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For those that are going to dive in here, let me emphasize that the best part of this whole set up is never having to worry about your water and what's going on inside your machine. No worries about filter performance or aging, or bypass %, or the incoming water changing over...
Now that it is slowly becoming summer 'round here and the temperatures inside my solar powered water heater tank (290 litres capacity) are already approaching 80°C, I was wondering whether I should use that water for my Europiccola. The idea was not so much to use the pre-heated...
In order to improve my brew (i'm currently using aeropress) I decided to start from the water since it was cheap and it could eventually be carried on to other brew styles and beverage.
I'm purchasing, through special channels, proper distilled water used in...
I installed today new BWT protect filter to my new Rocket Mozzifiato machine. Tap water test with BWT hardness kit were 22 dTH ( GH ) and 12 dKH ( hard water ) so the recommendation was to go with the protect and not the premium . The results from filtered water were...
For those of you making what seems to be coined 'rpavlis water', how are you making it? I've seen it mentioned many times and I've seen some posts where people provide different measurements for it, but it wasn't until today that I looked for rpavlis' actual post that spells it...
Honestly, after reviewing most of this thread (so far) and following it down the rabbit hole, my head is ready to explode regarding what to do about water. I live in the Bay Area and we have always had great tasting water here in San Francisco (Hetch Hetchy source), until they...
RPavlis is very popular for espresso but is considered too soft for pourover. In the last few months I started adding a bit of hardness (epsom salt) aiming to improve it for pourover while still keeping it safe for use in my espresso machine. I can't say I notice a huge...
Remodeling the kitchen and plan on plumbing in a KVDW Speedster. We drink RO water and to date I've been using that and adding minerals myself to my reservoir machines. I've attached my municipal water report (the Glendale column). I think my preference would be to use my RO and...
