I done fucked up. I know some of my drink cups say handwash only, but I thought that was due to their vacuum chambers.
I assumed (wrongly) that these two bottles would be ok. They are clearly not made from whatever Nalgene is made from.
Meanwhile, I have some cheap vacuum wall plastic tumblers from Walmart, going on 15 years now, that I’ve always tossed in the dishwasher.
Also, I’m getting strong deja vu from my shrinky dink bottles. Have I done this before? Or seen a post on here if the same? I can’t recall.
Edit: hello adhd brain, I forgot to provide details. Red 1L Nalgene for scale. The two bottles beside it used to be the same size before yesterday. ☹️
I just float the water in the air using the Force
I just decided to buy glass bottles. The are nice ones with a removable rubber cover that can nicely go into the dishwasher. And they don’t taste or smell like plastic after a while.
I have metal ones. Much lighter.
Perhaps, but I would be too hard on glass bottles while I’m adventuring.
These were free swag though at a volunteer thank you party. I’m only upset that I can no longer covertly signal to the other local volunteers that I’m part of the club. 😄
Yeah but lot of them use plastic seals. I have a glass water bottle wood top. But freaking plastic in the lid of that cup.
You might wanna stop drinking out of plastic if you can avoid it. If you’re gonna buy a water bottle, you can buy one made out of stainless steel and it’ll survive the dishwasher. Of course you’ll have to make sure you buy a reputable brand, otherwise It’ll be full of lead.
I prefer glass because the taste of metal is unappealing to me. The lids unfortunately has a bunch of plastic and rubber polymers though.
I’m working on ousting all plastic foodware from my life if at all possible. Glass, ceramic, metal, or silicone only pls.
It’s slow going, but there’s some wins.
Ha! Almost looks like it returned to the size it was as a blank, before blow molding.
Always look for the “dishwasher safe” logo
water belongs in a glass
Survival of the fittest.
Survival in the dishes 🎶
Now you have two bottle blanks. Here’s how they’re turned into bottles. https://youtu.be/kU_gH36GG58
I think it’s the heat that done them in. Sometimes, dishwashers have modes that don’t use a lot of heat, and I think it might also help to put heat sensitive things in the top rack. But even if you do that, I’m guessing that the kind of plastic that melts in the dishwasher probably won’t be safe to drink from, even if it doesn’t look like it melted.
Yes, I assumed the heat was the culprit too. They were on the top rack, the cycle was normal not pots & pans, and I never use the dryer feature. My hot water heaters are in the attic though where it’s a million degrees despite an attic fan heroically trying to provide some ventilation. I don’t even need to have the water heaters turned on this time of year. When we first moved here a few years back in June, it took us 4 months to notice that the previous owner had turned the heaters off. I thought we had normal hot water all summer!!
Dishwashers frequently have a heating element inside that heats the water as it cycles, and it gets pretty hot on most default cycles.
I had a cheap nalgene type knockoff that I put in the dishwasher a couple years ago. When I took it out, it was like 1/3 it’s original size. Its transformed version was so small I didn’t even register it, spent way too long looking for it.
Nalgene uses tritan for their plastic bottles btw
Also TIL, Tritan was developed by Eastman Chemical, the HQ of which is in a town not far from where I grew up. Old stomping grounds and the like. Good God if the wind was blowing the wrong way, the chemical factory would stink up the entire town. It didn’t help there used to also be a paper pulp Mead plant there too, but Eastman was the biggest stinker.
There used to be a show called Street Cents on CBC that focused on consumer and media awareness. On one episode, they torture tested Nalgene bottles.
It’s been a while but if I’m remembering right, I watched them survive:
- being thrown off a building
- being run over by a bulldozer
- being dipped in liquid nitrogen and hit with a hammer
- being heated with a blow torch
The lids broke in some of the tests, especially if they had liquid in them, but the bottles themselves are basically indestructible.
I’ve seen a knock-off bottle break when somebody set a backpack down on it too hard.
Nalgene bottles used to be made out of polycarbonate, a particularly robust plastic that they use for all manner of industrial things. Most safety glasses are polycarbonate, for example. It’s nigh indestructible and cheap as hell.
Nalgene now uses a proprietary plastic they claim to be bpa free. It’s likely not as strong as it used to be but probably still quite tough
Btw, LOVE your user name! I call my trusty roadies sippy cups too. I have a shoe organizer full hanging on the pantry door. It’s hard to resist an ultra cute sippy cup.
I am called sippy cup because after a drink or two I typically need one haha
Wonder when they changed the formula. Red is 22 years old. Maybe one of the OGs?
Calling “Will It Blend”…!
Yeah, nothing happens to all of the food containers but my bottles shrivel at a warm bath.At least the base is flared
haha this reminds me of a pair of flip-flops my wife had. They were left in the car, and one of them somehow ended up in the back window where it got super-heated by the sun. It was curled up and half the size of its mate when I found it. Couldn’t tell you what they were made of…
lol I had this happen with one of mine
