Customer Reviews

Brita On Tap Replacement Filters, White, 2-Pack

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We've tried all the faucet filters available and were not satisfied with any of them. Last year we bought a Brita and have never looked back. The water has absolutely NO taste after being filtered. Which is good. Before filtering it has a strong chlorine taste. My only complaint, and this is NOT Brita's fault, is that because our water has lots of particulate matter (which we were swallowing before we got the filter!) the filters last only 2-3 weeks, not months. But otherwise, it performs much better than the other major brands. Highly recommend.

After using Pur faucet-mounted water filters for years, and having to replace them every year or two due to cracks or leaks, I finally tried Brita. Much better design! Easier to replace, no leaks, no cracks, same water quality. And through Amazon, better price.

UPDATE:

A year later--no problems so far. One quirk of the Brita, however, is that when it's in filtering mode the stream of water is quite narrow, and forceful, so it can easily bounce off whatever it's hitting and spray around. Filling ice cube trays, for example, requires a little practice to actually have the water stay in the compartments instead of spraying everywhere else. But really, this is nitpicking. Still prefer it to Pur. And it also takes up a little less space under the faucet.

SECOND UPDATE:

After a year and a half, I accidentally broke the unit by shaking the water out of some greens over the sink and hitting it. Didn't take much, I'm afraid. But I'm going to replace it with the same unit. The reviews of the unit itself are filled with angry one-stars complaining the thing pops off the sink, but those are all for FAUCETS THREADED ON THE INSIDE. Mine is not, and I've never had a problem. (Some reviews like the Culligan. I haven't tried it, but it has no indicator telling you when to change filters. That seems like a significant feature to me--I don't want to have to keep track of when I last replaced it, and be constantly either throwing away filters with use left on them or drinking unfiltered water for some unknown period of time.)

THIRD UPDATE:

My replacement unit didn't last very long. Even with a new filter, the indicator light was always red, the water didn't taste filtered, and I suspect the water just wasn't being routed through the filter at all. I'm going to try the Culligan.

We all know that the Brita On Tap is a nice water filter that gets the job done well. But it's easy to ignore changing the filter. When the time came to do so, I was impressed with (1) how easy it is to change the filter and (2) how much better the water flow was with a fresh filter. This purchase is a no-brainer.

they work, they're afforable, and they make the L.A. tap water actually taste good. the only problem is that I go through them so fast because of how awful the tap water is out here... but who cares, it's worth it. much cheaper than buying bottled water.

I live in a city that has very high reviews for our water. Most of the time when I travel, I don't care for the taste of the water in other areas. I have a very bad habit of not drinking enough water so I bought the filter as a reminder for me to drink more water. I was amazed at the difference in the taste! There were always a few brands of bottled water that I thought were quite good. When I filter my city water it is every bit as good, if not better. The filter life is much longer then I expected. The price of these replacement filters on Amazon is much cheaper than I can get locally. For me it is bye-bye expensive bottled water!

This filter makes our yucky city water taste so much better! And the filter lasted a lot longer than I thought it would. Our water has a lot of minerals in it and I figured the filter would clog up quickly, but it lasted about three months!

These filters are much cheaper than buying bottled water, are much more convenient, and there's less waste.

Consumer product-review publications have consistently given Brita the highest marks for removing undesirable substances from your water. Using the faucet-mounted system takes up no room in your fridge and you never have to wait for the water to drip, drip, drip through the filter into the pitcher. Even better, no more of those little black crumbs of the coconut-filter stuff in your pitcher!

It's also nice to use the filtered water to rinse off your dishes before they go into the countertop rack--the filtration cuts down on mineral deposits, so my glasses and other dishes have no hard-water stains.

These filters also last a good long while (more than a couple of months in our 4-person, 2-dog household--and yes, we give the dogs the filtered water, too)!

New York City has exceptionally clean and tasty tap water, but running the tap through this filter makes it so much cleaner. When it comes to consuming pollutants, you can't be too safe.

That being said though, filtering all your water is quite expensive especially when you have a stay-at-home spouse like I do (and my wife is from Japan, which has the highest per capita water consumption in the world). At CVS these filters cost over $22 each (that's one per package!); that's almost prohibitively expensive particularly since we use ours for literally all the water we consume for drinking and cooking (not cleaning of course), so we go through probably 1 filter per month where many might go through 2 or 3 per year. Simple math: 12*22=$264 per year. On Amazon it's $25 for two, so we pay $150 per year, or a savings of $114. Truth be told, my wife might be changing out filters faster than that because the flow dwindles down to a trickle before the indicator on the faucet attachment indicates it's time to change, so we save exponentially more money by buying them from Amazon (with free shipping due to my Amazon Prime membership).

Home economics aside, I am just astounded by how well this filtration system works. The water is, without exaggeration, crystal clear. New York City tap water is already purer than spring water, and yet we can see and taste the difference between the tap water and filtered even if it does little more than remove chlorine.

I would still be fine with straight tap water except that my wife has horrible allergies. And while the water wont trigger an allergic reaction, she is noticably healthier since we started using the Brita tap filter system.

BOTTOM LINE: Our Brita filters are now a household essential. We've used other brands, but none come even close to providing the level of filtering that these do. And buying these on Amazon has provided us a great savings.

I have been using Brita water filter for two years. The bottom line is that it works! The water tastes fresh without the odor.

We live in a rural area and the water often develops some combination of cloudiness, odor and flavor. We do not want to drink tap water with any of those features.

We have tried the other brands of faucet mounted filters. While none of them, including the Brita, are perfect, we do like the Brita the best. The replacement filters are easy to install and last a comparable amount of time to those of their competitors that we have tried.

We make heavy use of filtered water: drinking, coffee pot, water for tea, etc. adds up to about five gallons a day. Combined with the less than cleanest water to begin with, we change filters more frequently than many - but the advertised 100 gallon mark seems about right.

Do check Amazon's prices for these filters. They change very, very often. Sometimes the two pack is the better deal, sometimes two of the one pack is cheaper. I start checking a few weeks before we're about to run out so I can get lower prices - and the difference can be significant.

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