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Can we talk about how every "miracle water purifier" ad uses the same muddy glass trick?
I watched three different brand videos last night and each one showed a filter turning brown river water clear in 10 seconds, but when I tested a cheap one from Amazon with actual tap water mixed with dirt, the filter clogged after 2 ounces and the water still looked like tea - has anyone else run a real test on these things?
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mason_reed475d ago
Bro you just poured actual tap mud through one of those things?
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ward.anna5d ago
Hold up, WAIT. Tap mud? Like from the actual faucet? I really hope you're joking lmao. There's no way you watched that brown water run through and thought "yep, this is fine." That thing is probably full of sediment and who knows what else from your pipes now. RIP to that whole setup honestly, shes done for.
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...and honestly you just proved the point better than any ad ever could. Those things are built for one very specific scenario - clear-ish river water that's just got some mud stirred in. But tap mud? That's a whole different beast. Tap mud has stuff like settled rust and fine silt and God knows what else from the pipes. That's not what those cheap filters are designed to handle. They're basically glorified Brita pitchers with a marketing budget. The whole "from brown to clear in 10 seconds" trick is shot with that exact muddy water mix they use in labs, not with real-world gunk from aging infrastructure. You clogged it with actual pipe sediment, which is exactly what happens when you run a normal filter through a system that hasn't been flushed in years. So yeah, your test was brutal but it was also the most honest review those things have ever gotten.
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