Water Bottles

The Dole bottle would make a good bottle to use Steripen with

I'll be on the lookout for Bolthouse juices now. I was going to give 32 oz. Powerade bottles a try. The weight on mine were 1.75oz. Yours beat mine. I wanted a taller bottle with less girth is why I switched from Gatorade bottles. It seems like the Bolthouse bottles would work better for a shoulder strap mounted bottle sling. Thanks for the idea!

Plastic mayonnaise jars are good for wide mouth bottles and super light. I do like the looks of that Dole bottle.

Rubbermaid makes some light off-the-shelf bottles with a wide mouth, in both "bike bottle" type pop-up valve and drinking straw styles.

After much fiddling and looking at bottles, my cook pot is as good as anything for using the Steripen and that allows any kind of water container to be used. For day hikes, a recycled water bottle or old bladder with the top cut off works too. One person here cut the *bottom* off a bladder and used a sports cap to make it easier to decant into another container— genius!

My favorite recycled bottle du jour is a sterile water bottle used in the health care world. It is made of polypropylene (number 5) plastic, rectangular shape, has graduations in two directions, holds over a liter, has an excellent cap and a hang loop on the bottom. It weighs 2.5oz/70g. The opening is 1-1/8"(29mm) inside, so it is too small for direct Steripen use. They freeze well too, which is handy for keeping a first night perishable dinner cold en route, or having really cold sips on a hot climb.

Prolly stating the obvious… but for Steripen use, it's not just finding a bottle with a mouth wide enough to fit the tube in — but also wide enough to allow for full stirring / agitation of the water — so nothing can sink safely to the bottom of the bottle.

Of the bottles above, the Dole bottle is the one I would use with a Steripen. But when in doubt, Steripen is only a phone call away.

Your big worry is whether the caps are going to seal well enough to be safe in your pack. I have some doubts.

What's the matter with using your cooking pot as a container for treatment, then pouring the water into a 1.25 L PET fizzy water bottle? (The caps on those seal very well.) I really can't see the need for a special bottle AS WELL.

Cheers

I have the Steripen classic and it fits/seals in the standard narrow neck bottles. It also fits and seals in the narrow neck of my Platypus water bags.
Would'nt it also work in wide mouth bottles to just stir the water with the Steripen and agitate the bottle a bit without having to invert the bottle?
I am a total Steripen newby so i am just figuring this stuff out as well.
I don't carry a stove or a cup so all my sterilization is gonna have to happen in the bottle or Platy bladder.

I cut the bottom off a 2 liter soda bottle, marked the 1 liter mark, 0.8 ounces, easy to get good stiring action

Also, for a steripen, the container has to be deep enough to submerge the water sensor. My 0.9 liter Ti pot doesn't work very good.

Oops, hijacking thread again, sorry

Matt:

Agitating a bottle upside down with your Steripen classic seal will work. Stirring a pen with a wide-enough bottle mouth will work as well. My post above refers to bottle mouths that are just wide enough to fit a pen through but not wide enough for stirring.

@ Benjamin
Got it. That is the situation for my classic and a one liter gatorade bottle.
Would holding the pen in the opening and swirling the bottle instead be the same thing?
Ahh except the sensors get uncovered.. answered my own question.. Carry on.