Brita 35530 Ultramax Dispenser
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Brita 35530 Ultramax Dispenser
Customer Review: Love It!
Summary: 5 Stars
So much easier than filling and lugging water jugs from the store.....as well as cheaper than always buying bottled water....Fantastic & useful purchase.Customer Review: Better Tasting Water
Summary: 5 Stars
We had to replace our previous water filter when the cat knocked it down onto the ground. We drink a lot of water, and the Brita Ultramax Dispenser works for our family because we do not have to fill it constantly. It makes the coffee and tea that we drink taste better, also. I highly recommend it to anyone who needs to drink more water (and don't we all) but cannot stand the taste or the smell of the water that comes straight out of the tap. This takes care of the taste and the smell. Customer Review: Brita Pitcher with spigot
Summary: 5 Stars
Great product at a very reasonable price. Fits nicely on refrigerator shelf and each filter give us @ 8 weeks of good clean water.Customer Review: More handy than you might think
Summary: 4 Stars
I bought this with the intention of getting me to drink more water instead of soft drinks, etc, and it's been very good for that--it's now just as easy for me to pour a mug of chilled water right from the refrigerator (I often then add some sugar-free flavored powder like peach tea, etc) as it is to drink canned sodas, without having to pay for and then lug those cans home from the supermarket. And this is way cheaper than paying a lot extra for a refrigerator with a chilled-water dispenser on the door.
But it also comes in handy as a drink dispenser on the picnic table in the back yard; I've also used it for boxed wine for a cookout and once for a covered punchbowl at a casual backyard party. It's large enough for this kind of use and I like having multi-purpose things instead of storing a lot of stuff I rarely use.
Yeah, it also works as a water filter :-) though I'm just taking that on faith as the Northern California water seems fine to me both before and after Brita filtering. But I like to play it safe...
To the other reviewers who mention mold, all I can say is that I don't think the mold is coming from the water dispenser...I suggest putting an open box of baking soda in the back of the fridge.
It does take a lot of space in the refrigerator, so you have to plan for it: the upper shelf is better because you don't have to stoop over to pour from it and there's usually enough space on top of it to store square stuff like tofu boxes and sliced cheese.
I've run it through the dishwasher plenty of times; this works for me since I never use the heat-dry function, which might warp the plastic; I use cool dry overnight for all my dishes.
There's definitely something to the suggestion from another reviewer to always keep the filter wet (i.e. keep the tank filled instead of half-full); If the filter dries out it takes twice as long to fill the tank and may not work as well.
I buy my filters in 3-packs from Amazon at a discount which I combine with other orders to avoid shipping costs, so the maintenance cost is pretty minimal.
Overall it's been a good product for me; I drink much less bad stuff, particularly in the summer. I'll give the fifth star when Brita figures out how to make the spout easier to remove for cleaning.
Customer Review: An alternative to all of those bottles of water
Summary: 5 Stars
I have been using a Brita pitcher for about a year. I was happy with it, to a degree, but I wanted something with a greater capacity. I live by myself and still I found that I was going through a half of a dozen bottles of "spring" water a day before I got my first Brita. However, it only gave me a coupe of glasses before I had to refill it which meant the the next glass might not be as well chilled.
With the Brita Ultramax I can get about a whole day's worth of water before I need to refill it. Because I still have my original pitcher I use it to fill up the Ultramax (it's just easier that way, plus, it's now double-filtered). I still wish that it was bigger but it does the job and I have not had a problem with mold or anything like that. It is a great alternative to adding more and more plastic bottles to the landfill each day.