food flasks?

falady

Think it might have been this one that was good....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermos-Stainless-King-Flask-Litre/dp/B001ET6P9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348173057&sr=8-1

craigywv

falady wrote: »

Think it might have been this one that was good....

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Thermos-Stainless-King-Flask-Litre/dp/B001ET6P9Q/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1348173057&sr=8-1

looks great will ponder over it many thanks for the link:)

gizwal

falady wrote: »

I was looking into buying one a few months ago and decided in the end I didn't really need it. As far as I can remember though, there was a thermos one which was really expensive (about £20) which had great reviews. Everyone was saying that it kept the food more than hot enough, especially if you pre-warmed it. Will see if I can find a link.....

Can't do links (will get the hang of it one day!) but mine is a thermos one -£20-it keeps food quite hot for 5-6 hrs,if pre-warmed ,and has a fork which folds down and fits in the lid- brilliant idea.

Popperwell

strawberry_laces wrote: »

TBH i've never found a food flask that stays hot enough.

I have bought about 8 different ones from the cheap to the expensive and the thicker the water the colder it quickly gets, so unless he likes tea or coffee then it won't be very hot, barely lukewarm.

I did try with a cup o soup once and the school gave me a swift telling off citing 'elf and safety':mad:

I tried one(it wasn't cheap)for Mum and tried to get some scrambeled eggs into her when she was in the NH for a short time, exactly what you say...never was hot enough, a waste of money for "Us" anyhow...

Popperwell

falady wrote: »

I was looking into buying one a few months ago and decided in the end I didn't really need it. As far as I can remember though, there was a thermos one which was really expensive (about £20) which had great reviews. Everyone was saying that it kept the food more than hot enough, especially if you pre-warmed it. Will see if I can find a link.....

Don't think I paid that but that was the make I purchased and I did warm it before putting anything in it...still no good:(

Callie22

I bought a thermos one from Wilkos quite recently for OH (I think it had been reduced to £7ish) and it's ok, but it definitely doesn't keep food 'hot' for seven hours. I pre-warmed it for ages and heated the soup up for ages, but after about five hours it was just on the unpleasant side of not-quite-hot enough. I think it'd be better at keeping stuff hotter for shorter periods - say from nine till twelve - but definitely not for much longer.

valk_scot

Not keeping food boiling hot would be a plus point if it was a child that was using it, surely?

We had a couple of the uber cheap Ikea food flasks and my kids loved them for things like tomato soup or beans and sausages or spaghetti hoops for lunches. The food was only on the upper side of warm by lunchtime but they didn't care, it just meant they could eat it faster and get out to play.

missmucksmum

Callie22 wrote: »

I bought a thermos one from Wilkos quite recently for OH (I think it had been reduced to £7ish) and it's ok, but it definitely doesn't keep food 'hot' for seven hours. I pre-warmed it for ages and heated the soup up for ages, but after about five hours it was just on the unpleasant side of not-quite-hot enough. I think it'd be better at keeping stuff hotter for shorter periods - say from nine till twelve - but definitely not for much longer.

I too bought one of these from wilkos for my daughter who is 10 warm it with hot kettle water heat food on really high and its still red hot at lunchtime (4hrs later) my daughter absolutely loves she was sick of taking butties! she takes a portion of what we have for tea the night before saved and heated in a small pan, shes had beef stew and dumplings, pasta bol, chilli and rice, hairy bikers mince stew and dumplings, curry and rice etc:D

grandma247

My older kids took food flasks to school in winter 20 odd years ago. They had soup, veg stew, beans or beans and sausage and as a treat hot dogs. They were plastic with some kind of foam insulation between the layers. they were not boiling hot by lunchtime but they never had food poisoning from them so they must have been ok.

Popperwell

Grandma247,
That sounds better than the one I have...mine is metal, maybe one with a kind of glass interior would work better...