/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>15640765
No, I stopped having itchy skin with a chlorine shower filter.

Also tap water tastes much better after being filtered, but you should distill it first. Just add a little natural salt to it for "muh trace minerals" instead of the lead and metals in the tap.

if you live in a third world shit hole where the water is unsanitary and tastes bad, then no
otherwise the water is already filtered and you're just wasting money

>>15640765
no

My Zerowater filter is fucking dope. Water tastes nice now, living in a 115 year old building. the vitamin filter shower heads are a joke, but after adding a water softener and filtration system, my skin isn't constantly dry(desert environment)

>>15640782
Does Los Angeles or Las Vegas count as a third world shit hole(some would argue yes), but both of these cities have terrible levels of silt that passes for drinkable tap water and tastes awful compared to Utah or Colorado tap water. The filters are necessary.

>>15640782
>third world shit hole where the water is unsanitary and tastes bad
Like Pensacola Florida where we regularly have radiation advisories and boil water alerts

>>15640781
whats the point of filtering distilled water? how can you filter pure h2o? just asking cuz i just bought a water distiller and it came with carbon filters

>>15640813
It's mostly for flavor if you have a distiller, otherwise a filter is better than nothing.

it's a meme if you don't live in a third world shithole like the US

>>15640824
Unless you chemically test your water, you don't know if you need it or not.

Fluoride, chlorine, and lead are common pollutants in municipal water. The first two are added to the water, the last one is from old pipes. If you have a well, you should test it too to make sure your well isn't poisoned by surrounding factors leeching into the the water table. Then rain water can be polluted with aluminum, barium, and titanium.

We have one because there are small portions of ancient lead plumbing to the house which are impractical to replace at the moment. I always felt that over the last 150 years the pipes would have developed a pretty decent internal coating of scale, to the point where the water barely touches any lead, but I did test it straight off the tap after standing overnight and after running the tap for a while and straight up it was 12-15ppb and after running it for 30 seconds it was about 2-3ppb. I can live with running the tap for 30 seconds in the morning and when left standing throughout the day but we've a baby and for peace of mind anything that he gets comes off the filter. That way we've covered all bases. It does taste better to me and there is a difference in drinks, but this is subjective. There is a mild concern that you strip some of the salts and change the pH meaning the water is a little more likely to pull minerals out of you, but this is a minor detail. I was raised in a house with lead plumbing and nobody ever drew water off, if anything we were encouraged to save water at all times. Turned out OK I guess, but we know better now.

>>15640836
>flouride
>US shithole

thisisamerica.wav

>>15640824
>>15640839
>shitting up a thread about water filters with your obsession for america
Take your meds.

>>15640813
drinkng too muchdistilled water will leech the sodium from your body.

>>15640842
huh? you keep saying that in every thread.

>>15640765
I drink tap water. yes I am based.

>>15640765
reverse osmosis is where it's at.

Just get a rain barrel

>>15640782
Enjoy your fluoride and estrogens

>>15640959
>implying that a commercial-grade filter can remove those

I mean at worst with a pitcher you always have cold water.

>>15640765
>are water filters a meme?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvIky3B661s

>>15640954
illegal

>>15640959
I've got enough test to not have to worry about that shit unlike you bitch

>>15641287
Not for long lmao

>>15640813
>whats the point of filtering distilled water?

Pesticides and other chemicals in your tap water that have a boiling point higher than water will evaporate along with the water and condensate into your distilled water. Some distillers have a post-distiller carbon filter to capture these volatiles. I can't be bothered with changing that filter and buying new ones. My preferred method is to boil the tap water for a few minutes on the stove to evaporate all the volatiles, then pour that water into the distiller. Learned that trick on a brewing forum.

>>15640808
lmao I live in pensacola and I drink the tap water regularly. Come down to world of beer within the hour and see if you can spot me

>>15640765
No, fluoride is poison ... that said, everything except RO and distillation is a rip off.

Of course they are now using fluoride as fumigant in crop storage because too many peons have started avoiding the brain poisoning through the water supply.

>>15640807
Get a sediment filter, you can put one under the sink or even get one for the whole house.

>>15640765
Depends 100% on where you live and how competent your local / national government is (depends who is in charge of water where you live).
Good tap water is fine.
I used to live in scotland, and a filter there would mostly be a waste of money.
Where I live now, I have a small filter.
If I lived in Russia or many parts of the US, I would get a much more elaborate filter system though.

>>15640813
You should not be drinking distilled water

>>15640765
I live in Phoenix, Arizona where the local tap water is full of dissolved metals. People will argue to death whether or not the shit dissolved in there is harmless or will slowly kill you, but regardless of that, the water tastes way better after I put it through a filter pitcher so that's why I do it.

Yeah

>>15640765
>PP Cotton

>>15640765
Do filters remove microplastics?