What’s the best water to use in a hot beverage maker?
weakestlink11 asked:
The tap water is so hard where I live that after a while it leaves heavy scale in my hot beverage maker. I work in a place that I can get distilled/deionized water, but it’s a pain to lug a gallon of it home every other day. I tried several brands of bottled water and I guess I’m so used to the distilled water, that all commercial bottled water has a very unpleasant taste to me. When I make tea, I want to taste the tea, not the water. Any suggestions on a water that doesn’t have ANY taste and won’t cause scale in my beverage maker?
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The tap water is so hard where I live that after a while it leaves heavy scale in my hot beverage maker. I work in a place that I can get distilled/deionized water, but it’s a pain to lug a gallon of it home every other day. I tried several brands of bottled water and I guess I’m so used to the distilled water, that all commercial bottled water has a very unpleasant taste to me. When I make tea, I want to taste the tea, not the water. Any suggestions on a water that doesn’t have ANY taste and won’t cause scale in my beverage maker?
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Diciembre 4th, 2009 at 18:09
The only other water that does not cause much buildup is an R/O (reverse osmosis) under the sink filter. It is close to distilled water and takes out most minerals. I use it in my espresso machine with no buildup. I do not drink or cook with it otherwise because it leaches out minerals in your body like drinking distilled water would unless you supplement it with minerals that are in the form of liquid to “re-mineralize” it.
But using it for your machine will solve the lugging problem. And if you add trace minerals back, it is better than any tap water anywhere in the world.
Diciembre 8th, 2009 at 4:45
Have you tried filtering your water I have a reverse osmosis filter and i looove it. Amarillo water smells like fish when it comes out the tap.