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[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago (1 children)

As much as I like Stanley's thermos' - I own 3 of them. One is 50+ years old and still has the silvered glass flask inside that is sealed with a real cork, the other 2 have the stainless flask. The glass flask one is very fragile if dropped. The "newer" ones have been beaten like rented mules and still work like new. One fell off the tailgate of my pickup on bounced down a gravel road and I ran the other one over with a disc while doing spring field work. The hot stays hot and the cold stays cold all day.

The old glass model I inherited. The other 2 I bought. The newest one is a bit over 25 years old and cost me $40 new. But I don't get the $100 cups. I have had an enameled stainless 12oz $10 knockoff for 2 years now and it works very well. It keeps my tea hot while I'm sitting on the ice of a frozen lake and fishing for at nearly an hour at a time.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Don't Stanley Cups become lead poisoned if damaged? In opposition to almost every single other thermos...

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

There has never been any proof that it has ever happened. Like a lot information floating around out there, there is no real proof.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

What? They openly admit it.

The pellet seals the product's vacuum insulation, and it is not accessible unless the stainless steel barrier comes off — which is possible but “rare"

  • Stanley spokesperson

www.today.com/today/amp/rcna135513

[–] [email protected] 31 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I wont buy anything reusable that has valves or straws... Because I've taken a microbiology class.

[–] [email protected] 9 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Can't you just put the bottles in the dishwasher?

I won't really worry about it until there is evidence that there is anything to really worry about.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 7 months ago (3 children)

The water never really gets up the straw properly and I'm not about to crack out a bottle brush and do it by hand. A nalgene will hold 1.5 litres and is hygienic.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 7 months ago (2 children)

Enjoying those endocrine suppressors? You definitely want aluminum, but Stanley isn't the only way to do that. My wife got a pretty good Yeti with a pretty nice drinking spout, I think it's the magdock?

Either way, stop drinking out of plastic.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago

I only carry water with me very rarely. like only when I go on long hikes. Even then, the spring water on those hikes is pretty good. I probably use a drinking bottle less than once a month.

Besides aluminium leads to oxidative stress. There's a reason you don't see aluminium cookware in the shops.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

I had a little silver glass handed down as a child. Used it only for water. Don't think that kind of thing can be afforded nowadays.

What's the problem with Ag?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago (1 children)

You can clean cups with straws on the regular with antibacterial denture cleaning tablets

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

Nah, straws suck anyway

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (3 children)
  1. You can buy an isolated bottle without straws.
  2. Insulated bottles are very nice because they isolate the water.
  3. The potential bacteria obviously doesn't really matter much anyways.
[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago
  1. You can buy an isolated bottle without straws.
  2. Insulated bottles are very nice because they isolate the water.

Now I don’t know what to think!

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I have a steel thermos for keeping my coffee hot, but I don't see it being necessary to keep things cold. I usually only take water if I'm going somewhere without access to tap water or clean streams.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Cold water is much nicer to drink and IMO much better than coffee.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I live in the Arctic. The water is always pristine and cold.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

I live further north than most but not that close to the Arctic Circle (around 7-8 degrees further south), but it's not like I have that cold inside, we insolate our homes. If you live in the ice hotel I guess you don't need an isolated bottle (As long as you don't expose it to negative for too long). IMO a bottle is just really convenient compared to a glass of water which is very limited in capacity.

The vast majority of humanity lives very far away from the Arctic. The Arctic is one of the most desolate places on earth. Only around 4 million or 0,05376% of humanity live above the Arctic circle.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago (1 children)

Yeah my home's insulated as well. But the water pipes that supply my home are mostly outside. I turn on the tap and get a pint of ice cold water. I'm not sure why a bottle would make it more convenient. I did this when I lived much further south as well. A pint of tap water is actually pretty good. And if you live in a developing country without safe and tasty tap water then your water comes pre chilled from the shop anyway. And it's easier to just drink it from the bottle it comes in.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

Bottles contain more water than most glasses and compared to glasses they can be used safely close to electronics and keep the water cool for longer.

Sure, I could go and fetch more from the tap but that's annoying and is something that will get in the way of me drinking water. Ice water is even more annoying with glasses because the ice melts faster and the glass will sweat a lot.

And no, I'm not in a developing country. There are only like 8 countries in total around 59-58° 34' N and none are really developing countries. Except Russia of course. The water in Estonia is apparently not the best and the USA apparently has shit water.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 7 months ago

I have a steel thermos for keeping my coffee hot, but I don't see it being necessary to keep things cold. I usually only take water if I'm going somewhere without access to tap water or clean streams.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 7 months ago

There's another theory running around that Stanley cups are also growing in popularity due to a demographic focus of Mormons.

It didn’t take long before netizens began pointing to a connection between the popularity of the tumblers and Mormonism in the United States. For those of you who don’t know, Mormons are taught to not drink hot beverages, as they believe that “hot drinks are not for the body or belly,” thus avoiding tea or coffee and instead turning to alternative fizzy drinks for caffeine.

To keep them at an approved temperature, the Stanley Quencher’s ability to keep a drink cold for hours makes it a perfect option, thus making it extremely marketable to this particular demographic.

Source [blog]: https://screenshot-media.com/the-future/trends/mormons-stanley-cup-craze/

I believe the "hot beverages" claim is a bit misleading. I'm not a Mormon, but my understanding is they "hot beverages" only applies to coffee and tea. It was interpreted as a medicinal phrase (like how a "cold compress" might refer to a particular medicinal application of cold rags and not any cold rags?). The Mormon Church allows members to drink some cold caffeinated beverages since they are not "hot beverages". However, I think they weirdly still ban iced coffee despite it being cold...

Anyways, they represent a sizeable 2% of the US population. 6.5 million people who generally abide by these cold/hot beverages principles. So a running theory is they command a decent portion of the thermos market share.

I'm not an expert. I'm just sharing what I've heard.

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