By now we all know the dangers of certain plastics- I'm taking to you #s 3, 6 and 7! And even the 'good' plastics (1, 2, 4 and 5) are known to leach into food and water under certain conditions- hello heatwave in New York City. So many of us prefer to avoid plastic-bottled water in general. Yet, even those refrigerator Brita-type filters still rely on a plastic vessel. In lieu of plastic then, some people go basic tap, some go in-faucet charcoal filter, some go under-sink purifier that cleans the water before it reaches the faucet. But considering that, for many of us, design is a dangerously close second priority to health, the question becomes: what do you store your cleansed water in?
Many of the most design-conscious glass or metal vessels are merely 8 ounce, single-serve 'bedside' pieces, not very useful for multi-usage refrigerator storage. Additionally, bigger options are often open at the top; and you definitely want a lid- love leftover vegan curry. Hate vegan curry flavored water. So here's a list of the most elegantly-designed, family-sized carafes:
Shown above the jump, from left to right
1 Minima Decanter by Cecilie Manz for Holmegaard, $59.99 for the small from Nova 68
2 Menu Jakob Munk Carafe, $50 from AllModern
3 Fia Carafe by Nin Jobs for Design House Stockholm, $69 from Switch Modern
4 Bormioli Rocco Giara Clear Glass Bottle With Stopper, $12 from Amazon
5 Blomus ACQUA 1.5 L Water Carafe Floz Design, $56 from Amazon
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Those vessels are all pretty. We are very lucky to have some of the cleanest tap water in the country and in a poll it was voted #1 for taste. (We have some of the worst air so that evens it out). We go straight from the tap. If people have such awful tap water that they have to buy a filter, they need to pester their representatives day and night. Clean tap water is a basic human right that should not even be an issue in this country.
Well said, Emmi.
Agreed, Emmi, but not all water that passes municipal safety codes tastes good!
I used to have it all. Clean water and crisp fresh mountain air in Lake Tahoe. Then I moved. To Sacramento. Manganese, Magnesium, years of leaching pesticides-blech! Britta couldn't touch it anything else was just too expensive so we bought water from a vending machine. Now we live in WA and the water isn't much better. Apparently there is an iron eating bacteria that makes the water taste bad and smell like sulphur (aka rotten eggs). So we stick with our wonderful 1 gallon carboys care of Gallo Sangria. 4 in the kitchen and 1 in the bedroom. At least we don't have far to go for a late night drink! But I still miss Tahoe.....
I've got a couple of those lovely, wire and stopper-topped bottles. They are perfect for water and are especially classy for bringing along on picnics or for using at parties. And the best part? If you soak the labels off, no one knows that they were once Lorina lemonade bottles! ;)