RE: Brita Filtered Water Hi. Great educational part of your site. I've read a couple of comments regarding Brita filtered water and I just wanted to share my experience with that in the case someone else is having the issues that I did. I spent a good two weeks trying to develop a starter using Brita filtered water. It never quite got going. It would bubble no more than a few miniscule air pockets. The smell was there, just very faint. (and yes, I even let the Brita water sit for 24 hours for the chlorine to dissipate.) So, I gave up and washed everything down the sink. Later that day, in a bodega, I picked up a bottle of Poland Springs water and decided to start again from scratch. Wow! Huge difference. Within three days, the starter was actively bubbling and doubling and I could smell the aroma in the next room. The point of this story is, if you are using Brita filtered water and your starter isn't performing well, try some Poland Springs. I've read that there is a chlorine derivative that Britas can't filter, so perhaps that's what the issue was. I live in Manhattan in a large apartment building so there could be other chemicals in the water that caused the starter to stifle. I don't know. Makes me want to get our water tested. BTW, all other variables were the same (KAF, temperature, etc.) Hope that this helps.

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