Excellent, Liesl! Thank you for the great report. Yeah, I'm thinking of going with a wire cone/bandanna filter system, which would make the pre-ground coffee system wondrously small and something I would actually take and use. I love the aeropress, but it is on the bulky side for ultra compact (I can't really say ultralight when I'm hauling that firebox around with a hatchet. Grin.).
With abandon, Patrick On Wednesday, February 25, 2015 at 9:57:27 AM UTC-7, Liesl wrote: > > Hi Deacon Patrick! > > Erin and I have used the 18 ounce insulated KK as a mug for a bunch of > years at this point—at least 5. Camping, biking, overseas, air travel, car > travel, boring conferences, etc. We've both come to regard them as > constant companions. About 3 years ago while we were in the Boundary > Waters, Erin's rolled off and bounced down a 30 foot cliff into a lake. > She retrieved it and found a 2-3 inch dent but no damage to threads, etc, > so she still uses it regularly. The spot where the dent is doesn't > insulate so well any more (you can feel hot/cold through it) so overall it > doesn't keep things hot for as long as my undented one does, but this > doesn't bother her. > > I agree about the "coffee" lid being not at all spill proof, but I do find > it handy in the car. My favorite lid has a metal ring that flips up and > down; makes the unit more compact. The ring, though, is noisy in a water > bottle cage on a bike; the standard lid wouldn't be. > > I drink coffee with cream in it, and if it goes for 8+ hours without a > rinse, it can get funky. Suggestions for funk reduction: always take a > moment to rinse it as soon as you can. Use a wash cloth or similar when > you wash it. Occasionally remove the silicone gasket in the lid and clean > it. Occasionally let it stand overnight with a bleach/water solution. > Erin drinks tea with no dairy in hers, and doesn't have funk issues. > > My only real nit is that an Aeropress is too big to fit on the opening. > So my main morning mug at home and occasionally when I travel is a > double-walled Snowpeak 600 mug, which does work with an Aeropress. > > Hope this is helpful. > -rcw > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "RBW Owners Bunch" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rbw-owners-bunch. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
