Man I really do love them but compared to plastic Nalgene's, they really aren't practical you know?

Compared to what?  A vacuum bottle?  BTW, I've yet to have one retain a taste.  They really aren't the same plastic as polypropylene canteens.  I think the forum established about ten years ago polypro wasn't good.  

The problem with stainless bottles is their surface is so conductive in mere minutes whatever liquid, hot or cold takes on ambient temperatures around it.  Its like boom, your ice water is just water.  If you really use the things and I do (I just don't know why I do), you end up with a cover to try to insulate them and then there goes your weight advantage.  

You can't see through them so as a measuring bottle they suck.  Usual sizes are not the same as Naglenes so they don't hold as much.  Same typical sizes are not wide mouthed so other than fluid, that's about it for their use.  

Whoever thought of turning a fuel bottle into a drinking bottle was a marketing genius but that's about it.  The only thing they have going for them is their "neat" factor.  I have them different colors even OD green insulation covers and even have "Doctor Who" one, but I'm not in grade school anymore.  When its SHTF, I won't be grabbing my neat stainless bottle but my two Naglenes, their over the bottom cups, and my collapsible bladders that the stainless bottles don't screw into.  .  

I also use Vacuum bottles about every day but I wouldn't want to get me going on them.  I'd have to break your heart by telling you these new ones we use compared to our fathers glass lined ones suck. Our modern stainless lined ones such the heat or cold right out of them at the cap.    I'd have to remind everyone that this is the survival forum not the eat lunch at work forum.  Wonderful tools really but their weight negates their advantages in a pack very fast.  

The only guy in this thread that tried to make the topic practical was the one suggesting we go back in a time machine to WWII and go with a metal canteen.  

Tj

No not really just totally not an advocate of stepping back in time "Jeremiah Johnson" idea of survival.  By the time my filter is dead and my bottle of iodine expired if I'm trying to boil water 38 ozs at a time, that will be after six months or a minimum 400 gallons, my plan and odds for survival sucks.  My food will have been long gone and since I can't imagine even somewhere after days of moving I'm still in wilderness, then whatever game and forage  is in my area long expired.    The truth is the real Jeremiah Johnson didn't go into the wilderness with just a back to survive and we're going to be like that kid that thought he could live off the land in Alaska a desiccated corpse.  When they find us, they'll find a perfectly good filter along with our stainless bottle.  I keep seeing you guys thirsty as hell spending hours upon hours boiling water in tiny pots and on the move constantly sloshing those cans echoing through the valley to figure out how much is left.  

This is the survival forum though so not really the trough hiker with stores to replenish his disposable bottles that puncture on a whim.  Who am I to stand in the way of the latest fad and if you guys want to eat soggy freeze dried so you can boil water one good drink at a time, don't let me stand in your way.  You can always add the stainless cup then you have a new use for your fixed blade, prying off the cup from that bottle.  

Just know, this isn't a step into the future.  Its a step back into the past, WWII, to a metal canteen.  Aluminum, stainless, is splitting hairs.  At least the WWII canteen came with a well thought out insulation cover that the canteen cup fit over it.  I'm just here to tell you if you start out with ice, its going to melt quicker and a second tool, a measuring cup more critical.  

It does make me wonder what's next? Carrying canned food?  I don't usually poo poo new ideas.  I just don't see a new idea.

Tj

Black Exhaust Header paint from your local hot-rod or auto store will stay on even after being assaulted by direct flame, and as mentioned, speed things up when heating the bottle.  MAKE SURE to unscrew the cap before heating the bottle!