On the other hand, ceramic mugs give off a pleasant radiant heat which is nice to hold in cold mornings. They do such an efficient job of keeping all of the heat inside that the outside is cold to the touch. Moreover, the inside walls tend to trap oils and alter the taste of your beverage. They bring to mind less ideal situations like camping or rushing out of the house.

Moreover, stainless steel travel mugs touch your lips differently–cold, metallic. If you are a fussy coffee person, you know that keeping precise temperatures is key to everything, from roasting to brewing to finally drinking. For example, when you attempt to reheat your coffee in the microwave, you may too easily overheat it, which in effect overcooks all that good stuff you painstakingly crafted in the brewing process. This may have the potential to degrade the flavor of the coffee quicker. Insulated thermoses, like Zojirushi or Hydroflask, tend to keep the heat well above comfortable drinking temperatures for too long. According to influencer coffee god, James Hoffman, this would be the best case scenario for preserving flavor from the ravages of time. These lidded mugs steadily decline in temperature, while the Ember cools down until the target temperature and stays there. While these double-walled mugs can keep your beverage hot for about as long or longer, there are a few things that the Ember does better. stainless double-walled mugsĭouble-walled stainless mugs, tumblers and bottles from companies like Yeti, Klean Kanteen, and Hyrdo Flask provide a low tech solution to the tepid coffee problem. It’s nice and cozy.Īn unexpected touch is that there is a rubber bottom, gripping your table a bit and adding to its sense of stability and weight. Experientially, this is closer to using a regular ceramic mug. The cup feels warm to the touch when heated, not cool. It’s not considered double-walled but more of a triple layer since there isn’t much air to insulate the outer layer. Sandwiched between the walls of the mug is a steel piece that heats up the sides. (Ember has more recently released metallic versions of this mug with a higher gloss finish and material). This version of the ceramic mug has a smooth, satin finish and look. This cup is expensive, and this styling delivers on that price tag. Ember CEO Clay Alexander admitted that designing the mug was a painstaking process, fitting all its tech into the bottom of the mug in a nice, unnoticeable way.

It’s really nice to hold and with its sleek matte finish (in black or white), it will fit right in with the vignette of carefully considered objects on your desk. The Ember Mug² takes a pleasing form, rounded, well-balanced with a satisfying, weighty feel.

After two hours, the mug automatically shuts down if there is no movement triggered by the accelerometer. It turns on automatically when it senses liquid inside. Syncing to a smartphone through bluetooth allows you to set the temperature to the degree in a range between 120 ☏ (50 ☌) and 145 ☏ (62.5 ☌). The lithium-ion battery provides about 80-90 minutes of continuous heat off of its charging base. Heated water rises to the top and creates a current, heating up the contents uniformly and precisely to the set temperature. How does the Ember Mug work?Įquipped with multiple sensors and a microprocessor, the Ember Mug² intelligently senses the liquid capacity and heats it using convection. Common are Youtube video comments attesting their love for this gadget–especially after initial skepticism. People who work all day at a desk, the chronically forgetful, the impossibly busy, parents who are constantly pulled away could all benefit from this stalwart piece of tech. While designed to impress the most discerning of coffee people, the Ember Mug² meets the demand of a much wider audience, even if they weren’t sure they needed it. I know because I am one, insufferable and overbearing. Coffee aficionados in this age of YouTube/Reddit/TikTok are known to spare no expense to find the best technological and aesthetic solutions to innocuous problems we didn’t know needed fixing. Self-professed coffee nerd, Ember CEO Clay Alexander recognized the tepid coffee problem and set out to solve it. It is all these things, but more importantly, the Ember mug works well and feels good. The Ember Mug², however, is the solution that can buy you time.Īt first glance, many people tend to judge this mug as ridiculous, over-indulgent, expensive, and over-engineered–and they are not wrong. Microwaving your mug is the go-to solution, but it never manages to get that ‘freshly brewed’ taste back. If you, like many other people, are prone to ‘coffee sipping,’ you probably don’t finish it before it turns warm, then lukewarm, then undrinkable. See Price at Amazon See Price at Best Buy

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