patrick820 Senior Member Joined: 17 Jan 2006 Posts: 47 Location: Santa Cruz mountains, CA Expertise: I live coffee
Espresso: Expobar Office Lever Grinder: Mazzer Super Jolly Roaster: Behmor
Posted Fri Sep 8, 2006, 4:04pm Subject: Hard water and ion exchanger
Hello i was wondering if it is safe for my expobar to use hard water with the ion exchange softener that came with it. i tested the water before the softener and it is about 200-250 ppm. i tested after running it through the ion exchange it the water was about 30-50 ppm. If someone could please help me with this i would be very appreciative.
pstam Senior Member Joined: 27 Jan 2004 Posts: 2,305 Location: Beijing Expertise: Professional
Espresso: ECM, SAN MARCO, EURO 2000 Grinder: MAZZER Vac Pot: YES Drip: YES Roaster: YES, HOME STYLE
Posted Fri Sep 8, 2006, 8:43pm Subject: Re: Hard water and ion exchanger
patrick820 Said:
Hello i was wondering if it is safe for my expobar to use hard water with the ion exchange softener that came with it. i tested the water before the softener and it is about 200-250 ppm. i tested after running it through the ion exchange it the water was about 30-50 ppm. If someone could please help me with this i would be very appreciative.
Yes, I believe that it is safe if I remember correctly. But, it has to be maintained regularly, depending the water used, and time. If it can be well maintained, it will be safe.
But, this water can be used for coffee, black tea and others only, not good for Chinese green tea, because it brings bad taste to green tea, and some components of it may damage the green tea. For us, we use filtered softener, not ion-exchange type.
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