Thermos Nissan FBB1000 34-Ounce Stainless-Steel Vacuum Insulated Briefcase Bottle
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Thermos Nissan FBB1000 34-Ounce Stainless-Steel Vacuum Insulated Briefcase Bottle
Customer Review: Keeps liquids steaming hot for an eye-popping long time
Summary: 5 Stars
I've been using this thermos since April 2008. I haven't used it yet for cold liquids, but it works better than I ever would have expected for keeping coffee hot and great-tasting. The thermos works very simply: when you want to drink your beverage, partially unscrew the cap and pour.
The thermos retains heat much longer if you fill it with hot water for a few minutes prior to filling it with your intended beverage. This is documented in the instructions, and I've found it to be true. If you don't do this, your beverage does not retain its heat as long.
For the most effective use, make sure to open the thermos only when absolutely necessary. Repeated openings allow the heat to escape. For example, I sealed in freshly brewed coffee one evening at midnight, then poured myself a cup a full nine hours later the following morning at work; the coffee was steaming hot and delicious. Another time I sealed freshly brewed coffee into the thermos at 7:30 AM. I poured myself a cup at 8:30am (one hour later) and a second cup at 11:30am (four hours later). Both cups were steaming hot and delicious. At 2:15pm (6.75 hours after the initial brewing), I poured a third cup -- the coffee was hot but not steaming (but still tasted great).
Customer Review: Amazing little (tall) bottle!
Summary: 5 Stars
Let's start with the outside... it's made of stainless steel, I can probably beat somebody with it and it won't make a dent, and it's tall but compact. It's also made in Malaysia.
So, what do we have here? It's a very spacious, 34 ounce thermos. And boy does it work, and well! It was in the high 80s out today, and I filled my new thermos with organic apple juice. I put it in my messenger bag, and ran numerous errands all day in the heat, and with the bottle bouncing around inside the bag as I ran, walked, and climbed numerous steps into, and out of the subway.
The end result? 12 hours or so later, the apple juice is still cold! (what's left of it) And nothing leaked out, nope. You can tell the stopper and lid are meant to keep things (including the cold) inside.
So, to get to the liquid, first there's the main cap that you screw off. Below that layer is a plastic stopper, recycling code 05. Unscrew that, and ah, liquidy goodness!
The only thing that may be difficult is cleaning, as it's a tall bottle, and hard to get into... my method thus far is dropping water and soap in it, covering it, and shaking it furiously like I'm mixing a drink or something. This seems to work well.
Customer Review: Starbucks no more. . . errrr, less often anyway
Summary: 5 Stars
I figured out how much money I was spending stopping for coffee on the way to work in the morning and decided a thermos was the way to go so I could bring my coffee from home. I ordered the 34-ounce Nissan Thermos after reading the reviews and I am very happy with it, probably embarrassingly so given how excited I was when I got it. My coworkers now call it my magic thermos.
It keeps my coffee hot all day, even when I leave the pour spout unscrewed a little. The spout pours neatly and doesn't spill, which is much more than I can say for my Krups coffee decanter. When closed, everything is sealed tight. I can throw it in my messenger bag along with important papers and not worry at all that I'm going to have spilled liquid on anything.
The design of the bottle is very nice- it is tall, sleek, and fits well in one hand. It isn't too heavy even when filled with liquid. It holds much more than it looks like it could hold given how portable it is.
The only thing that would make me like this thermos more is if this bottle came with an enamel/sleeve option so that I wasn't constantly wiping fingerprints off it. That's just a product of stainless steel though, and not a defect.
Customer Review: There is No Better 32oz Thermos
Summary: 5 Stars
I purchased this when it 1st came out in 2009. I still use it ALL THE TIME and it works as well as the day I bought it. I fill it with my premixed (sugar & creamer added) HOT coffee & take it to work at 8am. I frequently have 1/2 a thermos left by the end of my day. Rather than toss it & make a fresh pot the next morning I leave it at work. When I arrive at 8am the coffee from the morning before is still hot & tasty! The trick for 24hr heat is this; Before you poor your hot drink in, fill it with scalding hot water and let it sit for about 2-3 minutes. As soon as you dump the water, fill it with your hot liquid goodness & keep the screw cap tightened any time you are not pouring yourself a cup. I have NEVER had a better thermos. I love this thing! The only improvement that would make it better is if instead of a screw top, it had a vacuum seal push button top and maybe some sort of carrying case for the times when you aren't slipping it in your backpack or workbag. Other than that, you wont find a better bottle of this size. Cleaning of this thermos is also a snap. You can either toss some soap in & hot water then swish it really well & rinse or do like I do & grab a bottle brush & scrub away.Customer Review: Insulates very well
Summary: 5 Stars
I ordered this and a "Timolino 20 oz. @tanium II Vacuum Travel Mug" at the same time. While it is too large to be used as a coffee mug for work without getting some funny looks, its cap does function as a mug surprisingly well.
Once the cap is removed, an additional plastic cylinder can be partially unscrewed the contents, or removed completely to refill.
Good and bad:
+ Insulates incredibly well. After 5 hours, coffee is still piping hot.
+ Fits in a car cup holder (though can be too tall)
+ The inner seal is difficult to describe, but does not look like it would poor without spilling. In truth, it poors surprisingly well.
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- Very, very tall.
- Much lower capacity than the outside appearance would suggest (large vacuum chamber).
- Expensive
The Thermos insulates better than the Timolino. This is probably because of the cap -- the Thermos uses three ayers of plastic and a layer of stainless steel, compared to the Timolino's single layer of plastic. That said, they are for different purposes, the thermos being more for travel and longer term storage; the Timolino for use as a wide-base office mug.