Nalgene question

[Ridgewalker]

I was wondering if I can put a Nalgene thru the dishwasher, I have heard mixed results. Thanks for the assistence.

 

[giggy]

don't know for sure - but I have many times and still alive and never been sick - so...................

 

[vegematic]

I always did when I had a dishwasher. Only the hard bottles though, I never owned the soft kind. The only thing I was careful of was to make sure that the attached cap could not hang down through the bottom rack where it might get caught by the rotating arm. Top rack it if it will fit.
-veg

 

[Tom Rankin]

I always did when I had a dishwasher. Only the hard bottles though, I never owned the soft kind. The only thing I was careful of was to make sure that the attached cap could not hang down through the bottom rack where it might get caught by the rotating arm. Top rack it if it will fit.
-veg

Yup! I melted a lid in the dishwasher once!

The soft ones are not good for boiling water or freezing water for that matter either. I froze one in the summer once, and it bowed out on the bottom. Now it won't sit flat! Doh!

Pouring boiling water into the soft ones makes them *REALLY* soft. And it didn't fix the bowed out bottom either! Dang!

 

[sapblatt]

I always do...never had a problem, just make sure the lid stays above teh heating elements...

 

[Rick]

Count me in as one who religiously uses the dishwasher for my lexans, whuile I have always wondered if the high heat damages the bottles, I replaced all my HDPE's with Lexan maybe 8-10 years ago and have had only one break in all that time. I always washed my HDPE's by hand.

Tom, FWIW, you can buy just the nalgene lids at REI (I melted 2 of them over the years)

 

[Ridgewalker]

Thanks everyone for your help

 

[NYBRAD]

You guy's wash your Nalgene's???????????/

I always treated them like I treat my crampons or ski edges when they get rusty.

I JUST USE THEM and hope for the best!

 

[Tom Rankin]

Tom, FWIW, you can buy just the nalgene lids at REI (I melted 2 of them over the years)

Yup, and EMS too...