Stainless
One more day on water, if I may. If you’ve been reading this blog for any amount of time you may remember when I used to post a lot of green stuff. I preached about reuse, recycle and all that crap that you shouldn’t have to be told to do unless you live under a rock as a slack jawed, mouth breathing knuckle dragging window licker. I also preached about how evil plastic water bottles are. It takes something like 4 liters of water to produce a one liter bottle.
Recently I wrote that we have been using glass bottles for drinking water instead of refilling plastic bottles. I’ve been looking for a stainless steel water bottle, but the prices are usually over $20. I’m for saving the planet and all that crap, but 20 bucks is 20 bucks. You can feed a family several meals for $20.
Finally after an internet search I found the perfect stainless water bottle at Homedepot.com. It’s a 24 ounce container with two unscrewable caps. One is or drinking and another larger cap for cleaning or adding ice. It comes with a strap and a crampon and it sells for $12.95. If you are in the market to get away from all that evil plastic it’s a good investment. Anyway, that’s my environmentalist tip for the year. (Hey look everybody, Guy has finally sunk to hawking shit on his blog!)
posted by The Guy Who Writes This at 4:00 AM
12 Comments:
If I could take that in to work, or if they would shell out the money to treat the water there, I'd do it in a minute. But I can't take a steel bottle inside the fence and the water there gets cited every year for high levels of lead, radium and other nasty things. I do recycle my bottles. It's the best I can do at the moment. Guess I could buy "survival water" in those little boxes....
shill!
shhhhhhhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiii-hhhhhhhhiiiiiiiiiiilllllll!
you sellout! i'm never readin' yer blog agin!
(ahem.)
as you were...
just don't put it in the microwave.
that's a bad idea.
won't tell you how i know.
trust me.
Well, Guy, I hope you ordered yours in pink. The only drawback for me is that these are only for cold liquids. I need something for hot coffee.
I was listening to a radio show today talking about the evil plastic bottles and couldn't help but remember my Boy Scout days. What did we use, ah yes, a stainless steel canteen. Things are coming full circle!
I think stainless is better for hot liquids (better taste). You can get travel coffee mugs w/ stainless inside. Plastic gives coffee a weird/bad taste. I purchased a plastic bottle for drinking water w/ a filter built in to it...got it at Bob's in Longview. I tested it by putting lemon into the water...it was amazing...not even a hint of lemon when I drank the water. Don't even get me started about my cookware!
hawking good shit tho'
da loop
Darev, With the stuff in the ground where you live, you are better off buying bottled water.
Dalia, forgive me. Sometimes a Guy has to shill.
Um, Jaggy, metal in a microwave? You shouldn't out plastic in there either.
Rich, I got the black one, I would have gotten the colored ones had I known, but my search took me to the black ones. Not pink tho.
Jeff were they stainless or aluminum back then?
I agree, Ginger. I have a stainless cup I got as pharmaceutical "SWAG" a few years ago.
Loopy, I try to limit my endorsements.
I bought a bunch of nice ones for our company meeting in June through our marketing department - we are go green as a company and the number of water bottles used at meetings is unbelievable. I love them - mine has our cool logo and a little attachment thing to hook to belt or backpack.
Mine has a clip as well. I'm really happy I got it.
Those are great bottles. They remind me of my old metal canteen back when I first started camping. I must say though, I understand the stainless steel bottles, but I can't understand the aluminum ones.
Casey Knopik
Just South of North
Casey, those are used by people that don't know about the effect aluminum has on the brain. I think that combined with aluminum cook wear is really dangerous. Thanks for checking in.
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