baristas to use, etc, but not to keep it hot. You're meant to be able to drink it like you'd drink a normal take-away, i.e., right away and staying hot for the same length of time that would, maybe 20 min or whatever. If you want a thermos type one to keep it hot for hours, that's a different sort, and it's worth reading the reviews for those ones separately.

If you're worried about the coffee man losing buisness you could take a ceramic/ glass cup to the station and ask him to fill it for you? Won't save money but could save the planet!

If you already have loads of reusable cups that don't get used, don't get another one. I saw a study which said it takes loads more energy at the outset to make a reusable rather than a disposable cup, and with the washing/detergent used over the cups lifetime, you have to use it at least 1000 times, sometimes up to 3000 (depending on what it is made of) to make it more environmentally friendly. Obviously landfill will be decreased, but only if the cup gets used

Learn to walk without coffee - 15 years ago we could walk and commute without a hot drink, wait until you get to work and have the kit and a mug there. Easy.

Another vote for Contigo. Spill and leak proof, can put it in the dishwasher, great design means no hard to clean bits, etc.

Pretty much missing the point but have you looked at the Oomph coffee maker?

It’s basically half reusable cup and half cafetière. It is giant tho.

I have a sho bottle. It is amazing and kept my water ice cold in the hight of the heat wave in my car all day. It also keeps hot drinks hot and has no taste.

I agree with Heidipi - compromise by making one day a week ‘station coffee day’ and the other days just have one at home or work in a normal cup.

I also have an assortment of reusable/thermos cups and have never really got in to using them. I think the point about how much you have to use them before they’ve really been less impact on the environment than the equivalent in throwaway cups is a really valid one and one we don’t hear enough because we still want to buy solutions to problems instead of changing habits.

On a similar point, both kids schools insist on kids having water bottles at school - it’s touted as an ‘eco’ solution so they don’t have to use one-use plastic cups, but when I was at school we just had washable plastic cups for water at lunch and everyone drank straight from the water fountain otherwise - seems perfect to me - all these ‘reusable’ bottles crack, dent, get lost, start smelling etc. None of them last long.

I use an ecoffee one as well. It does have a silicone lid and band around it to insulate when you hold it but the cup is made of bamboo. Very light and definitely better than metal or plastic for how the coffee tastes. Also it is light which is important when it si being acrried around all the time

centralliving.co.uk/product/eco-coffee-cup-stargrape/

Good point re the plastic bottles coriander. DS's don't last long before they are broken, lost or acquire a fusty smell that I can't get rid of and seems like it might be harmful. I've also read that if using plastic water bottles they should not be allowed to get hot as makes the water carcinogenic.

I now use a glass water bottle for gym and out and it's great as water doesn't get smelly, but don't think that would be a sensible option for DS.

Chili type bottles are good for water, lots of places sell cheaper versions. Metal and double walled.

Get yourself an Aeropress and mug for work and make it there. Costs about £25 and makes the best coffee.