Coffee

jamels2

Hi all
I'm a parcel driver and have a habit of buying a couple of coffees a day from Costa /mcDonald's /wild bean. This costs £2-3 a time and gives me a paper cup for the bin.
However it's convenient for my job as i can use drive thru or BP garage cafes.
Can anyone recommend a way I can cut down and still get the coffee fix? Obviously will help save money and the environment.
I'd like a way of drinking coffee easily like a takeaway coffee is . My work place has hot water so I can fill up there.
Any advice welcomed.

JKenH

Thermos flask?

jamels2

I'm thinking either a thermal flask that doesn't leak with a cup as a lid or which you can drink out of or a cup like the Waitrose reusable one .

JKenH

Thermal mugs don’t keep the contents as hot as a flask in our experience. For coffee we fill th flask with hot water and then pour the contents of a coffee sachet - loads of different types available that work out at about 20p each - into a mug and pour the water on it. That way you get a far better tasting cup of coffee than one which has stewed in a flask for a few hours. It has saved us a fortune over the years.

coffeehound

I'd second the advice to use a thermos. The resueable cups and travel mugs are fine if you are going to drink the coffee soonish but they certainly aren't spill-proof.

If you like real coffee rather than instant, it's best to use a method that filters through paper like an Aeropress, dripper cone or filter machine. This should stop the coffee tasting bad after it's been in the flask a few hours.

joefizz

I second the Aeropress (metal filter rather than the paper ones, eco friendly and all that).
Add in a hario hand grinder and just add hot water ;-)


Take the aeropress 'puck' home and chuck on compost bin/scatter in garden.