Flip-Top Water Carafes, 50 oz
Plastic, 50 ounces, and the lowest average in the catalogue — all three are one story
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- 4/4options listed
- 3.5 x 3.5 x 12.4 instated size
- $4.25per piece, best count
- 7,209ratings
What one piece costs at each count
- 8 pieces$33.99$4.25 each$2.75 less per piece, 39% off the 2-piece price
- 6 pieces$29.99$5.00 each$2.00 less per piece, 29% off the 2-piece price
- 4 pieces$25.99$6.50 each$0.50 less per piece, 7% off the 2-piece price
- 2 pieces$13.99$7.00 eachthe dearest piece here
Pack price divided by the number of pieces, nothing added; the bar is that figure drawn to scale, longest for the dearest piece. Options with no active listing are left out of this list, because a count you cannot buy has no price per piece.
What it is
Fifty ounces in a 12.4-inch bottle with a flip-top lid, sold in 2s, 4s, 6s and 8s. Two things about it are unlike everything else on this shelf: it is plastic rather than glass, and the lid is a mechanism rather than a disc resting on a rim. Both are why the price per bottle is the lowest here, and both are why the average is the lowest in the catalogue at 4.3.
The ladder is the steepest on the shelf: $13.99 for two, $25.99 for four, $29.99 for six, $33.99 for eight — which is $7.00, $6.50, $5.00 and $4.25 a bottle. At $4.25 the eight-pack is the cheapest piece on this shelf by a clear margin. Then read the maker’s own line, which is unusually blunt and is printed further down this page: hand wash only, plastic material. A flip-top hinge and a plastic thread are precisely the parts a dishwasher destroys, and a 12.4-inch bottle 3.5 inches wide is awkward to wash by hand and impossible to reach into. That is a maintenance cost paid weekly against a saving taken once, and it is the likeliest thing behind a 4.3 on 7,209 ratings.
In use
Fits: a household that needs six or eight identical bottles of cold water in the fridge door and does not want to pay glass prices or hand glass to children. Does not fit: anyone who was going to put it in a dishwasher. The maker says hand wash only, in capitals, and a hinged plastic lid is the part that proves the point.
Specification
| Dimensions | 3.5 x 3.5 x 12.4 in |
|---|---|
| Weight | 0.79 lb |
| Options | 4 pack sizes |
| Shelf | Carafes & Pitchers |
What the maker states
Below is the manufacturer’s own description of the product, quoted from the listing. It is their claim, not our test.
- HAND WASH ONLY, PLASTIC MATERIAL. The carafe dimensions are 3.5 x 3.5 x 12.4 inches, with a capacity of 50 oz.
What 7,209 ratings can and cannot tell you
7,209 ratings is the third largest sample here and 4.3 the lowest average, which is a more useful pair of numbers than a small sample with a high score. Two mundane explanations cover most of it: a moving lid can leak in a way a disc resting on a rim cannot, and a bottle labelled hand-wash-only will be put in a dishwasher by somebody. Neither is a manufacturing fault and neither is hidden — both are stated on the listing before any money changes hands.
The average is the retailer’s own figure across every option in this family, not a score of ours, and no review is quoted or paraphrased anywhere on this site.
Questions about this one
Is it glass?
No. Plastic, and the maker states it plainly. Everything else on this shelf is glass, which is the trade being made for the price and the weight.
Can it go in a dishwasher?
The maker says hand wash only. A flip-top hinge and a plastic thread are the first things heat and detergent attack, so this is worth treating as an instruction rather than a suggestion.
Which count is best value?
Eight at $33.99 works out at $4.25 a bottle, the cheapest piece on this shelf. Six at $5.00 is close. Two at $7.00 is the option to skip unless two is genuinely all you need.
The rest of the shelf, side by side
Prices are the lowest in each family; the per-piece column is empty where a family is sold one piece at a time.
| On this shelf | Price | Per piece | Rating |
|---|---|---|---|
 | $13.99to $33.99 | $4.25Lowest in this column | 4.37,209 ratings |
 | $15.99to $34.99 | $5.83 | 4.76,019 ratings |
 | $18.49to $35.99 | $6.16 | 4.42,190 ratings |
 | $15.99to $18.99 | — | 4.42,022 ratings |
 | $16.99to $24.99 | $6.25 | 4.7763 ratings |