The Stanley Classic Legendary Food Jar stainless steel double wall container helps to keep your food warm on the move, writes Mike Gormley.
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When is cold its good to have some warm food ready to hand and easy to eat to warm you up. Certainly, while I have been trying out this insulated wide mouth flask from Stanley the food has stayed plenty warm enough for a good time; the spec says it should stay so for seven hours.
A normal flask is fine but if you want to take warm food, or perhaps a good fulfilling chunky soup, a narrow mouth drinks flask it not ideal for the job but this wide mouth flask is perfect. At 0.4 litres it takes a normal can of soup or, in my case, a full breakfast pack and it fits into a normal rucksack side pouch or other similar mode of transport; perhaps even a pocket. Of course it will keep things cool as well as hot to perhaps an ideal way of keeping a couple of handfuls of ices cubes for the BBQ drinks?
The only negative I have with this flask is the included spork, which is located and held on the side in its own ‘keeper’ All well and good to have a readily available eating tool , but why a spork and not a spoon? Try eating soup with one and not spilling any, not to mention also getting every last valuable drop out if the flask.
However the Classic Legendary Food Jar + Spork is a very handy item of kit and a spoon is an easy one to sort out. Six colour options, including Hammertone Green, are available.
[images © Mike Gormley]
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Comment: Reader JimS contacted us after reading this page to say: “I tend to put a hot food pouch in mine, along with boiling water and fling it in my daysack, where I usually forget about it until both are cold 🙄🤦”
