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

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

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

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

Water, water everywhere

Advantages: Improves your health
Disadvantages: Filter cartridge runs out every 4-5 weeks

...cartridge lasts about 4 to 5 weeks. Finally the whole filter is easily assembled. The filter is then filled with water and it takes about 2-3 minutes to fill up. This filter is filled 3 times. The water from the first couple of jugs may be used to give to plants. The change in taste was amazing. The water tasted a little sweet and was a definite improvement on tap water. The accompanying literature mentioned that the taste and appearance of tea was improved. The appearance of the tea was lighter and according to my wife the taste and texture of the tea was lighter and sweeter. Apparently there is less scale build-up in domestic appliances such as kettles. I found that less steam was produced during boiling a kettle. In the long term it may even save you electricity. Several types of Brita water filters are available. We plumped...

mrpaella 12.01.2001 (21.08.2001) · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

Buying mineral water is a mug's game!

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

..., turns into a muddy brown substance with large chunks of unappetizing lime-scale floating about in it like titanic-sinking icebergs, coffee does the same thing. The result of this phenomenon is that everybody in Leicester weighs, on average, three times as much as other citizens as a result of the vast slabs of white stuff that are clogging-up their 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 inside the jug and holds the nasty, dirty...

jm160 02.10.2007 · Read review
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Review of Brita Fjord Water Filter

  Water Way to Drink

Advantages: Improves water taste and quality
Disadvantages: None

...and smell of fluoride; the water tasted cleaner and less metallic, perhaps even drier to the taste, that sounds daft I know but its how it tastes to me. Now we have a jug of water on the table with meals, which is something we never had before, as it was a waste of time putting it out, as nobody would touch it. The filter cartridges are designed to be changed monthly. In case you forget within the lid is an indicator comprising four bars and a flashing dot. One bar disappears every week until there are none left, when that happens an arrow flashes at the top of the bars, indicating that cartridge replacement is due. The cartridges are 100% recycleable. When the dot in the indicator stops flashing a new battery is required which is readily available from the Brita Service Team. It is however designed to have a service life of five years...

Bigbaz 06.10.2002 · 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

Water good show

Advantages: Makes tap water taste great, removes impurities
Disadvantages: Initial outlay and too big to fit into most fridges

...it just to impress my wife, I opted for the one with a blue lid and handle to fit in with the kitchen tiles. The first thing I noticed is that Brita have changed the filter cartridge from the cylindrical type that I used before. You get one cartridge supplied with the filter jug wrapped in foil for protection. The cartridge is now called Maxtra and looks like a little white plastic pot with a sealed lid on it with slits. It boasts a 4 step filtration system that sounds pretty damn impressive. Firstly, the water flows through a fine mesh filter - what that does in practice I'm not too sure. Secondly is the ion (not iron) exchange filtration. This reduces limescale (which is good for prolonging the life of your kettle by the way), aluminium and heavy metals such as copper and lead. Thirdly, the carbon filtration reduces chlorine (a...

Gary25 03.11.2008 · Read review
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