Tea & Coffee > Water Filters

Advantages: easy to use
Disadvantages: hasn't improved the taste of our tea

...my parents bought us a Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter jug for Christmas along with a refill pack of 3 MAXTRA cartridges. Apparently they were fed up of the strange taste of our tea! Brita make the following claims - "You will enjoy cleaner, clearer, great tasting water" and "protects your domestic appliances against limescale build up". "The BRITA MAXTRA cartridge reduces substances like chlorine, limescale..., aluminium, heavy metals... and certain ...
...what we needed. We were quite impressed with the filter jug to start with. It has a special 'pour through lid', so you don't have to take the lid off or even open it to fill it with water - ideal for lazy people. There is an opening in the lid that automatically opens with the water pressure. As the funnel fills up, the opening starts to close so that you know to turn off the tap then. This method is prone to splashing and the lid therefore shows ... Read review

Advantages: Affordable, delicious drinking water with no hardness
Disadvantages: cartridges can be a little expensive

...internal organs. Enter the Brita Fjord water filter, the only thing standing between Leicester and the most chronic case of dandruff / petrification in the known world. Description: The filter is divided into four parts; these being the jug, funnel, lid and filter cartridge. The jug has a total capacity of 2.6 litres, meaning that it can easily handle enough water to cater for an entire tea party without the need for refilling. The funnel fits ...
...sharpening and general tomfoolery. The Brita filter is really very easy to look after; once every four weeks you pull the old filter cartridge out and discard it (I'm not sure if there is a way of recycling these but it is something I'm researching and will update this review at a later time). Once the old filter is out, the unit can simply be taken to bits and washed (every bit except the lid is dishwasher safe), which takes me about two minutes. ... Read review

Advantages: Takes up less room than a filter jug and a kettle.
Disadvantages: You have to wait for the water to filter before you can boil it!

...small kitchen. We noticed the Brita Acclario filter kettle in Argos a few months ago while we were looking to get him a fridge jug which although notideal would at least save him a little space. The kettles were priced at around £45 but he was needing a new kettle anyway so he said if we wanted to buy him one to wait til his birthday this month and the price may have dropped slightly. We saw one in Tesco about 6 weeks ago for £26 and decided to ...
...impressed with his. The replacement brita cartridges cost around £19.99 for 6 but you can get universal ones for about half this price. The filters help reduce the build up of limescale, reduce heavy metals in the water such as lead and copper and reduce chlorine, certain pesticides and other impurities. On the box it shows a cup of tea in a glass cup the picture is in 2 halves one showing the tea using filtered water the other unfiltered and ... Read review

Advantages: Filtered water, cheap, encourages kids to drink more water
Disadvantages: Works hard to chill in summer months

Bought as a last minute xmas present I honestly expected this to be a gadget something used for a month or so then put in a dustly cupboard, but I was very wrong. It wont change your lifestyle but this is a very handy and handsome machine which earns its space on our minimalised worktop in the kitchen. Our kids enjoyed it very much as it meant they could get a glass of water even though they could not reach the facet at the sink, and I can certainly ...
...bonus of the water having being chilled and filtered is very nice as well. Our water supply would not taste the best at times and although the children dont seem to be as sensitive to this the adults in the house do appreciate the filtered water. Some friends saw our machine and liked it so much they went out and bought one themselves. Its also has a attractive blue light which looks well in a darkened kitchen. One drawbeack and its the only one ... Read review

Advantages: good clean water
Disadvantages: it dont come from a volcano?

Drink 8 pints of water they tell you. I didn't want to drink 8 teaspoons of my tap water! Our water contains so much chlorine that it turns our shower cubicle pink. Needless to say I didn't want to drink the stuff. If we made a cup of tea our water used to "bleach" the tea bags and made it taste disgusting. We were concerned that this surely could not be good for you so called in the waterboard (south west water) to run some tests. Aparently they ...
...got a result of 0.6. that seemed a bit excessive to me , but the little man told us that the water board can stick as much bleach into our water as they saw fit!! Getting no-where with them, we decided to perform our own remedy. First off we put an in - line water filter which cost us £100 and a further £20 pound each for the filters, which are supposed to be changed every 6 months. ours lasted 6 weeks before we had to change it. It got most of ... Read review