What’s the good shit? I’ve been reading reviews, but can’t seem to find a consensus.
I currently drink all of my water from plastic bottles, and figured it was about time I got a stainless steel bottle and something to purify my wet nothin’ with.
I have a Nalgene stainless steel bottle:
http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=1235
And use this BRITA filtered pitcher:
http://www.brita.com/us/products/water-pitchers/pacifica/
Both have worked fine. I think BRITA is tops faucet and pitcher filters. As for bottles,any choice from Nalgene,Klean Kanteen,CamelBak are all good choices.
I live in austin, We have amazing tap water 
although when i’m in rochester I use a brita filter… it works great
On my first visit to my school’s gym, the astonishing number of moobs really freaked me out, and I immediately went out and got a PUR water pitcher. Now I don’t know if I’m being paranoid, or if the pitcher can even filter out hormones, but I feel like it helps.
I like the PUR pitcher; it has worked great and I only got it because it’s much cheaper than BRITA, especially the filters. I think the faucet attachments are a lot cheaper per amount of water filtered, but they won’t work with my current faucet head.
I don’t ever worry about plastic bottles though.
We use a brita pitcher and it works great. You can actually tell when the filter needs to be changed because of the difference in taste. It’s hard to explain, but you can taste the difference.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
I have a Nalgene stainless steel bottle:
http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=1235
And use this BRITA filtered pitcher:
http://www.brita.com/us/products/water-pitchers/pacifica/
Both have worked fine. I think BRITA is tops faucet and pitcher filters. As for bottles,any choice from Nalgene,Klean Kanteen,CamelBak are all good choices. [/quote]
how long do the filters normally last you? i assume you drink several pitchers a day…am i correct?
Dude, Stainless steel bottle and a berky filter all the way. Brita is ok, but it is massively more expensive and doesn’t do quite a good job of filtering. A berky will take food coloring out of the water. and you can even get a flouride filter attachement if you don’t want to drink flouride. A berky Light is a good system, it’s a shelf top, holds like 5 or 7 gallons, I forget. It uses 2 filters which will filter 3000 Gallons of water each.
See what a brita will do before it starts letting stuff through. I think 40 gallons? So for every pair of berky filters you go through, 6,000 Gallons, you would be using 150 brita filters. The berkey filters are 50 bucks apeice, and a brita runs about 7. So $100 bucks for a berkey filter pair. And $1050 for the brita filters.
Also it filters better so it’s a win win. For 200 bucks you can get the berkey light, but if you are really serious about going no plastic, they make several stailess steel models. FWIW I use a brita right now, but am saving to get a stainless steel berkey. I got my father a berkey light for christmas one time for his camp because the water was lake water. It worked really well.
V
I use Brita, and you can really taste the difference. A recent study found that there are 15 pollutants within the Los Angeles tap water that are not allowed within the standards for city tap water. Thank you LA, it explains why I am glowing in the dark.
I ordered a Brita and a couple Klean Kanteens. KK was out of the 64 oz bottles, so I got a forty, and an eighteen for workouts.
V, I’m going to save up for a Berkey.
I’m usually not the type to worry about plastics and xenoestrogens and whatnot, but lately I’ve realized that it’s cheaper/easier/more healthful to make the switch, so why not? Still wondering how the hell I’m going to avoid toiletries with parabens, though. That shit’s in everything.
Here’s a comparison of the top-10 selling brands of water filters:
http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php
I use a brita just like Big Boss…
[quote]Smallfry69 wrote:
Here’s a comparison of the top-10 selling brands of water filters:
http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php
I use a brita just like Big Boss…[/quote]
Sorry no berkey in there, it really blows everything else away in long term price and performance. I suggest anyone who is serious about really clean pure water to save up for a stainless steel one.
Here is a link to the Big Berkey, IMO the best bang for the buck with 4 filters. BTW thats 12000 gallons of water. If you consumed 2 gallons of water per day every day this filter would last one person 16.4 years. A family of four would go over 4 years before replacing the filters. And that is a LOT of water.
V
[quote]cycobushmaster wrote:
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
I have a Nalgene stainless steel bottle:
http://www.nalgene-outdoor.com/store/detail.aspx?ID=1235
And use this BRITA filtered pitcher:
http://www.brita.com/us/products/water-pitchers/pacifica/
Both have worked fine. I think BRITA is tops faucet and pitcher filters. As for bottles,any choice from Nalgene,Klean Kanteen,CamelBak are all good choices. [/quote]
how long do the filters normally last you? i assume you drink several pitchers a day…am i correct?[/quote]
Between me and the wife(and her occasional donation to the cats…fuckers)…we go through 2 pitchers a day. The filter last us 2 months(I could be off a bit). I just know they last a while.
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]Smallfry69 wrote:
Here’s a comparison of the top-10 selling brands of water filters:
http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php
I use a brita just like Big Boss…[/quote]
Sorry no berkey in there, it really blows everything else away in long term price and performance. I suggest anyone who is serious about really clean pure water to save up for a stainless steel one.
Here is a link to the Big Berkey, IMO the best bang for the buck with 4 filters. BTW thats 12000 gallons of water. If you consumed 2 gallons of water per day every day this filter would last one person 16.4 years. A family of four would go over 4 years before replacing the filters. And that is a LOT of water.
V[/quote]
Damn…that is nice…BUT how big is that bastard? I have little counter-top space…its more convenient for me to have a Brita pitcher that I can store in the fridge.
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]Smallfry69 wrote:
Here’s a comparison of the top-10 selling brands of water filters:
http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php
I use a brita just like Big Boss…[/quote]
Sorry no berkey in there, it really blows everything else away in long term price and performance. I suggest anyone who is serious about really clean pure water to save up for a stainless steel one.
Here is a link to the Big Berkey, IMO the best bang for the buck with 4 filters. BTW thats 12000 gallons of water. If you consumed 2 gallons of water per day every day this filter would last one person 16.4 years. A family of four would go over 4 years before replacing the filters. And that is a LOT of water.
V[/quote]
Damn…that is nice…BUT how big is that bastard? I have little counter-top space…its more convenient for me to have a Brita pitcher that I can store in the fridge.[/quote]
Yea, that is the onloy real downside, even the smallest ones are going to take up counterspace. One of the benefits for me though is I actually hate drinking cold water. Room temperature water to me just tastes and feels better going down. I don’t have a TON of counter space myself, but I can always rennovate my kitchen!
V
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]Smallfry69 wrote:
Here’s a comparison of the top-10 selling brands of water filters:
http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php
I use a brita just like Big Boss…[/quote]
Sorry no berkey in there, it really blows everything else away in long term price and performance. I suggest anyone who is serious about really clean pure water to save up for a stainless steel one.
Here is a link to the Big Berkey, IMO the best bang for the buck with 4 filters. BTW thats 12000 gallons of water. If you consumed 2 gallons of water per day every day this filter would last one person 16.4 years. A family of four would go over 4 years before replacing the filters. And that is a LOT of water.
V[/quote]
Damn…that is nice…BUT how big is that bastard? I have little counter-top space…its more convenient for me to have a Brita pitcher that I can store in the fridge.[/quote]
One of the benefits for me though is I actually hate drinking cold water. Room temperature water to me just tastes and feels better going down.
V[/quote]
I thought I was the only one. People always look at me like I’m crazy when I say cold water sucks.
Room temp FTW
[quote]Vicomte wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]Big_Boss wrote:
[quote]Vegita wrote:
[quote]Smallfry69 wrote:
Here’s a comparison of the top-10 selling brands of water filters:
http://www.waterfiltercomparisons.com/water_filter_comparison.php
I use a brita just like Big Boss…[/quote]
Sorry no berkey in there, it really blows everything else away in long term price and performance. I suggest anyone who is serious about really clean pure water to save up for a stainless steel one.
Here is a link to the Big Berkey, IMO the best bang for the buck with 4 filters. BTW thats 12000 gallons of water. If you consumed 2 gallons of water per day every day this filter would last one person 16.4 years. A family of four would go over 4 years before replacing the filters. And that is a LOT of water.
V[/quote]
Damn…that is nice…BUT how big is that bastard? I have little counter-top space…its more convenient for me to have a Brita pitcher that I can store in the fridge.[/quote]
One of the benefits for me though is I actually hate drinking cold water. Room temperature water to me just tastes and feels better going down.
V[/quote]
I thought I was the only one. People always look at me like I’m crazy when I say cold water sucks.
Room temp FTW[/quote]
So do you also get the funny looks when you get a drink at a restaurant, or somewhere else, and say no ice please.
V