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What is something you never understood the hype for?
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Those hunky water bottles. In general why are there so many water bottle trends?
A good water bottle is a friend for life. We have a dozen in the cupboard:
And then there's my prize, the black widow. Isn't she lovely? Oh, wait, sorry, wrong song.
The one I have now, that has taken me decades to refine, is 1 liter - not too large, so it's easy to carry around, but enough so a couple of refills a day are enough. It has a little handle to facilitate carrying. It's metal, and robust. It's vacuum insulated, so it keeps ice water cold all night. And it has a little sippy spout with a sprung button orifice so that when I knock it over it doesn't leak. It's the perfect water bottle, and it took me a couple decades of trial and error to refine my requirements for a water bottle: the size, the mechanism, the material.
A water bottle that meets all of your specific use case needs really is wonderful; it's a pleasure to use, is convenient, and by its nature encourages you to hydrate. Honestly, it's one is those weirdly and unexpectedly useful things that you'd never expect to have as big an impact as it does, that you find yourself using more than any other single gadget you own.
Since you have so many plastic water bottles, I'm gonna ask you, a week ago I didn't wash my bottle right away after mixing a protein shake in it (I left it for 5 hours) and now it smells foul. And no matter how many times I wash it, the smell won't go away. Is there something that would help?
Maybe! There's a product that's like alka-selzer for bottles. It works well for metal; I don't know about plastic.
However, if it were me, I'd start with putting some baking soda in it and add some vinegar. That stuff will clean clogged drains, and I don't think it'll harm plastic. Vinegar is sold in plastic bottles, and maybe the baking soda interaction would damage it but I doubt it.
If you don't want to take that risk, just try vinegar. It's a pretty good cleanser all by itself.
Good luck!
Thanks! Will try that
I can count very few things I use as much a my water bottle on a daily basis. It comes with me everywhere I go.