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USING FILTERED WATER

As you read our posted recipies that use water you may note that we always (hopefully) call for "filtered" water. This is for several reasons. Most often it is to assure that any minerals, sanitizers, etc. that are found in all tap water do not flavor the fnished recipe. It is also to avoid any rust, lead an other contaminants that come out of the piping in your water system.





List of Ingredients



• A brand name, countertop, tower style, water filter.
  
• Extra filters to replace used ones every three to six months.
  






Instructions



1. Your first thought might be to use bottled water. DON'T! Whether you buy pre-filled bottles at a store or fill your own bottles from a coin dispenser, YOU HAVE NO IDEA NOR ANY GUARRANTY OF THE QUALITY OF THAT WATER. Recent surveys by Federal government agencies, such as the Food and Drug Administration, have shown that most of these sources of water ARE CONTAMINATED!
   
2. There are absolutely NO Federal, state, county or local laws governing the source of this water nor any regulations concerning its sanitation or chemical content! But, the water that comes from your city's water supplies are closely regulated every day. All that this water needs is to be given a final filtering to remove any contaminants picked up as it flows through its supply lines and to remove sanitizing agents that have already done their job by the time it comes out of your sink faucet.
   
3. The suggested countertop filter does this job very well and at a much lower cost than you will ever pay for any other water.
   
4. The suggested filter, available at most hardware and home and garden stores, will cost somewhere between $50 and $80 and can be installed on your sink faucet in 30 to 45 minutes. The only tool needed is a pair of gas pump pliers. And remember . . . If all else fails, read the instructions! Replacement filters are around $16.
   
5. Each filter element will last at least three months and up to six months, dependent of the mineral deposits in your city's water supply. Since you will probably get at least 500 gallons of water from each filter element, that water is going to cost you around .03 cents/gal. Even the first time you use it and include an $80 original cost of the whole water filter at that time, your per-gallon cost is only .16 cents. Where will you ever find bottled water, of such guaranteed purety, for that low a cost?!
   
6. And, you don't have to get rid of empty bottles; hot wash, chlorinate, and hot rinse refillable bottles; run back and forth to some store; lug heavy jugs of questionable water up and down stairs; find storage for those bottles; or worry about running out of water while cooking.
   






Final Comments


Quality- and cost-wise there is no better source of clean, safe water than to filter it yourself. Remember what we said about lack quality control in bottled or store/machine dispensed water? Those same Federal studies showed the same poor continuance of quality control for even the best brand name suppliers!