how much can be saved by buying a flask?

homersimpson_3

mr friend is an avid tea/coffee drinker- as soon as you finish drinking cup she puts the kettle on again and her answer to everything is 'put the kettle on'. how much does it cost to boil kettle of water? if she buys flask and put hot water in there how many less kettles of water will she boil? she wouldn't use flask for anything else. she doesn't use tea pot and usually boils kettle for 2-4 people.

tim_n

the answer is to boil less volume rather than buying a flask. It'll only save her money if she uses economy seven, and seeing as I'm a tea snob (I'm familiar with about 150 different types!) I can confirm flasked tea often leaves a bizarre taste in the mouth.

By using a good quality fast boil kettle (ones with the massive kw rating) you'll boil the water quicker too. Remember massive kw ratings don't mean more electricity usage - it takes the same amount of electricity to heat water, just some are quicker at doing it therefore less heat loss during a slow warmup period!

Sarahsaver

For me not a lot because coffee out of a flask is disgusting!
I spose just the hot water may be ok. Gosh Edwina got a slating when she told old folk to wrap up warm and use a flask! When really she is OS;)

Zziggi

homersimpson wrote:

mr friend is an avid tea/coffee drinker- as soon as you finish drinking cup she puts the kettle on again and her answer to everything is 'put the kettle on'. how much does it cost to boil kettle of water? if she buys flask and put hot water in there how many less kettles of water will she boil? she wouldn't use flask for anything else. she doesn't use tea pot and usually boils kettle for 2-4 people.

.. not to mention she'll save a few pennies if she takes her flask out with her when she goes out rather than buys that filth you get from tea&coffee machines.

Snow_Angel

I take a flask of tea to uni - it's not ideal because, true, it doesn't taste as nice....but it tastes better than no tea at all! (I certainly can't afford the canteen prices £1+ per cup :eek: ). My flask keeps my tea warm for about 6 hours.

wigginsmum

I always take a huge flask of something hot to the allotment; I haven't got a problem drinking tea or coffee from a flask (reminds me of my childhood).

**purpleprincess**

Snow_Angel wrote:

I take a flask of tea to uni - it's not ideal because, true, it doesn't taste as nice....but it tastes better than no tea at all! (I certainly can't afford the canteen prices £1+ per cup :eek: ). My flask keeps my tea warm for about 6 hours.

Could you not just have hot water in the flask and then make your tea later? Might stop it tasting so weird!!

COOLTRIKERCHICK

i had my flask free... with a plant order.....there was a bit of a boob...as on their website you had to spend i think about £35 ish.. but on the brouchure recieved through the post no mention of min order to get flask.....

i am the same... once one cuppa is finished another one is being made.....so now when i boil up... i fill the flask with hot water.. ready for next cup.....or in the summer when the coal fire is out, and to save putting the immersion on....i will use the water from the flask to swill the cups out etc....

i dont know how much you save.... by using a flask, but at the end of the day....it is saving....especially if you can get a flask for free.....or very cheap....and use it......

exlibris

For day trips we take hot water in a flask, an old mustasrd container of coffee, one of sugar and one of dried milk. You don't seem to get the flask-coffee taste thios way. When those Nescafe cappuccino type coffees first came out we used those as well - saved carrying all the jars but more expensive!

stumpjumper

Flasks save lots of money on days out and are so much nicer than the dishwater you get on a lot of stalls. They've got nice 1 ltr stainless steel flasks in Home Bargains for £4, so 4 cups at stall/ cafe prices and it's paid for!

tawnyowls

I always boil the kettle, make the first cuppa, and then fill a flask. The next one's usually fine for tea too, but after that, I switch to either coffee or instant lemon tea. I'm sure it must save at least a bit of leccy - my kettle has a minimum level of 0.6L, which is 1.5 mugs, so that means it's wasting a mugful every 2 boils.

n the winter if I've made soup, I put some of that in the flask and have that during the day instead.