These are my favorite. Remember when I said Polar had stuck true to their original concept and design? This is it. It’s very simple, very inexpensive, and does everything you need it to do. Well,
we recieved two samples in the mail. Both bottles are insulated, BPA, Phthalate, and D/D-free, dishwasher-safe, made in America, and recyclable.
They come in many of sizes and designs. These bottles are double walled, insulated/vacuum, plus a foil layer on the outside to reflect the sun – in short, they’ve gone to great lengths to keep what’s inside cold – for which it does an excellent job.
The top has a large, wide mouth which makes it easy to fill with ice, even from my fridge’s ice dispenser.
Once again, a huge benefit of these bottles is that they are completely dishwasher safe with no problems and, again, the valve can be completely disassembled for added cleanliness.
A feature that I really like about these is that they are also freezer safe: allowing you to
a. keep the empty bottle in the freezer and then fill it with cold water to keep the water even colder for short runs,
b. fill the bottle about half way, freeze it, then fill the rest of the bottle with water and allow the ice to super cool your water + melt slowly and refill your bottle, or
c. I even tried filling the bottle full and freezing the entire thing over night with no problems – no cracking, breaking, busted valves, nothing. This allowed me to take the bottle with me on a long outing (heat index of 99 degrees here right now) and allow it to very slowly melt and have cool water the entire day
For anecdotal findings, I found that if I did not freeze the bottle and instead just pulled it out of the dishwasher, filled it a 1/3 of the way with ice, then filled it with tap water, the water remain cold for me for about 2 ½ hours in 90+ degree heat. So 2 ½ hours is your worst case scenario base line and you can build up (more ice, freeze the bottle, freeze the bottles contents, etc.) from there.
Bottle #2: The Ergo “insulated lifestyle bottle” purports to keep cold liquids cold and hot liquids hot. So far, it’s worked. I’ve gotten into the habit of filling the bottle with water and putting it in the freezer an hour or so before hot class, and lo and behold, the water stays colder than anything I’ve used previously. Granted I’ve never before used an insulated bottle of any kind. But, now that I’ve experienced the simple joy of cold water in class, I’m into it.
However, the real Bottle News here is the Ergo’s Half Twist cap. Maybe because I’ve never been a real cyclist, or because I’ve usually used Nalgene bottles, I don’t really dig the squirt/suck species of bottle. The Half Twist cap solves the (first-world) problem of combining an insulated bottle with a non-squirt liquid delivery system. With the Half Twist top, a counterclockwise turn of the cap unseals the bottle so you can drink from either of two openings, while the other allows air to flow for smooth drinking. A half turn clockwise re-seals the deal. The bottle does not leak
Polar Bottle is the original insulated plastic sport bottle. It keeps liquids colder longer than other water bottles.
- 100% BPA-free & Phthalate-free
- Replaceable valves
- Made in USA
- Compatible with standard bike cages
- Dishwasher safe
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