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Tomorrow I am supposed to be buying my first 'nice' double boiler espresso machine. I have had consumer grade stuff in the past, but this is the first one where the machine is expensive enough that I am being paranoid about water hardness/quality.
Hello all, sorry for my newbie question.
I've been buying and using water from Costco in my BDB.
I'm seriously considering buying a Profitec 600 in the future and was wondering if this water is acceptable.
Subject made intentionally vague so as to not have people tune out because of specificity of use case; I think this could be applicable to a wider range than what I have. My goal is to move a lot of water that's safe for the machine, and tastes good in the cup.
Hi all, as i live in Europe (Austria) distilled water is really hard to come by and extremely expensive. That's why I have gone down the route of buying bottled water instead. I have found these waters that seem soft or really soft. Do I need to add any minerals to them or can I...
I've reading a lot of posts on water quality and chloride on here but would still love your advice.
I own a plumbed in espresso machine in an area with medium/high water hardness. I just recently found out that our chloride levels are 102 mg/l which was a shock.
I ordered a Micra and e-mailed LaMarzocco asking them their recommendation for a water solution. Based on the water report below, they recommended I order
iSpring RCC7P
and replace the 5th filter with -
Water Report -
Also, they said to order the iSpring RCC7P but didn't...
From the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation - a sommelier blindly tasted waters from local towns plus a bottled water, and a recently retired water engineer was interviewed.
Our utility publishes their water report (2022, 2023 isn't out yet):
Actual data starts at page 15.
I have a basic understanding of water chemistry from home brewing beer, but in the past I always sent out samples to Ward Labs to get water results, as most at home testing...