How to clean water bottles?

[Fujichants]

My apologies if this issue has been addressed before, but i'm about to go to bed and my eyes are too tired to look through hundreds of threads...

How do you guys deal with your smelly water bottles? I have two polar bottles, and one of them just started to stink. Like wet dog. It is gross. I found mold in it and scrubbed it out. I also realized BF put his dirty bottle top on mine while he took my clean one !

How do you clean these things? With vinegar? Dishwasher? I let it soak in soapy hot water for an hour, and the smell went away. I let it air dry, made sure to double check it was dry before I put it away, and I just pulled it out and it smells again!

I really should buy new ones, but these aren't even a year old. And I had to order them online because I couldn't find the pink ones anywhere in stores here.

TIA.

[crazycanuck]

Ah yes..the scungy water bottle or hydration pack

We use a bottle brush (sure hope that's the correct term!) and hot soapy water. The gunk & smell disappears

[salsabike]

http://forums.teamestrogen.com/showt...hlight=bottles

[tantrumbean]

I find denture cleaning tablets work quite well. (Although if I had juice in them, the smell does tend to linger)

[tulip]

water bottles go in the dishwasher. Hydration pack bladder gets rinsed out (I only use water in it) and I store it in the freezer.

[derailed]

I use vinegar and baking soda. If it's a nightmare, I use a denture tablet, then soap and cold water, then rinse til I can't smell it. Hot water holds the soap smell.
The bottle brush also goes in the dishwasher!