Advantage Of Stainless Steel Bottle?

I have 2 guyots(nalgene) and 2 27oz klean kanteens. My wife took one of the KKs, and I carry the other one every day for water, and in my Lunada on short woods walks. I love it. KK makes a sweet bottle. I carry a guyot/GSI cup on hikes where Ill wanna cook up something....I love the Guyot. Great bottle, wide mouth, and you can easily mod them out to be a nice lil cook setup.

Ive boiled in both of them with no problems.
 
I picked up a wide mouth KEWL canteen made by pfizer from mec marked down a couple years ago.
40 oz with a really heavy duty lid. has a rolled rim which makes hanging by wire really easy.
I have 2 ft of wire with a snare loop on one side with a small split ring on the other. So easy to hang without tying, pass the loop around the stick and through the split ring
You can also make a stick pot hook and with the split ring it is very stable to hang.

I grabbed an OR carrier with a huge plastic and velcro clip, goes right on the compression straps. goes on so tight it does not move or bounce. Wire is coiled in bottom.
 
I just got a Reduce SS 27oz bottle from Going Gear over Christmas.

http://goinggear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15&products_id=52

Bottle fits inside my REI Titanium mug fine. I've never boiled water in a bottle, but I do like Scott's idea of using it to thaw iced up bottles. Had that happen to one of my nalgene bottles on a hiking trip in Pisgah...while it was bundled up in my jacket that I was using as a pillow COLD!
 
Halfneck said:
I just got a Reduce SS 27oz bottle from Going Gear over Christmas.

http://goinggear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15&products_id=52

Bottle fits inside my REI Titanium mug fine. I've never boiled water in a bottle, but I do like Scott's idea of using it to thaw iced up bottles. Had that happen to one of my nalgene bottles on a hiking trip in Pisgah...while it was bundled up in my jacket that I was using as a pillow COLD!
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I missed that...thanks for the link.
 
I bought a GSI SS bottle without doing my homework. It has plastic threads on the outside of the neck. I'm not sure if it will survive boiling or not, probably not, but I still might give it a try just to see....
 
remmmm said:
I bought a GSI SS bottle without doing my homework. It has plastic threads on the outside of the neck. I'm not sure if it will survive boiling or not, probably not, but I still might give it a try just to see....
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It'll melt.
 
Well, I still maintain that the bottle you use for cooking should be different from the bottle you use for drinking. Its just part of my rundancy thing. Heck you can take a tomato soup tin, burn that sucker out to get rid of the line, and make a nice nesting billy pot with your plastic nalgene for $2. Or you can buy a $30 SS water bottle and pat yourself on the back.

p.s. I bout a Snow Peak $64 nesting titanium pot and cup with lid and patted myself on the back. I was screwing around one day and found out that the Unico diced tomato can nested my nalgene water bottles and fit in my maxpedition water bottle holder with nalgent perfectly. I slapped myself on the head.

I say buy some diced tomatoes. Remove contents and burn out the liner buy simpling addicing some HEET incide the container and setting it a flame. It will save you $28 going the SS water bottle route and $62 going the titnaium bottle cup/pot route.
 
I have used the Guyot 38 oz SS bottle and Plastic nestled in a SS cup.

For the versatility and less weight, I prefer the plastic bottle and SS cup. Never had a taste problem with the plastic bottle, but then again I NEVER put anything but water in my primary bottle due to bears. Currently using the DUKJUG bottle, here is my setup...

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storl said:
Just be careful that you get one that does not have an inner coating to it, which usually contains BPA or a similar chemical. Some companies will coat the inside to keep the water from developing a metallic taste, which some people do not like (myself included). I personally use a Camelbak Better Bottle. It's like a sippy cup for grown ups. ;)
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Exactly what I was thinking. E.g. SIGG bottles [aluminum] are lined and you can't boil them.
 
That may be true with what Sigg are doing now, I've lost interest in them and haven't bothered to keep up, but it hasn't always been the case. I've said before here: Sigg bottles used to come in two types – colored and lined, with some advertising gumf about resisting acids in fruit juice, and plain metal aluminum fuel bottles. I just used the plain aluminum fuel bottles with water in. I'm guessing they didn't have plastic in because of a gummy reaction with fuel of something. I've boiled in them without ill effects. Dunno whether they can still be found with a bit of searching. Mine have lay fallow for a long time 'cos I've moved on.

What is making me wonder about these sorts of all in one solution water bottle come cooking container be it aluminum or stainless is efficiency. I don't see how it can be particularly fuel, labor, or time efficient to have to boil up all your water just to get a bit of it boiled. Strikes me as at least an inconvenience.
 
i just broke my original nalgene bottle, we kicked it around for a while and then threw it off a building as hard as i could.
 
I have both Guyots and KKs, in fact I use a Guyot everday for water at work (I'm a teacher). While I occasionally use them for hiking, I have to confess that I think a Nalgene and a Ti Cup or GSI cup are actually lighter and more versatile than a Guyot by itself. And if you are bringing something else to boil in then the added weight of the Guyot isn't worth it. So with the non-BPA Nalgenes available I'm usually back to them with a GSI nested on the bottom.
 
Halfneck said:
I just got a Reduce SS 27oz bottle from Going Gear over Christmas.

http://goinggear.com/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=15&products_id=52

Bottle fits inside my REI Titanium mug fine. I've never boiled water in a bottle, but I do like Scott's idea of using it to thaw iced up bottles. Had that happen to one of my nalgene bottles on a hiking trip in Pisgah...while it was bundled up in my jacket that I was using as a pillow COLD!
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Thanks for the info. The sale is still on, I just ordered 2 goinggear Reduce bottles since I have 2 REI Titanium mugs that I've used for a couple of years now.

Does anyone know if the Reduce is made by Klean Kanteen? They are the exact same size and shape, and the KK price is the same as the original, pre-sale gg price. Just wondering...
 
Another advantage of stainless steel bottles is that they don't rust like the hand forged carbon steel ones.
 
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