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MrWizard
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May 24, 2018

coffee 'Therma Carafe'

recommendations wanted

looking for a new 'good' thermal carafe
to keep my fresh pot of hot coffee... hot (for 'hours')

in a few hours about 3 ? mine is down to just barely warm

i may have to resort to an old fashion glass lined vacuum bottle
  • As noted earlier...
    They all work best if you warm them up first with boiling water.
  • I use a 40 year old Stanley thermos.
    Most vacuum insulated coffee containers should work about the same.
  • I have tried all sorts of carafes including stainless and old fashioned glass vacuum bottles. If the container is entirely full, the best I get is maybe 4-6 hours of hot coffee. A glass vacuum bottle or the carafes I tried were no better than my stainless vacuum bottle. Over time I broke all of the glass lined bottles. My stainless Stanley is several decades old.

    I recommend making coffee directly into the vacuum bottle. I use a Mellita funnel with extension tube that fits into a narrow mouth vacuum bottle. Costco has dirt cheap no. 6 filters.
  • We have a Thermos brand Airpot carafe that keeps coffee quite warm for 7-8 hours.
  • Tvov's avatar
    Tvov
    Explorer II
    I have been hearing good things about the Ozark Trail thermal travel mugs at Walmart. Supposedly they are very good knockoffs of Yeti mugs, but at a fraction of the price. My Yeti insulated mug is very impressive at how long it keeps coffee hot. A big "travel mug" holds a lot of coffee.
  • Believe it or not, the thermal carafe sold at IKEA has got to be the best one we've ever used. It has kept coffee HOT nearly all day.

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