Kind of a rant — I drink water and flavored-water beverages, and I don’t wanna buy 24-packs of water and trust my local municipality to recycle. Maybe they do, maybe they don’t. Either way, it’s not recycle, it’s “reduce, reuse, recycle.” I’ll drink a Gatorade (Zero) and reuse it a few times and then toss it.
But if I want a reusable bottle — there’s one by Aladdin (Thermos) I like, and one by Zojirushi, I’ve bought two of each over the years. Just tossed the Zojirushi. Zojirushi is a Japanese brand, very high quality, but a bit over-engineered. It’s got this rubber gasket and plug that, you can clean them daily, they get black spots. Not sure if it’s mould or what, but it’s kinda gross and I don’t like it. The Aladdin/Thermos one is a bit better, didn’t think there was any mould anywhere until I dropped it, the cap flew out, mould farm inside! Nowhere that touched the beverage so that was nice. But I’m kinda done with both of them. I would rather just waste plastic than risk drinking from a mouldy reusable cup.
Are there reusable bottles that aren’t mould farms?
The kind that is cleaned properly.
get a non-plastic bottle. plastic is notorious for harboring bacteria, and mold, because they are prone to microscope crevices from forming. probably a metal one. you might want to use soap and hot water for metal containers.
Hard agree. My water bottle is stainless steel. The lid screws off, there’s no complicated nozzle to get clean, you drink from it like a normal bottle. I don’t have a dishwasher, just wash it in hot soapy water, rinse and refill. A bonus is that it takes a lot of punishment - I dropped an expensive plastic one once and it exploded. Also it’s a thermal bottle, so cold drinks stay cold.
Tape some bubblewrap around a mason jar taps forhead
I make brewed teas and cold coffee and bring them to work in mason jars. Started a trend at work.
The solution to your problem is not to buy one specific bottle. The solution is to have two separate water bottles, so that you can swap and clean them on your own time.
Guaranteed to keep your water cool.
The Contigo Cortland chill. I love this bottle so much if I lose it I buy another. I’ve been using this bottle for at least 6 years now.
Because it’s a button spout it’s very good for air sipping (water falling). Since I don’t put my mouth on it, there is less chance of bacteria developing in the bottle and lid.
The Lid folds open on the inside which makes it easy to clean by hand.
I see they have new filtered variants, I haven’t tried those yet.
I am the same with the steel version from them! I like that it’s made out of metal, but I do eventually fuck up the base because I drop it on the regular.
Same haha, once its so beat up it doesn’t stand up I get a new one.
Mine is the leaning tower of hydration right now
Put them in the dishwasher after every use. If it is not dishwasher safe, throw it away and get one that is.
They actually had a special on drinking bottles recently and I was thinking about buying one. Then they had a report on TV about such non-dishwasher-safe bottles, and that you simply don’t get them clean with washing them by hand. They had some nice pics of such bottles building up things in nooks and crevices. Gave up on that special offer, as they were not dishwasher safe.
flip top stainless growler, get a bunch of extra gaskets and rotate them. I put them in the dishwasher in the cutlery tray that has a lid to keep things from flying out, then boil them submerged under a stainless trivet to get any smells out.
the bottles I just use soap and a brush and if it smells like anything after that then PBW or oxy powder.
bottles with straws, slide seals, the other type of flip lid, hollow lids, etc will inevitably have unwashable areas that will get nasty.
runner up is this. they fit the same opening
it looks like they dont sell the growler flip any more but I bought several for my klean kanteen knockoff (unintentional kkk) standard size bottles too.
I had a Zojiirushi in the past too. I agree, it takes too much effort to clean. I now use a wide mouth bottle that just has a screw top lid, no straw or drinking apparatus besides the large open mouth. No gaskets or anything else. It’s only two surfaces to clean and requires no disassembly, other than taking the lid off. It’s much easier to keep clean.
The brand doesn’t matter. Just get a wide mouthed metal bottle of whatever cheap brand is around. None of them have engineered a new alloy that makes their bottles better or anything. Just make sure it’s double-hulled if insulation is important, which most are.
Nalgene and a bottle brush.
Well I use a nalgene and a Kleen Kanteen. Both have that standard open mouth design. You’re gonna need to clean the caps and O-rings but they’re pretty good
Just learn how to clean them and clean them. There is no magic bottle that doesn’t.
Invest in a bottle brush and clean your container well.
The only thing that ever comes in contact with my water bottle is water. It is always spotless.
You are contaminating it with your mouth when you drink from it. If you put sugary stuff in there, you are basically carrying a petri around with you and asking why its growing stuff.
32oz wide mouth Nalgene for me. I have 3 and cycle them every 2 days. Dishwasher when I run it and bottle brush once a week. Never a hint of anything.
Exactly what I have. I just fill it up with water and just dump it out. I hardly ever scrub it completely; just a soap + water + shake twice a month.
