Top critical review
2.0 out of 5 starsPerfect for a while, but got almost impossible to pull the plunger out to empty and clean it
Reviewed in the United States on December 16, 2017
Perfect for a few months, but I can't use it any more and I'm shopping again. This design was a brilliant solution for work, since I moved around and couldn't take time to use a regular coffee press. And it kept my coffee hot for so long, I could pour it before my shift and as long as the cap was on it stayed hot until I wanted to drink it a couple hours later. Plus it didn't leak at all.
But after a while all the gaskets expanded or something and it got really hard and messy to use, then impossible. It was harder and harder to press down the plunger when the coffee was ready. Then *really* hard to pull the plunger out to empty and clean it. I had to use so much pressure pulling it out that it would suddenly release and fly out, flinging wet coffee all over the place--super fun when I'm using this to be quick and discrete at work. It's hard to get a good grip on the lid, too, to get enough leverage for that, so it hurt my fingers and became totally frustrating and stressful. Sometimes the lid (not the cap, the sipping lid) was impossible to unscrew without running hot water over it. I sometimes asked someone stronger than me to try to get the lid off, or work the plunger out, but I mean, how workable is it to go looking for stronger and stronger coworkers to frustrate with my coffee mug??
That's way too much trouble, and I'm looking once again for a solution to make coffee at work simple and easy.
