Hello :) I was wondering if the water taste clean? I have a BB machine and the water smells and taste plastic-y :/
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The water tastes completely clean. No plastic (or any other) smell or taste.
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Hello,Yes the water smells and tastes clean. The Tommee Tippee machines comes with a filter that is changed within three to six months. Mine lasted about six months.
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Interesting that you experience plastic smell. I did not have that experience. I wonder whether they change the manufacturing plant and you happened to get one from contaminated production. You can try to wash it first in dishwasher and then soak in tea overnight to get the smell out.
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It is very slow you just have to let it do its thing. I have had mine for over a year and I really like the taste of the Pure water.Gerald
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In my opinion and what I have done thus far is use the filter. Notice I said filter and not filters. I have used one filter since I have owned the machine. I never change the filter and I doubt I would ever have to since it filters the freshly distilled water. Taste has not been affected and the only reason I can see for the filters is to ensure no particulates from the machinery would ever enter the water. That said, it should be impossible during the life of the machine for any particulates to break loose. These are copper pipes used for the distillation so the filters are either a money maker or just a fail safe is all. In my opinion and what I have done thus far is use the filter. Notice I said filter and not filters. I have used one filter since I have owned the machine. I never change the filter and I doubt I would ever have to since it filters the freshly distilled water. Taste has not been affected and the only reason I can see for the filters is to ensure no particulates from the machinery would ever enter the water. That said, it should be impossible during the life of the machine for any particulates to break loose. These are copper pipes used for the distillation so the filters are either a money... » Read More In my opinion and what I have done thus far is use the filter. Notice I said filter and not filters. I have used one filter since I have owned the machine. I never change the filter and I doubt I would ever have to since it filters the freshly distilled water. Taste has not been affected and the only reason I can see for the filters is to ensure no particulates from the machinery would ever enter the water. That said, it should be impossible during the life of the machine for any particulates to break loose. These are copper pipes used for the distillation so the filters are either a money maker or just a fail safe is all. « Show Less
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I purchased and received this said same ice maker last week. did the install myself.. You need to make sure that you have an inline filtration system installed. Mine is working great with no plastic taste. Feel free to e-mail me with any questions. chasesouth@rusticfence.com
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I cleaned ours with vinegar and water, a friend told me a long time ago to do that, he says it cleans that plastic taste out. They manufacture them and then package them and then they set. He says run a couple cups of vinegar water in it then just clear water, and ours was fine.
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In my experience with it, not bad at all. The water goes through the filter anyway so it tastes fresh. The more it use it the more the filter will wear away though so make sure you keep up with changing the filter as necessary.
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I had a similar problem. The water was picking up a rubbery taste from the tank (inside the tank is a rubber balloon like bladder that stores the water). Usually this is filtered out by the Stage 4 mechanism, but the wiring I did bypassed the Stage 4 - so I had to add a polishing filter right out to the tap.
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I have not experienced a "plastic taste" in any of the cups I have made - using coffee, tea, or cocoa. Do you use spring water when you make your drinks?
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No I have not notice a sweet taste after filtering my water. Look at from this angle, it is far better having sweet water than having to drink water that has the rotten egg smell/taste. If you are really that concerned about the sweet taste of the water call up or email Sawyer and get their official say on the matter or send a water sample to a public water testing facility and see what they determine is in the water that you are filtering. That's about all I can say on the matter. Good Luck.
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when you first get it just make sure to rinse it out. that would be the only time you will get that plastic taste to it. but after you rinse it out i havent gotten any plastic taste. sorry for the delay
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I too have sediment problems, but I have sediment problems in a normal coffee maker with one of those reusable filters (plastic/mesh, not paper). So, thanks to the responses here, it's clear that these types of filters always leave sediment unless you add paper. It doesn't taste bad anyway. Just don't drink that last sip. ;)
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When we originally plumbed in our unit we had a plastic smell as well. It took us about a week to get the plastic taste/smell out of it by simply running the unit many times within a day. I don't know the exact amount, but I would say that we ran it about 12 times a day for a little longer then a week. We didn't use any k-cups when we ran it, just had hot water going through the system. After we did that we no longer could smell or taste plastic.
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The water taste clean and light. What I don't taste is chlorine. The water in my neighborhood is so bad there were many times it was brown with the smell and taste of chloride and fluoride. I don't taste, smell or see anything in my water now.
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There will be a plastic taste at first due to the lines being new. We installed an ice-maker filter kit (like you would find at Lowe's or like http://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/social/swf/B003DA62T2/o=ShareProduct/ref=tsm_1_aw_swf_d_sp?vs=1) to minimize this temporary issue.
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we only used ours for a couple weeks. I thought I could taste plastic. Ended up odering a percolator coffee pot and we love it
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To the best my knowledge, I taste no charcoal or other filter flavors. You never taste water so good! You do have to maintain the dome ( scrub it with a light brush once a month) and you do have to replace the mineral filter cartridge as well as the dome at some point.