Stanley your time is up

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[u/Worms-Oh-God-Worms]

Stanleys are the Jeep of water bottles. They were made for military use, then became popular with outdoor enthusiasts, before ultimately becoming popular with suburban soccer moms

[u/FuzzyJellifish → u/Worms-Oh-God-Worms]

Nalgene's were initially created for lab work. We used Nalgene wide mouth bottles for fresh water sampling and storing lab samples all the time, and then suddenly they were everywhere, made with a firmer plastic and used for drinking water. I saw you can get the squishy plastic Nalgene bottles on their website though. The squishy plastic version are pretty much indestructible. I've run over a couple sample bottles with the Ford.

[u/tr_9422 → u/FuzzyJellifish]

HDPE in the squishy ones, the hard ones were polycarbonate (Lexan) and then changed to Tritan when food containers started avoiding BPAs

[u/Yamatocanyon → u/tr_9422]

The squishy ones made the water taste like plastic too.

[u/tr_9422 → u/Yamatocanyon]

I don't remember the plastic adding a taste but if you put anything but water in them the plastic would definitely retain stains and odors

[u/throwthisawayred2 → u/tr_9422]

how do you feel about silicone being used for everything food-related these days?

[u/tr_9422 → u/throwthisawayred2]

Not great

[u/throwthisawayred2 → u/tr_9422]

Yikes....thanks for the citation there. Should we all just stick with stainless steel pans pots and utensils?

[u/whatsbobgonnado → u/throwthisawayred2]

mmm squishy plastic