I have never used it for 3 hours for 1 cup of coffee but have used it for 2-3 hours for 2-3 cups. I keep the charging unit in the kitchen. I drink the coffee at my desk which is in another room
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Review: Ember's Travel Mug 2 Won't Get Lost With Find My Integration
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My father who is my kids grandpa uses it as we bought it for him. he loves it. While it was a gift he also drives a $350,000 car so it isn't an affordability issue.
If she loves coffee and is particular about the temperature (meaning she likes it hot and only hot) then she will love it.
I always put cream in my coffee and it does keep it perfect as long as you don't let it sit too long(meaning you are actually drinking it) as it can form a film. I tend to drink a lot of sips frequently so it isn't an issue for me. One issue I have is adding cram.milk always lowers the temperature too much for me and this fixes that problem.
Any coffee worth drinking is drank immediately after brewing, and it takes 10 seconds at most. Crema won’t survive more than a few minutes anyway, sealed container or not. If drinking it takes longer than a few seconds, then it’s just dirty water and not coffee.
I never said it was an affordability issue — although since it was a gift from you, I'm not sure how that's even relevant. What I meant is that older people had a different approach to what's needed and what's a dumb waste of money. I realize I'm generalizing and that the generation of grandparents is now different as well.
You are contradicting yourself.I never said it was an affordability issue — although since it was a gift from you, I'm not sure how that's even relevant. What I meant is that older people had a different approach to what's needed and what's a dumb waste of money. I realize I'm generalizing and that the generation of grandparents is now different as well.
I have a Nextmug that keeps my tea piping hot. I really like it. Don't think I need it to have Find My capabality though.
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The first part is specific to Find My and my attempt to be a little amusing (didn't work!) and the second to coffee. As I go on to explain, I am certainly experienced with hot beverages that are NOT coffee and felt that I understood the product well enough to evaluate it and write a review. Apologies if it wasn't up to your expectations.
Do “Find My” devices have the exact same functionality as an AirTag? Do they use the “find my” network from stranger iPhones and send that location back up to the cloud?
Spend less than half as much and get the Burnout instead. Mine arrived this morning and testing shows it to be well made and performing as advertised. Without the vendor-suggested preheating my test water was 180F at time zero, 155F at 2 minutes (ideal drinking temp for my taste), 144F at 5 minutes, 135F at 30 minutes, 134F at 120 minutes and 130F at 180 minutes, 127F after 4.5 hours (bottom range of good drinking temp for my taste, but still good); and the test is still running.
Some of the water was unscientifically poured out to simulate the effect of drinking some of the coffee over time. ;~)
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That was an ember mug - which probably cost 0.000000000001% of the interest he earned on his wealth that day !
Clearly we live in different coffee worlds. And whatever happens with crema is moot to me because I stopped adding dairy products 20 years ago when I was involved in taste-testing coffee brand choices for a restaurant. Now I much prefer black coffee, but once or twice a month I may go for a liquid-desert mocha.
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The reason the Find My reference failed to amuse is because some of us spend half our day wondering where that coffee cup is... ;~)
The thing is, different hot beverages behave totally differently as regards flavor and heat. So experienced with hot beverages that are NOT coffee means perhaps one should not presume competence to be writing about heating coffee. Tea, for instance, IMO reheats just fine whereas coffee does not. [Caveat: Personally I do not add dairy to tea or coffee, which likely changes things.]
Because life is short, and we take our pleasures (drinking better coffee, driving better cars, whatever) while we can. <My answer even though the question was not directed at me.
I have an ember mug (the actual open-top coffee mug version, not this travel version), and also a Lexo phase-change travel mug (same company as Burnout, but their cheaper imported version).
I roast my own coffee and also enjoy loose leaf tea. Both mugs have pros and cons, but if I had to pick just one it would be the Lexo/Burnout phase change. Reason being there is no lithium-ion battery to charge or wear out in the phase change mug. It works just as well as the ember, but I never run into the situation where I want to use it and realize I forgot to charge the battery. The downside of the relatively simple phase change mug is the internal wax is permanently calibrated to maintain your beverage at specific temperature, whereas the ember is adjustable to you preference.
The elephant in the room with ember is the battery is not user-serviceable. As the battery wears out, you are left with a lovely e-waste mug.
If I were designing a smart-mug, I'd instead put the battery in the coaster, and in fact make that battery user-replaceable and completely optional. Power the coaster from USB-C, and it inductively heats the mug while measuring beverage temperature using an RFID sensor. Thus the mug would be lighter, dishwasher safe, and last far longer. Use a phase-change liner in the mug, and an optional travel lid, and you've got a great setup. Wish someone would make that... ah, but no planned obsolescence.
I roast my own coffee and also enjoy loose leaf tea. Both mugs have pros and cons, but if I had to pick just one it would be the Lexo/Burnout phase change. Reason being there is no lithium-ion battery to charge or wear out in the phase change mug. It works just as well as the ember, but I never run into the situation where I want to use it and realize I forgot to charge the battery. The downside of the relatively simple phase change mug is the internal wax is permanently calibrated to maintain your beverage at specific temperature, whereas the ember is adjustable to you preference.
The elephant in the room with ember is the battery is not user-serviceable. As the battery wears out, you are left with a lovely e-waste mug.
If I were designing a smart-mug, I'd instead put the battery in the coaster, and in fact make that battery user-replaceable and completely optional. Power the coaster from USB-C, and it inductively heats the mug while measuring beverage temperature using an RFID sensor. Thus the mug would be lighter, dishwasher safe, and last far longer. Use a phase-change liner in the mug, and an optional travel lid, and you've got a great setup. Wish someone would make that... ah, but no planned obsolescence.
An advantage of the Nextmug is it can keep the temperature of the beverage up to 150F. I've tested it. It appears Ember only goes up to 145.
Imagine ordering one of these and instead getting a thank you letter for having your $200 diverted to help house a homeless person, feed a hungry child, upgrade public transportation, or give an underpaid teacher a bonus.
It will probably be better received if I don't mention the price at all! (Though the more reasonably priced Burnout option mentioned below is also very promising.)
Thanks for mentioning this option. Spending less on a still lavish expenditure will probably make the price (and coffee) easier to swallow.
No apology necessary. My comment was also meant to be a little amusing. I should have included an emoji to better convey that. So, my apologies as well.