DC HOUSE Upgrade Water Distiller, 4L Stainless Steel Home Countertop Water Distiller Machine with On Off Switch, 1 Gallon Drinking Pure Water Distiller with Glass Container

I use this water distiller for my CPAP and humidifiers, and let me just say: this machine is a game-changer. Does it leave a bit of a smell when in use? Yes. Does it leave behind some residue? Also yes. Do I care? Absolutely not. After suffering through the slow, messy torment of manual distillation—where you're juggling boiling water on the bottom and trying to keep water cold on the top like some kind of kitchen wizard—I will gladly take a whiff of metallic steam and give this machine a good cleaning now and then. The smell is temporary. The relief is eternal. This distiller makes a full gallon with way less fuss, and it shuts off automatically when it’s done—no babysitting required. The stainless steel design feels sturdy, and cleaning is straightforward with white vinegar or the included citric acid cleaner. Yes, you’ll need to do some maintenance, but that’s a small price to pay for not spending half your day hovering over a DIY contraption like a water alchemist. In short: if you're tired of plastic jugs, manual misery, or flaky scale buildup in your humidifiers and CPAP, this distiller is 100% worth it. My lungs and my sanity thank me daily.

This is a workhorse. We have used it daily for the last couple years, sometimes twice a day to make water for the coffee maker, for making soup, and drinking water needs. It has been a good unit, and easy to clean out if you forget to shut it off before it uses up all the water. A little vinegar and its good as new. We have had no troubles with it, and will gladly buy another when it no longer works.

Been using this to distill water for my fussy houseplants. I distill several gallons at a time. It works great, cleans out easily. I do wish there was a little ridge or handle for getting the top off. That can be tricky. For cleaning, I just sprinkle a little of the cleaning powder on the wet bottom (I'll add a couple tablespoons of water just to coat it) and let it sit. The residue comes off easily.

I've been using this for over a month and it's been durable and great. I can't imagine ever using any other filtration system again. The flow rate is slower than what I'm used to and it's a bit noisy depending on where it's at but I don't mind it because it's better than any filter system I've ever used. Actually, it's not a filtration system, it's a water distiller. It's easy to clean. All I do is spray white vinegar and let it soak for 20+ minutes and rinsing it out. I don't know how much power it used since my solar generator is gone. It beats constantly going to the store for good water. I have a water ppm reader and it turns my sink water which is over 600+ ppm (parts per million of dissolved particulates) to 0-1ppm consistently. I've recorded over 12 days and 37th batches/run. I've since ran over 60 times by now and I'm still turning my sink water from 600+pm to 0-1ppm. Unless it breaks in less than a year from now, this is a great investment.

While the distiller seems like a quality build at first and does its job well, I'm not impressed with the quality of the stainless steel on the fan / top assembly. The stainless in the boiling tank seems fine, but the top assembly started rusting after just one use. I even wiped it off to make sure it was really rust. I work in manufacturing, and this is a clear indicator of poor quality stainless steel. It seems the tank was made from 304 or 316, but the top out of only 200 (grades of stainless steel) . I can only imagine how bad the corrosion will be after 10, 50, 100 uses.

UPDATED review- Ordered on February 14, 2024, Ten months have passed and this distiller is still working great I've had no issues whatsoever with it plus the outside still looks new. The unit was smaller than I thought it would be I have electric burner covers on my stove so I placed the unit on there you can see this in the photo. I'm not complaining about the size it's perfect. I also turn on the exhaust fan above the stove to displace some of the heat from the unit to the outside, but if it's cold where you live it will heat the kitchen quite nicely. The distilled water is so clear, also to one gallon of water I add 1 teaspoon of 40,000 volts of liquid electrolyte I can't taste it and the water is perfect. Putting hot water into the unit helps it work faster it doesn't take so long to heat up. I turn the unit off before the glass container is full and leave half an inch of water in the bottom that way the distilled water doesn't have an off taste because of the cooked-on minerals and other impurities at the bottom. Also no more using plastic to store water or food is a plus I haven't bought any water for a long time now that saves me a bundle. I store my water in a two-gallon glass container with a stainless steel sprocket at the bottom (pic). Also, it says it turns itself off in four hours so I filled it to the top above the suggested water line thinking I didn't have to be around to turn it off early and that there would be water left in the bottom well not! as long as there is water in the distiller it keeps running so my glass container ran over and the water had a funny taste from the burned on residue. Buy this you will be satisfied it's easy to use I'm a 75-year-old lady if I can do it so can you. The handle once connected to the container is sturdy but I still grip it with two hands, because it is rather heavy.

This distiller works well, but it is inadequately engineered in my opinion in the way it shuts itself off. It shuts itself off by boiling completely dry, and then, it depends on what is normally a protective disconnect to shut off its power. The result is that the bottom inside of the boiling tank gets discolored and degraded quickly. To avoid that happening, buy an electronic timer and set the electronic timer to no more than three hours and 45 minutes so that there’s still a tiny bit of water left when it shuts off. That way it will not get dangerously, excessively hot. When it is combined with a good timer like that, it works very well.

We have well water that stains everything orange, tastes horrible, and stinks. Since we started distilling our water with this device we haven’t bought a bottle of water. We were going through like 8 gallons of distilled water jugs a week before buying this. It paid for itself in like 8 weeks. Not to mention it helped reduce our waste. It’s really easy to use even though it feels intimidating at first. All you have to do is put it together per the instructions, fill the tank up to the full line, put the top on, plug it in, set up the glass container with the piece that keeps the water from spilling out of the spout and turn it on. When you’re done, turn it off or let it shut off on its own (I usually shut it off a little before it’s done so the sediment doesn’t get caked to the tank), let it cool for 20 min bc it’s super hot inside, and then you pour in some regular citric acid and let it soak for 15 min and use that water to wipe down the sides and rinse. But you don’t have to wait for the tank to cool before using the water since they are separate components. My only wishes is that you could refill it right away instead of waiting for it to cool so you can get more water faster, I wish it had a timer so you could know when it’s close to being done, and I wish the tank was larger. If you hate the taste of your water this is a must buy.