I never believed those filters do anything of value to the water, but Erica bought a PUR filtered water pitcher for in the fridge & I really do think I notice a difference in taste.
I always date my water bottles and then refill them for a week or so. I've noticed that when I refill them with the filtered water it tastes much closer to the orginal bottled water.
I thought it might be the power of suggestion but I don't know, because I've also noticed that at the end of the week the water bottles are still crystal clear, whereas when I filled them over and over with tap water they would be kind of cloudy at the end of the week.
Anyone else notice a real difference with their filters?
I need to vote twice. We used to have an on the tap filter, but the filters were more expensive for it and it messed up the water stream, so we switched to a pitcher. I can totally tell the difference, especially if the water gets warm. It's like the tap water has a taste, but the filter gets rid of it and it's more flavorless.
we still have tasty water, and none of my kids have grown extra apendages, so i think we're good... although jacob seems to be twice as dumb -- maybe he's grown and extra brain...
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Yeah, I agree. The water has less taste and that's a good thing.
I have always wondered about these things but never bought one for myself because it just seemed like it was not going to do much. I mean, the water drips fairly quickly out of the top of the pitcher into the bottom, how much filtering can it actually do. But I guess it does plenty.
I'd love to take a cup of dirty water, like old clothes washing water and pour it through just to see what the water comes out like.
Of course, I'd want to do that with a pitcher I was ready to throw out.
we still have tasty water, and none of my kids have grown extra apendages, so i think we're good... although jacob seems to be twice as dumb -- maybe he's grown and extra brain...
You mean normal tap water?
I've always been fine with tap as long as it's ice cold. I guzzle it so fast that I don't really get a chance to taste it anyway.
But I did always notice a big difference between the bottled water and the refilled tap water.
Now with the filter I don't notice any real difference.
It's nice though, because it's so much cheaper than buying bottled water exclusively.
our tap water in winter is hella tasty, but i have to admit, i don't drink it in the summer because it does taste like dirt smells -- know what i'm talking about?
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I actually have a favorite bottled water, pitiful, huh? Well, two actually, but one is mint water. My favorite water is Smart Water, because it's practically nothing. They filter it and distill it to death. But of course, it's expensive, so I settle for the pitcher.
I use a filtered pitcher up at the cabin. We have well water up there, which tastes a lot different than city water here at home........sometimes there's a metallic taste in the water due to the type of pipe in our well. So I bought a filtered pitcher to see if it gets rid of it, and surprisingly, it does!
I forgot where I was in Wisconsin, I think I was at a cabin somewhere, and I'd have sworn the water was pumped directly from the lake the cabin was on. It smelled SO fishy.
When my grandparents had a cabin on the lake, I was always told to drink the bottled water that we brought along, not the tap water (or I guess I should say, water out of the pump).
