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.

a metal one that is sturdy that can hold hot liquids, im using one right now. plastic ones tend to cause irritation, allergy overtime, due to them trapping bacteria, or other things in the defects of a plastic rim.

I have a handmade, leather waterskin.

I recently picked up an Owala 40oz that tapers to fit a cup holder. Stainless with double wall insulation. Lockable lid. Replaced the plastic straw with a stainless one. Having the option to chug or suck on a straw is really nice. I just wish the lid and mechanism for drinking was also stainless instead of plastic. I also prefer a paracord handle that detaches on one side so I can attach it to a bag instead of the ridged attached one.

Klein shaped

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.

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

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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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.

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.

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.

The perfect reusable water bottle is the one you already have 👏 stop buying more waterbottles

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).