Adelaide water quality

[Yelta]

I'm a big fan of Bezzera machines, mind you I am a little biased.

[yldlj]

Seems so. The Bezzera Magica looks like a great machine for the price.

[amberale]

Apparently SS is more sensitive to acid damage from low PH water.

[amberale]

I have never been able to work out how the same water could produce both Coopers and Southwark.
Sublime to disgusting.

[yldlj]

Cant comment on stainless, all of my machines have had copper boilers.

Seems odd, stainless is meant to be superior to copper but has more issues.🙄

From my understanding, yes. The PH needs to be correct and there can't be high amounts of chlorides in stainless steel.

[Yelta]

Cant comment on stainless, all of my machines have had copper boilers.

Seems odd, stainless is meant to be superior to copper but has more issues.🙄

Hmmmm, just checked, seems most of the Bezzera machines still have copper boilers.🙂

[yldlj]

Adelaide water is not as diabolical as people claim.

I've been using unfiltered Adelaide water in espresso machines for over 20 years without any problems.

Have your machine serviced regularly or do it yourself if your handy, the money you save on filter setups and bottled water will more than pay for servicing.😉

Without my Puratap the water tasted horrible but the hardness is really not that bad. The thing that concerns me is the new stainless steel boilers which pretty much all new machines come out with now. I have read only the brita finest filter is suitable for these boilers. Also looking at my local water report it's very high in chloride which seems to be a problem aswell. ATM I do service my machine (Lelit pl41tmp) but it's a single boiler machine so it's alot easier to descale and such.

[Yelta]

Adelaide water is not as diabolical as people claim.

I've been using unfiltered Adelaide water in espresso machines for over 20 years without any problems.

Have your machine serviced regularly or do it yourself if your handy, the money you save on filter setups and bottled water will more than pay for servicing.😉

[yldlj]

There's a couple of other threads around with multiple people reporting that a manufacturer / machine supplier instructed them to use it if they couldn't install suitable filtration

Found a few posts with people saying Pureau water is good for machines. It's strange tho looking at the mineral content it has 0 minerals which I always thought was bad. I seen a few people using Pureau water as a base for making brew water.

[level3ninja]

There's a couple of other threads around with multiple people reporting that a manufacturer / machine supplier instructed them to use it if they couldn't install suitable filtration

[yldlj]

Pureau is safe for all machines to my knowledge

Really? I thought Pureau was RO Water and had no minerals...

[level3ninja]

Pureau is safe for all machines to my knowledge

[yldlj]

Is there any safe bottled water for stainless steel boilers? I was using mt Franklin bottled water previously and while the hardness is very low I'm not sure about the pH as I couldn't find anything online.

[Dimal]

Not the last couple of pages...

[prh]

Other water parameters to consider are pH and chlorides (Cl-) which should be within certain ranges to minimize the risk of stainless steel corrosion. Manufacturers often specify these ranges for their equipment, which can guide the choice of filtration.