GSI Outdoors MicroLite Insulated Water Bottle - Flip Lid - 12 fl oz - Red

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Ellen: Hey, everybody. I'm Ellen here at etrailer.com, and we're taking a quick look at the GSI Outdoors MicroLite insulated water bottles with flip-top lid. These are both going to have a 12 fluid ounce capacity. There are some other capacities available that are going to be the same sort of style, but I just wanted to take a look at these two since they're going to have all the same features and specs. So, the nice thing about them is that they're going to keep your hot beverages hot, cold beverages cold, for a good amount of time. For cold beverages it's about 16 hours, hot beverages about eight hours.

The best way to make sure that you're going to get the most out of that thermal protection is to prep the bottle before you put your liquid in there, especially if you're going to be putting in something like coffee or tea.If you just pour in some hot water, let it sit for five minutes, and then pour in your beverage that is already going to be prepped and warm so that whatever you're pouring in there doesn't have to heat up the bottle itself, if that makes sense. Same thing for cold stuff too. Although, cold typically lasts longer since it does better physics. As far as what you get with the bottles, they do have a lock to help prevent them from accidentally being opened up. So, whenever that's pushed down, it won't want to spring open.

But, as soon as you slide that up, it will pop open pretty nicely. So, again, these are going to be exactly the same. They are sold separately, but you have a choice of either white or red. They hold about 12 fluid ounces, weigh about eight ounces each, and should be able to fit into just about any kind of cup holder out there.They measure about seven inches tall and then about two and a half inches in diameter. You can see it has that rubbery bottom to help give it a little non-slip design so it won't have to slide off if you're setting them on something that might be slick, like your vehicle roof or anything like that.

It also helps to prevent them from just thudding and making a lot of racket. They are stainless steel. Nice thin walls to make it more compact and reduce some of the weight. So, you can see how thin those are from looking inside. Again, that locking mechanism: push it down to lock, push it up to open.Whenever that is open, you can see our mouthpiece has a nice wide piece, so it's comfortable as you're lifting that to your mouth, but it's not going to just gush out water and spill all over you if that was all the way open.

I always have a problem with that with anything that has a wide mouth bottle. I just end up spilling water all over myself. But, that's pretty much all there is to it for our quick look at the GSI Outdoors MicroLite flip-top bottles. I hope that this has been helpful in deciding if one of these is the right choice for you. We do have a lot of GSI gear here at etrailer.com, along with a whole bunch of accessories and parts for your RVs, boats, and more, so be sure to check it out. Thanks for watching..