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

Better Brita Baby!!

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

...use it?.it reduces lime scale and other substances such as chlorine which affect the taste and odour in your tap water. (Limescale is the off white, chalky substance that is in the bottom of kettles and on the outside of taps etc). The filters also reduce aluminium and certain heavy metals (like copper and lead) and certain pesticides (like diurone) in tap water. Organic impurities are also reduced. The result is cleaner, clearer water and you will also have less lime scale build up in your domestic appliances, meaning they should stay working for longer!!!!! Each filter lasts about a month in my experience and I fill my jug up around 5 times a day? so it is a product that does work for a good amount of time. To make sure you get the best you should change the filter regularly, most Brita jugs have something called the Brita 'MEMO' it s...

izzoh 29.08.2008 · Read review
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Review of Brita Classic Filter Cartridge

A Brilliant Kettle, "With a Filter!"

Advantages: Kettle and Filter in One, Safe, VERY rapid boil, Brita
Disadvantages: Can be top heavy when filtering

...We first bought this kettle for a new office part of the house that was recently built, it was around 45 pounds and the reason we got it is because it has a built in water filter. Overall this kettle turned out to be very good. Performance = 10/10 = This kettle performs very well; it boils 12 cups in about 30 seconds! Very speedy. It is very good at everything, the water filter is Brita?s fastest yet, and it takes a lot less time than any other Brita water filter. It also performs well at filtering; the clarity of the tea or water is instantly noticeable when the tea looks so brightly coloured. Overall the performance of this kettle is very good. Ease of Use = 9/10 This kettle is very easy to use once you have un-packed it, the unpacking can be a bit fiddly as you have to remove the components...

Chazzer3 07.03.2004 · Read review
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Review of Brita Acclario Water Filter/Kettle

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

When is a kettle not a kettle

Advantages: Excellent tasting drinks and you don't need a separate water filter
Disadvantages: Heavy and Easy Pour lid doesn't work too well

...decided it was time for a new kettle! Looking at all the kettles in various shops, there is an absolute abundance of choices. You can have a kettle in all shapes, sizes, colours. It's rather overwhelming to be faced with such a large choice. But we found that one kettle seemed to jump off the shelf at us, it looked so unusual amongst the other jug kettles, that it immediately drew the eye. Appearance It is a quite large and tall jug kettle. It only has the capacity to boil 1.5 litres, so how come its so big you may ask? The kettle includes a water filter. The main body of the kettle is see through and you can see that inside is an area for the water to filter through a water cartridge, into the boiling area of the kettle. This is what makes the kettle so large - the space required to be able to filter water as well as to boil it...

northern_lights 05.03.2003 · Read review
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Review of Brita Acclario Water Filter/Kettle

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

NICE JUGS, now put the kettle on.

Advantages: Space saving, good value compared to separate jug and kettle
Disadvantages: Indistinct "on" button

...with the water from a filter jug after you?ve filled it? I don?t suppose many people drink it cold, except 50/50 with Scotch, perhaps. In our house at least, there?s a 99.9% chance that it?s going straight into the kettle, and it?s for people like us that those clever Teutonic sons-of-fun at Brita have cut out the middleman. The Acclario is not only a conventional water filter jug but also a cordless jug-kettle, all rolled into one neat parallel-sided cylinder of understated design. Natty, eh? Looks-wise, it is easy to grasp what it is, having somewhere to put cold (scummy*) tap water in at the top, and somewhere to boil the nice clear stuff down below. *Well, that?s Thames water dismissed in a word! Mind you, to be fair, West London?s tap water goes through a great deal of scrutiny ? after all, it?s been ?passed? by the entire...

BNibbles 28.01.2002 · Read review
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Review of Brita Acclario Water Filter/Kettle

A kettle that can multitask (it must be a woman)

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!

...Where we live the waters not bad and we don't really need to filter it but my Father in Laws water is so bad that some days it is undrinkable. Because of this he filters all his water and if he dosen't he has to descale his kettle about once a month. He has up until just recently has a separate filter jug and kettle but they took up so much space in his 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 get him one the next time we were in, but...

tarara 29.09.2004 · Read review
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Review of Brita Acclario Water Filter/Kettle

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