Steel vacuum bottles and food jars, plain designs with every seal still sold.
The wide, plain vacuum flasks that keep soup hot until lunch and coffee hot until dusk. Steel inside and out, no coating to flake, and stoppers and gaskets that are still sold decades after the model launched. The shape has barely changed because it never needed to.
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The hammertone green flask your grandfather carried, still made and still warranted for life. Stanley has changed the Classic remarkably little since 1913: the same 18/8 steel body, the same screw stopper that doubles as the cup, and a vacuum seal rated to hold heat for 24 hours. The stopper and gasket are both sold as spares, so the usual failure point is a repair rather than a replacement.
Lifetime warranty
Hot or cold for 24 hours
Stopper doubles as the cup
Stopper and gasket sold as spares
18/8 stainless, design essentially unchanged since 1913
The flask shape widened into something you can eat soup out of, with a lid that unscrews into a bowl. Twenty dollars for 18/8 stainless with a lifetime warranty behind it is the cheapest entry to this page and not the weakest.
The hammertone flask has been made in essentially this shape since 1913 and Stanley still backs it for life. Eighteen-eight stainless inside and out, a lid that doubles as a cup, and a stopper that is sold as a spare. Nothing about it is sealed shut.
A double-walled stainless food jar with a folding spoon in the lid. The vacuum steel body is what keeps soup hot for hours, and it has no coating to wear out.
Stainless inside and out with a vacuum wall rated to hold temperature for 24 hours, a lid that doubles as a serving cup, and a five year warranty from the company that patented the thing in the first place. The stopper is the part that wears and Thermos sells it separately.
The large jar in the same vacuum stainless range as the smaller one already here, at 25 ounces, which is a full meal rather than a side. The vessel is one piece of stainless with a vacuum between its walls and nothing in it to wear out; the gasket is the one soft part and it is a listed spare.
The same vacuum wall as the mugs, in a shape wide enough to eat out of, which turns a flask into a lunch that is still hot at two in the afternoon. The gasket and lid come apart for washing and Zojirushi sells replacements, which is the part that decides whether one of these lasts.
The hammertone green flask your grandfather carried, still made and still warranted for life. Stanley has changed the Classic remarkably little since 1913: the same 18/8 steel body, the same screw stopper that doubles as the cup, and a vacuum seal rated to hold heat for 24 hours. The stopper and gasket are both sold as spares, so the usual failure point is a repair rather than a replacement.
Lifetime warranty
Hot or cold for 24 hours
Stopper doubles as the cup
Stopper and gasket sold as spares
18/8 stainless, design essentially unchanged since 1913
The flask shape widened into something you can eat soup out of, with a lid that unscrews into a bowl. Twenty dollars for 18/8 stainless with a lifetime warranty behind it is the cheapest entry to this page and not the weakest.
The hammertone flask has been made in essentially this shape since 1913 and Stanley still backs it for life. Eighteen-eight stainless inside and out, a lid that doubles as a cup, and a stopper that is sold as a spare. Nothing about it is sealed shut.
A double-walled stainless food jar with a folding spoon in the lid. The vacuum steel body is what keeps soup hot for hours, and it has no coating to wear out.
Stainless inside and out with a vacuum wall rated to hold temperature for 24 hours, a lid that doubles as a serving cup, and a five year warranty from the company that patented the thing in the first place. The stopper is the part that wears and Thermos sells it separately.
The large jar in the same vacuum stainless range as the smaller one already here, at 25 ounces, which is a full meal rather than a side. The vessel is one piece of stainless with a vacuum between its walls and nothing in it to wear out; the gasket is the one soft part and it is a listed spare.
The same vacuum wall as the mugs, in a shape wide enough to eat out of, which turns a flask into a lunch that is still hot at two in the afternoon. The gasket and lid come apart for washing and Zojirushi sells replacements, which is the part that decides whether one of these lasts.
Vacuum insulated stainless steel
Wide mouth, eat straight from it
Lid and gasket come apart to wash
Replacement gaskets sold
Keeps food hot six hours
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