[SaddlerSteve]

With it getting colder I'm thinking of taking home made soups and other hot food into work for lunch.

We don't have any facilities to re-warm food so can anyone recommend any good food flasks / thermos containers?
Preferably it would be ones you can eat from.

I've seen a number of different makes on Amazon but many seem to have bad reviews saying the only lasted a few months before not working or they didn't keep the heat from the beginning.

[Specktater]

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[noise747]

Depends how long you are going to keep the food in them. thermos are well known and are pretty good. I have a old plastic one, which is getting discoloured now, so time for a new one.

i have also got a Sainsburys own stainless steel drinks flask, which I have had for around 3 years now and it been dropped, knocked and battered, but still works fine. I have put hot water in it at 7.15 in the morning, gone to work, decided not to use it, come back home and the water is still hot around 9 at night.

It will keep water hot enough to use for a good 12 hours or more.

i am thinking of getting a food flask of the same make.

[platelet]

I have one of these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003SXEU0M/

I heat it before use (just by running the hot water tap into it so my soup / stew or water doesn't cool when filling) and four hours later the contents are hot enough to need to blow on the food or burn your tongue.

I do think this pre-heating is the key to why so many get negative reviews. Without doing that the food does become tepid.

I just leave it under the tap while I microwave the soup etc. So it doesn't take any extra time and doing that I've had no issues.

Longest I've left it is about six hours and the food was still comfortably warm to eat.

Has a double lid, the larger of which acts as a bowl, though the neck of the flask is wide enough to eat directly from it if you prefer.

[aggielane]

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Originally Posted by platelet

I have one of these
http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B003SXEU0M/

I heat it before use (just by running the hot water tap into it so my soup / stew or water doesn't cool when filling) and four hours later the contents are hot enough to need to blow on the food or burn your tongue.

I do think this pre-heating is the key to why so many get negative reviews. Without doing that the food does become tepid.

I just leave it under the tap while I microwave the soup etc. So it doesn't take any extra time and doing that I've had no issues.

Longest I've left it is about six hours and the food was still comfortably warm to eat.

Has a double lid, the larger of which acts as a bowl, though the neck of the flask is wide enough to eat directly from it if you prefer.

I used to preheat my thermos with boiling water and like you say the food stayed hot for 4/5 hours. Without preheating it soon went cold.

[jazzyjazzy]

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Originally Posted by aggielane

I used to preheat my thermos with boiling water and like you say the food stayed hot for 4/5 hours. Without preheating it soon went cold.

I think this is the reason they get bad reviews - friend complained food was never hot enough then found she had not read the instructions and poured the food straight in.
I bought a Thermos food flask for about £10 from Asda and leave boiling water in it for about 10 mins with the lid on then pour it out and fill. Still hot at lunch time.