Does this water bottle even exist?!

[GetMeToThePark]

One of those small but increasingly irritating things.

DP, DD3 and I all need new water bottles. Our current ones are driving me nuts as they’re hand wash only and as with all good intentions it just never gets done as much as I’d like. I just need something I can (actually and fully) bung in the dishwasher, lid, body and all and let it do its thing.

I’m currently in a bit of an overwhelmed phase and trying to simplify life. If I can help it anything that enters our house right now is going straight back out if it can’t be machine or dish washed, air fried or slow cooked!

(Not adding Milton sterilising to my mental load either right now before anyone suggests it, but thank you)

BUT in addition to being fully dishwasher safe it also needs to have a free-flow straw (not those bite down straws like Camelbak, we tried and all couldn’t get on with them) and ideally over 700ml.

I’ve ordered a couple of different ones off Amazon but despite the descriptions being ‘dishwasher safe’ they arrive and the instructions suggest otherwise or you find out only the lid is! 😩

Any help welcome, thank you! x

@Market1 what an epic rant 👏🏽 Thank you I needed a good laugh this morning as I drink out of my water bottle 🤣

I have this one. Had it for years although have needed to replace the lid/straw once. Totally dishwasher safe. You get a screw top so you can drink like a cup, or a straw which flips up (no bite valve). Completely leak proof, even after being dropped several times!

Guess what we also don’t ‘need’? Clothes! I’m pretty sure if you go back far enough our ancestors got on with loincloths and some maybe even not that.
But I’m going to guess it’s a fad you’re happy to jump on board with 😉

@ChrisPPancake bite valve, that was the name of it! Yeah not keen on those
These look good too, thank you

Is it a rant? I am just enjoying myself sitting in bed typing
I do think water bottles are fairly harmless, but yes, I think it is a waste of time.

And of course there is the risk of infection, bacteria multiply incredible quickly in water bottles, many bacteria are triggered to multiply when they come into contact with the side, which happens far more in a bottle than in a pipe, or in your mouth

So I do think people don't wash them out anything like enough, and they are responsible for a lot of upset stomachs.

And of course, washing them out twice a day is going to take a huge amount more water than just filling them up, so a massive waste of water, and a source of infection...

so not completely harmless

@Market1 ah sorry to have misinterpreted your rant-like post about water bottles (that no one asked for seeing as my post was specifically asking for water bottle suggestions not an education on the need/want for them) as a rant, my mistake.

off to live my life now, toodles

Kids teeth are rotting drinking goodness knows what so I think the fad is worth it for these water bottles in primary school. It helps foster a healthy lifestyle. Why knock it?

And of course, washing them out twice a day is going to take a huge amount more water than just filling them up, so a massive waste of water

But does that not apply to glasses then? Why does it matter what the receptacle is? They still need washed

Kids need exposure to bacteria, it will help build up a healthy immune system. No harm in not constantly washing out water bottles.

well, you are missing the point, I am not saying drinking water itself is a problem, but that drinking anything is unnecessary - we did not drink during the day as children, I don't really drink during the day now as an adult.

I am not knocking it very much! It is basically harmless, I am just making the point it is not necessary, and people seem to think it is!

Of course, if you are dehydrating, water isn't the best thing to remedy that anyway, we are evolved to drink river water, and squash or tea , ( isotonic fluids) are a closer approximation of that rather than drinking water.... drinking water being hypotonic to blood, and mostly just peed out. If you are exercising vigorously ok, but in normal life not much use in hydrating you anyway

Mumsnet never fails to make me laugh. In real life I can't imagine someone asking for water bottle recommendations turning into an argument, even amongst the most argumentative and difficult people I know.

You are missing my point.

I don't give a shit what you think.

Maybe if I'd had more to drink as a child, I would have had crippling headaches every day during the summer.

I’m inclined to agree with @Market1. I don’t like drinking out of water bottles; they always seem a bit manky to me. I find that a drink with each meal and the occasional cup of tea if I’m at home is plenty for me. I thought I was the only person (dinosaur maybe!) to think this though! My friends call me camel and treat my lack of water bottle as some kind of eccentric quirk.

We have always chucked our water bottles in the dishwasher daily whether they claim to be dishwasher safe or not. One of our early chillys bottles now has the spray coating coming off the outside after years of this treatment but it is still perfectly usable.

I’ve returned loads of their new style because they keep leaking. They also get mouldy which why on the new one they use a solid colour of plastic around the lid so you can’t see the mould.

Maybe a stainless steel one but I find it makes the water taste strange. I like to put lemon in mine so the acid would cause it to corrode. They only take a few seconds to wash out so doesn't bother me. I'm just happy I paid a bit extra for sistema one's as they're leak proof.

I swear by these now they do cost a bit more but are leak proof and totally worth it. We've got the smaller ones as well if we're just popping out for a couple of hours.

We drank at primary. I am 52. We had a little bottle of milk in Primary 1 and then in Primary 2-7 there were water fountains and also jugs of water on the tables for lunch.

We had fountains at high school.

Yeti! They come in all different colours, keep drinks cool or warm and have handles that the kiddies like carrying. Dishwasher friendly.

More expensive but I honestly must have spent hundreds buying and replacing bottles!! So buy once cry once as the saying goes 👍🏻

Yep, in the 70s and 80s schools (and public areas actually) used to have water fountains, milk at the first break in primary school, plus orange juice, plus drinks with lunch (or you took your own old plastic bottle made up with robinsons barley water before they made it with artificial sweetners)

Drinking liquids is not a 'fad'!!!

The worst I wish on you is a kidney stone, you'll soon pay attention to making sure your kidneys are regularly flushing themselves out after one of them

Hmm not all primary schools were like that. I was also a 70s/80s child, and beyond a milk at playtime (which nobody drank because it had sat in a crate in the sun all morning, so was quite revolting) and a glass of water at lunch, there wasn’t anything else to drink. Certainly no drinking fountains and nobody took anything in. At home we only had drinks with meals too.

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