Better Brita Baby!!

Advantages: Recycable, long lasting, fresh!
Disadvantages: A monthly expense.

...I have always had a problem drinking water straight out of the tap?. I know it's all healthy and has passed certain tests and standards but still?. When I think about all the pipes and bits it had to travel though before getting into my glass it gives me a little shiver. I may be fussy but I can not help it!! I bought a Brita water filter about 12 months ago and have not looked back. I purchased the 2.4 litre jug which is great for keeping in the fridge chilled and the filters can be replaced. The filters do not actually change the taste of the water but I do believe it makes the water cleaner and also healthier. To some extent it is also in the mind set of the drinker. Some people would probably think that a water filter is a waste of money! Well this is what the Classic Brita filter actually does and this is why I will always...

izzoh 29.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Classic Filter Cartridge

Brita Elemaris water filter jug

Advantages: The water tastes better than previous filters, it's much easier to fill and use.
Disadvantages: Still takes quite a bit of cleaning but again, a step up from the original jugs

...Having owned and used a Brita water filter on a regular basis for several years, I couldn't resist purchasing the Elemaris when I saw it on offer at a bargain price on the shelves of our local Asda. My original filter jug was full of water, so the first thing I did on unpacking the Elemaris was to pour a glassful from each jug to compare them. I was pleased to observe that the water in the glass poured from the Elemaris appeared cleaner and much clearer than that from my old faithful. On tasting both samples, the one poured from the Elemaris won hands down - it tasted much fresher than the drink from the other jug. Our tapwater has quite a nasty taste when unfiltered but the Elemaris removed this. The Elemaris is much easier to fill than the earlier models and the filter does it's work much more quickly - my first jug took...

christinepalytte 10.09.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter

Brita Water Filter

Advantages: no more descaling
Disadvantages: none

...We live in a hard water area and before we purchased our Brita Water Filter we were having to de-scale our kettle every 6 weeks, alse we used to get horrible "scum" on the surface of out tea and coffee. Since buying our filter the element in our kettle has remained lyme-scale free and this is after 3 months. We also use the filtered water in our steam iron which has stopped the lymescale building up in there to. It is very simple to use...just fill from the cold tap direct and the water will pass through the filter cartridge into the jug....once this process has taken place the water is ready to be poored into your kettle or iron. We would not be without our filter jug now as out hot drinks taste alot better and i am sure that the lack of lymescale must give the kettle and iron and longer lifespan. Catridges should be...

sveale 14.01.2001 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

Brita Marella - excellent value, easy to change filters

Advantages: Cheap, great colour range, easy to change filter
Disadvantages: lid isn't held on only by a small click, comes off easy if knocked

...I picked up one of these on ebay after noticing white residue in the water from our taps. I read quite a few reviews for many different water filters and found a lot of complaints about hard to install/exchange filter components. I found this Brita one, with very easy plug in filters. Works great, no strange taste, and it filters the water reasonably quickly. Capacity is good, and the colours these come in are very nice. We got a red (passion) coloured one, which is rather tasty for a kitchen appliance I guess. You have to change the filters on these every month, go to ebay to buy a pack of 12 or so to get a decent price on these. Watch out for the lid if you've just filled it with water and are going to prematurely pour a glass of water - the water can burst from the top as it's only held on by a click and gravity. Otherwise super...

niuniu 15.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Brita Marella Cool Water Filter

filtered water - an unrealistic dream?

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

...We live in a hard water area in Bristol and are always having problems with limescale - we've been through many kettles in the last few years. My husband and I are used to the taste of the water now, so we don't really notice it, but when we have visitors they often complain about the drinks we serve. So, we were thrilled when 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 pesticides as well as organic impurities." Excellent...

gef18 26.02.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Elemaris Cool Water Filter

Filters Ahead Of The Rest

Advantages: Great Tasting Water
Disadvantages: Wants You To Change Filters

...I have had this water filter for about a year now and brought it after I dropped exactly the same model and cracked the jug. I think so much of this product I went and brought a new one without hesitation and have recommended as well as buying it as a present for many friends. In case you haven?t heard of a water filter it comprises of a plastic jug with another ?plastic thingy? that sits in the top with a hole in the bottom into which you screw in your filter. Your tap water (yuk) goes into the top ?plastic thingy? and filters through and then you pour it out and enjoy your water (yum). I missed out a plastic lid that goes on top just to keep water from sploshing out when you pour of dust getting in. I keep mine in the door of the fridge because cold refrigerated water tastes so much better than tap water. Set into the top...

RJW764 09.06.2003 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

Brita Water filter kettle

Advantages: Stops your kettle getting scaled up
Disadvantages: Cost of filters

...I have recently moved to an area that has extremely hard water (I am surprised it managed to come out the tap!). Anyway, my last kettle - a £4 cheapy one that I have had for years couldn't cope with the scale and died within a few weeks of living here, so I needed to find a solution... my kitchen isn't huge, so to have a water fiter jug and a kettle would have been tedious and annoying due to them taking up twice as much space, so when I saw this Brita kettle, it seemed to be a good compromise. I now don't have any scale in my kettle, and I don't get a scum layer on my mugs of tea and coffee. There is a handy digital reminder on the lid of the kettle to remind you when to change your filter, but as this is not actually measuring the volume of water that passes through the filter, it seems a bit of a gimmick really. When I have had...

willliz1975 22.12.2006 · Read review
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Review of Brita Acclario Premium 3kw - Kettle

Pure Glacial Waters from a Fjord in my Fridge

Advantages: Great design, excellent filtered water, reasonably priced
Disadvantages: None.

...I honestly never thought I needed a water filter in my life, let alone that I'd grow to find it indispensible but in the case of my Brita Fjord Cool filter jug, that's exactly what's happened. I bought it on a whim as it was reduced to £10 in Woolworths and I decided to treat myself to something I considered at the time to be frivolous yet practical. There were a few Brita filter jugs on offer at the same price and I chose the Fjord Cool model simply because it looked a bit sleeker and sexier than the others available. As soon as I got home, I quickly decided to test out my new 'gadget.' On this occasion, I did read the instructions which included handy diagrams to show you how to insert the filter cartridge into the jug. This filter jug incidentally takes the Brita Maxtra cartridges. It comes supplied with one but I bought...

nicolemorgan 15.12.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

To Get Me to Drink Water...

Advantages: Better tasting water
Disadvantages: none

...the morning about half-an-hour before breakfast, would ensure good health and protection from most diseases. Whether this is true or not, I cannot say, but being aware that I hardly ever drank water unless flavoured by tea or coffee, it would be good for me to try. But?our tap water tasted foul, and I could hardly drink it on an empty stomach without gagging. My wife, who only drinks water, had been drinking bottled water for years, but I didn?t like that much either, because to me it tasted of plastic. So, trying to encourage me to get the water-drinking habit, she bought glass bottles but I still didn?t like it. She said that I was being over-sensitive and as a last resort, bought me a Brita Water filter. Preparing the Britta Water Filter for Use It wasn?t just a matter of plugging in the filter-cartridge into the jug and filling it...

derek-j-a 11.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Brita Mistral Water Filter

Tasty water

Advantages: improves the water quality
Disadvantages: expensive and sometimes hard to find

...I live in quite a hard water area and find that the water is only drinkable using the filter. The taste of the water is vastly improved, mainly because the filters take out all or most of the limescale. They last for about a month before needing replacing, and can be a bit of a pain to change, as you need to run water through several times before you can drink the water. Also the filter cartridges are quite expensive, costing around £12 for a box of three filter cartridges. I have found that they aren't always readily available in my area, though they are getting easy to find in places like Tesco and some department stores. Generally, I think that they are worth the money paid just for the nice drinking water....

razzer246 06.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Maxtra Filter Cartridge