Product review (5 stars): Good hose for the money
This is a good quality hose and I would recommend it.  The cost of these types of hoses is nothing compared to the cost of water damage to your home for trying to skimp on something simple.  I did have a subtle "hose" taste that some people have mentioned for maybe a week but it wasn't anything so terrible that I'd trash the product for it.  I mean it's a hose...you kind of have to expect something like that.  I let water run through it for about 30 minutes before hooking it up to the fridge to try and flush it out before hand so maybe that helped with the hose taste.