For this product category, we focused our tests on the most important metric for any hose nozzle: its flow rate. Flow rate can be roughly described as the volume (in gallons) of water each nozzle delivers per minute. We tested this at our Yonkers headquarters by hooking each nozzle to a hose and spraying water into a bucket for 30 seconds, then weighing the bucket. We did this for each water pattern (or setting) offered by the nozzle.
Higher flow rates equate to a higher score because a higher flow rate decreases the amount of time you have to spend on your watering task, whatever that may be. We found, for example, that the highest maximum flow rate (based on our specific setup) our models offered was 5.5 gallons per minute, and the lowest maximum flow rate—that is, the best flow rate the slowest model could achieve—was 3 gallons per minute. This would make watering your garden with the best-rated nozzle take about half as long as with our lowest-rated model.
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