Amazon.com Customer Reviews
it's silly to profess love for a mug, but i will! - Review written on June 01, 2008
Rating: 5 out of 5
this mug is awesome! no, the lid is not spill-proof, just spill-resistant (no more so than your average takeout dunkin donuts styrofoam cup). the purpose of this mug is to keep your beverage hot or cold while you're on the go, and it's phenomenal. i can make my coffee at 6:30am, and still have very, very warm coffee at 11:30am. this is a huge convenience in my life as i work fulltime with three children. not only does this mug do a great job of insulating coffee, it has a fairly large capacity (most mugs are 14-oz sizes), without becoming top-heavy. i've made some fairly sharp, quick turns and sudden stops with a full mug, and it's never fallen over or spilled. i highly recommend this cup - it's worth every penny!
Good insulation, impossible to clean. - Review written on May 02, 2008
Rating: 2 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful, 1 did not.
It's well constructed, and it has excellent insulation... But that's where the good part ends.
If you're unfortunate enough to forget to clean the mug for a day or two (I know, my fault) it's absolutely impossible to get rid of any associated smell. The top inside of the mug has a gasket that seals the seam between the plastic screw-top adapter and the stainless inside, and moisture seems to be able to work it's way through that. Once it's through the gasket, the cup will stink forever. I've tried soaking it in just about everything imaginable, and the smell won't go away.
I have a MiGo stainless mug that's a single piece of metal, and it cleans up immediately with no issues.
Very disappointing, as I had high expectations from Nissan.
Great mug, so-so lid - Review written on December 17, 2007
Rating: 3 out of 5
3 customers found this review helpful.
I like Nissan Stainless vacuum technology, it really keeps your drinks hot or cold for many hours. However, the lid on this tumbler is problematic in 3 ways. It is over designed, and thus fails to do what a simple cap could have done.
It loses temperature insulation
Its harder to clean
It can leak
This tumbler does not keep liquids as hot as long as the Stainless bottle does, both in advertised numbers and my experience. Pouring boiling hot water in the Stainless bottle and the tumbler, the bottle water is too hot to touch 24 hours later, and the tumbler at 3 hours. Nissan claims the insulation is good if you cannot feel the warmth on the outside of the containers. On the bottle, this is true, but on the tumbler its warm to touch near the lid, and not on mid or bottom, even behind the grip.
The lid on the cup has 2 parts: the tumbler half is permanently connected to the stainless steel body but leaves a small gap on the inside of the cup. There is an O ring around the inner lip. These areas trap old coffee and will leave a residue that inevitably change the taste of coffee. I've had it happen to similar designed cups before. Depending on use, it can take days for it to build up to appear obvious as a smell or drip of strange looking fluid. The silicone ring can be stretched with a toothpick to see underneath.
The top cap screws onto the top of the tumbler cap and has a silicone o ring that seals the connection. To clean it, you need a probe about pencil thin. If residue builds up here, it will cause the tumbler to leak.
Some Starbuck mugs have this silicone ring, and after a few month of use with hot water, it cracks. Rubber O rings last for years.
Many cheaper mugs are easier to clean, are dishwasher safe, but none have Nissan vacuum technology for keeping liquids hot or cold longer. Often, the cheap mug cap is a screw-on direct to a mouth of the cup, stainless or otherwise. There is often an easy access external rubber o ring that seals the cap with the cup, and is easy to clean or check for defects. These rubber O rings are extremely durable, last longer than the cup, make a tight seal, and are easy to clean. A well cleaned cup is the key to good coffee, if not good health!
Finally, the tumblers snap cover sucks up a little liquid as it sloshes inside. Touching it consistently gets liquid on your hand or your nose, unless you wipe it clean each time you open it.
Leaks Like A Waterfall!!! Buyer Beware!!! - Review written on November 24, 2007
Rating: 1 out of 5
5 customers found this review helpful.
I bought this tumbler as a replacement for my dinged up LEAKPROOF Nissan with the handle (that I only bought last year). I'm a student, so leak-proof, or even semi-leakproof is VERY important to me. When I took this out of the box and rinsed it for the first time with hot water, to my shock, 80% of the scalding hot water I put in there, SHOT out at me through tightly closed lid. As a warning, DO NOT use this with anything remotely hot, staining, sweet, etc, or it will cause an outrageous mess. Don't even think you can get away with even slightly tipping over this thing, the "latch" they have for a lid is this thin, flimsy piece of plastic that hardly protects you and and the hot liquid. This is the worst Nissan purchase I've ever made. If you want leak proof, and sturdy, look somewhere else, you'll have better luck with an open MUG- atleast u KNOW it will leak. This is going straight back where it came from. $20 for this thing is a rip off unless u want a glorified cup to carry around. Go get yourself a true leak-proof, but a little clumsy beauty- the nissan leak-proof tumbler with handle. At least you'll get what u paid for (just don't drop it like I did because, the plastic gets dinged up really easily which makes it look cruddy)