01.23.10

Stainless Steel Water Bottles, There is a Difference

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:17 pm by Administrator

This past week I was at an Intern recruiting event at the University of Florida looking for Summer interns. For the immediately curious, Bill Clinton was not present. These events attract most of the schools population as there are many companies looking to fill both Summer intern as well as full time positions. Unfortunately, there are more students than jobs available, but the upside is the free stuff being given away by the companies to the students.

One popular item at this event were stainless steel water bottles. I picked up 2 from different booths mostly because, these are great items to use at home, just full up with water from my multipure water filter and store in the refrigerator for use later. Definately better than plastic water bottles. But, I was disappointed in the performance of these bottles right away.

First, these bottles were single wall stainless steel water bottles, meaning the user, me in this case, got to hold a cold, sweaty (condensation) bottle to drink from. Worse, and for those of you familiar with the concept of entropy, my 98.6 degree hands warm up my cool beverage fast, so the the water didn’t stay cold for as long as I would have liked. Worse, since I was driving, when I drank from this stainless steel water bottle, the condensation dripped right on the front of my pants. Not so bad while driving, but when I got out of the car, well it looked like I was late for trip to the restroom.

So for stainless steel water bottles, there is a difference. My preference are stainless steel water bottles that are double lined/insulated, like a thermos. At home, we use the H2O on the go stainless steel water bottles from Multipure. These water bottles don’t condensate water on the outside, have an easy sports water bottle type of lid, and frankly are superior to single wall stainless steel water bottles. Yes they cost a bit more but not that much. I definately recommend the multipure water filters companion product.

till next time

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