OT: reverse osmosis

My Crom, Tawm! How much coffee do you drink every day, one of these?

If you have bad tasting water or hard water - a good 4 or 5 stage RO system will be a wonderful addition.

We have good water here, but now and then the water gets poor or the chemicals used to clean the water are not right. Sometimes illegal.

We put in an RO system in the kitchen. Wife cooks with it. I make coffee with it. The only draw back - water presser must be kept down below 70 psi IIRC. Over that and you can blow a gasket... A pressure regulator is easy enough to have added by the plumber. It saves dish washers also.

IF you have H2S Hydrogen Sulfide in the water - the RO won't filter it since it is about the same size of H2O. Anything below water size gets through. But you start out with 'clean' water, so microbes...are already dead.

Martin

I've got one, left to me by mom, she entertained a lot. It makes horrible coffee. I'm a bit of a coffee snob and don't like stale coffee especially in large quantities. I have about 5-6 cups/day sometimes more. I like good, fresh coffee thus the Keurig. Yes it's an extravagance but it's about the most convenient way of getting a treat.

Most people would like my water after reading some of the horror stories. Like I said, Cleveland water is among the best in the country and I didn't appreciate it. I don't understand why the locals can't get it right, we all get water from lake Erie.

That's the one thing I liked about Midland, Michigan. The water intake was offshore in Lake Huron. Clean and cold.

Here, if you're not on a well, it's surface water, not the Great Lakes, so there is a lot higher level of treatment required. Not too bad here in the hill country compared to some East Texas impoundments, but being primarily limestone country, it's pretty hard. At least the iron load isn't bad.

We use a Keurig, and I don't particularly like the thing. I told my wife I'd as soon use a cone filter and grind the coffee, but she likes tea and my handicapped son likes hot chocolate on occasion, so we keep it.

Pete Keillor

Ditto. I also hate burnt coffee, which ALL drip coffee makers produce.

That's a lot!

The French Press is a hassle, to be sure, but it produces the absolute best tasting cup of coffee I've ever experienced, even with lesser beans, which are becoming more and more prevalent. The so-called Sumatran coffee beans from Kivu (Fred Meyer stores) range from great to I-double-dog-dare-you-to-call-these-Arabica-beans, you SOBs.

I hate the price of the Keurig machines. What a ripoff! The coffee isn't too bad, but it ain't fresh-brewed. Me = snob, too. ;)

I use a french press, ho-hum, it doesn't have the complexity that I enjoy. I also have used a tody maker (cold brewed) and it's OK but something is missing. You have to have good beans, fresh roasted and ground for the best cup. My favorite has been shade-grown mountain grown in Puerto Rico. >

Here's one I liked enough to get 3/4 built ;-)

Probably about as cheap as your going to be able to build. I had a local print shop that used aluminum sheets approx 2' x 3' in their printing process. The gave me about 50 sheets for my project. More details here.

Mikek

I had a mechanic "work" for me for about 6 months that drank that much before he picked up his tools in the morning, about half that at coffee break morning and afternoon, as well as at lunch. Hense the " " around "worked".

Not enough of a gidj-gadget for you, eh? Grok that. ;)

Do they include lube (or a reach-around) with that?