Reddit mentions: The best iced tea glasses

I CAN BE SO USEFUL TODAY!!!

The Libre Tea Mug has the exact same design as the mug you describe, but has glass on the inside, and plastic on the outside. Here's a video. There's a 10 oz version and a 14 oz version, and a 9.5 oz handled version.

However, I bought one of these and decided it's not the best thing in the universe. There were plenty of good things about it, but it had some flaws:

1. It won't keep drinks hot for very long, because plastic & glass apparently don't keep things as warm as stainless steel (not sure if this is totally accurate), but you also have to remove the lid every time you drink, and it's all the way open, as opposed to a sippy lid or other designs that have small holes or whatever, and lots of heat escapes. It also means that you get a face full of steam every time you try to drink.
   
   
2. When brewing black tea, you stick the leaves in between the two top lids (see video) and brew upside down. However, when you turn it upside down, the surface tension of the water actually retains the ENTIRE volume of water that was in the lid. Seriously. I don't know what the deal is. This happens even with zero tea leaves. This means that when you remove the two lids to drink (you need to remove both lids simultaneously if it's black tea, since the leaves are between the two lids), there's still lots of boiling hot water in the lid, and if you tap it, or bump it, or angle it, all that water falls out. You really have to tap the lid to dump this excess water before you drink; if you don't, you run the risk of spilling lots of hot water all over yourself. Someday you'll forget, and probably burn yourself.
   
   Aesthetic problems:
   
   
3. You can hear the plastic creaking against the glass, and it makes it seem cheap. Purely psychological, but it probably could be fixed.
   
   
4. The larger size and the handled mug version have the company's website printed address on the side of the lid. Pretty ugly in my opinion.
   
   
5. The lid has a picture, but it's a physical object (a tiny carving or something) and it actually moves. It's somehow not secured in place, and it moves off center and looks awkward and cheap. Plus, I can see a couple parts of it bent the wrong way.
   
   I can't really recommend it, but if you've used the Activitea and found it usable, you might be happy with the Libre. The design looks pretty much the same from the photos, as far as I can tell. But I have continued searching for the perfect tea mug.
   
   Contenders thus far:
   
   
6. JoeMoXL: Entirely stainless steel, with a removable infuser basket, a push-button seal, 360 degree drinking, sipping that doesn't require removing the entire lid and draining heat away, leak proof, etc etc. Good stuff.
   
   
7. Timolino infuser mug: Theoretically similar to the JoeMoXL, but no push-button seal, and the infuser basket has some plastic. Oh well though. Adds a hidden compartment in the very top lid where you can store sugar. Smaller than most travel mugs (12 oz instead of the usual 16), so I think it's more practical to fill up, drink, then fill again and get a 2nd steeping out of the tea, as opposed to 16 oz over the course of the day and then getting home or whatever and not making use of the leaves until the next day maybe. There's also a carabiner version. Note that Timolino makes 2 tea mugs; this one, plus another that is ONLY good for green tea, with the leaves steeping inside the main chamber, with no removable infuser basket.
   
   I've been shopping around for quite some time. These are the two winners as far as I am concerned, though they skip out on being see-through and hiding the tea in the lid, but I can't see any well-designed options out there with those traits (although this Thermos mug has the infuser in the lid, but I wasn't so excited about it), so I'm giving my seal of approval to these. There are other contenders I think, but these are equal or better compared to anything I can find. I might also just go with a Contigo and brew in a teapot and just deal with the fact that the mug has no internal tea infuser.
   
   OCD FTW!

I analyzed the photo and it is approx. 41% off the table.

See for yourself:
https://i.imgur.com/lWTsn3S.jpg

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Above the line is the original comment in the state it was gilded in for the context of a future reader, however, further analysis (seen below) has shown it is actually only approx. 38% off the table, the 41% figure above will remain for archival purposes.

BIG EDIT:
/u/TheScotchEngineer wanted the calculation done by area as opposed to length so as to be more optimistic as to the amount on the table, this followed:

If you do it by area you would have to know the dimensions of the glass itself.

Which is possible with some minor assumptions.

http://www.globalindustrial.com/p/foodservice/pizza-supplies/pizza-stands-risers/salt-pepper-shaker-1-5-8-oz?infoParam.campaignId=T9F

Ok, those are the salt shakers in the picture, which have the following dimensions:
HEIGHT INCHES 3
WIDTH INCHES 1.25
DEPTH INCHES 1-1/4
CAPACITY OUNCES 1-5/8

Since all of this stuff is generally going to be coming from a restaurant supply, we can locate the design of the glass and then make sure it scales correctly to the salt/pepper shaker.

So these glasses in particular are a 12 oz. Libbey Gilbraltar style, which is known because of the height of the glass given in relation to the height of the salt shaker, and the particular design styles of each.

http://www.amazon.com/Libbey-Glassware-15238-Gibraltar-Beverage/dp/B002RC545U

Overall Height 4.875 inches
Overall Length 3.25 inches
Overall Width 3.25 inches

However those width/length measurements concern the overall glass, not just the bottom. So using the height of the salt shaker as a reference and already having known the -overall- length of the glass it was possible to determine that the base of the glass is actually 10-13% smaller (approx.) than the listed length.

That said, it's likely that the bottom of the glass is around 3 inches in both length/width, and not another number due to that being a more standard result to measure for production.

So calculating for area, 3.1415926535(r)^2, where r=1.5in yields 4.712 in^2, or 4.71 in^2 when rounded down.

Using the determined length of the bottom of the glass based on the amount of that length from the edge, and based on the size of the area, it can be concluded that the glass is 62% on the table, and 38% off the table, by area.

Or, in other words, the glass is roughly 2.92 inches^2 by area on, and 1.79 inches^2 by area off*.

There are a ton of them out there with glass bodies if you search under "tea tumbler." Most of them come in smaller sizes, but there are some companies that make larger tumblers too. My favorite is the Libre tumbler, which has a glass inner core but a durable plastic outside to prevent breakage in case of drops.

I use something like this one, a double glass. I usually use 3/4ths heated milk, 1/4th concentrated coffee. I heat up the milk and get a french press going, then take the press and the milk somewhere. It stays hot for 20 mins and I can add coffee from the press gradually.

If it's not done exactly like this, my day is ruined.

i already came up with a way to do it. pint glasses are stackable albeit breakable. just turn them sideways & stacked but print a thin spacer to keep glass from banging on glass...or use something off the shelf to put in between them such as a strip of "drawer liner". done.
http://www.amazon.com/Libbey-Restaurant-Basics-Mixing-Glass/dp/B00165FUUS

After getting sick of our nice looking but fragile glassware breaking all the time, we picked up a case of tempered soda lime mixing glasses from a restaurant supply store. We've only broken one in five years, and that involved concrete and subzero temps. The glasses don't look fancy, but they were pretty inexpensive and we have a ton of spares if they do break.

Edit: basically this, but it was cheaper at the local supply store. About $1 per glass.
http://www.amazon.com/Libbey-Restaurant-Basics-Mixing-Glass/dp/B00165FUUS