Review on Filter pitcher Aquaphor Provence A5 4.2 l white by Ada Dudek

"Anti-crisis model of Aquaphor" I bought it to replace the Aquaphor Prestige jug, because I wanted more volume. And did not guess with the replacement. Despite the declared volume of 4.2 liters, in practice you will get a volume of filtered water of 1.2-1.4 liters (depending on the speed of water intake and filling the funnel "to the brim"), which is not much more than the same Prestige with a nominal volume of 2.8 liters. The problem is the ill-conceived jug geometry (funnel size). Having collected one funnel of water, you will leave the jug half empty, and two funnels will no longer fit into it. You can, of course, add another half a funnel into it, getting about 2 liters of filtered water at the output, but here we come to the "anti-crisis" concept of Aquaphor. This is the cartridge usage counter. Who does not know what it is: on the cover there is a pointer with an arrow showing the exhaustion of the cartridge resource. The lid opens to fill with water, the arrow moves. I got the strong impression that the arrow moves much more than it should. That is, having passed one hundred liters through itself, the counter will show one hundred and fifty. Plus, there is no "replacement calendar" label on the funnel. Despite the fact that this calendar is applied on the cartridges themselves. We add here the topped-up half-funnel of water, which is considered by the counter as a whole, and we get a recommendation to change the cartridge long before it has exhausted its declared resource. Sales of cartridges are growing, Aquaphor rejoices. In addition, the counter itself is made very flimsy. You can radically change his testimony not only by touching your finger, but simply by shaking the jug. That is, it becomes just a useless thing showing a random value. The next drawback is the lack of silicone legs. It would seem that a penny savings in cost, but it could protect both the jug from falling and the table from scratches. At what Aquaphor engineers can do well. The old Prestige had silicone feet, and a replacement calendar, and a much more reliable counter, the readings of which did not change at the slightest touch.