Carter Carry Travel Mug

Most insulated bottles put bare steel straight against your drink, which is why yesterday's coffee keeps turning up in this morning's water. Fellow's answer was to line the inside.

The Carter Carry is a 591 millilitre travel mug whose 18/8 stainless steel body carries a ceramic interior coating Fellow calls True Taste, so there is no metal touching the coffee and nothing for oils or lingering flavours to hold onto. That matters most on the short walk to work, the stretch where a metallic edge usually creeps in. Insulation is unaffected by the lining: Fellow rates the mug at 12 hours hot and up to 24 hours cold, and a twist-to-lock lid holds the seal in a bag.

The drinking end is the other half of the argument. The mouth is 61 millimetres across and the lip is thin, closer to a ceramic mug at a kitchen table than to the thick rolled rim most travel bottles ask you to drink over. The metal handle sits tight against the body, close enough to clip onto a bag strap, and at 258 millimetres tall with the lid on the 20 ounce size fits most car cup holders. The 32 ounce one does not, which is worth knowing before you choose.

Body and lid are both dishwasher safe, though Fellow would rather you washed them by hand, and the lid swaps onto any size of the Carter Move mug, so an existing Fellow shelf does not start from scratch.