Vent: Dropped $150 on a fancy water filter pitcher

Thought it would make my pour-overs taste better. Bottled water was getting expensive. Filtered tap water for 3 weeks straight. Coffee actually tasted flat and dull. Ended up going back to my old grocery store gallon jugs. Anyone else waste money on water gear?

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patriciareed18d ago

Gave in and bought the same one after reading the reviews... three weeks of watery coffee later I was right back to my $1.50 store brand jugs. Total waste.

margaret_gonzalez2527d agoMost Upvoted

omg right??? I bought one of those expensive brita ones with the fancy filter that's supposed to keep minerals in. used it for a month straight and my coffee tasted like nothing. flat and boring just like you said. i even tried different beans thinking maybe i just got a bad batch. nope. went back to my $2 gallon jugs from walmart and everything tastes good again. honestly feel like such a fool dropping that much money on something that made things worse. at least we're not alone in this struggle lol

ray_miller4127d agoMost Upvoted

Man that brita with the mineral thing got me too. I spent like 60 bucks on it and my morning brew was just sad and watery no matter what I did. I even called my buddy who roasts coffee for a living to see if I was doing something wrong lol. He said those filters strip out too much stuff that makes coffee taste good. Now I just use a basic Pur filter for my tap water and its way better. Feels dumb wasting money on stuff that sounds fancy but actually makes things worse.