Hastings Collective Thermal Coffee Carafe 50 Oz - Large Stainless Steel Insulated Carafe - 1.5 Liter Double Walled Vacuum Thermos Coffee and Beverage Dispenser with Tea Infuser and Strainer (Black)

This is a fantastic item--exactly what I wanted in a teapot. It has thermos-like qualities that keep the tea warm for hours, though like any themos as you drink each cup some of the heat will be lost into the airspace replacing the hot liquid. I still use my Flying Tea Gourd as a thermos when not at my desk, but this has largely replaced it most days at work. The double strainer basket design is awesome. I brew my tea in the larger basket and remove it after 3-4 min of steeping to reduce bitterness. The plastic does not get hot to the touch and it is an easy to pull out. I tend to place it into a cup in case I want another, weaker pot of tea on a second steeping later. One can also leave the leaves in the basket and the upper stainless steel basket will make sure they do not get into each cup you pour. I do have one Irish friend I drink tea with who likes to leave the leaves in the pot forever and temper the bitterness with milk. That way, you don't even need to remove the inner basket. The design of this is amazing. The container pours well, seals well--I add honey to the pot and shake it upside down instead of stirring--and looks attractive. Probably the only thing that took me a minute to figure out was the button on top that controls whether the tea pours or not. The first time I used I thought I had to turn it to open it for a pour. Apparently I forgot to RTFM. Last, I am not a coffee person and such will never touch my own teapot, but I suspect that this design would probably work wonderfully for cold brewing coffee as well...

I purchased this carafe a few weeks ago and have been using it daily since and it has delivered on all of my expectations for a good product. The Lagom has a quality build and feels that way too. I was a little skeptical of the wooden handle being attached to the molded top but after using it I am very happy with its construction. I prefer stainless bodies over the glass inserts as I've had too many breaks over the years or separate at the neck and cause a mess. The little quality detail I love the most is the button. It doesn't feel cheap and is very satisfying to use. The seals work great and you don't need to twist excessively to seat them properly. If you are a tea drinker, like me, you will enjoy having the different straining options. I couldn't get the flow to stay consistent with the "drink now" method using the stainless strainer as the leaves just clog it up, but the "later" method works great and helps with keeping the carafe clean. It is not the cheapest carafe you can buy but definitely worth it. You get a very well-made product with a unique aesthetic and great functionality for an affordable price. Cheaper carafes tend not to last and just look generic overall. If any of my other carafes need replacement over the years I will definitely be looking at the offerings from this brand to replace them.

The good: - I made a pot of coffee yesterday at 8 AM. It was still hot at 1PM. Still warm at 5PM - Variety of filters provided for tea and coffee - Stylish - Big The not-so-good (but not bad) - functionally, the instructions don't really work. Water won't filter through the coffee fast enough to let you "pour in the water and then steep 3-5 minutes" unless you're using a coarse grind--it took 3-5 minutes just to pour in the water. However, this is a minor gripe. Trial and error and common sense will get you nice cup of coffee. - The instructions were missing details on the appropriate grind and volume of coffee to add. I used a medium grind and it tasted great. I'm confident a coarser grind could be used with some modification of the brewing times and it'd also work fine. - needs a bottle brush or very small hands to clean. Altogether, a solid coffee pot; I highly recommend. I'm most impressed by how long the coffee stayed warm. Like I said, 9 hours after brewing, it was still warm (I'd guess about 110 degrees). Perfect for having hot coffee through the morning and into lunchtime.

This is the perfect carafe and coffee making system I've found to date. It's the perfect size for 2-3 persons and is super easy to use and clean. No more having to mess with filters and cones for your pour-overs. Oh, and it's also really cool looking!

My children have been after me to replace my old silver-plated teapot (on left in photo) for several years. Finally I found one I liked. The Hastings Collective “Lagom” appealed to me because: 1. The outer material is scratch resistance -- I concur with the one reviewer who tried to scratch it and was unable. The material seems very durable. I have also found that the tea stains wash off easily. 2. I expect it will stand up to lots of use – and I will use mine a lot! Another reviewer used it in a restaurant and was impressed. I worked in quality management at a five-star hotel for many years so that spoke to me. 3. I like the wood-like handle, though I wish the whole thing was less modern-looking. I chose white because the metal one looked too much like it belonged in a restaurant and another reviewer said the black was hard to keep clean-looking. If the company had offered fun colors, I likely would have picked one of those instead of white, but they chose a good white and I can live with it. 4. The inner cages/baskets/infusers mean I can easily remove the tea leaves after the steeping period. There are two baskets; the metal inner basket (where you are supposed to put the tea leaves) has tiny holes, and the plastic outer basket has a finer screen/mesh designed to catch the dregs or the itty bitty pieces that might get through the holes of the inner basket. I used both baskets the way it was recommended but my first try was unsuccessful. I put the tea leaves (earl gray is my favorite black tea) in the inner basket and positioned everything properly. Something didn't work right though because although the leaves were wet, the tea (the normal amount that I put in my old pot of the same size) was exceedingly weak, as if the metal basket or the leaves in it blocked the passage of infused water somehow. I threw the weak tea out. The next time I put the leaves in just the outer basket, setting the metal basket aside, and it worked very well. The convenience of the baskets is great, especially if you are used to having to use a strainer while pouring your tea out, but a couple of points on this: a. The metal inner basket is tight on its seal and it gets hot when it sits in very hot water. On my first try (before I realized I could make do without it) I found out that if I want to limit the amount of time the tea leaves continue infusing the water, I had to remove that basket, and that was hard when I tried to do it. It was too wet to use a potholder and too hot to use just my hand, and has no special catch or holder that made it easier. b. The skinny outer basket has a plastic frame that is not so hot to the touch and allows me to reach in and take out the whole thing with my hands when the leaves have been in there long enough to suit me. A little handle might make that easier but I can manage with it as it is. I love how fine that mesh is. Well done, whoever found this material! (I hope it holds up!) 5. The opening is big enough to get my hand in there to clean the inside of the pot. Once I have removed the basket(s), I add my milk and sugar right into the pot so I don't have to add them every time I want to refill my cup. I get a whole pot of tea prepared to my liking ready to go! So many thermos-type cups and carafes have a skinny neck and you need a long-handled brush to clean them but you can never feel like you've cleaned it well enough. The hand-size opening is a great feature! In my case, especially since I put the milk and sugar right into the pot after the tea has steeped, I want to be able to clean it well for the next time. 6. I like being able to heat the pot and lengthen the amount of time the tea within will stay hot. The recommendation to put hot water in it for ten minutes is fine, but possibly complicates/lengthens the process. Many of us are a bit impatient for our tea or have other things to do than fill the pot with hot water so it can sit there while the rest of our water is boiling (which might take less than ten minutes, or more, and some people might get stuck on the ten-minutes part). I simply boil a bit more water than I need, pour some (I'm guessing half a cup or so) into the pot and swish it around for 10-15 seconds, then pour it out. The boiling water heats the inner sleeve nicely. Then right away I put in the basket with tea leaves and pour in the rest of the boiling water. The perfectly round inner thermal cylinder makes a circular swishing motion work well. 7. The spout does not drip, dribble or otherwise function negatively. I’m not quite sure how they managed that, but it’s just right. 8. The size is great for me. This pot holds 50 ounces, which is about right for 3-5 mugs, depending on how big the mugs are. The company also makes the 40-oz “Mysa” and the 68-oz “Venera,” which have slightly different body styles but I assume the same inner components. My old system involved two pots, one to make the tea in and another to pour the tea into (using a strainer) which I would then doctor with my milk and sugar. Being able to use one pot like this is wonderful! Bravo to Hastings Collective! I look forward to seeing if they develop fun colors or a more classically elegant, slightly curved perhaps, body design like my old pot. I would be over the moon.

I usually do a single pour over of coffee for myself and no longer have an electric coffee pot. I bought this thinking I could use it as a way to brew coffee for multiple people on Christmas. The problem is the filter for coffee. It takes too long to pour the water through if you have many tablespoons of coffee in the filter. Also, lifting the filter out is impossible for me. I ended up fishing the filter out with a knife and dumped all the damp grounds into my coffee funnel. I then poured the rest of the water as a regular pour over. The carafe did keep the coffee warm for awhile ( I preheated it with boiling water) and the stylish pot was complimented on the holiday. I will keep it as a carafe but will just use my funnel on top to make the coffee in future. I think this carafe may work better as a way to make tea with loose tea or tea bags, But I haven't tried it. It's still a handsome carafe though!

This is so well made you guys! I’d definitely buy it again! Sleek, modern and extremely efficient in keeping beverages’ temperature! Pours really well. No dripping. Easy to use and easy to clean! Worth every penny!

My husband and I got this thermos so we could both brew 2 pots of coffee and store one in something else. It keeps the coffee warm for quite a while. It's not too heavy, and we haven't had any problems yet with leaking. It pours as expected and holds almost a full 12 cup coffee pot sans maybe one or two cups.