I’ll invest in a drop kit and go from there 💪👌

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@DavecUK

Do you keep the mineralisation catridge on the Osmio Zero? Like in your case, it feeds the coffee machine, serves the kitchen and drinking. The catridge improves the taste of the RO as a drinking water.

    LMSC You’ve just asked a very timely question and similar to what I was looking for. I’ve had a chat with the friendly people at Osmio who recommended the zero after stating my needs as was also looking at under sink filtration. Would I need to do anything to the water coming out of the zero or can I just pour straight into my Minima?

    We use a Brita filter jug for our drinking water and go through maybe ⅚ larger drinking bottles of water a day so want it to be for drinking water/juice as well as the Minima, despite the wife thinking I only care about my coffee machine now and not our health lol. I’m hoping the mineralisation cartridge would be sufficient as really want a hands-off water solution. I’d like to not be on bottled water for long term with plastic wasteage and all that jazz.

        LMSC Do you keep the mineralisation catridge on the Osmio Zero? Like in your case, it feeds the coffee machine, serves the kitchen and drinking. The catridge improves the taste of the RO as a drinking water.

        I do, it doesn’t add back much…but it’s enough.

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          Alexvs

          I am currently using a zero water filter jug, which I suspect will give the same water as reverse osmosis. I am adding some sodium bicarbonate to raise the alkalinity. I am adding 320mg to 5 litres of zero water which brings the alkalinity into the right zone (I think it is suggested you need to add something like 67mg of sodium bicarbonate per litre of zero water if you wanted to make up less.

              dutchy101 That’s a bit too much work for me and the wife already thinks I’ve lost it and obsessed with coffee. She’ll give in to the zero I think as read lots of users who just use the mineralisation filter and are happy with the water.

                dutchy101 The Zerowater jug takes pretty much everything out of the water, more than RO (unless the RO is followed by DI resin filter). But it is much, much slower.

                  dutchy101

                  Interesting recipe!

                  I use tap water (250 TDS before filtering), the Zero filter and an 8L Kilner jar with a metal tap. I add 0.7g of Sodium Bicarbonate per 8 litres (0.0875g/L) and 1.6g of magnesium per 8L (0.2g/L), this gives me a TDS of around 110 (my aim is to stay between 100 & 140). Water tastes great for drinking and coffee, I arrived to the amount of Sodium Bicarbonate and Magnesium by adjusting until it tasted right to me (& my better half). We’re two in the house and the jug will last about 3-4 days, Zero filter lasts about 20-25 days.

                      Enea_

                      Do you put that in an espresso machine or just use it for immersion/pour over etc???

                      Alkalinity is 52mg/l and Hardness is approx 82mg/l assuming you’ve used Magnesium sulfate heptahydrate.

                          Rob1

                          I use it for my espresso machine. Haven’t had to de-scale in about 2 years. Use Epsom salts for magnesium. Do you think I need to adjust the recipe?

                            How do you decide when you need to descale?

                            JahLaza - that’s a distiller. A very different thing from the Osmio Zero.

                            It boils the water, the vapour is caught in a condenser. All the minerals are left behind, only water ends up on the other side.

                            The process is highly inefficient. It takes 5 hours to distil 3.5L of water.

                            You have to remineralise the water yourself as, it is, tastes of nothing (as distilled water should).

                            I only use a distiller because no one else in my household will drink from an Osmio Zero (they rather drink from the tap… go figure).

                            • LMSC replied to this.

                                yeah very true, they’re both very different systems alright.5 hours a bit of a wait but I think if one was just using it for the espresso machine it would be an ok solution, add some bicarbonate back in

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                                  MediumRoastSteam no one else in my household will drink from an Osmio Zero (they rather drink from the tap… go figure).

                                  Wow!

                                  Did they drink the water from Osmio Zero before ? A couple of weeks, I would have thought any one to convert.

                                  My daughter rolled her eyes when she heard I had spent £350+. She became a big fan on day 1. My wife was terribly disappointed and wasn’t happy I had spent a lot of money for a water filter. After a week, she said the best investment we ever made! 😂

                                      JahLaza If you don’t want to spend money on Osmio Zero, consider Zero. You can add bicarb as some have done here.

                                          LMSC I actually have one, bought it last may or something, apologies I may have been a bit misleading with the post! Yes I love it, has replaced the kettle, my girlfriend uses it all the time too. I started to notice the smell of chlorine from the tap water the day after I first started using it which I hadn’t noticed prior to that! I leave the remineralisation cartridge in place and don’t have to worry about the espresso machine water

                                              JahLaza Ah. All good. I was probably blind-sighted and didn’t even see your signature! Getting older! 😂

                                              Are you then looking to buy a distilled as well?

                                                  LMSC No no, the osmio is here to stay! I was just inquisitive browsing there and thought that would be a reasonable option if just for feeding the espresso machine.If I was starting again, maybe I would consider something like that. there’s a fair price difference, but of course the osmio is a one stop for everything and the produce is there on demand as opposed to waiting 3 hours or whatever

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