BODUMTravel French Press Coffee Maker Set with Extra Lid, Vacuum, 0.35 L/12 oz, White

As with all Bodum items you get a well designed item that looks good but above all functions well and is good to use, clean and lasts. Other half and chum are proper coffee addicts and for travelling, home use or office use this makes a superb mini perc coffee. Other half always overnights with it taking coffee in a clip lock so has good coffee on demand, he also has his early morning mugful of coffee in mug slot in car - so can gulp with perc press lid or when I sneak it for travelling tea - the normal lid, low dribble factor - important in nice well any clothes . Keeps coffee, tea, hot cordial and drinks hot for a good while/drinkable for an hour or so, also keeps cool drinks cool, invaluable too for invalid and duvet days. With double wall can be easily held anywhere and easy grip band helps too. Love it, it washed well by hand ( and rinses out the granules) and dishwasher too, also can use really ground espresso coffee in it. Many comments and oohs and aaarhs. getting one for myself as luxury for gardening and can see how much tea or cordial I have left - without bugs! May not suit thermos addicts.

I bought this in August and after 9 months of daily (if not more!) use, the inner plastic has cracked slightly and allowed coffee to leak into the vacuum space and get stuck. It has served me very well until now. Kept coffee hot for a good hour or more if left shut with the lid on. It does need to be kept fairly upright and I also found I needed to make sure the lid was properly screwed on before drinking as it sometimes dribbled a bit as the plastic expanded with heat. But as long as you remember to make sure it's tight before drinking, no problems.I think the reason it cracked was a combination of dishwasher, boiling water and a fall from a 4ft high locker. It did get a fair bit of abuse. Going to replace it with a metal one and not put it in the dishwasher to see if it lasts bit longer. All in all, very happy with it! An excellent way of getting proper coffee on the go and definitely worth the money.

I am very pleased with this purchase. It's ideal for making fresh tea or coffee on the go, or if you're away from home for any reason.There are a few downsides, but for me, none were totally unexpected. First, it's not the largest travel mug in the world, but it's okay. Second, the plunger doesn't go down quite as far as I would like, so the coffee grinds are a bit loose in the bottom of the mug (but still beneath the plunger) if you're not keen on lots of ground coffee for a strong coffee. Third, the lid isn't leak-proof, so treat the mug with care, and as a result of the lid not being as sealed as some other travel mugs, it's not going to keep the contents as hot over a period of time as some of those other aforementioned travel mugs.Okay, with those niggles out of the way, here is what I do like.If you want to use it more like a normal travel mug, you get a second lid without a plunger, allowing you to carry other liquids without the plunger in place.You get to make coffee with your favourite ground coffee, and as fresh as it would be at home. Plus, there are sometimes places where you might not be able to buy fresh coffee, or, for example, decaffeinated or flavoured coffee. It allows you to make the coffee to your preferred strength as well. If you wish to add milk, you could always put some in first, so long as you can transport it upright to prevent spillage until you're ready to use the mug. Failing that, a second Thermos type container would transport the milk you need easily.If you wish to add extra ground coffee for an extremely strong taste, you could even use it like a French Press at home, and dole out coffee to one or two other people, which can then be watered down to taste.The manufacturer has a proven track record of French Press coffee makers for the home, and the quality with this is pretty good as a result. It's already withstood me dropping it on the floor once while I was sitting down. I don't want to test that out too often though. 😫The plunger top sits flush with the rest of the lid once pushed down, so it is comfortable to use, and should reduce any risk of damage to the plunger.The flip top works well, and gives you a good sized area to sip from.Overall, this is now my favourite coffee maker for outside the home, or for any kind of power outage. It's quick, simple, uses techniques that have been around for years, and so long as you have access to boiled water, you're good to go. Huh, that said, you could probably also use it to make iced coffee or tea in hot weather... that might be something I can try once summer arrives. 🤔

This product is so good that when I was silly enough to leave it at work after a shift - it was stolen! So I've got to buy another. I shudder to think how much money this wonderful cafetiere has saved me as I'm no longer buying £3 coffees from Costa every day.I use the product to brew my preferred coffee and then decant it into a coffee cup rather than drinking it straight out of the flask, but you could choose to do either. Even though the plunger doesn't feel like it's a perfect fit, it traps all the ground coffee perfectly and you don't end up with any granules in your mug or your mouth. It contains the perfect volume to fill a standard mug with room for a little milk, and as it's only two components (the flask section and the lid + plunger section) it's extremely easy and quick to clean. As the outside is not made of glass, it's durable and I feel safe transporting this everywhere.The product also comes with a non-plunger lid so you could brew tea if you so chose.Thank you for inventing this product - it has got me through some really tough shifts on a Covid ward.