Why is it that the water that has come out of it so far tastes similar to the way a chlorinated swimming pool smells, and how can I remedy that?
518739
I have not noticed any odor in the water coming out of the distiller. No smell at all.
518740
I have distilled for years....20 years with a large PURE distiller. Now I have this small counter distiller. It works great. Love it. Know about the taste of distilled water. If you got water dripping out of your spout there can be no chloride in it because the very process of distillation. Distilled water is tasteless. That being said...it will 'taste' different because city water systems put so much into our drinking water that when we taste the 'absence' of those things we perceive it as tasting different. You might be tasting the charcoal from the filter. Try not using the filter. I don't. I just use a small funnel placed in the opening of the jug and then centered under the drip spout it works great. There is no real need to filter distilled water with charcoal. That is just a gimmick from the companies to have return purchases from people to resupply the charcoal filters. In fact after some use charcoal filters can introduce bacterias back into your fresh distilled water, as they can hold dust and airborne particals in them.....hence the company gets you to buy replacements and get more of our money. Distilled water is water steam only, condensed back into solid form without anything in it but the pure water. Hope this helps someone.
1651515
Yes it will remove the chlorine and other contaminants from water so your water will have no taste the way it should be.
1320788
I am not certain about the bacteria; however, I can tell you it does not smell like chlorine. Hopefully this helps you.
631329
Free chlorine is the chlorine in your pool that is available for binding with waste products in your pool water. Once bonded, it is called "combined chlorine" or "chloramines", and is what actually causes a chlorine smell. The sum of the two is "total chlorine". Once the chloramines (or total chlorine minus free chlorine, depending on your test kit) goes above 0.5 ppm, you should shock your pool.
2050671
The water doesn't have any taste that i can discern. There is a charcoal filter in the spout that should remove any bad taste
393734
I know what you mean. I don't recall tasting that plastic taste. But I usually have Zip Fizz flavored water in mine.
158903
I'm not really sure but I noticed that the filter makes the water odorless when I drink it.
1194342
Interesting question. We don't have any unpleasant odor with ours. Perhaps you have ferrous iron in your water. One cause of the rotten egg smell is from dissolved hydrogen sulfides in the raw water (H2S). This is often found in waters with high iron content and a low PH. and that can create an unpleasant odor. We have well water and also a water softener that removes some of the iron and minerals but we've not had a problem with odor. Good Luck.
497982
I didn't notice any smell to it besides the normal "plastic" smell. I am not using it for water containment so I did not really pay that much attention to it. Maybe soaking it with water and vinegar and then letting it air out with the top off would get rid of the smell?
603448
I know what you are talking about -- I get a smell from mine. It is almost like a burnt plastic smell. It notice it when I clean up after making the coffee. It seems to be coming from the area where the filter and water is stored. It still makes a great cup of coffee so I tend to ignore the odor. I'm hoping it lessens overtime.
673824
The water , if drank immediately after treatment (including contact time) has a slight to moderate chlorine taste/smell, but that can mostly be eliminated by "aerating" the water, ie pouring it back & forth between containers or "agitating" it. The left over chlorine smell/taste is a good thing & indicates that the treatment was sufficient to kill of the biological contaminates in the water. If there is no chlorine smell left after treatment (but before aeration) that is an indicator that the water needs to be treated again ..... that the first treatment was insufficient to neutralize all the biological contaminates. Remember to allow for a sufficiently long contact (treatment) time & to adjust that time according to temperature. The colder the ambient temperature is, the longer the contact time needs to be. Also, any mechanical filtration that you can put the water through prior to treatment will help with the treatment process.
1588414
Mine doesn't get mold or mildew, doesn't smell or taste bad. I look it over when I refill it with water to ensure there isn't any mold or other problems developing. I clean it every 6 months by washing the plastic and wiping the filters off with clean paper towels and I change the filters yearly. The water tastes great and this clean and change plan has worked good for me. I did have a problem with the float that screws into the bottom of the tank and shuts off the water from the tank to the cooler when the cooler is full. It wasn't sealing and allowed the cooler to overfill and leak out onto the floor. Mine doesn't get mold or mildew, doesn't smell or taste bad. I look it over when I refill it with water to ensure there isn't any mold or other problems developing. I clean it every 6 months by washing the plastic and wiping the filters off with clean paper towels and I change the filters yearly. The water tastes great and this clean and change plan has worked good for me. I did have a problem with the float that screws into the bottom of the tank and shuts off the water from the tank to the cooler when the cooler is full. It wasn't sealing and allowed the cooler to overfill and leak out... » Read More Mine doesn't get mold or mildew, doesn't smell or taste bad. I look it over when I refill it with water to ensure there isn't any mold or other problems developing. I clean it every 6 months by washing the plastic and wiping the filters off with clean paper towels and I change the filters yearly. The water tastes great and this clean and change plan has worked good for me. I did have a problem with the float that screws into the bottom of the tank and shuts off the water from the tank to the cooler when the cooler is full. It wasn't sealing and allowed the cooler to overfill and leak out onto the floor. « Show Less
833343
I think the directions said you had to run quite a bit of water when you first replace the filter. We did that and had no problems with the taste. Hope it gets better.
1856448
Not sure the UV light gas anything to do with taste/smell. You might try bypassing the light and see if the problem persists. Post results when you do. My water running through the RO system has a slight almost garlicky smell, but its much purer than tap.
1673231
What is happening is VOCs (Volatile Organic Compounds) are off-gassing or releasing from the plastic water tank. I recently purchased a barely used B150 and I noticed a strong PVC smell and plastic taste to my mochas. The smell comes directly from the tank and no where else. Now I know why someone sent this brand new unit back. Did a little research and this seems to be widespread. Currently I've left the water tank empty, lid off and the unit ON. The PVC smell in my kitchen is STRONG in the air. I'm going to let it off-gas for a couple of days and run 40 oz of straight Heinz White Vinegar through it. Several people have reported success doing that. I've also ordered a new 'pour over' tank from Keurig to replace the direct line one that doesn't have a grip inside for removal. Mine is no where near a water source and I wanted the 12 oz cup option with a pour over tank. I'll let you know how the new tank smells when I open it. I hope to rid the existing tank of the plastic smell as much as humanly possible and hope the new Keurig direct tank is a different plastic manufacture.
2002702
I don't know about ALL of the chlorine being removed, but you can not smell the chlorine anymore. I can also tell the difference in my skin.. It is not as dry as it was before I got the filter.
2135029
I can also attest that the smell of chlorine is not in the bath water when I use this.