Filtering hard water for tea
I share an incredibly small apartment that has a toy-sized sink whose faucet I cannot attach a filter to. Needless to say, the fridge is small as well. I would like to filter my water and am happy to find something that will do it outside of the kitchen. I don’t need anything portable. The water where I live is hard, so I’m wondering what I type of filter I should be looking into. I’m finding that straight tap water tends to gunk up my tea kettle due to the minerals. I was looking at bottled water, but I feel that it’s a more wasteful route to take (though I’ll do it if I’m desperate!). I don’t have a car at the moment, so bringing home my own bottled water doesn’t work for me right now anyway. What kinds of filters might resolve the hard water problem without “killing” my water?
These may not be the cheapest solution, but they work reasonably well for filtering water :
http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B0055STUIA/ref=oh_details_o05_s01_i00
Nor do they take up as much room as a full sized Brita pitcher. We’re fond of ours, though we don’t use them to make tea.
I have very hard water too and I can’t enjoy properly any light oxidized oolong. I have tried bamboo charcoal but with not any major improvements… Sadly I can’t afford a proper filter…
You could try a Brita pitcher – they’re not that big. My roommate and I kept one in our dorm, and it wasn’t too bad. It fit in the mini fridge with plenty of room to spare.
I’ve noticed there are also different sizes of pitchers as well. Maybe the smaller one would work best.
I bought my Brita when I lived in residence (shared room!) – it was one of the most important things in our mini-fridge and even now it is used constantly. Love it! : )
We have the pitcher also and I too love it. I really hate the way the water tastes. The pitcher gets rid of that so awesomely.
Also, you don’t need to refridgerate your filtered water. I know plenty of people who just leave their brita pitcher out on the counter because they prefer drinking room temp water. If you can stash it someplace in your room out of the way, there you go.
The Brita pitcher can last forever too – I’m actually using my grandparents’ pitcher that they needed for treating hard water when we still all lived in Illinois…12+ years ago! They haven’t changed the style of the filters so for the price of a pitcher, it’s really a good investment.
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