Put some baking soda in it along with some warm water. Let it set for a few days and repeat. That should get it all out. I use that trick after leaving tea in after a fishing trip or when I let my brother use it for work and his coffee.
At 06:20 PM 4/9/2010, you wrote: > > >Try soaking it with water and a couple tablespoons of baking soda >----- Original Message ----- >From: Spiro >To: <mailto:blindhandyman%40yahoogroups.com>[email protected] >Sent: Friday, April 09, 2010 17:58 >Subject: [BlindHandyMan] Dan or others, > >Hi, >Maybe it took too long, but I finally got my Handyman thermos Two weeks >ago. >Steel, double walled with a 12oz steel cup. >I'm saving $2 a day and it can take a beating. >I'm sure to have it with me more than just to my non-fix-it job but >thankfully to any outside project. >However, Dan and others, it has that very familiar Canteen smell. >You guys must know that smell. >I've used it now for 8 days, and that smell went away for the most part >after 5. But is was heavily in the coffee. It's still there, and I'm >thinking $2 a day (makes the coffee cost $33.90 a pound at D&D) is >starting to sound good as I'm not happy with that as a taste in my fine >etheopean coffee from home. >Help, what gets that smell out of a canteen or steel liquids vessel? >Thanks > >[Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > Tim trouble Verizon FIOS support tech "Never offend people with style when you can offend them with substance." --Sam Brown Blindeudora list owner. To subscribe or info: http://www.freelists.org/webpage/blindeudora
