Joyce, Be careful with the coil. Vinegar will clean it, but there is another potential problem. Bob Lee just reported that Nichrome (the heating element) is 80% nickel (toxic!).
I don't know, but the 'burnt taste' could even be the taste of nickel, if the distiller is letting some of the minerals through, without removing them all. Maybe that's what a homeopathic dose of nickel tastes like (to you). This problem should pass after using the distiller for some time, as the heating coil will become covered with mineral deposits boiled out of the tap water. Therefore, I would presume it's best not to clean the coil from now on, no matter how encrusted it becomes. Unfortunately, distillers need cleaning, and the coil gets cleaned in the process.... I know my hair tested much higher for nickel after using a distiller for several years. (I stopped using a distiller due to the steam and humidity problem that accelerates the indoor growth of mold, fungus, and dust mites....) You could try letting your distiller run for ten or twenty hours and throw away the 'burnt' distilled water produced, and then try tasting the next batch. Good luck. Bill 8-10-98, Joyce wrote: > > I'm now working to try and get clean-tasting water from my Sears > distiller, but it has a burnt taste which I haven't been able > to get rid of. I was told to wash the coil with 50:50 > WhiteVinegar:Water mixture, then with Vodka. This method worked > well on another brand of distiller, making the water clean tasting. > > But when I poured the 50:50 mixture through the coil of my Sears > distiller (I didn't have Vodka), the distilled water still tasted > "burnt". I'm working through suggestions people gave me. My next > step is to call Sears and discuss my problem with them. > > If nothing else works, I may get a carbon-filter water pitcher > recommended by Hulda Clark to see if it might take the burnt taste > out. Some people don't taste the burnt taste, so I might have a > defective distiller, or my taste buds may be extra sensitive. > (I was raised on an island with unpolluted Hawaiian water, and > refused to drink city water for many years because of its awful > taste.) > > Regards, > :) Joyce > -- The silver-list is a moderated forum for discussion of colloidal silver. To join or quit silver-list or silver-digest send an e-mail message to: [email protected] -or- [email protected] with the word subscribe or unsubscribe in the subject: line. To post, address your message to: [email protected] List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]>
