Crystal Quest Large Capacity Ultimate Pitcher
by Crystal Quest
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Tools and Hardware Reviews of Crystal Quest Large Capacity Ultimate Pitcher
Customer Review: No significant problems
Summary: 4 Stars
I got one of these filter-pitchers, and haven't noticed any significant ongoing problems with it, although I've had it for only a couple of weeks. At first, when the water flowed fairly freely through the filter, the water left my mouth feeling dry, but now the water flows more slowly, and I no longer notice this effect. I assume that the consumer mag that gave it a "best buy" rating had the filtering capabilities analyzed by a lab, and concluded that it functions as advertised.
I've had a Brita filter pitcher for quite a while, and found it to be adequate for filtering municipal water. But now, my source is well water, and I'm concerned about iron, which the Brita supposedly doesn't reduce. But I still use the Brita as a first stage.
When I'm in the process of filtering water with the Crystal Quest pitcher, I put the filter-portion of the pitcher up on top of the pitcher cross-ways to allow the water level in the pitcher to rise as high as possible before interfering with the water-flow through the filter. Before the water level rises to the point where it touches the bottom of the filter, I pour the filtered water into a storage container. Hopefully I'll get a Nobel for this discovery.
Customer Review: AWFUL-Stay Away
Summary: 1 Stars
Ok. This is really an awful product and manufacturer. First- it uses deceptive description. It says 2.5L capacity but customer can't really use that much capacity because of filter assembly. It should describe usable capacity.
Second - Water filtered overnight by this pitcher has "white residue".
Let's do a mini experiment here to see-
1. Take a glass of water in the night and rotate alum rock couple of times into it .
2. Fill the filter pitcher.
3. Leave both of them overnight.
4. In the morning, shake both pitcher & the glass. You will see similar white residue into both pitcher & glass.
5. Bottomline - instead of buying this, use alum rock yourselves and save money. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alum
I have sent the product back today. Hope they would return my money promptly.
Customer Review: No NSF certification
Summary: 2 Stars
The NSF doesn't list Crystal Quest at all, and in CQ's website, they misleadingly mention NSF, in that they only use NSF "certified PARTS", but their filtered water is *NOT* NSF certified.
I think this can explain the extremely poor customer service, and lack of any reputable merchants selling their items. The reason they are here in Amazon is that they have opened an account as a merchant here. It does not automatically get them Amazon's repute to sell only viable products. I researched a whole day when their tall claims seemed too much to digest. All those giving positive reviews, did you just read the tall claims or have you actually tested the water ??
All in all, I think I will buy one of these units to give my humidifiers and steam irons and what nots cheaper filtered water than what I drink ;)
Customer Review: Filter works great but pitcher not designed well
Summary: 3 Stars
The filter does a great job of filtering out the impurities, and makes the water taste noticeably better, but the design of the pitcher itself could be much better. The pouring spout is very small, and the flip top sometimes comes loose when you're pouring. Also, the shape of the pitcher itself makes it feel unwieldy and unbalanced when you're pouring from a full pitcher.
The design of the Brita pitcher is much better--unfortunately, Brita filters do not filter out nearly as much stuff as Crystal Quest, which is why I chose to switch to Crystal Quest. If CQ would redesign their pitcher to be more "user friendly" it would be a terrific product.
Customer Review: I love this pitcher!
Summary: 5 Stars
I absolutely love this pitcher. Water tastes like nothing again, pure and clean. I was getting so sick of the chlorine like taste in my water, it just felt like drinking dirty water. Sure the pitcher isn't the biggest thing but I bought a few regular pitchers filled them up and keep them in my fridge along with the pitcher so I don't run out. I love it, the filters last a long time I did a lot of research before buying this brand its definitely the best quality and filtration system for the cost and will last the longest!