Metal waterbottle why do you use one

[MikeLA]

Metal waterbottle why do you use one

Just a question on why some of you prefer a metal waterbottle over a 58 pattern waterbottle and crusader cup combination.

Reason asking a plastic bottle will give you a cooler drink over a metal one on a warm day, wont warm the water up.

A crusader cup unlike a metal waterbottle will cook food as well as boil water and its easier to get at once cooked.

Your opinions please.

 

[ex member pyrophil]

I still like a mess tin, you can cook some real food in one, try cooking in a cup lol. I like sigg bottles, two fit in one of my side pouches on my cyclops roc, can get to them easy without having to take my sack off.

 

[RonW]

Water doesn't get warm in a plastic canteen on a warm day?? In your dreams....
Plus plastic canteens give a bad taste to water, too.

With a metal cup there's the large risk of burning your mouth, if you have used it to heat water in. But cooking in a cup.... sounds like a meagre meal to me.

 

[The Ratcatcher]

If I'm out without the family, I always have two water bottles, especially in winter. The plastic Nalgene bottle screws directly to my MSR Waterworks filter, and can be used to hold drinks like orange juice, which can attack aluminium bottles, and the metal British 44 pattern can be thawed over a fire if it freezes up. The warm water that results can then be used to thaw the plastic bottle. ( I've had to do this several times over the years.)

Alan

 

[bradleybuckman]

It can be used to boil and treat water if you don't have a filter or other treated water with you.

 

[Highbinder]

Works better as a hot water bottle, too. Had a couple of plastic bottles deform or leak at the seal.

 

[Rabbitsmacker]

I prefer plastic, 58 pattern British or Dutch Avon 1 Litre which is very similar. Sometimes American ones. Tried metal, didn't like the taste of the metal ones, I know that sounds wired, and lots of people complain about plastic making the water taste funky which I don't agree with, but actually found the taste of the metal on my mouth unpleasant. Sigg or military. So reverted to plastic,they do freeze up and there's little can be done about it once it's happened, but I like them.

 

[santaman2000]

Water doesn't get warm in a plastic canteen on a warm day?? In your dreams....

Agreed. If using simple tap water it will reach the same temperature the ambient air temp within a short time no matter if it's in metal or plastic. However I often fill a plastic canteen and half fill another and place them in the freezer the night before I plan on a hike. That way I have 2 quarts of ice water for at least half a day. You can do that with a metal one but I've found that the expansion when freezing is more likely to cause leaks with a metal canteen.

 

[salad]

I use a a nalagene bottle as my handy camp bottle and I think they are great, no bad taste nice wide mouth for pouring attaches to my water filter, it fits perfect inside my snowpeak 700ml ti cup.
When I am hiking I use an army issue camelback bladder in my rucksack as I find these to be tougher ,easier to dry the tube ,comes with an insulation on the tube as standard and is near enough the same price as a standard camelback bladder . The empty nalagene bottle stays in my pack on a hike ready for when I set up camp and gets used then in the evenings

Linky for my fav bladder

http://www.tactical-kit.co.uk/camelbak-omega-water-beast-3l-hydration-bladder-10151-p.asp

 

[MikeLA]

Thanks for the replies

 

[MikeLA]

Water doesn't get warm in a plastic canteen on a warm day?? In your dreams....
Plus plastic canteens give a bad taste to water, too.

With a metal cup there's the large risk of burning your mouth, if you have used it to heat water in. But cooking in a cup.... sounds like a meagre meal to me.

I know but it is still better than metal

 

[MikeLA]

I agree with you
pyrophil, I carry one mess tin as well but wanted to try and simplify my question so to find out why those prefer metal waterbottles to the other plastic/metal mug combination.

 

[santaman2000]

I wish I had kept my old Boy scout 2 quart aluminum metal canteen. Water just tasted better from it. Likewise from the old stainless GI canteens.

 

[bilmo-p5]

I wish I had kept my old Boy scout 2 quart aluminum metal canteen. Water just tasted better from it. Likewise from the old stainless GI canteens.

Round or oblong?

 

[santaman2000]

I know but it is still better than metal

Better retaining temperature? I've found that either one takes about a half an hour for tap water to go from the temp it came out of the faucet to ambient outdoor temp (90f or over; OR 32.2c or over) on a Summer's day. Assuming of course that the outside temp isn't much warmer than that.

 

[santaman2000]

Round or oblong?

The Boy Scout one? Round. It was about 8 or 10 inches in diameter and 2 inches or so thick. Like this one: www.atomicmall.com/view.php?id=1656467&mba=0

The stainless GI ones were identical to the plastic ones still issued.

 

[bilmo-p5]

I have one of the oblong ones in the red cotton cover. It fits very nicely in a ruck's side pocket.

 

[mountainm]

Easier to sterilise. Won't crush split or pop. Threads won't get damaged as easily. Doubles as kettle.

 

[ex member pyrophil]

I dont mind drinking water out of plastic or metal, the sigg bottles just work for me.
what tasts better coke and beer from metal cans or plastic bottles lol. i vote cans

 

[British Red]

What kind of an animal buys beer in plastic ???????????????????