Chillys Water Bottles & Cups

Chilly's started in 2010 when James Butterfield began selling reusable water bottles out of his house, mostly to stop people buying plastic ones. It's now one of the biggest reusable brands in the country. What we stock is the current range — Series 3 bottles in three sizes, the Series 2 Switch cups for coffee, and the Big Mouth for anyone who carries litres at a time. The rest is in homeware.

Chilly's Series 3 Water Bottles

Series 3 is the current bottle and the one most people mean when they say a Chilly's. Stainless steel, double-walled, with a vacuum between the two walls that does the insulating — there's no coating or lining doing the work, which is why they don't hold the taste of yesterday's coffee. Three sizes: 350ml for a bag, 500ml as the everyday one, and 1000ml if you're refilling less often. The 500ml is the one we'd buy first.

Chilly's Series 2 Switch Cups

The Switch is the coffee cup rather than the bottle, and the switch in the name is the lid — one position to sip from, another to close it. It comes in 500ml and 750ml, both of which are larger than a takeaway cup, so worth checking against your usual order before you assume it'll get filled to the top. Most coffee shops will take one and a few will knock money off for it.

Chilly's Big Mouth Water Bottles and Stackable Cups

The Big Mouth is the two and four litre bottle, and it's a different proposition — a wide opening you can get ice or a bottle brush into, and a handle, because four litres of water is four kilos. It's the one to look at if you're trying to drink a set amount a day rather than just carry water about. The stackable cups are the outlier here: a set of four small steel cups that nest together, more picnic than commute.

All of it is stainless steel and all of it is meant to replace something disposable, which is the whole point of the brand. There's more in water bottles and bottles and food storage, and the rest sits in homeware.

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