Comments on: God, I Love the Smell of HDPE in the Morning… http://www.sierradescents.com/gear/2008/09/05/hdpe-smell.html Climb Up and Ski Down Fri, 10 Feb 2012 01:50:36 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andy http://www.sierradescents.com/gear/2008/09/05/hdpe-smell.html/comment-page-1#comment-683 Andy Wed, 02 Sep 2009 02:51:44 +0000 http://www.sierradescents.com/blog/2008/09/05/god-i-love-the-smell-of-hdpe-in-the-morning.html#comment-683 Jeffrey, Stainless steel unfortunately isn't totally non-reactive with water, especially whenever there are minerals etc in it. That's why I drink tea in glass cups and not steel cans. What you can do to prevent gamey odors is first of all only put in clean water, and second don't store water in the bottle for long. Wash it out as soon as you can and dry thoroughly. Once a smell gets set in there, it's probably going to be real hard to get out. Good luck! Jeffrey,

Stainless steel unfortunately isn’t totally non-reactive with water, especially whenever there are minerals etc in it. That’s why I drink tea in glass cups and not steel cans. What you can do to prevent gamey odors is first of all only put in clean water, and second don’t store water in the bottle for long. Wash it out as soon as you can and dry thoroughly. Once a smell gets set in there, it’s probably going to be real hard to get out. Good luck!

]]> By: Jeffrey Smith http://www.sierradescents.com/gear/2008/09/05/hdpe-smell.html/comment-page-1#comment-654 Jeffrey Smith Mon, 17 Aug 2009 23:02:02 +0000 http://www.sierradescents.com/blog/2008/09/05/god-i-love-the-smell-of-hdpe-in-the-morning.html#comment-654 For some reason I am detecting an odor in water from stainless steel bottles several months after purchase. I have had several bottles from KleanKanteen and eventually all of the bottles produced an odor. BTW, the water placed in these containers was odorless before being placed in the water bottle. I called Klean Kanteen about this problem and as expected, they told me that no one else has complained about this issue. I finally abandoned the KleanKanteen bottles and purchased a thicker walled stainless steel bottle from Nalgene. All was well at the start but now several months after using this bottle, I am detecting an odor (a friend confirmed my findings) from the water in this container. The container has been washed with both soap and vingar and still the odor persists. What is happening here? For some reason I am detecting an odor in water from stainless steel bottles several months after purchase. I have had several bottles from KleanKanteen and eventually all of the bottles produced an odor. BTW, the water placed in these containers was odorless before being placed in the water bottle. I called Klean Kanteen about this problem and as expected, they told me that no one else has complained about this issue. I finally abandoned the KleanKanteen bottles and purchased a thicker walled stainless steel bottle from Nalgene. All was well at the start but now several months after using this bottle, I am detecting an odor (a friend confirmed my findings) from the water in this container. The container has been washed with both soap and vingar and still the odor persists. What is happening here?

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