MYFOREST 1000ml/32oz Tritan™ Water Bottle, Large Spout

Why it’s great
Spending enough to get a quality hydration product is more than worthwhile with this. The primary benefit is that it delivers the drink really easily and doesn’t require sucking hard or stopping to allow air back into the bottle. Because it delivers so easily, one visit to the bottle provides more drink than with more restrictive bottles so you get more hydration – much more – remarkably so!
Using it in practice
If it isn’t clear from the pictures, it works by having a short flexible (silicone rubber) section at the bottom of the straw. When you close the lid, it pushes the straw down causing the silicone section to flex a little bit more. There’s a rubber sealing pad inside the flip up lid which presses against the neck and forms the seal. The mouthpiece of the straw sits inside then neck while it’s sealed. When you release the lid which pops up on a spring, the straw extends above the neck ready to drink from. To get maximum delivery speed, you press the straw back into the bottle slightly while drinking which allows air into the bottle around the straw. It’s fairly easy to twiddle the straw after filling so that the pick-up point is towards you so that tipping it towards you only slightly, you can drain the bottle dry! There’s a lock on the flip top which is a little bit fiddly to release one-handed after you pick up the bottle but is easy to do before you pick it up. Once the lock is released, one-handed drinking is easy. The push-button releases the flip lid and your forefinger closes it again. You don’t need to lock it all the time but it is useful for when you put it in a bag to carry so that nothing in the bag can press the button and soak the contents.
Cleaning
The straw is in four parts: the mouthpiece, a middle section of stiff plastic, a lower section which is flexible silicone rubber and there’s a plastic disc around that section which aligns the top of the silicone section/bottom of the stiff section towards the middle of the bottle. All these parts come apart easily for cleaning. The 700ml one comes with washing up accessories – the 1000ml one doesn’t. The useful bit is the thin brush which allows you to clean through the insides of the straw parts. The neck of the bottle is wide enough for most washing up brushes, so the sponge supplied is probably superfluous. I wouldn’t put it in the dishwasher; I guess it would survive but would certainly age more quickly.