Do you prefer your water bottle to be made of metal, plastic, glass, or something else? Straw or no straw? How big would you want it? Should the bottle taper down in the bottom, or do you think the sided should stay vertical? Are any of you one of the few people who would like that weird rectangular bottle? Or maybe one of those squishy fold up ones for travel? No handle, flip up handle, mug style handle, or little loop?
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I just buy a water from the convenience store with a good lid and use it till it falls apart or gets lost. I’m on 1.5 years of a “disposable” “one use” bottle. Doesn’t need to be fancy, just hold water.
Perfect would be like whatever llamas got.
Realistically I like collapsible, no straw, near weightless, thin no taper. Loop. Dishwasher safe plastic
Why no one mentions Klean Kanteen. Just get a big one just stainless steel without any coating and a wide opening. Lid only needs one small rubber and closes perfectly. Maybe one of my best investments ever.
I love mine, I’ve had it since around 2013 and it’s been used daily the entire time. I’ve only had to replace the seal once. Really a perfect bottle.
I second that. I use the insulated 32oz or uninsulated 40oz on my bike, both fit a nalgene sized bottle cage.
Mine is a repurposed glass olive oil bottle with a swing top lid.
Il Casolare, for anybody who wants to get in on this, and you need to replace the swing top bit initially for a standard one as the one it comes with is leaky, and then the rubber seals every few months as they get gross eventually.
Probably the massive Tal metal thing I got from Walmart like 5 years ago. I’ve had it so long and used it so much that the outer coating is showing some rust. I should… probably get another one. I got my use of of it.
I love these because I don’t feel bad when it tumbles and gets a dent. Easy to replace, and potential weapon.
The perfect reusable water bottle is the one you already have 👏 stop buying more waterbottles
Vacuum insulated stainless. 40 oz. Can fit in a standard automobile cup holder. Has an AUTOSEAL lid.
I’ve been stuck on the “fits in a cupholder” part.
Love the Autoseal lid on my Contigo.
Yeti doesn’t have this?
With an Autoseal lid? Not to my knowledge.
Oh, so it looks like Contigo has a patent on the technology, which is probably why you can’t find an exact replacement with other companies.
Weirdly enough, Coleman has one with it. I have one of these, but it’s only 24oz. I also have a number of Contigos, both plastic and vacuum insulated. But none of the larger ones fit in a cup holder.
Looks like Contigo and Coleman are owned by the same company (Newell Brands)
IKEA had 0,75L glass waterbottles which I loved. Dropped mine a while back, went to get a new one and they replaced them with plastic ones, and I dislike it a lot.
Just give me a simpel glass bottle with a looped cap on it and I’m happy.
My old army canteen has worked just fine. At the gym I use an old plastic orange juice bottle. Makes literally no difference to me for as long as it holds water.
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Metal, no straw, 0.75L, vertical and made in Europe. My current water bottle already has these properties, but its cap is a critical weakness, as it tends to spray some drops of water everywhere when you open it. So I’d like one with a better designed cap.
Blockhütte with a simple screw top?
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its like your penis. always spraying little spritz’s of liquid every time you flick It about.
20 ounce or 600mL (about the same), insulated, and easy to clean.
I like the Zojirushi, but the rubber parts get mouldy quick. Even if you clean it a couple times a day, people say no, you got to clean it more. No, I’m not cleaning the thing several times a day to keep it food safe. That’s just a losing battle.
Stanley makes a nice one, too (and green, so, bonus) and while it’s got a lot of complex moving parts, it’s very easy to clean with brushes. Mine fell wrong and the trigger popped out and there was so much mould inside, it was nasty. There’s no way to disassemble this part, but also, nothing in there touches the water. Still gross. I just threw it in the trash (it was unfixable anyway).
That’s WILD! Zojirushi makes good stuff, I love my rice cooker. But cleaning water bottle DAILY or it moulds?! I have a couple yeti bottles I use every day and bring everywhere and I soap-clean them uhhhhhh… sometimes. I just rinse my water bottles every so often, and wash my coffee bottle with soap every couple days.
I think I soap-wash my water bottles a few times monthly, and I’ve never had mould on them, ever!
Yeah, I dunno. I thought it it was just mould, it would wash off. I’ve taken some pretty harsh chemicals and scrubbers and they don’t give any. But the black dots that form on the rubber gaskets when they’re exposed to moisture weirds me out. If it’s not mould, even discolouration would be strange.
Yeah, I dunno. I thought it it was just mould, it would wash off. I’ve taken some pretty harsh chemicals and scrubbers and they don’t give any. But the black dots that form on the rubber gaskets when they’re exposed to moisture weirds me out. If it’s not mould, even discolouration would be strange.
Depends on the use case. I default to my 1L Nalgene or my metal 0.75L generic metal bottle I got at a museum for daily use whilst sitting at my desk at work. For hiking, I prefer the larger capacity Nalgene (I think 1.75L), and possibly an additional 1L for longer hikes. For cycling, I have a couple squeezy plastic bottles that fit nicely in my bottle cage.
I do like the idea of a glass bottle with the rubber/silicone guard thing and thought about getting one, but decided to stick with Nalgene when I had the replace my old 1L.
Thick borosilicate-glass ( no plastic-chemicals getting into my water, thermal-shock-proof, thick-enough to not be too fragile ),
wide-mouth for easy-cleaning,
fits on bike bottle-holder ( plastic one, not metal, to protect the bottle ),
much taller than the short bike-bottles,
cover to keep grime off the drinking-from lid,
silicone or something seal(s),
able to drink quickly from it at stop-lights.
Probably acrylic for the lid-material, since it seems to be reasonably-robust & not too putting-weird-chemicals into my water.
( all this is because bike-bottles made of low-density poly-ethylene are absolutely vile with the chemicals they put into water, & poly-carbonate also has some chemical-seepage issues )
Actually, I’d want a package-deal: larger-diameter bottle-holder & bottle-to-fit: I want water, not svelte-traditional-bottle-diameter…
So, I was partly solving-the-wrong-problem at the beginning…
That’s how learning happens, though: ad-hoc…
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You don’t want to crash your bike someday and land on sharp broken shards/edges. Ask me how I know…
I want a goat story mug that accepts a contigo autoseal top. That curved shape fits perfectly on my hip and the contigo autoseal keeps my stupid ass out of trouble. I messaged a company that does food safe 3d prints and they quoted me $600 at the least and I don’t even really have the skills to 3d print something let alone select the right material, make sure the nozzle is lead free and has never been used for anything else, then sand and seal (and I’d have to make sure the threads still accepted the cup after sanding / sealing). Alas, it is but a dream.
1.25L stainless with a stainless/plastic lid. I use it a lot. Carry it everywhere. It’s dented and has stickers. Big drawback is where the lid seals there is a rubber gasket. That gasket is impossible to clean and molds over time. You can’t buy a new one. You have to purchase an entire new lid.
