Thermos Flask anyone recommend one ?

**pzz76077** · 9 October 2009, 07:11

Originally posted by eliquant View Post

I don't like paying £1 for a cup of carp tea from the company canteen or Starbucks. I like my tea milky and hot and maybe ready made.

These days are thermos flasks any better than they were in the 1980s.

Say I make a piping hot cup of tea at 8am, by what time will the tea be stone cold in a thermos flask tightly shut.

Could anyone recommend me one via amazon or somewhere ? or do you think its not worth it.

btw: I am not an anorak !!!

When you say carp tea, you mean like this?? : http://www.jamaicans.com/cooking/soup/fishtea.shtml

**pzz76077** · 9 October 2009, 07:14

Here is some vaguely scientific tests of flasks available in the UK: http://www.songofthepaddle.co.uk/vac...k_thermos.html

**DimPrawn** · 9 October 2009, 07:15

I've got a couple of these.

http://www.millets.co.uk/product/112340.html

1.5L so enough tea for the whole team!

**dang65** · 9 October 2009, 07:20

I don't think I've ever, ever worked at a place where there wasn't at least a kettle, some teabags and milk available at all times. What kind of barbarian organisation do you work for, for god's sake? This kind of thing is exactly what the European Court of Human Rights was set up to deal with.

**LostInBrussels** · 9 October 2009, 08:24

I find I just can't drink coffee/tea that has been in a flask. Thermos flasks IME make coffee or tea smell a bit odd.

**chef** · 9 October 2009, 08:28

Originally posted by LostInBrussels View Post

I find I just can't drink coffee/tea that has been in a flask. Thermos flasks IME make coffee or tea smell a bit odd.

yes because a vacuum has an odd smell

**TimberWolf** · 9 October 2009, 08:48

Originally posted by LostInBrussels View Post

I find I just can't drink coffee/tea that has been in a flask. Thermos flasks IME make coffee or tea smell a bit odd.

Yeah, a bit plasticy, with a delicate hint of fungal spore. The more expensive flasks may use a better class of plastic though and provide a superior tinge.

**minestrone** · 9 October 2009, 08:57

The rolled metal ones are all much the same, I have this one but it's really just the same as any other rebranded.

If you keep the stopper on when you pour and prime the flask ( just put some boiling water in one and leave it for a couple of minutes before you put your tea in ) you will still have warm tea 12-18 hours later. IT will take over a day to be stone cold.

Thermos Flask anyone recommend one ?