Boiling water in stainless steel water bottle

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Paul RevEar

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I bought 6 BPA free stainless steel water bottle to use as gifts. The paper inside it says, DO NOT MICROWAVE (obviously), NOT INTENTED FOR USED WITH HOT BEVERAGES.

Huh?

Why couldn't you pour your coffee in this thing? Maybe they just don't want you to microwave it.

I was planning on these at some point to be used to heat up water over a fire.

Have you ever heard of such a thing? I tried to google my answer and just found water bottles for hot/cold use.

What do you think?

Thanks
 
Many bottles have a plastic lining in them. It is to keep the cheap bottle from giving water a metallic taste. Yours have that?
 
Paul,

To your question, Don Tom provided one:
http://www.backpacker.com/cgi-bin/forums/ikonboard.cgi?act=Print;f=832107219;t=9991141787

If you don't mind telling me already the brand of the bottles you got?

Is it a double walled? Does it have harness so you could hang it or have it tied higher up above the fire?

After all these BPA SS in the market, i'm seriously considering Thinksport SS bottle.

http://austinontwowheels.org/2010/01/25/review-thinksport-stainless-steel-water-bottle/

Have to skip Klean Kanteen after seeing those trapped gunk underneath the lips of bottle! :grumpy:
 
I thought about that, but no these are just metal inside, no plastic. I don't think these have a brand name. CLearance at big lots. 4.00 each. All stainless steel, black coating on outside. Stainless inner. BPA free. Yes it has a loop and a carabiner at the top.
 
The reason they tell you that is cause when you have a hot beverage inside a single wall steel bottle it could burn your hand because of the lack of insulation
 
That's exactly right. Because they are single wall construction they will get EXTREMELY hot with boiling liquids inside. Other than that, the outside coating will likely burn off.

I have a few of these no name models.
 
I have done this in one of my aluminum bottles. (poured boiling water into it for a hot beverage). I just made sure that I had my thick leather gloves, and it got hot so stinking quick (which I was expecting).

Mine is aluminum, and I believe it has some sort of corrosion coating on the inside. It is shinier than the outside.
 
What are the top three stainless "bottles" that you can boil water in? I'm a steel cup / USGI canteen cup guy for years. I would like to get a stainless turnamabobbersnobberrobber for that, though. :D
 
I use my cheap Wal-green's special -- probably the same one the OP found at Big Lots.
stainless, no lining, cheap black paint, holds 27 ounces.
was at Cabela's yesterday looking at the liter sized model that's about 3" or so wide, and they wanted a silly (to me) amounts of $$ for that, so I didn't get it.
 
I think kleen kanteen is good to go. Jeff turned me onto them. Sigg doesn't seem bad either--I've been using those for years but the small mouth bottles are a pain to clean (they have larger mouth ones now).

One thing I would be concerned about would be some of the cheaper ones I've seen from China. The paint comes off very easily, especially around the mouth and I've seen some paint chips floating in my water. I'll drink a lot of things but chinese paint ain't one of them.
 
I splurged on a Nalgene stainless. I'm pretty sure it is just the old Guyot stainless bottle, but they got bought out by Nalgene, I think. I paid what I consider a lot for it, but I figured: (1) it was stainless steel, and would probably be the first and last one I'd ever buy; (2) I was on a business trip, so I could use some of my per diem money for it.

It was the best option, IMO, even at the expense. It will use the regular nalgene caps as well as the tethered one that came on it.
 
Sometimes those warnings are legal issues and also user stupidity. I wrote a company about a warning sticker on a stainless cup that said something about containing cancer causing chemicals. I said, it's stainless right? He agreed and said all cups were required to have the sticker due CA legislation even if it's stainless. Other times people just do stupid things like the mentioned heat of the bottle with boiling liquids or trying to heat the bottle with the lid on. :rolleyes:
 
Using a single-wall SS bottle is OK as long as you use a glove or other cloth to not burn yourself.

The reason you wouldn't want to heat a double-walled SS container, the air between could super heat and explode like a bomb, especially if some water leaked between the two walls.
 
Expatriated said:
One thing I would be concerned about would be some of the cheaper ones I've seen from China. The paint comes off very easily, especially around the mouth and I've seen some paint chips floating in my water. I'll drink a lot of things but chinese paint ain't one of them.
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If they have contaminated heparin, I would hate to see what the hell could find its way into paint over there.
 
Expatriated said:
I think kleen kanteen is good to go. Jeff turned me onto them. Sigg doesn't seem bad either--I've been using those for years but the small mouth bottles are a pain to clean (they have larger mouth ones now).

One thing I would be concerned about would be some of the cheaper ones I've seen from China. The paint comes off very easily, especially around the mouth and I've seen some paint chips floating in my water. I'll drink a lot of things but chinese paint ain't one of them.
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One could likely mitigate this issue by removing the paint around the top prior to boiling water in it. Maybe just some steel wool and a good cleaning would take care of it?
 
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