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My trusty Stanley stainless steel thermos I've had for about ten years stopped keeping things hot. Yeah, I did one of those brainless things we all laugh about. My SS thermos was quite dark inside from coffee staining it. I have cleaned it in the past with baking soda and warm water, just like the instruction booklet told me to do. God knows whatever happened to that book. Anyway, I had a brainstorm the other night, more like a brain fart, and thought to myself, Hey, my wife uses bleach and water to clean alot of things, why not try it in the thermos? So I did. The next morning when I poured out the bleach the inside of that bottle looked like some little guy, or gal, had taken a buffer to it. Amazing! I haven't seen it that clean since I purchased it. This is great, I thought. So that morning I filled it with hot water to temper it, like I always have done. Stop by Wawa and fill it with coffee. And off I went to work. 9:30 or so I take my coffee break, the coffee it hot as usual. About 2:30 in the afternoon I stop for another cup. Bummer, the coffee is luke warm. That has never happened with this thermos. As a matter of fact, it will, or did, keep coffee hot until the next morning. Went through the same rutine today, and the same senario. So I had some time this afternoon and I'm looking at the bottom of the bottle where it says how to clean it. Mind you, the print is about ten times smaller than whet you're reading. And as I'm making my way around the perimeter, I came across this "DO NOT CLEAN WITH BLEACH". HMMMMMMMMMMM.
Now, all you rocket scientists out there. Why would the bleach have an effect like this on a stainless steel thermos bottle? Before you ask about the stopper, it's still good.
Now, all you rocket scientists out there. Why would the bleach have an effect like this on a stainless steel thermos bottle? Before you ask about the stopper, it's still good.
