8 Best Reusable Drinking Straws of 2026

Silicone tips are the reason to choose this set over the other steel bundles here. They press over the end of the straw, keep metal off your lips and front teeth, and take the shock out of a drink poured over ice. Eight of the sixteen straws are 10.5 inches, long enough for a 24- to 32-ounce tumbler, and the rest cover shorter glasses; a travel case and cleaning brushes come with them.

We paid close attention to the tips, because a soft end is the difference between a straw a kid uses and one they refuse. They stay seated through a glass of milk or a thick shake, and they pull off for washing, which matters more than it sounds when yesterday’s smoothie is involved. The eight colors do quiet, useful work too: hand out different colors and nobody at the table confuses their drink with someone else’s. Our complaint is arithmetic. Sixteen straws, eight tips, so half the set is bare steel unless you order more.

The steel underneath is 18/8 with a polish that feels smooth in the mouth, and the case is stiff enough to keep straws from rattling around a bag. Where the Hiware set wins on a clean two-length split, this one wins on comfort and on telling drinks apart, which matters more in a house with children or a shared office kitchen.

A 40-ounce tumbler asks for a long, wide straw, and this pack is built to that measurement: 12.13 inches long, 0.37 inch across, in clear Tritan, six to a pack with one brush. The width matters as much as the length. A slim straw has room to slide and rattle in a large lid opening; this one sits where you put it and stays above the waterline.

Clear is the right call for a cup you carry all day. You can see the ring of yesterday’s smoothie before you drink through it, which an opaque straw hides until it is genuinely unpleasant. We also like that six arrive at once: straws get lost, chewed, or left in a car, and five spares in a drawer mean a missing straw is not a purchase. Tritan is softer than steel or glass, though, and clear walls show scuffs sooner than a colored straw would.

The limits are about where it fits rather than how it works. At 12.13 inches this is a tumbler straw, and in a pint glass it stands a third of the way up in the air; the same width that seals into a Quencher lid is more straw than a small glass wants. Buy it for the cup it was made for and keep a nine-inch set for everything else.

Most reusable sets are built as tumbler straws, and then you try to drink a glass of water at the table and the straw towers over the rim. Nine inches is what an everyday highball or mason jar actually wants, and 0.3 inch across is close enough to a disposable straw that nobody has to relearn how to drink. Twenty-five of them means the drawer is never empty and nobody has to run the dishwasher to have a drink.

The plastic is BPA-free and clear, and we ended up preferring that to a colored straw: you can see whether a rinse did the job before it goes back in the drawer, and a straw that held orange juice overnight shows it. They are dishwasher safe, and the whole bundle weighs 2.88 ounces, so a handful in a tote or a glovebox adds nothing you will notice.

Twelve colors, two of each, every one of them 10.5 inches: this set is designed around the moment four people set their cups down on the same counter. Assign a color per person and the whose-is-whose problem disappears, which sounds trivial until you have watched two kids argue over identical cups of water.

The Tritan is translucent rather than cloudy, so a blue straw still reads blue through a glass of iced tea, and the walls are rigid enough to stir with instead of folding. Four 10-inch brushes come in the box, and 10.5 inches of straw trims down with kitchen scissors if your cups run short, something neither steel nor glass will do.

Length is where this set gives ground. Ten and a half inches is right for a 30-ounce tumbler and comically tall in an 18-ounce cup, so it is a household set rather than a universal one. We rate it the best answer here for a family or an office kitchen with tall cups and a lot of cold drinks; if your glasses are ordinary size, buy the nine-inch set instead.

Glass does one thing no other material here does: it adds nothing. Iced coffee tastes like iced coffee, there is no metallic edge and no cold shock against your lip. These are borosilicate, 8.5 inches long, with a 0.39-inch outer diameter and a 0.28-inch bore, which is closer to a smoothie straw than to a sipping straw.

Six straight, six bent, four brushes. The width is the dividing line: 0.28 inch inside pulls a thick shake or a boba drink without complaint, and that same barrel feels like a lot of straw in a small glass of juice. Straight for tall glasses, bent for a mug at a desk.

Cleaning is the easy part. Four brushes come in the pack, the glass is dishwasher safe, and it comes out clear rather than clouded, which is what eventually happens to plastic. Glass does not hold onto the flavor of last night’s chai either, and that is why these are the ones we reach for with coffee.

Our hesitation is only about the floor. Borosilicate is tougher than it looks, but a straw dropped on tile is still a straw that can break, and it is why we keep these at the table rather than in a lunch bag. As a set for a kitchen that drinks a lot of coffee and smoothies, they are the nicest thing in this group to actually drink from.

Soft is the whole point. Silicone gives when you bite down, so the straw becomes something a toddler can gnaw on while you finish your coffee, and it does not send a jolt through your front teeth when a car hits a pothole. These run about 10 inches with a wide barrel, which is the size a smoothie or a protein shake wants.

Eight straws and two brushes in assorted colors, dishwasher safe, soft enough to bend into a lunch bag, and easy to trim with scissors, which makes silicone the one material here you can resize at the kitchen counter. The wide barrel cuts both ways. It is what makes a thick drink possible, and it is also why the straw looks oversized in a small juice glass.

What earns them a permanent place is how they take abuse. They come out of the dishwasher unchanged, they do not crack the way hard plastic can, and a chewed end stays smooth instead of going ragged. This is the set we hand to families with young children and to anyone who makes a smoothie most mornings; past that, a slimmer straw suits a lidded cup better.

Most silicone straws come with a brush and a shrug; this one comes with a squeegee that pulls the full length of the bore in a single pass. That tool is the reason to look at it. A wide silicone barrel is the hardest kind of straw to get properly clean, because thick drinks cling to soft walls, and dragging a scraper through beats scrubbing with bristles.

The straw itself is 9 inches, 7 mm inside and 9 mm outside, with a gentle curve at the top that puts the opening where your mouth already is. The silicone is soft enough to bite down on without a wince and firm enough that it does not collapse mid-sip, and it is dishwasher safe.

There is no way around the cost. This is the most expensive straw set here by a wide margin, and you are paying for the tool and the grade of silicone rather than for a big count. For water and iced tea, a stainless set does the same job for far less; for a daily smoothie, a milkshake, or a toddler who chews, the squeegee and the softness earn some of it back.

We rate this as a specialist rather than a default. Buy it for thick drinks and small children, and buy something cheaper for the rest of the drawer. The wide bore means anything that came out of a blender goes up it, and the squeegee means the straw actually gets cleaned instead of soaking in the sink until morning.