Stanley 17-Ounce Heatkeeper, Grey

 (7 customer reviews)

This is an all-plastic thermos-style food jar. I've used it daily for about half a year to heat up soup at work. Despite what the instructions say, it will not keep food piping hot for hours. I would say it would keep something hot for 1-2 hours.

It is completely dishwasher safe; it's probably gone through the dishwasher 30-40 times will no ill effects.

As to the lining, the plastic will tend to discolor and get pitted with the food that you put in it and heat in the microwave. Big deal. It's a $15 item that is tough enough to drop, stick in the microwave, wash in a dishwasher. The whole point is that it's cheap enough that you don't care what happens to it.

Perfect for somebody who wants to heat up their soup at work in the microwave. Tough enough to take abuse, and cheap enough that you don't care what happens to it.

It's true this is durable, but this Stanley food jar does not live up to the name Stanley. Don't waste your hard-earned money for this Chinese-made plastic impostor of the original Stanley quality. I have this food jar and don't even bother to use it anymore because the food gets lukewarm in a couple of hours. You can spend less or about the same on eBay and get a vintage metal U.S. made Stanley Wide Mouth Food Jar that will keep your food hot for the whole day. I did that and am so much happier. I now buy vintage American-made Thermoses and food jars. All of them keep my food and beverages hot all day and the vintage thermoses even hot over night and into the next morning!

Bought this man size coffee keeper for my housband.He loves it,He all so says that the coffee he drinks has a better taste out of this mug.It keeps the coffee hoter longer than the other mug he was useing till it melted in micro oven after many uses.I give this heatkeeper an A+.