Water distiller?

[prairie hill]

We are info-gathering on a water distiller. If you have one you are pleased with, could I get a recommendation from you, please? There are three of us full-time and want a mid-sized capacity...
Thank you!

[Old Vet]

Originally Posted by prairie hill

We are info-gathering on a water distiller. If you have one you are pleased with, could I get a recommendation from you, please? There are three of us full-time and want a mid-sized capacity...
Thank you!

I doubt that you can buy one already assembled. The ATF will look at you like a crook for even tiring one but it may fool me. Any thing that can distill water can also be used to distill alcohol. I think you want to try a filter of some kind to filter your water.

[prairie hill]

The ATF is probably going to be looking askance at more than that sometime soon! (-:
There are small countertop units available which I've seen online, but we don't want to put out a lot of money for something with which we are not familiar or have a recommendation for.

[Harry Chickpea]

Nah, ATF doesn't care. We have a countertop Kenmore unit that we've used for years. I have a tendency to form kidney stones and drinking 24 oz of distilled water a day is part of the way I keep from having recurrences.

Electric powered distillers are fairly costly to run. I once figured out that a gallon of distilled cost about 30 cents. However, in the winter I use the waste heat to help heat the place, and when we make yogurt, I stick the thing under the cabinet where the yogurt is working.

Cleaning out the lime is a matter of boiling lemon juice or vinegar and dumping the resulting mud. Solar is the way to go if you can, but many of the plans for solar stills are worthless. Glass sitting in the sun over a tray of water will remain hot enough that moisture will have a next to impossible time condensing, yet almost all the plans show such a stupid setup. The choices are to use sheet plastic and/or put the condensing section in the shade.