How many turtles did you kill today straw?!
We're doing a pretty important experiment today.
We're gonna save the world.
A lot of people are trying to get rid
of plastic straws because they do
sometimes end up in the ocean.
A lot of restaurants for example have sort of
proactively gotten rid of plastic straws.
Your days of drinking from plastic
straws are probably numbered.
At least in Portland.
First up we're gonna test our paper straw.
I feel like this one's honestly
like a little bit harder to suck out of
than like a regular straw.
I agree.
I feel like people get these for their
Pinterest weddings you know what I mean
like this and sort of like a mason jar
which looks so cute.
I know you don't definitely drink
lot of hot drinks with straws but you
could get like a Hot Toddy.
This one definitely feels like it's gonna start
to make this straw mushy.
And now we have the
toughest test for all of our straws I believe
which is paper in Frappuccino.
I know from experience these paper straws
sometimes do you kind of fall apart
after you know five, ten minutes in a drink
so I think that's something
to be wary of.
Okay so now we're gonna go to
the classic plastic.
The turtle killer of straws.
How many turtles did you kill today straw?!
Just like a straw!
Comes right up.
Why reinvent the wheel?
Well, because of turtles.
This is the hard plastic with the the weird little bump
on the bottom but it's designed so that it comes with a
cup and you can't pull it out.
If you put it in a cup.
These ones all came in a package
and they came with this cleaner so these are the first
ones, the cheapest ones that come with a cleaner.
Look it.
It's hard to take out.
Portlanders like to think about bamboo,
the way it grows so quickly and
it's abundant and grows in all sorts of climates.
The actual straw itself is pretty thick
so the hole in the middle is
pretty small and you end up really
having to you get a workout.
It's like a lot of sucking.
So if you're looking to lose a little weight
I'd say this is a great straw for you.
This isn't working at all.
I hate this straw.
I hate this straw too.
And I haven't even moved to my smoothie.
The silicone straw is the widest diameter so we're
actually going from small to the widest here
Poking it through is a little bit of a challenge.
It's almost too big
and you get a little more than you'd like.
I'm regretting that we didn't get boba
because I think this might be a good
reusable boba straw.
I feel like this is a good chewing straw.
At home I've used this straw a couple times
for smoothies and like thick smoothies
and it works really well
but the only problem is
it's like really hard to clean.
I'm a little concerned about taking this
like in my backpack.
Oo it might break in half.
My first thought about this was like
it looks like a meth pipe.
I'm not gonna like this at all.
One thing I like about it is that
you can see what's coming in,
what's in the straw.
like this is actually the easiest one to clean I think.
Full metal straw.
And I've seen this one at
Portland restaurants.
It's kind of cool.
When it's a cold drink it sometimes
frosts up a little bit which is
is a cool effect.
Although you know it's a
little weird to have it be that cold when
you're holding a straw.
Temperature wise
this would not be my go-to.
I like a cold drink but I also have sensitive teeth.
Oo hot, hot!
It gets hot immediately!
Why I wanted to do the hot drink just to experience that.
Another metal straw this
one with a silicone tip.
Yeah so like this one maybe deals with that issue.
Could be the best of both worlds.
It is a wider straw.
It's a bit wide.
Yeah and you're going from a narrower
to a wider portion.
The temperature you can
feel it is like transferred down here
but up here you're just like, oh, just drinking away!
I don't know. Will you start using any of these straws?
Can you see yourself bringing a straw around with you?
Absolutely not.
Absolutely not and the cleaning part
sounds horrible to me.
I probably would just stop using straws.
The barrier of cleaning it sort of is like meh...
I'll just drink my water like normal now.