![]() According to their own FAQ on the subject, the white circular ring is not dishwasher safe. The Soma is marketed as dishwasher safe, but that’s not true. Even worse, sometimes water gets in between the white cone and the glass, waiting to invade your cup on the next pour or just dirty up your otherwise lovely glass carafe, which leads to the final problem cleaning. The lid itself is another issue if you’re not careful while you’re filling the Soma, water will find it’s way through the lid and into the filtered water at the bottom of the carafe. The Soma pours so poorly that they produced a training video and rigged the lid to stay open. You know you’ve got a faulty product when the only way you can get it to function is to change the design for the instructional video. They got around this little problem in their pouring video by forcing the lid all the way open before pouring. The lid never opens up fully, causing a choppy sloshing effect that makes water dribble everywhere. Probably not, because that’s not the end of the problems with pouring. If I stand on one foot and whistle Dixie can I get two glasses of water out of the thing before I have to refill for a decent pour? You also have to be careful not to overfill the Soma, because then it might leak. You also need to pour at the proper angle and I guess you only get to pour out a single glass until you have to refill the Soma because then the pressure won’t be right. You need to be shown how to pour with a Soma, because according to the company you need just the right amount of water in the carafe before the pressure will be right. Soma knows this is an issue as well, and guess what? They produced a video showing you how to pour properly. Once you’ve got the lid on and the filter ready for use the real problems with the Soma start to become apparent. You really need to run water through it a bit before it’s ready to use. Seems minor until you see the “dust” on the filter after you’ve soaked it. In the video we’re told to simply soak the filter for 15 minutes and it’s ready to use, but in the instructions that come with the Soma you are told to give the first three fills to your plants. It’s part of a longer video welcoming new customers by giving them incorrect information about their own product. Apparently Soma knows this is a weakness, so they’ve produced a video showing you how to put the lid on. You’ll feel like you’re going to break the thin, flimsy lid. From filling to pouring, there are problems.įirst, the Soma is a little tricky to put together. The things fails at almost every aspect of being a water delivery system and sometimes even the simple, beautiful design hurts the functionality of the Soma. The folks at Soma put a lot of thought in to their product but I wonder if they actually spent much time using it.
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