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If you’ve been anywhere near Tiktok or Instagram over the last few years, you probably know that the 40oz Stanley Quencher tumbler is *the* cup to have. I resisted for a while because we have so many Yeti tumblers (if you saw my reel, then you probably know that already – and that’s not even our whole collection!) but I really wanted a cup with a straw, and since I already had quite a few of the Yeti mugs in various sizes, I asked Yeti if they had or were planning to release a straw cap that could be used with the “stronghold” screw top range of mugs.
Then, just over a month after I sent that tweet, Yeti tweeted about their new range…
I’m not saying I influenced this, but I’m not not saying it ;) The new Yeti mug was a 35oz one, sitting between the largest 30oz Yeti mug and the 40oz Stanley cup. I only found out about this recently (considering how much we have bought from Yeti and that they send me texts and newsletters about their ranges, I have no idea why it took so long!) and went straight to Dicks (fnarr) to pick one up.
Since I sent that tweet, I ended up buying one of the 40oz cups and found it to be as useful as everyone was saying to get me to drink more water. It’s such a heavy beast when it’s full of water though, so I hoped the Yeti would be much more portable. I thought I’d compare the two cups since they are so similar.
Size-wise – the Stanley is (obviously, with the bigger capacity) taller and has a much bigger handle – I found the Yeti is much easier to hold (and not just because the Stanley is a heavy beast when it’s full). I was a little surprised to see that when empty, the Yeti and the Stanley are about the same weight, there’s like a gram or two between them.
They’re both made from stainless steel and both are dishwasher safe – in this situation, I prefer the Yeti because the Stanley is a bit too tall to go in the top rack of my dishwashers! One of the big attractions for the Stanley tumbler is that it fits in your car’s cupholder (seriously, if you’ve seen influencers talking about it on Stories, this is one of the first things they’ll mention) but the Yeti is actually slightly smaller in diameter in this aspect. The nice thing about the Yeti cup is that the caps are interchangeable with their existing range of Rambler tumblers, so you can easily switch to a hot drinking cap. Something I’ve seen people complain about is that neither of these cups is spill proof and to that I say OF COURSE IT BLOODY WELL ISNT THERES A HOLE IN THE TOP OF THE LID FOR THE STRAW.
One of the claims that Stanley makes is that it will keep drinks iced for 2 days. Yeti doesn’t give a specific time range but from experience, I know that ice will last a while in one. Of course, I had to test this out. I put 300g of pebble ice into each cup, put the cap and straw on, and set a stop clock off. Every so often, I would check on how much ice was left (draining away the water from melting) and recorded it.
Both cups stayed about the same for the first 9 hours, but then the Yeti’s performance went downhill quickly. At 32 hours, I knew that would be my final reading because I was about to go to bed and there was very little ice left, sure enough when I checked at 38 hours, both cups just had water in. Not quite the two days claimed, but at the same time, there are other variables I didn’t consider (outside temperature of the cup, amount of liquid the ice was in – would that help keep the ice longer? – and type of ice used (we have moulds for giant clear ice cubes which also last a long time even in normal glasses so would they stay solid longer than pebble ice?) and it’s still a very decent amount of time that a drink will stay cold!
Visually, both cups come in many different colours – the Yeti currently coming in 5 of their standard colours (charcoal, black, white, navy, and seafoam) and they usually have a few seasonal colours (currently canopy green and high desert clay, with the next colours probably coming out around June/July) and the Stanley coming in various colours – at the moment the sales page on their site has 12 14 colours listed (citron, jade, rose quartz, rose quartz glow, black glow, fog, charcoal, black, stainless steel shale, cream, flint, and eucalyptus edit: and it literally changed during the day I wrote this post – there’s also Tigerlily and Pool showing now as out of stock), then there’s the soft matte range (shale, bay leaf, stormy sea, red rust, dune) and the Target exclusives (brilliant white, peach, peach tie dye, citron, citron tie dye, ocean tie dye, wisteria, and wisteria tie-dye). If that’s not enough choice, then just wait a few weeks – I thought it would be fun to have a collage of all the different colours of the Stanley cup so looked at all the different colours…I soon regretted this because there have been SO many colours! I ended up with a list of nearly 90 different colours, and there are still 4 that I haven’t been able to get “official” (ie photos that they would use on their online store) photos for. You can see all the different colours of the 40oz Stanley cup on this page.
So which one would I buy more of? Probably the Yeti, since we already have a lot of their other items so it’s easy to mix and match the tops as well the way that it’s easier to fit them into the dishwasher. I’ll keep my Stanley tumbler for water on my desk (because it is quite a workout when you pick it up full of water!) and I could be tempted to get one for by the bed in the right colour – but with how many options they put out, it won’t be long until there’s a colour I love!