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Metal. Though there is a collective of glass blowers in my home region that make decently priced, handmade glass bottles and will actually make you a new one for free if you break it and ship them the pieces ! I might get one at some point, but seeing how I manage to put a disturbing amount of dents in my metal bottles in record time, these are probably not right for me.

I have a handmade, leather waterskin.

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.

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.

Perfect would be like whatever llamas got.

Realistically I like collapsible, no straw, near weightless, thin no taper. Loop. Dishwasher safe plastic

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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).

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.

• Light Metal as long as it doesn't end up making loud noises when bumped otherwise plastic
• No straw
• About 1.5 litres in volume
• A wide lid so it easy to clean with a primary lid above for drinking out of
• Nice pattern or large flat surface to draw/put stickers on
• Cylindrical up to wide lid
• squishy fold up ones are cool but not for day to use imo
• a handle/loop to attach it to my belt if I am out without a bag to carry it in
• insulated is good too

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.

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.

A couple of these bad bois:

But in all seriousness:

Metal, insulated to keep it cool on hot days. No handle, it's just in the way. Preferably a lid with a carabiner.

• glass, textured sides

• swing top

• 1 quart min 1 litre maximum

• tapered top, kicked bottom

• basically this

Glass all the way.

Whatever I have at hand is usually good enough. The lack of effort is it's own advantage.

Currently I've got a 0.7L plastic slightly tapered without handle on my desk. Have a few of those that I got for free when buying protein powder in bulk.

Before that I had a standard 0.5L softdrink bottle i refilled instead of recycled. I don't enjoy my water more despite the significant upgrade.

Insulated, metal, no plastic at all, rubber instead of plastic. 750ml to 1L Cap with a design thats easy to clean where the lips touch, and also not exposed to pets

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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I seem stuck using nalgenes. They're not great. I tried switching to glass carafes but it didn’t work out. The metalic lids would rust out on to the lip and could not be cleaned. The nalgenes are durable(ish) and versatile which keeps me stuck on em. 1 liter is the perfect amount of water, the loop on the top is a nice low key handle, and they're water tight as anything, even when the threads have been smashed. Just forget about the microplastics.

Nalgenes are solid, usually polycarbonate so can handle a few knocks without disintegrating, but a point of contention is that they're not insulated.

For summers I've got a 2L Wild Roots insulated flask that has withstood enough time on the jobsite to gain a few scratches, no serious dents as of yet

Made out of glass, holding about 1 litre and a half and pretty on the table.

No need for carrying it around all day, if I'm that thirsty I'll find a drinking fountain, they're commonplace where I live in Spain.