Your Favorite Coffee/Tea Cup From Which You Sip as Your Watch Ticks Along?
Watches and Coffee. I think this phrase can rightfully be included in the peanut butter and jelly and peas and carrots club…because who of us Crunch people don’t like to sip from our favorite mug while wearing one of our treasured time pieces?
My favorite coffee/tea mugs, to complement my choice of watch, is one of three Costco owl mugs. I had six originally, but had to divi three of them to my girlfriend of eight years when she grew tired of me and moved out. Oh well…at least I got the first pick on three of the six.
What’s your favorite coffee/tea mug from which you enjoy your morning coffee or tea after donning your daily watch?
Time dictates my linear path to its bitter end. My watches keep me one step ahead of time…and one foot out of the grave.
Not the clearest photo (because it was background to the watch), but this WAS my favorite mug. Got it in 2007 on a trip to the Smoky Mountains. Unfortunately, it's in about seven pieces in a Walmart bag right now. Back in December, while getting Christmas decorations down out of the attic, I managed to dislodge a 97-lb antique fire alarm from a joist, which sent it careening down the attic stairs and straight for my cup o' brew. I was heartbroken and pissed all at the same time (Let's just say that fire alarm met the same fate as that printer in Office Space). I managed to hold on to it this long, without even a chip (including two out of state moves), just so it could fall victim to an inoperable chunk of metal that I should've gotten rid of when we first bought the house. I have another, newer cup from the same pottery house, from a later trip, but it's just not the same. Since it just broke, and didn't shatter into a million pieces, I'm hoping one day I can epoxy it together. If I'm lucky, it will hold liquid. If not, it'll become a pencil holder. Pic (also blurry, same reason) of the newer, not as special to me, replacement mug. 👇 It'll have to do for now.
Oh my goodness…that is a wrenching story. Damn fire bell!
Definitely I say glue it together. Your pencils will thank you if it is no longer coffee-worthy.
May I say you have good taste in watches…Islander Pepsi and a Royale!
Thank you, I enjoy your collection on the daily WRUW, as well. I still groan a little every morning when I open the cupboard. I need to get on it and try to put it back together.
The cup says it all, bit of a cheat really as I'm off the coffee😪 as it started to give me heartburn(do miss a cup of freshly brewed)
The cup says it all, bit of a cheat really as I'm off the coffee😪 as it started to give me heartburn(do miss a cup of freshly brewed)
Oh no! Two words that may get you back to a hot cup: Pepcid Complete (a miracle cure).
Thank you, I enjoy your collection on the daily WRUW, as well. I still groan a little every morning when I open the cupboard. I need to get on it and try to put it back together.
Very kind of you good sir!
Oh no! Two words that may get you back to a hot cup: Pepcid Complete (a miracle cure).
Cheers I'll look that up, used the usual cures, but found no coffee need no tablets. The very occasional one no problem but as I work shifts once I get the hit n the taste that's it I'm coffeaholic.
Cheers I'll look that up, used the usual cures, but found no coffee need no tablets. The very occasional one no problem but as I work shifts once I get the hit n the taste that's it I'm coffeaholic.
Pepcid Complete, or it’s supermarket equivalents, contains the ingredient famotidine, which reduces gastric concentrations without altering one’s proton pump. I think it’s the bee’s knees.
Pepcid Complete, or it’s supermarket equivalents, contains the ingredient famotidine, which reduces gastric concentrations without altering one’s proton pump. I think it’s the bee’s knees.
Thanks just checked its available here in the UK, I'll give it a go, and in the near future will be an early morning WURW on the patio with a proper cup of liquid black,cheers.
I don't really have a "special" coffee cup these days, although I have been using this "Starry Night" cup I picked up from the "Beyond Van Gogh" exhibit last summer.
Visited Staffordshire home of pottery so had a go at decorating a mug , arrived late so missed the talk about how to do it so just winged it
I don't really have a "special" coffee cup these days, although I have been using this "Starry Night" cup I picked up from the "Beyond Van Gogh" exhibit last summer.
A celebrated artist indeed…but he, per his personal history, could have done well with a couple cups of Joe a day.
Visited Staffordshire home of pottery so had a go at decorating a mug , arrived late so missed the talk about how to do it so just winged it
Nice! The truck looks like a 1992 Toyota Xtra Cab.
I either use a titanium cup that is part of a camping set.
Or in case of difficulties, I switch to the one that can bring it up to 11.
That's my favorite cup and my photo... "Victorian Ebony" by Mikasa - Japan, but just this style was made by Mikasa in Thailand
Even if I have these too (sellers photo) "Cloisonne Peony" by Fitz & Floyd - Japan
Make cold brew. It doesn't have the acid that forms with heat. I put grounds and room temp water in a French press in the evening and 9-12 hours later it is ready. I've been doing this for years -- no acid 'bite' to the coffee, no heartburn, wonderful tasting coffee. Plus it stays fresh in the fridge for days. Worth a try as I hate to see a fellow coffee lover have to give it up. Cheers!
Never even thought of that cheers
That event is wild!
I can neither confirm or deny...😅
A Yeti. An adult sippy cup. Just like cocktail glasses, I've got some really cool old coffee cups. However, none are simply as practical as my Yeti's. Yes, I own a few. Keeps hot drinks hotter longer and iced drinks 'iced' much longer. My favorite coffee cups & cocktail glasses are display items now. But I never break them either.
A Yeti. An adult sippy cup. Just like cocktail glasses, I've got some really cool old coffee cups. However, none are simply as practical as my Yeti's. Yes, I own a few. Keeps hot drinks hotter longer and iced drinks 'iced' much longer. My favorite coffee cups & cocktail glasses are display items now. But I never break them either.
I want to yet a big Yeti cooler…but man they are expensive.
I genuinely thought cool Homer Simpson mug !
Late post 😅
Brewing coffee is, to me, a really important part of my morning, and I maintain a consistent pour-over workflow. I like to wear a dive watch for coffee making for a few reasons.
First is that I can get the watch wet in the kitchen. Second is the high legibility that a typical dive watch affords. Third is that unlike an LCD, the analog dial actually makes it easier to follow a brew recipe by breaking up time into visible segments.
Unfortunately, I do not own a chronograph.
I drink from double-walled Pyrex glassware, wearing a Seiko SPB313 or Squale Corse Italiano.
Excuse me for going ham with this comment. It's nice to be able to talk about combining two things I am really interested in.
Brewing coffee is, to me, a really important part of my morning, and I maintain a consistent pour-over workflow. I like to wear a dive watch for coffee making for a few reasons.
First is that I can get the watch wet in the kitchen. Second is the high legibility that a typical dive watch affords. Third is that unlike an LCD, the analog dial actually makes it easier to follow a brew recipe by breaking up time into visible segments.
Unfortunately, I do not own a chronograph.
I drink from double-walled Pyrex glassware, wearing a Seiko SPB313 or Squale Corse Italiano.
Excuse me for going ham with this comment. It's nice to be able to talk about combining two things I am really interested in.
I think it’s awesome. A fascinating regimen!
I have an owl mug, as well, but alas, I only have one. But it's my favorite, because it reminds me of my call to duty; as you can see by the badge in the photo, I am a member of The Fraternal Order of the Golden Owl, which is a charitable organization that seeks to promote and preserve the concept of chivalry, in order to make the world a better place, one act of kindness at a time. (For more details: http://fratowl.com/ )
The other two mugs, which are also my favorites, are a type of Polish pottery called Boleslawiec, which is the name of the town where the factory is; more details here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82awiec_pottery (My wife was born in Gdansk, Poland, and has a collection of many different styles of Boleslawiec pottery, from mugs, to plates, to bowls, to salt and pepper shakers, etc.)
If I am drinking coffee, it is for sure being served in one of these three mugs. 😎 Every one of these mugs is special to me, for one reason or another. 🙂
I have an owl mug, as well, but alas, I only have one. But it's my favorite, because it reminds me of my call to duty; as you can see by the badge in the photo, I am a member of The Fraternal Order of the Golden Owl, which is a charitable organization that seeks to promote and preserve the concept of chivalry, in order to make the world a better place, one act of kindness at a time. (For more details: http://fratowl.com/ )
The other two mugs, which are also my favorites, are a type of Polish pottery called Boleslawiec, which is the name of the town where the factory is; more details here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boles%C5%82awiec_pottery (My wife was born in Gdansk, Poland, and has a collection of many different styles of Boleslawiec pottery, from mugs, to plates, to bowls, to salt and pepper shakers, etc.)
If I am drinking coffee, it is for sure being served in one of these three mugs. 😎 Every one of these mugs is special to me, for one reason or another. 🙂
Those are fantastic!
P.S. There is one exception to what I said above; if I am on my way to the office, and I don't have time to drink my coffee at home, into the Buc-ee's mug it goes!
P.S. There is one exception to what I said above; if I am on my way to the office, and I don't have time to drink my coffee at home, into the Buc-ee's mug it goes!
Love Bucee’s! Check out these slip-ons.
Love Bucee’s! Check out these slip-ons.
So awesome! 🤩🤣
Those are fantastic!
Thanks! 😀