Quooker taps

from breakfast - scum/scale from a soon retiring Britta filter.
mug was clean that morning ;), and, that will be absent once it's renewed ...teapot&leaf-tea, of course

That's what I'd want to avoid with a Quooker setup

saw there was another regarded alternative .... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insinkerator-3N1-Steaming-Hot-Water/dp/B00U2O7OLW
albeit, sold with a phosphate filter ... you could buy a sink ion exchange setup and be below the price of a Quooker.


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jpaul said:
from breakfast - scum/scale from a soon retiring Britta filter.
mug was clean that morning ;), and, that will be absent once it's renewed ...teapot&leaf-tea, of course

That's what I'd want to avoid with a Quooker setup

saw there was another regarded alternative .... https://www.amazon.co.uk/Insinkerator-3N1-Steaming-Hot-Water/dp/B00U2O7OLW
albeit, sold with a phosphate filter ... you could buy a sink ion exchange setup and be below the price of a Quooker.
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I've already got an ion exchange resin water softener which you add salt tablets to, in order to periodically regenerate the system. At the moment the incoming mains is plumbed directly into the polyphosphate filter which then goes into the Quooker tap. After reading some of the helpful advice on here, I'm thinking about plumbing my water softener into the filter (I will replace the polyphosphate with an activated charcoal filter), and this will then feed into the Quooker tap.

Do you reckon this will yield a better result than what I have now? I'd like to eliminate the tea scum as pictured :)
 
Fuzzb3k said:
Do you reckon this will yield a better result than what I have now? I'd like to eliminate the tea scum as pictured
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sounds as though you already have all the pieces of the jigsaw puzzle - yes I'd plumb the softener into the quooker;
our water doesn't obviously smell or have impurities so the carbon filter part of britta filters is wasted for us.

you'd be using softened water for rinsing plates/cooking vegetables but afaik running costs of ion exchange are not too great.

I was going to get a TotalDisolvableSolid / TDS meter to check softness, to monitor filter life, but am not now sure if, with ion *exchange* this shows a reduction.

my main motivation for soft water is furring up of the espresso machines heating element.
 
New to this forum, it looks very handy.
We've had a Quooker for 6 years now, wouldn't be without it! However, it now requires frequent re-setting, about one a week now.
Does anyone have any idea what causes this?
 
bill-lancaster said:
New to this forum, it looks very handy.
We've had a Quooker for 6 years now, wouldn't be without it! However, it now requires frequent re-setting, about one a week now.
Does anyone have any idea what causes this?
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I've had mine since around the time I made this post, and I don't think I've had to reset it even once yet. So it's been in for a good 2.5 years almost I think.

Have you always had to reset it?
 
I’m doing my kitchen up. I think I’m going to go for the black flexi pro 3.

should be more than enough for my needs.

the cube thing looks good as well but I don’t use “sparking” water and but do like chilled water. Guess I’ll stick with the fridge freezer water.
 
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