Bog-standard, but the klean kanteen has a pretty sturdy opening for a carabiner to hook onto, and it doesn't leak imx.
I just buy single-wall metal ones. I don't use the straw attachment, but it's possible to buy lids separately from the bottle, so you can replace the cap often in case it gets knocked around.
This isn't a topic that I know much about, but doing a little bit of reading would this fit your criteria? https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09WG95D8L
(from this recommendation)
Hydro flask are solid. We use them for hot chocolate when skiing. I did find them on sale, and they were worth $15.
This is the Klean Kanteen I was talking about, as it seems there are many models.
I'm just relieved that 5 goes to something in the category of water bottles.
I'm very pleased that there are multiple options so far, as now I can hunt around for the most aesthetically pleasing one.
I'm kinda intrigued by the one NickS linked. One thing I don't care about is insulation - I always just fill up with room temperature water.
I use a HydroFlask. Works fine. It's been battered and doesn't leak. It also keeps things remarkably cold, even when it's hot outside, which is nice. I don't use the straw lid, though, just the standard screw cap with the rubber/hypalon loop.
We also have a couple of these: https://coloral.cc/ which are sort of vintage hipster styled bottles. Those also work really well. My son sometimes takes one to school and it looks like someone has taken a hammer to it. Still works fine, still doesn't leak. My wife is a huge fan of these as she makes coffee in them at work, sometimes, and the bottles are still stain free and still have no odour.
Life is so calm down here in Dalquharter that a major recent scandal was the woman who got kicked out of the more posh of our 2 gyms, fined a grand and banned for life because she brought a water bottle with glass in it into the pool area, where it broke. "I'm not some daft wee girl, I'm a business owner!" she protested unavailingly.
I trust The NY Times Wirecutter for stuff like this. The Takeya they recommended is great. I used to have a Camelbak which was pretty solid if you don't care about insulation. I like ice cold water and live the Takeya for keeping things cold.
I used to use a Contigo mug for hot drinks, and I'm not sure how much of a step up the zojirushi is from that, but for me the Takeya is a big step up from the Camelbak.
That Coloral one Ttam linked is very attractive!
According to my students water bottles are Gen Z markers of political affiliation. Hydroflask means liberal but not leftist. Yeti means republican. Nalgene means socialist. Not sure about the others.
Reused Smart Water bottle means hiker who counts grams.
I don't even own a water bottle but my kids use these: https://a.co/d/69Egy6J
If you're not actually in the wilderness, I don't see why anyone needs water more frequently than they have access to a faucet and a glass.
My son won't carry a water bottle. Maybe he considers it too fraught?
20 before seeing 19, but 19 is what he says.
Except that he drinks from the faucet without a glass.
19: I bring one with a straw to work, because we still have to wear masks, so it's an easy way to drink it without having to take the mask off. Also, I like my water ice cold and value the insulation.
19: it is totally weird thinking back that I survived all of college doing sports/walking in campus/playing in band without a Nalgene. Big Water Bottle has a lot to answer for.
People really moved away from drinking fountains and this happened before covid. I don't know why.
I guess it happened when people moved to disposable water bottles and then Big Water Bottle became the environmentally conscious option because nobody was going back to water fountains.
I was always an outlier. Pre-water-bottle-ubiquity, I was generally thirsty and it was kind of a running joke (gag?) in college that I'd get to a restaurant and I couldn't look at a menu because everything was so unappetizing until I downed a giant glass of water or two. I always had a bedroom large plastic cup of water, which the cats would obviously constantly knock over. I think I started using a water bottle regularly when I started teaching - the talking really gets to me. So that puts it early 2000s.
But still, I'm just constantly extremely thirsty. I never bother to drink more than my thirst demands, and I easily down an entire water bottle, fill it up, and half of the next.
Except that he drinks from the faucet without a glass.
My kid too! Weird little gremlins, all of them.
The weirdest part is that he still uses more glasses than the rest of the house combined.
I do it too! I cup my hand and drink from my hand. It's great. I do it at water fountains, too, because otherwise you get about 0.1% as much water as I'd like to be drinking.
You just put your mouth directly on the spigot at the fountain like you're supposed to do.
That's what they told us at school when they were going for the state record in mononucleosis cases.
19: Who says it's necessary? It's mostly convenient. Plus in offices the water faucet is usually a longer walk and might not have glasses available. (Plus the health folkway that you need to be drinking more water than you think you do.)
33: Gross. They should really put a condom over the faucet first.
For all of you dying to know, I went with the Takeya. Thanks, all!
34: You're also supposed to be getting up and walking around more.
My office had a water cooler but they took it away because nobody ever goes to the office but me. I now have no cold water at the office. I guess I should get a bottle?
Probably a Brita pitcher, because the tap tastes funny.
38: Just put ice cubes in a condom. No bottle needed.
The ice is really old, though I guess I could dump it and start new.
For all of you dying to know, I went with the Takeya.
The Glass one that Food & Wine recommended, or the stainless steel one that the Wirecutter recommended?
The one from you! I liked how it looked. I went with the sea foam color.
I hope it works (and I also liked the sea foam color better).
You're on the hook if it doesn't, bub.
I swear by my insulated steel Camelback. Although I guess it's too late to tell you this.
This is probably on topic: This seems worse that butt-chugging. But more likely to be real.
Functionally it seems like kind of the opposite.