Your Brita Pitcher.... My Home Brew Tea

[Zee09]

I double filter my ice tea well water but had a Brita pitcher and wasn't thrilled with it so I went with another brand.
I just watched this and found it very interesting. I have a under sink R.O. system but its very slow....

If you like clean water this many be a good watch...

 

[walterjay]

Nothing like an RO system. Have been installing them for years.

 

[Rand]

thats why you get an RO system with the 3gal tank.
it might take an hour to make 3 gallons.. but who cares if you have 3 gallons ready to go.

 

[Aichiguy]

I've bought 3 RO 5 filter systems off Amazon in the last 10 years $200 each and can be installed quite easily. It's night and day for water flavor and safety and it makes for great tea and coffee. It may have gone up 10 or 20 bucks since I bought the last one but I would do it again in a heartbeat.

 

[Cressida]

Does not the RO filter systems consume a lot of water to make the filtered water? That was what has held me back from considering a RO undersink system - something about you end up with a lot of water just going down the drain to get your gallon of RO water?

 

[Legs4Arms]

I use a Brita pitcher and love the taste. I have zero patience so didn't watch the video.
Cole's Notes on why it sucks?

 

[97prizm]

I double filter my ice tea well water but had a Brita pitcher and wasn't thrilled with it so I went with another brand.
I just watched this and found it very interesting. I have a under sink R.O. system but its very slow....

If you like clean water this many be a good watch...

I've used the Zero water filter with excellent results. It's a five-stage filter that outperforms brita or the competition.

 

[97prizm]

I use a Brita pitcher and love the taste. I have zero patience so didn't watch the video.
Cole's Notes on why it sucks?

It's only a two-Stage filter with limited filtering ability.

 

[Zee09]

I've used the Zero water filter with excellent results. It's a five-stage filter that outperforms brita or the competition.

I had one of those too..
I transfer the water to glass eventually. I'm going to try one in the video. About $85 on AMAZON

 

[Nessism1]

Dr. G in that video needlessly rails on Brita. Brita makes no claims that it's an end-all, be-all solution for perfectly clean water. It does improve taste, which is what most people are looking for.

Amazon reviews of the Clearly Filtered and Epic Water Filtered pitchers have about 13% one star reviews. Most complain about their poorly made pitchers. I wouldn't mind upgrading from Brita to something better, but do any of these match the usability of Brita?

 

[Rand]

Does not the RO filter systems consume a lot of water to make the filtered water? That was what has held me back from considering a RO undersink system - something about you end up with a lot of water just going down the drain to get your gallon of RO water?

modern systems are 1:1 (some even better)
anything with a

Permeate Pump​

should be 1:1 at worst.

otherwise with old style system and using just a glass at a time it can be 5:1 for waste water.
because the last bit it jams into the tank is the least efficient with those systems.
if you fill up a gallon jug its not as bad.

 

[skyactiv]

I once had a ZeroWater pitcher. After maybe 5 fills the filter would get slooooo. I would shake the filter and it filtered faster.

The best water I've ever had is Skyra. It's an Iceland spring water Speedway and 711 sells.

 

[Zee09]

I once had a ZeroWater pitcher. After maybe 5 fills the filter would get slooooo. I would shake the filter and it filtered faster.

The best water I've ever had is Skyra. It's an Iceland spring water Speedway and 711 sells.

Yup

 

[4wd]

I once had a ZeroWater pitcher. After maybe 5 fills the filter would get slooooo. I would shake the filter and it filtered faster.

The best water I've ever had is Skyra. It's an Iceland spring water Speedway and 711 sells.

Yeah, same … got tired of buying expensive filters …
Making coffee with bottled “alkaline” water these days …