Product Review

The Megahome countertop stainless steel and white steam distiller comes complete with a glass collection bottle, porcelain nozzle insert, and is stainless steel inside and out for pure steam distillation. Includes porcelain nozzle insert (see picture above) so that your filter sits in porcelain instead of plastic. Included in the package is: Water Distiller, 1 gallon glass collection bottle, filter nozzle with porcelain insert, six pack of charcoal filters, and 8oz of residue cleaner. The distiller operates on a one-touch button. Raw water is boiled into steam, then cooled and condensed into pure water that is collected from the vapor. The main advantage of distilled water is that it is 100% boiled, sterilized, clean, safe, and environmentally friendly.

Will your water distiller remove cyanobacteria or microcystins from a contaminated water source?

Yes. Microcystins are a genus of Cyanobacteria are cyclic heptapeptides (toxic peptides with seven amino acids and are therefore a solid or particulate that is removed in the distillation process. Boiling is not effective against Microcystins because they are resistant to a wide range of temperatures.

Boiling the water concentrates the toxin because of the resulting loss of steam in the boiling process.

Distillation on the other hand is the process of boiling water and capturing the resulting steam that rises. The steam leaves behind the contaminates, including bacteria and resulting chemicals, such as Microcystins.