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Metal water-bottle-holder size breakfast pot

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  • Started 12 years ago by Darkerside
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  1. Darkerside
    Member

    I tried with the title.

    My morning commute is cycle-train-cycle, so I generally breakfast on the train. After some experimentation (and inspiration from Costa) the preferred grub is fresh fruit over granola over Rachel's yoghurt (highly recommended), all inside a Morrison's screw top plastic tub which fits perfectly in a bike bottle holder and is just big enough to also hold a spoon.

    Whilst this was great over winter, with the warmer weather over the day the pot ends up gently cooking the remains of the yoghurt during the day and the container now reeks of rancid yoghurt.

    My hope is to find something metal to replace the plastic container, so even if it is unseasonably warm (or when I accidentally leave it on the bike overnight) I can still sterilise it properly afterwards. Anyone got any ideas? I've searched Sigg, Klean Kanteen and Glogg, but there's nothing suitable.

    Ideally after something about 6" tall that fits neatly inside a bottle holder and has a wide enough mouth for me to get a spoon at the contents... Any ideas?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  2. Instography
    Member

    Why not stick with the perfect plastic container but sterlise it with the tablets used for babies' bottles?

    Posted 12 years ago #

  3. crowriver
    Member

    Small food flask? Might be too wide...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  4. fimm
    Member

    Nalgene bottle? Plastic, but I'm sure you can put boiling water in them. They exist in various sizes - try an ourdoor shop.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  5. cb
    Member

    One of these?

    Capacity of a "large cup of tea".

    Posted 12 years ago #

  6. Darkerside
    Member

    Hmm, cb's suggestion might be a goer, especially as the base has a discount Tiso store.

    @Instography - that'll be my fall back option I suspect. Possibly combined with slightly more effort in the 'not leaving it unwashed overnight' department.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  7. Min
    Member

    If you rinsed it out as soon as you got to work the yoghurt would not have the chance to go rancid. Babies bottle stuff is great for cleaning plastic containers.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  8. Darkerside
    Member

    Yeah, I'm aware that I'm attempting to find a technical solution to my own idleness :p

    Posted 12 years ago #

  9. kaputnik
    Moderator

    Darkerside if you get a container that doesn't quite fit your bottle cage securely enough, you may want to investigate a @Bikebuddy cage.

    Also, my colleagues have various thermal plastic lunch pots that I'm sure will keep yoghurt cool for longer. I think they came from supermarkets.

    +1 on using baby sterilisation tablets too

    Posted 12 years ago #

  10. SRD
    Moderator

    I have some leftover sterilization tabs (probably 5+ years old), if anyone wants them!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  11. wingpig
    Member

    Several quid cheaper than the LifeVenture flask are the squat wee food flasks Sainsbury and the like sometimes sell. £4 or so the last time I bought one, but possibly slightly too girthsome for the BikeBuddy.

    Posted 12 years ago #

  12. crowriver
    Member

    @kaputnik, yeah that BikeBuddy is great, thanks for the swap! ;-) Great foir a flask of tea in the winter, or nourishing soup on a chillier day ride. Can't get the chunkier flasks in it though, or I might have been dining on lamb casserole or stewed beef...

    Posted 12 years ago #

  13. kaputnik
    Moderator

    @crowriver you will have to cook more liquidy stews and casseroles!

    Posted 12 years ago #

  14. gembo
    Member

    Primus do chunky flasks and thermal coffee cups in plastic, will check if they fit a bottle cage. Primus recommend pouring boiling water into your flask and leaving for five minutes before you add your soup and this will keep it warmer for longer

    Posted 12 years ago #

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