@lljk I have 4 of the 24oz bubba vacuum insulated mugs that I use for coffee everywhere. I’ve been using them as my ONLY coffee cup for over a year now. (I even brought and used one every day at my parents’ house when we visited them for 5 days this summer.) I’m writing this now drinking coffee from it that I made 3 hours ago.
@gwrankin I LOVE these, I use them when I make drinks like cappuccinos and my Soylent.(And good gifts). But for work the Bubbas are amazing. I can’t wait for them to sell the 24oz again as one of mine was stolen.
EDIT:
A friend of mine is a Yetti fan. I think he spent like $70 or something on his 24oz mug. We did a heat test and the bubba won. love it. He’s a big baby and said “WELL it’s actually made to keep things cool not hot, humph” and stomped off like a spoiled brat.
Weird. Always getting closer but never gets any closer.
There’s some musical trick where you play 7 or 8 different chords, and each one is the right mix of notes so it sounds like, if you play them in the right order, the chords rise in pitch but never actually get any higher. Takes the human brain 5-6 repetitions before it catches on.
@JT954 Doesn’t keep things hot as long, but I love them. Different uses, bubba for work, these for around the house or quick trips/errands. They’re also great for gifts. I broke my last one so I went ahead and bought 3.
Don’t you think it is irresponsible to sell Expresso Machines with expired coffee and then sell Jumbo size coffee cups? I don’t know what dirty tricks you play to increase productivity around MEH Central, but don’t try and corrupt your customers…unless it is with REGION FREE BLU-RAY PLAYERS
Forget hot things, I use these for ice water by the bed at night
My lazy ass discovered there was still ice in the mug the NEXT night
48 freaking hours later the water finally had no ice left, but was still fairly cool!
If I didn’t already have an array of these things from 12 to 24 Oz I would buy more of them just to use as apocolypse storage of soup or Virgin blood… Or anything else you need to keep fresh.
I feel obliged to chime in having owned both mug brands (Contigo and Bubba). The sipping mechanism of the Contigo is fantastic and very leak proof, but SO MUCH crud eventually builds up in the nooks and crannies of the Contigo lid. And this is after I diligently rinsed the lid after finishing my coffee in the mornings, and also stuck it in the dishwasher a couple times a week.
The Bubba lid is much, much simpler – just close to seal and open to drink, so it’s much easier to keep clean and crud-free. Personally, I prefer the Bubba. One downside of the Bubba lid I have noticed is that the rubber O-ring around the lid becomes slightly looser over the course of many months (I’m a daily coffee drinker). However, the Bubba warranty was easy and great – they sent me a new replacement lid pronto.
Both brands keep your drinks hot or cold. Hope this helps!
@wtk Weird. I’ve owned a few, never had an issue really(Unless I didn’t notice?). I just popped the seal open and put it in the utensil tray when I ran the washer.
Decided to pass on this and wait to see if there’s a 2 for Tuesday deal with these like the Bubba mugs I already own. If they’re $6 each like the Bubba’s were, I’ll bite.
I can finally throw out my collection of leaky stainless mugs that don’t fit in my car’s cup holder. I have one of these that stays at work, 2 more seems about right.
The Bubba is better if you are working outside. However, if you are in an office/home/car with ac environment this works really well. The autoseal lid is the biggest selling point. I wish Bubba made a cup with an autoseal lid. That would be the best insulated cup ever.
Yes, they almost NEED to be dishwashed… They are Hard to clean, and this is Way higher than the ones I bought… Agreed Bubba’s are MUCH easier to clean.
Ignoring the actual cups completely, because everything I’d say has already been said:
If you haven’t gone to the deserts of the American Southwest, go.
I grew up in coastal and near-coastal Virginia, with a brief detour to Oregon (near Grants Pass) in 1984 and the SF Bay Area in 1985. My adult life has mostly been spent in the Blue Ridge of Virginia (1994-2000) and West Virginia (2007-present). In fact the only time at all that I spent away from the general farm-country-near-the-Appalachians as an adult has been my time living in the Baltimore area (2002-2005). So to say I have a long history of living in areas of a certain type is considerably understating the case.
That said:
My first experience with the Southwest Desert, specifically the Sonoran Desert, was about two years ago. Work sent me to Phoenix for a week. I didn’t have a lot of spare time, but what I did have on the day I flew back I spent at the old amphitheatre on the south side of McDowell Road, on the north edge of Papago Park, and walking around the Desert Botanical Garden. It was different. The whole environment was different. You got a sense (or at least I did) that where an area like where I live now is characterized mostly by “trees/grass, current weather is/is-not precipitating”, the equivalent for Phoenix would be “rock/sand; is/is-not summer”.
Then around tax time of 2015, work sent me to San Diego. They told me to plan to be there through April 17. Around the 12th I found out that I probably wouldn’t be needed after 6 PM on the 15th. A whole day at my disposal. I made as much as I could of it, starting with a trip up to the Palomar Observatory. I planned to go down and check out the Salton Sea, mostly because I saw the movie by that name with Val Kilmer and had read about it being a unique environment. (I also had an idea that it was in the same area as Mono Lake, but it turns out, not. Oh well.) And I was going to drive back to San Diego by way of Joshua Tree National Park.
The first hint that I was in Big California Desert, movie-style, was when I stopped in Warner Springs to take a sailplane ride. It was hot in San Diego but it was Hot in Warner Springs. It was as hot standing around as they prepped the plane as I’m used to it being in late summer on the east coast. The land was dry and sandy and the dominant plants were scrubby little shrubs.
And then I drove east from Warner Springs, and came out of the mountains by way of, I think, Montezuma Valley Rd., and oh my God.
It was HOT, and it was dry, and you could see forever.
There was also a sense that there was a lot unseen in a way I don’t get walking around the woods at home. You can see a long way; mountains that are hundreds of miles off appear to be close enough to walk over and touch. But the distance you can see, highlights what you can’t see closer in. What’s in that cave? What’s just over that rise, or down in that wash? Probably nothing much different from the other hundred rises or washes you drove or walked past. But maybe there’s the remains of an old camp, or a bunch of Native American pictographs on a rock, or a snake, or a coyote. You don’t know, and you want to go find out.
The next four hours were basically a low-grade trip. It’s weird out there. They talk about people in the desert going crazy from the heat, but I think it’s at least as likely that some people just get addicted to that desert trip. I saw at least ten things that blew my mind that day, like the dead beach at Salton City, the sight of Joshua trees skylined against the twilight, huge-eared jackrabbits running across the beams of my headlights, the deep black that was the nighttime desert with only, far off, the lights of Twentynine Palms showing me that I was not in fact alone on the planet, the red lights of the wind farm in the San Gorgonio Pass blinking on and off, on and off, in unison…
For vacation this year I went back to San Diego, but mostly what I was really going back to was the Salton Sea, and the Joshua trees, and the scrub-dotted mountains and the hot, dry wind that blows sand in your face when it shifts unexpectedly. And this time I saw the semi-secret Hidden Cave in Joshua Tree National Park, and drove through Slab City to go see East Jesus, and I went through Jacumba, where the border fence is visible from the main road through town and the Desert View Tower is remarkable for the view not just outside, but inside as well. And I still had that sense of a low-grade trip, except it was maybe a little stronger this time…
@nomad89 it doesn’t work that way, dear, this is a discussion forum. if you placed the order in the last 5 minutes, you can cancel it from your orders page. otherwise, it’s probably too late. but you can try emailing support by going to your orders and clicking the ‘i need help with this’ button.
i got one of these last time adn picked up one for a friend this time. i want to love it. it keeps my coffee super hot. it’s comfortable and it doesn’t spill. but gosh, the way the mouthpiece is shaped flat like, the coffee scalds the inner part of my upper lip. does this happen to anyone else? i went back to using my old 12oz contigo (also from meh) where it has a deep lip on the mouth piece.
I am a fan of these travel mugs. I do have a 1 litre Bubba tumbler, but I don’t use it because it does not fit my Keurig. The 16 oz Contigo does fit. The 2.0 lid is much easier to clean than the original lid.
I don’t know why people say that the Bubba tumblers are easier to clean. Speaking about the one I have, it is only a little wider in diameter but much taller. Still too small to fit my arm all the way down to the bottom. With the Contigo, I have a bottle brush that works fine in scrubbing out the sides and down to the bottom.
If Bubba were to make a 16 oz version, I’d be tempted to try it. However, I still have two of the Meh-defaced insulated tumblers and two Contigo tumblers in the stand-by box.
Specs
What’s in the Box?
1x Contigo West Loop 2.0 Mug
Pictures
Color options
Green
Red
White
Locking lid
Other side of lid
Top of green
Top of red
White
Price Comparison
$19.95 - $20.99 at Amazon
Find a relevant price comparison? Please share it in a comment in this thread
Warranty
Lifetime Contigo
Isn’t this a bit expensive?
@conandlibrarian I concur Conan, great observation. We have been spoiled with quality cups that are priced lower.
Cool deal – get mugged tonight
Meh. No travel mug is going to top my beloved Bubba bottles.
@lljk, I got a 48oz Bubba travel mug a few months ago, just for meself. Love it.
@lljk man, i got two of those. i put my coffee in it and put it on the table with no lid. it took 3 hours till it was cool enough to drink
@lljk I have 4 of the 24oz bubba vacuum insulated mugs that I use for coffee everywhere. I’ve been using them as my ONLY coffee cup for over a year now. (I even brought and used one every day at my parents’ house when we visited them for 5 days this summer.) I’m writing this now drinking coffee from it that I made 3 hours ago.
@gwrankin I LOVE these, I use them when I make drinks like cappuccinos and my Soylent.(And good gifts). But for work the Bubbas are amazing. I can’t wait for them to sell the 24oz again as one of mine was stolen.
EDIT:
A friend of mine is a Yetti fan. I think he spent like $70 or something on his 24oz mug. We did a heat test and the bubba won. love it. He’s a big baby and said “WELL it’s actually made to keep things cool not hot, humph” and stomped off like a spoiled brat.
Maybe rename the site cup.com???
@MrJazz This jokes getting old.
Knife.com
Dock.com
Annoying.com
Fine. Fine. FINE. FINE.
I’ll buy yet another Contigo from you guys…
sigh
/giphy Contigo
Please don’t ask me what that giphy is…
double sigh
@haydesigner Nacer Contingo is a telenovela. It was probably mentioned in an article with the banner.
I don’t see a H/C switch. How does the cup know whether to keep the drink hot or cold?
@MehnofLaMehncha You have to solder a jumper.
@MehnofLaMehncha
/giphy magic
@MehnofLaMehncha I don’t see that switch.
OMG, how many more varieties of these does Meh have left to sell?
While it may be baby arm compatible, there is no purple option. For that alone, I say meh.
Periwinkle is the new purple, @heartny.
@haydesigner I like periwinkle, but there is no option for that today. So for that I say meh too.
16oz… bah. Might as well sell leakproof thimbles.
Gonna wait for 2.0.1, you know those dot-zero releases always have the most bugs.
Saw a 2-pack at Costco tonight that would match this without shipping. Assuming you belong to Costco.
1 mug, 2 mug, red mug, green mug. Crap, I just went all Dr Seuss on you…
I love this cup 1.0 I have taken it to the beach and even after a day in the sun, the water is still cold.
No purple, no sale!
Cups… Why did it have to be cups?
@Tin_Foil maybe their cups runneth over with them at meh…
@Tin_Foil
/youtube cups
Who knew the baby arm
/giphy spits supa hot fire
@liz
Weird. Always getting closer but never gets any closer.
There’s some musical trick where you play 7 or 8 different chords, and each one is the right mix of notes so it sounds like, if you play them in the right order, the chords rise in pitch but never actually get any higher. Takes the human brain 5-6 repetitions before it catches on.
Reminded me of that , that’s why.
Tempting. How is this compared to the Bubba mug?
@JT954 Doesn’t keep things hot as long, but I love them. Different uses, bubba for work, these for around the house or quick trips/errands. They’re also great for gifts. I broke my last one so I went ahead and bought 3.
Good product. Already have four.
@xego Is an expresso machine a former espresso machine?
@rpstrong A former Spanish pressing machine. Ex-press-o
Forget hot things, I use these for ice water by the bed at night
My lazy ass discovered there was still ice in the mug the NEXT night
48 freaking hours later the water finally had no ice left, but was still fairly cool!
If I didn’t already have an array of these things from 12 to 24 Oz I would buy more of them just to use as apocolypse storage of soup or Virgin blood… Or anything else you need to keep fresh.
Mugs. Just when I thought I was out…Meh pulled me back in.
I’m in for one Storm Trooper white.
I feel obliged to chime in having owned both mug brands (Contigo and Bubba). The sipping mechanism of the Contigo is fantastic and very leak proof, but SO MUCH crud eventually builds up in the nooks and crannies of the Contigo lid. And this is after I diligently rinsed the lid after finishing my coffee in the mornings, and also stuck it in the dishwasher a couple times a week.
The Bubba lid is much, much simpler – just close to seal and open to drink, so it’s much easier to keep clean and crud-free. Personally, I prefer the Bubba. One downside of the Bubba lid I have noticed is that the rubber O-ring around the lid becomes slightly looser over the course of many months (I’m a daily coffee drinker). However, the Bubba warranty was easy and great – they sent me a new replacement lid pronto.
Both brands keep your drinks hot or cold. Hope this helps!
@wtk
There’s crud in every travel mug lid ever made.
It’s only a question of whether the owner realizes it.
@MehnofLaMehncha that’s the flavor enhancement feature.
/giphy crud
@wtk Weird. I’ve owned a few, never had an issue really(Unless I didn’t notice?). I just popped the seal open and put it in the utensil tray when I ran the washer.
Boss!! Hot stays hot!
Really. These cups again. These won’t work as an auto feed scanner
I think where they state the number of items sold per hour…they actually mean minutes…or is my math bad?
I know BUBBAS, and YOU, Sir, are NO BUBBA!
(Looks pointedly at door) Good day, Sir.
(Opens door with flourish) I SAID “GOOD DAY!”!!!
Decided to pass on this and wait to see if there’s a 2 for Tuesday deal with these like the Bubba mugs I already own. If they’re $6 each like the Bubba’s were, I’ll bite.
I can finally throw out my collection of leaky stainless mugs that don’t fit in my car’s cup holder. I have one of these that stays at work, 2 more seems about right.
The Bubba is better if you are working outside. However, if you are in an office/home/car with ac environment this works really well. The autoseal lid is the biggest selling point. I wish Bubba made a cup with an autoseal lid. That would be the best insulated cup ever.
@dino2269 Exactly. Both are great mugs, honestly I’d say I use this one more often than my Bubbas
Are these dishwasher compatable? I’m too lazy to do a Google search on zip code model numbers.
@TheDagda I’ve never had any problems. Usually bottom shelf too.
@Glucose thanks! You D-Glucose!
@TheDagda Anytime Mr.Dagda!
I feel like I remember reading it saying not dishwasher safe, but I’m not sure.
but like I said I would put my (red) ones in ALL the time. Unfortunately they were all lost and stolen, and I broke one -.-
Yes, they almost NEED to be dishwashed… They are Hard to clean, and this is Way higher than the ones I bought… Agreed Bubba’s are MUCH easier to clean.
Ah 16 ozes just the right size for those froufrou cars with cup holders of a delicate nature.
It’s very nice but if you’re not a member it’s cheaper at Walmart. U-Save $2 to $4 without shipping. Would have been sold at $6.
Ignoring the actual cups completely, because everything I’d say has already been said:
If you haven’t gone to the deserts of the American Southwest, go.
I grew up in coastal and near-coastal Virginia, with a brief detour to Oregon (near Grants Pass) in 1984 and the SF Bay Area in 1985. My adult life has mostly been spent in the Blue Ridge of Virginia (1994-2000) and West Virginia (2007-present). In fact the only time at all that I spent away from the general farm-country-near-the-Appalachians as an adult has been my time living in the Baltimore area (2002-2005). So to say I have a long history of living in areas of a certain type is considerably understating the case.
That said:
My first experience with the Southwest Desert, specifically the Sonoran Desert, was about two years ago. Work sent me to Phoenix for a week. I didn’t have a lot of spare time, but what I did have on the day I flew back I spent at the old amphitheatre on the south side of McDowell Road, on the north edge of Papago Park, and walking around the Desert Botanical Garden. It was different. The whole environment was different. You got a sense (or at least I did) that where an area like where I live now is characterized mostly by “trees/grass, current weather is/is-not precipitating”, the equivalent for Phoenix would be “rock/sand; is/is-not summer”.
Then around tax time of 2015, work sent me to San Diego. They told me to plan to be there through April 17. Around the 12th I found out that I probably wouldn’t be needed after 6 PM on the 15th. A whole day at my disposal. I made as much as I could of it, starting with a trip up to the Palomar Observatory. I planned to go down and check out the Salton Sea, mostly because I saw the movie by that name with Val Kilmer and had read about it being a unique environment. (I also had an idea that it was in the same area as Mono Lake, but it turns out, not. Oh well.) And I was going to drive back to San Diego by way of Joshua Tree National Park.
The first hint that I was in Big California Desert, movie-style, was when I stopped in Warner Springs to take a sailplane ride. It was hot in San Diego but it was Hot in Warner Springs. It was as hot standing around as they prepped the plane as I’m used to it being in late summer on the east coast. The land was dry and sandy and the dominant plants were scrubby little shrubs.
And then I drove east from Warner Springs, and came out of the mountains by way of, I think, Montezuma Valley Rd., and oh my God.
It was HOT, and it was dry, and you could see forever.
There was also a sense that there was a lot unseen in a way I don’t get walking around the woods at home. You can see a long way; mountains that are hundreds of miles off appear to be close enough to walk over and touch. But the distance you can see, highlights what you can’t see closer in. What’s in that cave? What’s just over that rise, or down in that wash? Probably nothing much different from the other hundred rises or washes you drove or walked past. But maybe there’s the remains of an old camp, or a bunch of Native American pictographs on a rock, or a snake, or a coyote. You don’t know, and you want to go find out.
The next four hours were basically a low-grade trip. It’s weird out there. They talk about people in the desert going crazy from the heat, but I think it’s at least as likely that some people just get addicted to that desert trip. I saw at least ten things that blew my mind that day, like the dead beach at Salton City, the sight of Joshua trees skylined against the twilight, huge-eared jackrabbits running across the beams of my headlights, the deep black that was the nighttime desert with only, far off, the lights of Twentynine Palms showing me that I was not in fact alone on the planet, the red lights of the wind farm in the San Gorgonio Pass blinking on and off, on and off, in unison…
For vacation this year I went back to San Diego, but mostly what I was really going back to was the Salton Sea, and the Joshua trees, and the scrub-dotted mountains and the hot, dry wind that blows sand in your face when it shifts unexpectedly. And this time I saw the semi-secret Hidden Cave in Joshua Tree National Park, and drove through Slab City to go see East Jesus, and I went through Jacumba, where the border fence is visible from the main road through town and the Desert View Tower is remarkable for the view not just outside, but inside as well. And I still had that sense of a low-grade trip, except it was maybe a little stronger this time…
@kensey tl:dr
@kensey as soon as I read the word “deserts” I stopped reading because I knew the rest would be just a lot of hot air.
Can’t imagine like these @ $9 better than our cache of Bubbas @ $6 each.
I bought one of these for like $16 a couple months ago, and love it. Sadly it’s so durable I really don’t need another.
Cheaper at Costco and a newer model. A two pack is $16.
@ckcarlton they have a great deal on toilet paper right now, too. i really need to renew my membership. sigh.
Just bought two. Makes me wanna…
Cancel my order
@nomad89 it doesn’t work that way, dear, this is a discussion forum. if you placed the order in the last 5 minutes, you can cancel it from your orders page. otherwise, it’s probably too late. but you can try emailing support by going to your orders and clicking the ‘i need help with this’ button.
i got one of these last time adn picked up one for a friend this time. i want to love it. it keeps my coffee super hot. it’s comfortable and it doesn’t spill. but gosh, the way the mouthpiece is shaped flat like, the coffee scalds the inner part of my upper lip. does this happen to anyone else? i went back to using my old 12oz contigo (also from meh) where it has a deep lip on the mouth piece.
this is great for iced coffee tho.
@meh Weird. the way it’s designed is part of why I love it so much, feels natural and easy.
@Glucose i’m certain its because i’m weird. it kinda sucks though because i love the mug.
@meh
I am a fan of these travel mugs. I do have a 1 litre Bubba tumbler, but I don’t use it because it does not fit my Keurig. The 16 oz Contigo does fit. The 2.0 lid is much easier to clean than the original lid.
I don’t know why people say that the Bubba tumblers are easier to clean. Speaking about the one I have, it is only a little wider in diameter but much taller. Still too small to fit my arm all the way down to the bottom. With the Contigo, I have a bottle brush that works fine in scrubbing out the sides and down to the bottom.
If Bubba were to make a 16 oz version, I’d be tempted to try it. However, I still have two of the Meh-defaced insulated tumblers and two Contigo tumblers in the stand-by box.
@sjk3 people say the bubbas are easier because you can just toss them in the dishwasher in the top rack and call it a day.
Lame deal
@Crood /giphy no u
edit: /shrug
@Crood It’s pronounced Lamé
The only thing better to buy on Meh than another coffee mug is a knife! Too bad Meh never sells those.