I guess if you have one of those fancy fridges where you can get cold water or ice. Some of them require a water connection
...in US. Pretty rare in the EU where apartments usually come with the cheapest fridge available.
This... Also my water already comes at 10C in the summer, even less in the winter... Any colder and you'd have to bite and chew it rather than drink...
Just a glass full of crushed ice and drink your water like a true American 🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
But to be serious, I'd like to have a water filter in my fridge. The water here has a bit too much calc to my taste.
You don't buy filtered water? We usually refill our 5 gallons at one of the local water filter shops
Mine is. It has an automatic life maker and filtered water dispenser. It’s pretty common in houses in America, less so in rentals.
I was just talking to my partner about how I have cum ducts last night, so this is on par for me atm.
What are you talking about?
I get not everyone has clean running water in the world, this sounds backwards.
How do you end up in place where you can multifunction fridges but not clean running water?
Same place where you go bankrupt by calling an ambulance... And they consider themselves a developed country lol
Hey! You watch your mouth! We’ve developed lots of things including how to efficiently go bankrupt from a medical emergency!
Having freedom means the freedom to not afford living, too.
Clean running water doesn't mean that biofilm doesn't develop where air meets water. Aerators are a breeding ground.
https://www.sciencedirect.com/topics/agricultural-and-biological-sciences/aerator
The city of Flint, Michigan, has entered the chat. But in more seriousness there are plenty of mostly harmless impurities in many municipal water systems such as an excess of minerals i.e. "hard water" and water filters can improve the quality of water that is considered clean enough to drink.
My fridge has water hookup but no filter. It makes ice. I have never cleaned it. I put the ice in everything. At the same time, I get really weird about drinking out of fridges at vrbos as they often have a water Dispenser with a filter and zero indication of when that filter was ever changed (never is a safe bet).
I added a filter to my ice maker. I just have a new filter shipped every 6 months so I remember to change it.
I don't have a energy leak the size of an ice/water dispenser in my fridge. I use those unwieldy things known as bottles.
And I hope you're also changing your sink faucet aerators monthly too. And that's all sinks: kitchen, bathroom, etc.
Biofilm https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biofilm
Develops on faucet aerators. You should regularly clean them.
What method to clean them would you recommend? Just some bleach and a scrubbing brush? Would you have to remove them beforehand?
Google has suggestions like bleach and a toothbrush. I like to unscrew them. You need a rubber jar opener at minimum and sometimes pliers. Use a tiny bit of silicone food safe plumbers grease on the threads so next time it's easy.
