Decently designed re-usable coffee cup needed

Tofu_eater

I hope someone might be able to get my drift here.
I've been spending a lot of time lately looking at every possible design of re-usable coffee cup and I still cannot find one that I want.
The first thing is .....the sip hole in the lid.Do people actually find that they use the sip hole that much??.....ok so maybe people are going to say 'yes.I do use the sip hole' but I don't really use it ever. I always take my re-usable cup out in my backpack.It's all fine until I buy a coffee ,then once I have drunk it the trouble is there are dregs of coffee in the cup,then when I stow away the cup after using it the stinky dregs of coffee spill in my bag or if I am carrying the cup in the outside pocket then they eventually spill onto other things or spill into the pocket as I go about the course of my day.For a while I was toting around some clean tissue specially to use to stuff into the cup every time to soak up the bit of coffee liquid in the bottom,but this is a bit fiddly and impractical.So I need a cup with a silicone lid WITHOUT a sip hole in it.So also,I DO NOT want an insulated cup!!!I had a metal insulated/thermos flask type of one ,and I used to find that the drink would stay too hot for me to be sipping enjoyably.I do not want one of those ones with a fancy contraption in the lid with loads of working parts and washers and a fancy button you press down to open etc etc as I also had a design like this and what happens is that the fancy contraption thingy ,you can't get into it to clean it properly and eventually it all ends up dirty and mouldy and mildewy and spoils the taste of your coffee and eventually you have to resort to throwing it away.So don't want a lid like that.The best one I have found so far is the waitrose reusable plastic cup but there is a problem that I find the silicone sleeve that fits it starts to become mishapen and loose and start slipping down the cup after a while and also the main thing is that it has a sip hole in the lid.So I've just bought an 'ecoffee' cup and I thought my troubles would be over as it has a silicone plug thingy to block up the sip hole but now that it has arrived I see it is not going to do,the detachable silicone 'sip hole plugger' thingy is detachable and very frail and doesn't attach very securely onto the lid and falls off all the time,also the silicone heat sleeve which goes around the cup is always coming off and I feel that I am going to lose one or both of these eventually,also,there is another small airhole anyway I see now in the silicone lid.
So,I would like a plastic or bamboo kind of cup,not an insulated flask style of cup ,of a substantial size for my latte,with a simple silicone or plastic lid that doesn't have any sip hole,but not with a fancy engineered opening and closing sip hole,so that after I have had a drink in it I can seal it so it won't spill.Can I find one like that anywhere?No,I assure you I can't.Also I feel that all the designs on the market have this issue with the silicone heat sleeve slipping down the cup and possibly eventually getting lost,so surely there is some sort of way the cup can be designed better so that the silicone sleeve stays on better?I really like the feel of the 'ecoffee' bamboo cup but it doesn't meet my requirements (and I feel the base of the bamboo cup could possibly be a bit sturdier too )
I feel that with everyone turning away from using disposable cups there is room for an overhaul of the design of reusable cups

Zazen999

I use china mugs, and leave them in the coffee shop. They are fab.
:coffee:

Owain_Moneysaver

Tofu_eater wrote: »

I had a metal insulated/thermos flask type of one ,and I used to find that the drink would stay too hot for me to be sipping enjoyably.

So let your coffee cool a bit (or add a splash of cold) before you fill the flask, then it won't be too hot later.

traindrvr

I am a train driver and have had dozens of these which have been rejected for various reasons, leaky, needing a flip top head to drink the last half of the mug, impossible to clean. I finally have one which is perfect! It's Bodum has a steel body and the lid contains a screw in section which you loosen to create the sip hole. It keeps coffee warm for hours if necessary and I put the full mug in my bag confident it won't leak at all. Icannot recommend this travel mug highly enough.