This is the 3rd Stanley thermos we have purchased within the last two years. Our son has one in Scotland, where he is pursuing a master's degree. He uses it every day to keep his coffee hot, and loves the thermos. We gave one to our daughter at Christmas; she also is a fan, citing its durability and functionality. We just recently purchased one for ourselves, and are confident it will last many years.
I saw this on sale, and noted that other reviewers rated it either excellent or lousy, with no shades of grey between. This suggested that there were a large number of sample defects.
Because of Bean's ironclad guarantee, and because using my Bean Visa card gives me free return shipping, I had nothing to lose.
As soon as it arrived, I fished the instructions out of the bottle (!), and performed a test. I filled the thermos with boiling water without preheating it, and set it on my kitchen counter. Checking the water temp every couple of hours, I found that after six hours the water was still almost 200 degrees. Clearly I have gotten a thermos that performs as it should.
I have two suggestions: Customers, test your thermos (as above) before using it and risking disappointment. Stanley, examine your manufacturing process and find out why so many defects slip through. --and perhaps a third: Bean, use your well-deserved clout to encourage Stanley to do better.
This vacuum bottle made by Stanley barely keeps liquids hot for 2 hours. I have other vacuum bottles from LL Bean that keep liquids hot all workday. I am surprised and disappointed with the poor quality.
I've bought two of these and had to return them both. The first one lasted a week and the second one lasted 8 months. It used to keep coffee hot all day and now I can feel the heat through the thermos and in a few hours it is cold. I don't know why Stanley doesn't do something about this issue. From reading other reviews, I am not the only one experiencing this problem
