Unauthorized Charcoal: GE fridges won't dispense ice or water unless your filter authenticates as an official ($55!) component

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@jandrese

I have no idea if it filters as well as the official part, but I’d be shocked if it is more than a couple of percentage points different (carbon filter technology is very old, well understood, and cheap) and I think filtering tap water is a bit of a waste of time. It makes the missus happy though

No it doesn’t. I’ve looked at the knock offs, but have yet to find one with the same NSF 53 rating that I felt comfortable about. Right now the MFW filters are $33 on Amazon (non rfid). But 6 months certainly isn’t 300 gallons of water for our house. I’d say 300 gallons would get us +9 months easily.