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The One Bottle.Useful gear or fad water bottle?

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I had seen One bottles Become increasingly popular with local hikers and I see them for sale everywhere so I asked myself "are they useful for more than just a fancy water bottle?"That's what I set out to find out.
I bought a 700ML stainless One bottle.The cap is black plastic with a gasket to prevent leaking.The cap is looped so a carribiener can be fitted through and hung off of a belt or pack.
I wanted to see if in a survival situation you could boil water in one.Now I know what your thinking,It's a steel bottle why couldn't you boil water in one?Well my reasoning for this test isn't very scientific I just wanted to see if it could take the heat.
So my "lab" was a rocky river bank in some nameless Vally about 5 K from my house.Seemed like a good place for water.I took my bandanna off and used it as a filter and filled the bottle 3/4 of the way and hung it over my small fire.I also used the little tripod as a drying rack.multi tasking is the survivors way is it not?
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it wasn't too long before I could smell the clear coat burning off the outside of the bottle but little bubbles were starting as the water heated up.
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With the bottle looking good and crispy steam started to pipe out of the top of the bottle.
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I peaked inside and sure enough the water was boiling.
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The bottle looked and smelled like hell when I was done but it did survive the boiling.I took it down to the water and used some sand to scrape off most of the charred stuff and make it look like steel again.The lid still fit like it did when I bought it so there was no warping at all.I laid the hot bottle in the brook for a bit as I packed up and by the time I was ready to leave the water and bottle were cool enough to put straight in my bag without any worry.
So a One bottle can be used to boil water but can it be used as a fire bundle?That I'll find out next time.
 
I'd vote useful gear item, though I'd rather have the Nalgene/guyot type for the wider mouth, and filter compatibility.
 
Personally, I'm an old fashion separate GI cup and bottle person. You can use the GI cup for cooking in addition to boiling water. But thanks for the test.
 
Hi all,

I am a fan of the steel bottle by kleen canteen and the steel nalgene. I have a few of them from both companies. I do like what Kgd said about having the steel canteen type cup also. I have several of the Snow peak Solo models and they really work great with the steel bottles. In this pic I towards the top is my nalgene steel bottle and then to the left of it I have the Solo pot/big cup and then 2 smaller cups.

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Put the steel Nalgene bottle in the big cup and then take them 2 and put them in one of the smaller cups and the take the last smaller cup and put on top of the Nalgene water bottle and the put that all in to the pouch on the side of my pack and whala. I have great way to boil up a bunch of water and the yet still do some cooking if I want with the other steel cups/pots.
You can never have to many metal cups:D

I know for myself I do not plan to go back to plastic watter bottles.

Bryan
 
kgd said:
Personally, I'm an old fashion separate GI cup and bottle person. You can use the GI cup for cooking in addition to boiling water. But thanks for the test.
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I find I'm the same way, I much prefer a separate water-carrier with a non-dedicated cup/pot. The GI setup is quite good for this. :thumbup:
 
^ same here, but I'm a gram counter, platypus water containers ( I have an assortment from 0.5 to 2.0 liters- depending the location) and Ti mug/pot

0.9 oz for a 1 liter "bottle", 2.8 oz for a 600 ml pot/mug :)

I also like the fact that I can roll up any unused platy's and they take almost nil volume
 
Before Guyot licensed Nalgene to sell their bottle under their own name, I bought several of the Guyot's and only discovered one problem.

When brand new, I ran my finger around the inside rim at the weld seam and came up with a lot of dark metallic dust (every bottle). I thougth, whoa, and I am going to drink from this with the water running right over that spot before I ingest it! The metallic dust is right at the weld around the top curve on the inside. I wiped it with alcohol over and over until my rag came up clean. Then I washed it out thoroughly with hot soapy water, twice.

It concerned me enough because I know these are made in China (this wasn't long after the Chinese mfg'd childrens toys lead issue) that I got a home lead test kit and tested the metallic dust. It showed no test signs of lead.

Anyone have any idea what this metallic dust substrate would be? I figured it was welding slag.
 
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Before Guyot licensed Nalgene to sell their bottle under their own name, I bought several of the Guyot's and only discovered one problem.

When brand new, I ran my finger around the inside rim at the weld seam and came up with a lot of dark metallic dust (every bottle). I thougth, whoa, and I am going to drink from this with the water running right over that spot before I ingest it! The metallic dust is right at the weld around the top curve on the inside. I wiped it with alcohol over and over until my rag came up clean. Then I washed it out thoroughly with hot soapy water, twice.

It concerned me enough because I know these are made in China (this wasn't long after the Chinese mfg'd childrens toys lead issue) that I got a home lead test kit and tested the metallic dust. It showed no test signs of lead.

Anyone have any idea what this metallic dust substrate would be? I figured it was welding slag.
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It may be from some type of grinding done after the weld to smooth it out. Definitely want that washed off well before using.
 
I like my SIGG bottles. Then again, I only drink water when I'm out and about, and have a stainless steel cup I can boil in if I absolutely have to.
 
I've also wondered about those bottles. They sell them everywhere and don't look very easy to get a sip out of. Thanks for the review :thumbup:
 
I didn't notice any coating inside.I washed mine in a dishwasher on high and on the bottom rack before I took it out so it was CLEAN.There was no taste other than the wild taste of the river water.When I washed it in the river afterward the burnt clear cote stuck to my hands and made me smell like a burnt Ikea table.
 
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