KeepCup – have a coffee but not the paper cup
Friday, 13 April 2012 
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My KeepCup on the tube
I tried a thermos coffee cup I had from eons ago, but the spout was all weird and made me dribble coffee down my chin. What I wanted was a cup that was just like a paper one when it came to size, shape and non-dribble spout.
Totally by accident I noticed one on Planet Organic‘s website when I was ordering some quinoa, brown rice and chickpea flour there – a cup called KeepCup. It looked perfect and I bought it.
When it arrived, it wasn’t the colour I ordered (I’m sure I didn’t order pink ;) but I decided not to be fussy (for a change :) and kept it.
I have used it for several weeks now and it’s brilliant. The spout is perfect, it feels like a regular coffee cup and all the Pret employees near my office always comment on how great it is that I bring in my own cup.
Just bear in mind if you do buy a KeepCup that it’s not spill proof – don’t put it into your bag when it’s full and that it’s not a thermos – its insulation properties are the same as that of paper.
Have a nice caffeinated Friday the 13th! :)
I have a whole collection of reusable, insulated, coffee mugs. A friend recently recommended a Contigo brand mug that supposedly seals well enough that you CAN put it in your bag without worrying that it will spill. I think I will have to try one the next time I buy one. But I can’t justify buying another mug right now – that’s the whole point in using the reusable ones instead of paper!
I used to have a plastic reusable cup for coffee and it gave the coffee some strange plastic taste. The new generation plastic cups are most likely so much better but I still only trust just in case the metallic ones :) Using Bodum travel mug at the moment, which has also zero insulation properties and is only spill-free. I however believe in fresh coffee so am using it also only instead of paper coffee mug so I can take the coffee to go :)