34 OZ Uninsulated Single Walled Stainless Steel Sports Water Bottle 18/8 Food Grade for Cyclists, Runners, Hikers, Beach Goers, Picnics, Camping - BPA Free

I bought this specifically because it is not insulated. This bottle has only one wall, while some other products with similar appearance have a double wall.I wanted a bottle that I could fill with hot water, and then warm myself with it. In the past, I've used mason jars. I filled them with hot water and then held the jar in gloved hands, or put between layers of clothing I was wearing. The heat from the water warmed the bottle, and the bottle, in turn, then warmed me up.This was dangerous. A glass mason jar can crack or break leading to the glass shards cutting skin and the hot water burning skin.I now fill the 34 oz stainless steel jar with hot water for the same purpose. Stainless steel is less likely than glass to shatter.The bottle comes with a tag warning of scalding if filled with hot water. The technique I use is to make sure there is a glove or several layers of clothing between the bottle and skin.The stainless steel transfers the heat from the hot water more quickly than through glass, as one would expect.So, I use this product as my usual "hot water bottle". But I would think it could have a use also for an emergency when camping in cold weather to combat any cases of hypothermia. The way to treat hypothermia is to warm the core of the person affected. One way to do this to make a ring of fires and put the person in the middle, exposing their core to the warmth while shielding their limbs. An alternative would be to heat up water and place it in a few of these bottles, and apply the bottles to the core as described above.[Edit: I've used this bottle for several days now. I am impressed with the way it's made and it's performance. I start with boiling water, and put the bottle in between layers of clothing, and several hours later the water is still warm enough to impart heat.The hot water, as it cools, creates a vacuum as the internal pressure drops. This is good because it keeps the top even more securely on. It's not so good, though, in that the vacuum makes it a little challenging occasionally to unscrew the top when you want to open it. As I untwist the top, the silicone inner ring, which normally sits inside the top, may remain stuck due to the vacuum. The trick is to take a fingernail -- or anything else similar, like the point of a key -- and gently push the ring up. That breaks the vacuum. Another approach would be not to use the silicone ring, but the ring is there to prevent leaks, and I noticed the bottle will sometimes, but not always, leak very slightly without the ring.I would highly recommend using this bottle as a hand warmer for, say, watching an outdoor sports event in the cold. A sock can be slipped over the unit since the metal is very hot when filled with boiling water. The sock slows down the heat transmission. Over time, as the water cools, the sock could be slipped off. And when the heat is mostly dissipated, the bottle can be "recharged" by emptying it and the refilling it with hot water from a thermos.][Edit #2: Here we are, close to a year after my first purchase, and I'm still discovering novel uses for these bottles. I'll be purchasing two more to use as...The Clothes DryerWhat to do when one is camping and there is a need to dry out some thick wool socks? Maybe the socks got wet from accidentally getting water into a boot. Maybe the socks were intentionally laundered. How to dry them?The usual answer: hang them up over the wood burning stove in the tent, or near the campfire outside. Is there an alternative?Enter the steel bottle. Heat up some water on the stove or campfire, and fill the steel bottle with the hot water, ideally with boiling water. (Alternatively, put the unheated water in the bottle, and heat up the water in the bottle over the fire with th cap off.) Close the bottle. Slip a wet sock over it. Immediately steam moisture starts rising off the sock. In a short time, the sock is completely dry.This works also to "iron" dry other wet items of clothing.The versatile Triple Tree Steel bottle is the duct tape of water bottles.]

Concerning the 'TRIPLE TREE 34 OZ Uninsulated Single Walled Stainless Steel Sports Water Bottle 18/8 Food Grade', only, the item I received is exactly as advertised, but that it doesn't weigh 8.5 oz, rather being 6.97 oz, or 7.18 oz with the included carabiner. The Amazon spec's say it's '18/8 Food Grade stainless steel', yet etched on the outside, under the TRIPLE TREE brand name, it says '304 stainless steel'. For what it's worth, I have no idea if they are the same thing by a different name or not, but just to say, it's described by two different names, in case that matters to someone.The carabiner is a freebie, and as such, it's clearly not stainless steel, but perhaps aluminum or something similar,. It is solid tho, with the spring snap lock sufficiently stiff so as to avoid most accidental releases, but easy enough to move intentionally. It's surprisingly good quality, and for a throw-in, a nice touch.Also a nice, is that the 'C' wire handle that the carabiner clips to, is of course SSteel and swivels left to right, yet requires enough force applied to do so, that it won't move on it's own, keeping any rattling at bay. Sweet, and totally unexpected. The cover screws on smoothly and tight, with a removable silicone gasket sealing the deal waterproof, and as well, a spare one in the kit.Apparently, the insulated version of this is only $1 more, and if all is equal to what I've got quality-wise, I would be very happy. Also, at 34 oz, it holds 1 liter, being 2 oz over a quart, also being very convenient. For as light as it is, it is solid and would take quite a hit to put a dent in it.

kleen no longer makes the bottle I had, I needed one to hold more, 34 oz works great doesn't take much room in the fridge

Simple and functional. I am using these to get away from bottled water in plastic bottles. After tons of research, single layer stainless is the best option. These bottles are inexpensive and work great.I wish the mouth was a bit smaller but that's my only gripe. Can the threads cross a touch and bind up on rare occasion? yeah but it'll still unscrew with a little effort and no damage done. Can the cap get a little water in it from where the handle enters? yeah maybe, if you soak them under water.The bottles are sturdy, don't leak (unless you have the cap loose), and function just fine.I bought 5 and will be buying more. I have used all 5 multiple times a day.If only they were usa made, but that's a story for another day.Solid product, get you equally solid water purification and you are sorted.

Well built. Will work Great for hiking and camping.

Stainless steel so no plastic

I bought two of these 1L bottles because I liked that they were plastic-free and I'm trying to avoid microplastics. I liked that they're 1L (most bottles are too small) and looked reasonably dishwasher-safe.NO. Bad idea. The first time I filled one of these bottles, the lid cross-threaded, and it became VERY hard to open. It took me over 2 hours, using tools and all my body weight, to get it open.Weird, I thought. Maybe that was a fluke. So I kept using them. They worked fine for a few hikes, and then it happened again. When I filled the bottle, I made absolutely sure the lid was not cross-threaded because I was afraid of this, and then when I went to open it it somehow cross-threaded itself and became immovably stuck. No amount of levers and vice grips get this thing open. On the hike, I was opening it carefully, because I was specifically afraid of this happening. I used only a TINY amount of force to try to open it, and somehow it froze itself and no worldly amount of force will open it.These bottles will fail you when you need them most. Avoid. If one of your friends has one of these bottles, I want you to yell angrily at them until they swap it out. These bottles are worse than useless, they make you think they'll work so you start to trust them, and then they fail. They hold your water in a way you cannot access it no matter what you do.

TRUE TEST OF QUALITYI took four very different price points of stainless steel water bottles all which say that they are 304 stainless and ran them through what I consider a fairly scientific test of their quality.I washed the bottles thoroughly with standard dish soap. Then I rinse them thoroughly with standard tapwater. And then I rinse them. With reverse osmosis, filtered water. Lastly, I sanitize them with near boiling reverse osmosis water that came directly from the hot water, reverse osmosis output.Once the bottles were all clean, I added room temperature reverse osmosis water to all of the bottles. I left about an inch of room at the top of each bottle to make sure that the top did not touch the water and affect the test. Then I put the bottles aside and let them sit for an entire week.One week later, I came back with clean glass cups that were rinsed and sanitized with reverse osmosis water. I filled each cup with the same amount of water from the four bottles labeled the bottom bottoms and then randomized the water cups.I first did a taste test, trying to figure out if any of them tasted metallic, or if I had any other flavors that were in the water that I could notice and I sorted them by taste. Amazingly my taste buds did not match the scientific TDS meter but I think it was because there may have been a hint of the fragrance of the dish soap that may have not completely come off the plastic tops of the Contigo and Klean Kanteen.So for taste, this was my subjective ranking of the water from the bottles from best to worst.1. Triple Tree (8 TDS)2. Amazon Special (3 TDS)3. Kleen Kanteen (2 TDS)4. Contigo (6 TDS)As you can see, my taste buds are not quite as scientific as I thought they were, because I did not rank them in order of TDS, which is total dissolved solids within the water. But what I do think I tasted was perhaps a little soap residue that may have not been fully cleaned off of the plastic tops of the bottles for the Contigo and Klean Kanteen.The Klean Kanteen does do something very interesting in that. It actually has a stainless steel layer on the inside of the plastic top so you get the best of both worlds. The Contigo is a drinking cup not a bottle that actually has plastic all throughout the top and the other two bottles are almost 100% steel outside of the silicone ring that allows you to get a water tight seal.You can do a very quick test on any stainless steel water bottle that claims to be 304 stainless which is the top quality that you’re going to get on food grade stainless. All you need to do is grab a magnet of any size or shape preferably a hard small magnet that is fairly strong and if it sticks to the metal, it is not pure non-magnetic 304 stainless. Now there is a chance that it is 304 stainless, even though you get some small amount of magnetism if the manufacturing of the steel actually changed the material structurally as it was formed from a single piece of metal.But if you do find a stainless steel model and make sure that it’s not plastic lined aluminum like the old Sigg bottles. If a magnet does not stick at all, it is likely that you have a high grade stain stainless steel bottle.The last thing to look out for is that on a insulated bottle like here the Contigo or the Klean Kanteen, they will save some cost by using a lower grade stainless steel on the outside of the cup even though the inside of the cup is pure 304 stainless steel. That just means that your magnet might actually stick very strongly to the outside of the cup and not stick at all to the inside of your bottle.As a conclusion for the test, what I would say is that Klean Kanteen wins the race of the cleanest water bottle that money can buy but for a fraction of the cost a Amazon special can actually come close and beat out even a Contigo or a triple tree for a high-quality stainless steel water bottle that doesn’t even have a stamp of being 304 stainless on it because the stamp would actually cost more money and just increase your price so you’re truly getting the most bare bones quality steel container that money can buy in what I believe is the Amazon special and what I would say is the winner for value of all of these tests.For me, I think I am going to go with the Amazon special. I can get eight bottles for around $30. To do that with a Klean Kanteen I am looking at probably a $200 to do the same.Remember, always keep your water bottles clean don’t grow bacteria in them sanitize them with boiling water if you can on occasion, but be very careful because the outside of a stainless steel bottle will be exactly the same temperature as the inside and you will burn your hands if you are not wearing heat proof gloves.And the last note I will share is if you’re not putting pure reverse osmosis water in your water bottle be very careful because it will have chemicals and bacteria and your water will go bad and should not be consumed if it is left in your bottle for any period of time. If you are doing the worst thing that I think you can do in using tapwater remember “Fill your bottle. Drink it right away! Clean out your bottle EVERYDAY!!!”