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    Pasta with a Chlorine Taste? (Buca/Louise's/San Gennaro)

    yes chlorine will gas out but waters are treated with chloramine-pertty stable. Reverse osmosis will remove it and aquarium fish type additives do the same. Must say though all the pasta i’ve cooked in kitchens i’ve...

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    Tell me about your home water filtration/softener/purification system, please

    there is a slight salty taste to our water (I don’t), so we have a reverse osmosis water filter for drinking, coffee, ice, etc. These are readily available at Costco, etc. All this stuff works and our water tastes good plus...

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    Saltless Tuscan Bread

    use water filtered through our reverse osmosis system. I suggest using distilled or Dasani brand or other water using reverse osmosis. The Brita filter also may do a good job; I don’t know. **I get this from King Arthur...

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    Severe All-Clad corrosion from our water-softener

    : We don’t cook with or drink the softened water. We have a reverse osmosis system at our kitchen sink to remove the salt. However, it would be way too expensive to wash our dishes with water from the reverse osmosis...

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    Bottled Water Delivery

    water, why not a reverse-osmosis under sink water filter? It’ll pay for itself quickly compared to your 5-gallon bottle plan or your 1-gallon bottle plan. We have one and love the taste.

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    How to clean a coffee maker

    Unless you’ve got a reverse osmosis filter, you’re not going to filter limescale out of the water. A water softener will take it out, of course, at the expense of adding sodium to the water. Filters work better on...

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    How to make tap water taste better (split from Ontario board)

    stages. You can go crazy and add UV disinfection (not necessary in the GTA), more cartridges, reverse osmosis, and all kinds of extra features, be we haven’t found these necessary. You don’t need any kind of filter...

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    On the subject of refrigerator ice makers...

    Ones like that, that state 300 gal will generally also state 6 months, whichever comes first. To be honest, I am not a fan of home refrigeration ice makers. Where I live chlorine and fish water off flavors are the norm unless one...

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    2007 Oregon Pinot Noir, colored water?

    Well, if the grapes were otherwise perfectly ripe but got rained on, you have mainly a problem of dilution. Vinovation’s reverse osmosis machine is now widely used throughout napa and sonoma counties...and probably many...

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    Where can I find Niigata Rice in TO?

    Thanks for all the information, guys! To me, maybe I’m not that picky, water is not a concern. I have been eating Niigata Uonuma rice for 3 years, with just the double reverse-osmosis water at home. We have a fancy rice...

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    alcohol free wine

    Various methods are used. As far as I know, all start with standard wine and none remove absolutely all the alcohol. Reverse osmosis (membrane) and vacuum distillation (boiling the alcohol off in an artificial vacuum; the vacuum...

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    Inn of the Seventh Ray

    got were the freshest most tender sons of bitches i’ve ever had. everything was so good, in the end i was thinking their "reverse osmosis" tap water i had was the best water i’ve ever had as well. now at even the best...

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    How to clean plastic containers for filtered water

    the green powder supplement advises to use filtered water for the mixture with the powder due to the chlorination effect from tap and/or unfiltered water. A local supermarket has a large water filter machine (reverse osmosis,...

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    Filtered Water to Store Food

    Filter or a Pur filter is creating “pure” H2O is unfortunately under a misconception. Even home Reverse Osmosis units only target a couple of hundred parts per million on the output. But that being said, if you feel...

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    Sick of the restaurant bottled water ripoff. Finally, someone is doing something about it

    it then nothing will ever change. The restaurant (chez melange) sent this out in their email newsletter, and I think they capture my thoughts well. Am I alone in this? ________ Chez Melange Invests in Reverse Osmosis Water Supply If...

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