Save the Planet!
The new DoubleShot Carbon Credit Travel Cups are here!
With World Coffee Domination sweeping the planet, we feel hope for the future and want to preserve the environment as much as possible. So out with the old, and in with the new.
I took the new cup for a test drive today, to see how well it works in my Land Rover. The Land Rover is equipped with ridiculously small cup holders, made for cans of soda I think, and the new CCTC fit in the hole like it was specially made by Land Rover and cost $85. I took some hard corners to see if the cup would tip and fall from its shallow holder, but nay. Nay! It has staying power. But even if it had come out...
The cup has a flip-top lid. It screws on and the flip-top closes over the drinking hole, preventing spillage. Isaiah and I did some preliminary testing before I left for this test drive. I put coffee in the cup. I went to the DoubleShot test sink and turned the cup upside down. Not one drop leaked out. I flipped the cup into the air and caught it and not a drop spilled. I threw the cup to Isaiah and he tossed it back to me like two clowns juggling bowling pins at the circus. This cup is sealed up tight.
It's an insulated plastic cup. That means there is a layer of plastic on the inside and another layer of plastic on the outside, and the air between helps the coffee inside stay hot. It seems to work, though I haven't done any rigorous testing on the length of time it holds temp. This cup is surprisingly heavy (286 grams). It's solid. It feels unbreakable, so I subjected it to the drop test. At 3 feet, the cup bounced off the concrete floor unscathed. I wasn't even worried that anything had happened to it. At 6 feet, it sounded a little worse. This was dropped from over my head. Like if you were drinking coffee and someone came up behind you and scared you and you threw your cup into the air and it landed on the concrete (or maybe if you set it on top of your SUV and forgot and drove off). The cup received some minor cosmetic damage. The very bottom of the cup cracked in a half-inch C-shaped ding. Upon re-filling the cup with coffee and re-testing, no leaks or other impairments were noted.
In the car, drinking from the cup was fine. The flip-top is easy to open with one hand and the coffee pours out into my mouth without drips or hassles, and it closes up as easily as it opens. I do have one complaint. The tiny rubber stopper that closes up the vent hole which allows the coffee to pour smoothly into my gullet pokes me in the nose. Right on the end of my nose. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's a mild irritant. I'll get used to it. The best part was, as soon as I started drinking out of it I felt like I was on a road trip! I could envision myself driving west, toward Colorado, toward Utah... I felt freedom!
But let's talk about the looks of the cup. Our in-house designer put the DoubleShot logo on a background that is the DoubleShot Coffee roaster. The roaster is out of focus and it's kind of hard to tell what it is, but now that you know, well... you know. Anyway, in my opinion it's a beautiful cup.
The cup sells for $10 at DoubleShot or on the website (www.DoubleShotCoffee.com). And it's worth waaaaay more than $10, if you think about it. When you stop using paper cups, you stop killing trees, you earn carbon credits, and you can feel better about driving your SUV to Moab.
Save the planet! Buy a DoubleShot Carbon Credit Travel Cup!
With World Coffee Domination sweeping the planet, we feel hope for the future and want to preserve the environment as much as possible. So out with the old, and in with the new.
I took the new cup for a test drive today, to see how well it works in my Land Rover. The Land Rover is equipped with ridiculously small cup holders, made for cans of soda I think, and the new CCTC fit in the hole like it was specially made by Land Rover and cost $85. I took some hard corners to see if the cup would tip and fall from its shallow holder, but nay. Nay! It has staying power. But even if it had come out...
The cup has a flip-top lid. It screws on and the flip-top closes over the drinking hole, preventing spillage. Isaiah and I did some preliminary testing before I left for this test drive. I put coffee in the cup. I went to the DoubleShot test sink and turned the cup upside down. Not one drop leaked out. I flipped the cup into the air and caught it and not a drop spilled. I threw the cup to Isaiah and he tossed it back to me like two clowns juggling bowling pins at the circus. This cup is sealed up tight.
It's an insulated plastic cup. That means there is a layer of plastic on the inside and another layer of plastic on the outside, and the air between helps the coffee inside stay hot. It seems to work, though I haven't done any rigorous testing on the length of time it holds temp. This cup is surprisingly heavy (286 grams). It's solid. It feels unbreakable, so I subjected it to the drop test. At 3 feet, the cup bounced off the concrete floor unscathed. I wasn't even worried that anything had happened to it. At 6 feet, it sounded a little worse. This was dropped from over my head. Like if you were drinking coffee and someone came up behind you and scared you and you threw your cup into the air and it landed on the concrete (or maybe if you set it on top of your SUV and forgot and drove off). The cup received some minor cosmetic damage. The very bottom of the cup cracked in a half-inch C-shaped ding. Upon re-filling the cup with coffee and re-testing, no leaks or other impairments were noted.
In the car, drinking from the cup was fine. The flip-top is easy to open with one hand and the coffee pours out into my mouth without drips or hassles, and it closes up as easily as it opens. I do have one complaint. The tiny rubber stopper that closes up the vent hole which allows the coffee to pour smoothly into my gullet pokes me in the nose. Right on the end of my nose. It's not a deal-breaker, but it's a mild irritant. I'll get used to it. The best part was, as soon as I started drinking out of it I felt like I was on a road trip! I could envision myself driving west, toward Colorado, toward Utah... I felt freedom!
But let's talk about the looks of the cup. Our in-house designer put the DoubleShot logo on a background that is the DoubleShot Coffee roaster. The roaster is out of focus and it's kind of hard to tell what it is, but now that you know, well... you know. Anyway, in my opinion it's a beautiful cup.
The cup sells for $10 at DoubleShot or on the website (www.DoubleShotCoffee.com). And it's worth waaaaay more than $10, if you think about it. When you stop using paper cups, you stop killing trees, you earn carbon credits, and you can feel better about driving your SUV to Moab.
Save the planet! Buy a DoubleShot Carbon Credit Travel Cup!
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