Does anyone here swear by them? Found an old Brita jug and wondering if need to invest/waste my money on some filters.
Thanks
Filters are great ways to capture the few bugs that are int he water, concentrate them into one place and give them a near perfect growing medium. You can then add more water to flush the results into the jug you drink from.
Enjoy
Which is a great way of building up your resistance to said bugs
We used one in our last house as we had lead pipe to the property, but don't bother now.
Depends where you are dunnit.
Water in alit of scottish taps is great as is.
Aka council pop as above.
We drink a lot of water and a simple blind taste test shows it's better when filtered.
The jug lives in the fridge as cold water tastes better as well.
This is what I'd buy:
https://berkey-waterfilters.co.uk/
Shudders at how much I've spent on Brita jugs and filters over the years. Now using a Wilko jug with a filter that lasts 2 months instead of the usual 1 month. So much cheaper in Wilko.
Brita filter kettle. Sans filtered water, a rather worrisome film appears on the top a fresh brew. This is not acceptable, so the water for brews is filtered and all is well. Can't really say it tastes much different.
Tap water for pop etc. Not died yet.
We've got a Brita tap with 'normal' hot and cold and filtered cold. The filtered stuff is used for filling the kettle and coffee maker, cos the water round here is really hard, which makes tea taste disgusting. For just drinking, we just have the normal, non-filtered stuff.
I've got a Brita undersink filter with P1000 cartridge. Turns the hard as nails water into something a bit less likely to pick a fight with the kettle. Our tap water comes from either chalk stream abstraction or chalk aquifer so no need to check for hardness.