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[–] 9 points 3 months ago (15 children)

You're right and correct, but it's a bit insane you didn't feel the difference. Or was tap water over there like über fantastic 😁?

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  • [–] 11 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    A lot of the mineral water you buy is tap water. It's the same water the people in the area where the water is bottled drink. It even says so on the bottle sometimes.

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  • [–] 7 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    assuming we're not talking about sparkling water, which some people call mineral water: Is it really that common outside of america for tap water to not taste fine?
    I've never had bottled water where the taste was in any way remarkable, except from some brands that just taste like stale water where the plastic bottle leeched into it..

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  • [–] -3 points 3 months ago

    Well then you have to go on a tour to france/italy, their sparkling water is fantastic (slightly fresh of course).

    Especially good on the terrace of a café in the spring ...

    In sweden they sell stale water and leftover wine so (gissar att du är svensk 😁?)

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  • [–] 0 points 3 months ago (6 children)

    I've got an RO filter for my drinking water at home. I haven't tried a bottled water that I like as much as my RO tap water. I suspect that even if I filled a plastic water bottle with that water and let it sit for the expected duration a bought one would sit for, it would also not be as good. I don't think plastic is as inert of a material as we like to pretend it is, or that BPA is the only bad plastic chemical to avoid.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (5 children)

    Good for you to have decent tap water!

    But real mineral water is another beast, you can't make that at home.

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    There are six stage setups that add back minerals to tap water and I also have the quooker cube which sparkles it. Fab stuff

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago (3 children)

    Fascinating!

    I have a SodaStream that would be the equivalent of your Quoker Cube I imagine. Do you add minerals to your drinking water?

    I had a filter for my coffee machine where you could tweak what you wanted removed (scale) and how much you wanted the rest filtered, but I have never come across adding things back!

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  • [–] 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    I have a water softener that then feeds to an RO to make it potable again and that goes to a bunch of mineral "filters" to put back into before going to the tap. Between those is the cube which adds the gas. I know I could buy the syrups and such but typically I only want a water or a touch of Orange added.

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