Funny enough this seems rather accurate according to this article. Graphic below from the article linked.
I don’t know, that timeline kind of just seems like what’s on sale at Costco, which does seem to rotate every few years. Could be a chicken or the egg kind of situation or just simply a people-like-costco kind of observation too.
That chart is a bit outdated. That might be the millennial moms that pick up the trend late.
All the white Gen Z girls at work have HydroJug now. Owala was a a while back. Stanley was more covid era.
My wife has a fuckin entire cabinet dedicated to her damn cups.
Yetti rambler for the win, especially with the chug lid.
Based on GP comment’s image, looks pretty similar to the hydroflask. What’s the difference?
Cant say for sure, I think they are probably similar. I was still using nalgene then. (Still keep a nalgene, it has its uses).
I’m big on the magnetic screw off lid that connects to the side. I love the giant handle on the big lid for carrying and ice keeps way longer, but I’m downing like eight bottles a day so that’s not a big deal.
Only thing is, they’re stinky when new. Gotta soak the gasket in vinegar and wash it a lot.
I’m still looking for a fully stainless steel one with a stainless lid that has an unscrewable spout on a hinge like a metal flask, but large and water bottle shaped. All of these have plastic somewhere in the chain.
Don’t mind me, I’m just a Contigo hipster
welp. this is my introduction to owala. here we go
I’ve never owned a dedicated water bottle before and decided to get one. At random I picked Owala. I’d never heard of them but liked the way the lid worked. A few weeks later I see Owala everywhere.
I’m right on the front swell of a trend!
I have three of the water bottles on the image and I gotta say, I do really like the Owala. I’m personally a fan of straws but I vastly prefer having something that I can close and throw in a bag without it leaking. The Owala fits that. The only problem I’ve had is if I don’t clean it for a while. I only use water, but after a while the water I drink out of it will start to make my mouth feel dry and taste bad, if that makes any sense at all. I’ve found scrubbing the silicone seal on the lid makes a big difference.
(Also I’m a basic white middle aged bitch so I guess only having three of the bottles in the image is good… right? Bleh.)
Still stuck in the past with a CamelBak
I get most of my fluids from a CamelToe
I had some acquaintance who was a hydroflask rep or something in 2017. He saw my 5 year old beat to hell hydro flask ran out to his car and brought me two more for being an “og supporter.” I was like I guess this is cool I just hated my water getting warm in plastic ones.
As a youth girls soccer coach, I’m so glad Stanley’s finally stopped being popular. Every girl that brought one to practice would inevitably have it too over and spill. It got to the point where I had to tell parents all water bottles had to have a lid that completely closed.
I’m a school bus driver. I could have built a house by now entirely made from the water bottles that kids leave behind on my bus. They wouldn’t work for the roof, you say? That’s what the ear bud cases are for.
As a middle class, middle age white man I stopped at the hydroflask and yeti on that timeline
Work for a tech company long enough and you’ll have a few of each of these
Source: work for a tech company and have a few of each of these
Just like cellphones, they get big then shink.
Missed Sigg in there in the mid 2000s. But it and the Nalgene were BPA sources I thought. The rest are dumb, any stainless with a good seal works for me.
My partner got me a water bottle in the late 2010s, its still going just fine. Few scratches on the paint now and minor dents in places but that is it.
Could do with an insulated flask that can hold strew. Boil some veg/stock in the morning and pour into the flask, it cooks during the day and can have it as my lunch at work. Similar to cooking in a slow cooker or haybox.
What about the dopper?
oh lol. they got my wife at stanley.
she bought 4 (one for everyone in the family) at $40 a piece. in protest, I bought about 10 used quality water bottles from my gyms lost and found sale for $1 each.
all u could see in our cabinets were water bottles. I think my wife gets that we have enough now so I’m safe from the next version…
Until she “cleans” one day and 3/4 vanish without a trace, lol
As long as its insulated so I can drink cold water all day I’m happy
Still rocking my canteen
But how to clean it properly inside?
I bought some off brand stainless 32oz insulated bottle 12 years ago for around twenty bucks. I fill it with ice and then fill the voids with water, and there is still ice a day and a half later, even at the height of summer. I’ve been through several universal lids with different designs for various ways to sip and to carry it. I have dropped it from several feet onto concrete a number of times, resulting in denting you can’t even really see. I probably got the one gem out of many duds, or one of a good run in production, but I’ll be disappointed when it does inevitably fail and I have to get something else.
I gave away everything but a bowl to hold my water, but I saw a boy drink water from only his hands.
How have become so materialistic?
Quit blocking my Sun.
Got me a nalgene, with the small opening… I’m not one of those water sluts who enjoy the dribble.
Getting splashed in a moving vehicle by the wide mouth ones is so fucking annoying and almost guaranteed.
May I introduce you to the Wide Mouth Easy Sipper?
Ha, yep. Precovid I was in a suit for work, and I’d show up with just big wet patches on my shirts all the time, so I switched to the narrow mouth, which are more of a pain to clean, but don’t have that problem. I now rarely travel for work, so I’ve been considering going back to the big guy.
They make an insert for the wide mouth so you can sip it without water boarding yourself.
BOOOO water slut fo lyfe
It’s less about the dribble than the easy clean.
It’s definitely easier to clean my wide-mouth ones.
No plastic, no aluminum. No glass either just because I’m clumsy. Wide opening only. If I can’t fit my hand in to clean it, I don’t want it.
I have a 64 oz one, and a 128 oz one. Am aiming for them to be buy-it-for-lifers.
What material?
Asbestos
Absolutely. With proper application, asbestos can make all kinds of products last the rest of your life.
The miracle material!
Stainless steel.
Why no aluminum
I’m a little concerned about the potential for aluminum toxicity.
In what way is aluminum toxic?
Edit- I looked it up. If you have kidney disease it can accumulate and cause other problems, but the amount entering the body from aluminum cooking items is incredibly low. I’d imagine even lower from a drinking cup.
Enh maybe it’s fine. Even so, steel is real.
Aluminum is not strong enough for me. I need to buy the most indestructible products because I will unintentionally break them. I have broken a nalgene already
In that case if all else fails, there is titanium.
Which stainless steel still beats in terms of strength. The main advantage of titanium is it’s really light
Where my Klean Kanteen folks?
Every new dent is a testament to the amount of service my Klean Kanteen sees. I’ll be devastated if I ever lose it.
Mine must be around 11 years old now. At some point it couldn’t stand upright anymore, so I hit it with a hammer.
Here. Got the not quite 2L flip top and its more of a ball than a bottle at this point but I have been given no reason to stop using it.
I’m a poor consumer. I have my first insulated coffee cup from about 25 years ago. I bought a second one for tea about 15 years ago. I have had several water bottles of different sizes all from promos that I have kept and used since I received them - the newest is aluminum and 12 years old. The oldest is 25 or 30 years old. Although my husband may make up for my lack of buying - he is always trying out new hydration systems for hiking & biking.
You can upgrade for cheap to the last fad beverage container by visiting your nearest thrift store. Currently they will a bunch of Stanley cups for very cheap. Your other option is know someone in sales or just walk through a trade show where they will give you swag (junk land fill) which usually includes yeti cups as of late.
I used a $10 Wal-Mart brand one every day for a few months to make sure I’d actually use it. Then I upgraded to a Stanley when they were on sale since it’s also dishwasher safe and the lid on my Walmart one was starting to not seal as well.
Followed shortly by the new, and not better, water holding devices.
Been using that one disposable Evian water bottle I bought at Niagara Falls twenty years ago.
Mmm tasty microplastics.
I’m from the era of asbestos, micro plastics ain’t no big thing.
I’ve been using Doppers ever since I got like 4 gifted to me in two years. After I bought one, of course.
Dopper(s?) gets nasty around the sealing ring eventually. Mine turned algae-green with no way to properly get it off; I didn’t manage to clean it anyways.
I can remove the ring on all of mine? Just put something pointy under it and pull it out. You can even order replacements.
Mhh… Never tried too hard but it looked very heat-fused / welded in.
I think the owala is almost perfect. Owala is probably the most revolutionary out of all the previous ones. The crazy downside is you can’t put hot water in it
Care to explain?
- It’s easy to clean, easy to use, easy to carry
- the lid completely covers the mouthpiece
- the new ones have a decent handle
- doesn’t have any wear components. -You can use the straw when driving or reading so you don’t block your vision.
The only real downside is that it can spill if the lid is open and it tips over.
It’s way better then anything else I’ve seen on the market or the camelback one I used for 15 years before I got this one.
Thanks!
It’s got a lock to stop that spill. At least the one I have does.
Not sure if you’ve seen these but you can drink out of these like a normal bottle but it also has an integrated straw. Pretty epic.
That is cool!
Out of all the water bottle trends, this trend is the only one actually offering something new. It just sucks you can only use it for warm or cold water, some tea in this would be epic.
Ofc, it’s the most recent one.
It’s always the last place you look.
I’m up to three 30oz Yeti “stackable cups”. They’re great–insulated, dishwasher safe, durable, replaceable lids, fit in my cup holder, fits my hand.
And then Yeti discontinued the size. (the 30 oz tumbler is a different shape than the stackable cup, it’s wider at the bottom and too big for my hands). Grumble.
I completely missed something with this whole trend. I get wanting to go metal (or glass) to avoid microplastics, but is it all just conspicuous consumption after that, or am I missing something more fundamental?
Meanwhile, I’m only using a steel flask on hiking trips; a freebie from a previous job at that. A coffee cup or glass does the job for me at the office.
