I have the 32 oz bottles and the threads work the same as a nalgine. These are awesome bottles and I don't think you can go wrong, I think you'll love them.

Wow, I had never seen the Guyot stainless bottle before. Looks excellent! Glad I posted about the Klean Kanteen so I could inadvertently learn about the Guyot!

I own the 32oz Guyot Bottle....It's built like a tank...I highly recommend it.

Yes you can't go wrong with the Guyot stainless bottle, I own 3 myself (1 for work,1 for BOB,1 for traveling). You can boil water in them with no problem and they are built solid. They will also directly screw in to my water filter and MSR dromedary bag yet wide enough mouth to put the steripen in. I think the steripen may work even better in the ss bottles because of the reflectivity of the UV, but it's speculation. I've had both nalgine and ss (stainless steel) and after drinking water out of a ss, I'll never go back. Definitively better water taste for me and my water stays colder longer as well. It is also a non insulating bottle so you can boil water in them. I've done it on a electric stove, a fire, a camping gas stove and with a propane torch. Guyot is also a great company to deal with as well, I've had a lot of positive experience with them and continue to buy from them.

I'll deign to answer this.

On the lead question, not a worry. Guyot is very picky about QC.

Yes, it is imported. And if an American owned company with an American designer's imported product is the superior one to one made in the US, I'll go with them. Heck, if it is the superior product, PERIOD, I'll with it. I'm a functionalist, not a jingoist- if the US can't keep up as a nation, we deserve whatever we get.

Best water bottles I have used are these...stainless steel vacuum bottles by Thermos. I have left them in my car on a hot day for hourss and they will keep my water cold no problem.


Thermos water bottle

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Kleen canteen-mouth not wide enough to store things in--I've seen some nice kits made using a wider mouth bottle e.g. nalgene.
The advantage of being able to boil water in it is moot considering all you can do readily is boil water in it...a simple pot allows far greater variety in cooking where you might need to get legs/ribs whatever in the pot and moreso cleaning afterward....I say spend the money on a nice pot like a MSR Titan...trendy at best. But somewhere out there someone has a nalgene shaped metal bottle with a wide mouth, a better choice I think.

I wish I'd known about the Klean Kanteen and Guyot SS bottles when I picked up my Sigg Bottles. I probably would have gone with one of the former two instead.

Right now I carry 2 1 liter Sigg bottles with thermal covers. The covers insulate pretty well for thin neoprene and it fills out the bulk so that I can slip Olicamp cups over the ends.

As many people have mentioned, you can boil water in one of these stainless bottles. Of course a dedicated pot or canteen cup works better for cooking or purifying water. Here is something that has not been brought up though. Every time I go backpacking and it drops below freezing, I am having to sleep with my water bottles in my sleeping bag to try to keep them from freezing. In one of these stainless bottles, if it does accidentally freeze, you can place it on top of a stove or fire to melt the ice inside the bottle. You can't do that with a polycarbonate bottle...