>
> Now that it is getting hot, I feel the need to carry some water with
> me when I shop. Last week I carried water in a Ball jar,but it moved
> aorund too much in the cold-pack bag and leaked too much.
>
> As I don't like holding water in plastic, and don't like a small
> opening, I'm wondering if anyone has had a wide mouth glass thermos
> that that like and would recommend.
>
> I'd really like to buy two of them, one for water and one for coffee.
> Coffee is the pits here where I live and sometimes I'd like a swig of
> good coffee for a pick-me-up.
>
> Thanks.
> Dee Dee

> Dee Dee wrote:
>

>> Now that it is getting hot, I feel the need to carry some water with
>> me when I shop.  Last week I carried water in a Ball jar,but it moved
>> aorund too much in the cold-pack bag and leaked too much.

>

>> As I don't like holding water in plastic, and don't like a small
>> opening, I'm wondering if anyone has had a wide mouth glass thermos
>> that that like and would recommend.

>

>> I'd really like to buy two of them, one for water and one for coffee.
>> Coffee is the pits here where I live and sometimes I'd like a swig of
>> good coffee for a pick-me-up.

>

>> Thanks.
>> Dee Dee

>
> I don't have any recommendations off-hand (sorry).  I just did a search
> on "amazon.com" using keywords "stainless thermos", and there were a lot ...

> Dee Dee shentel.net> wrote:
>
> :I've been thinking about the stainless and wondering if it were
> :stainless inside.  I looked at one somewhere about a week ago and
> :indeed it was stainless inside!  I'm not sure what to make of a
> :stainless steel thermos.  I know I wouldn't be drinking out of it, but
> :I can only recall some pewter wine glasses and liqueur sipping glasses
> :of pewter  I received for a wedding present - strange.  It might be OK
> :to use for taking water with me, I'm thinking, since I don't need it
> :cold.  Stainless steel - shudder!
>
> They're vaccum bottles, just like a glass lined thermos is.  There's
> an outer shell, a vaccum layer (or air gap, depending on model), and
> then the inner layer...

> On Jun 20, 11:56

> Dee Dee shentel.net> wrote:
>
> :Wow!  I thought the stainless would be very poor at maintaining
> :temperature.
>
> Stainless steel is a pretty poor conductor of heat, but it's the
> vacuum between the two layers that's the real insulator.  My favorite
> of my stainless steel flasks is by Zojirushi.  It keeps coffee hot for
> greater than 24 hours, when it's pre-heated with boiling water.
>
> --
> sig 41

> Now that it is getting hot, I feel the need to carry some water with
> me when I shop. Last week I carried water in a Ball jar,but it moved
> aorund too much in the cold-pack bag and leaked too much.
>
> As I don't like holding water in plastic, and don't like a small
> opening, I'm wondering if anyone has had a wide mouth glass thermos
> that that like and would recommend.
>
>
> I'd really like to buy two of them, one for water and one for coffee.
> Coffee is the pits here where I live and sometimes I'd like a swig of
> good coffee for a pick-me-up.
>
> Thanks.
> Dee Dee
>

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