Hot or Not: Self-Stirring Mug

Take a look at this Self-Stirring Mug. It has a mini propeller at the bottom that keeps your tea or hot cocoa stirred up all nice and frothy. Good idea, or waste of two AAA batteries?

Comments (9)

I'd have to see how well it could be cleaned. I suspect it would be a waste of 2 AA batteries.

posted by Joan A. on 2007-03-09 09:35:44

something's just not right with the world if you can't even sit and stir your own coffee.

posted by Linda, The Village Vegetable on 2007-03-09 09:46:13

yea, i don't like the idea of moving parts at the bottom of my drink. Just seems like an icky, gimmicky way to get lots of eventual rust in my chocolate milk. Are we really that lazy that we can't stir a spoon for 3 seconds?

posted by laura on 2007-03-09 10:57:55

I'm still waiting for the magnetic stir bars I use in lab to be introduced to the kitchen. A teflon coated magnet sits in a beaker and a stir plate which doubles as a hotplate spins its own magnet. I'd love this for those foods that require constant stirring.

Besides, if you put use a clear container, you get to see a nice little vortex.

posted by sciencegeek on 2007-03-09 11:07:59

I think it's a good idea but i have to agree with comment number 2.

posted by Simon on 2007-03-09 11:51:10

sciencegeek:
I always LOVED the hotplate + stirring magnet combo in chemistry class. It would be so sweet to have that in the kitchen. But with my limited cabinet space, I doubt that will happen anytime soon. If they integrate that into a range though....

posted by Michelle of Montreal on 2007-03-09 12:59:26

Michelle - I was thinking of that same thing. If I remember correctly, the stirring magnet was quite small and would probably work on a stove as well as a hot plate. A food grade one sounds like a much better idea than this stirring mug, plus it could be used in any mug.

posted by anon on 2007-03-09 13:33:31

Having just used one of those darn things last week, (stirring bar, not weird battery-powered mug) I must remind all my enthusiastic fellow nerdy commenters, think of when you start it stirring, how it bounces around, would you want that in your soup? I would think it would splatter everywhere! And if you couldn't see it to center the stirring rod before you started it (say, in something dense, like stew), it would be way hard to make it not bounce around. On the plus side, in our lab we store them on the fridge since they are magnetic!

posted by Anne (in Reno) on 2007-03-12 22:31:21

hmm...I wonder what battery juice flavored coffee tastes like. Can you imagine if the batteries leaked into the coffee? It's a lawsuit waiting to happen.

posted by jessi in oregon on 2007-03-14 18:41:46