On 31 Jan 2007 11:46:13 -0800, wrote:


I was thinking about the taste issue too. Not to mention, it's a
pretty stupid waste of energy to be running water through a heater,
then routing it back to a refrigerator that is going to turn it into
chilled water and ice.

It's definitely backwards. One should run the water to the water
heater through the refrigerator first.