Quote:
Originally Posted by jammies
I doubt that very much, at least not if you used Calgary tap water. It definitely has a chemical undertaste, nothing blatant, but there.
There might be some bottled water with that same taste, I suppose, but neither Evian nor Aquafina have that taste; Aquifina doesn't really taste like anything except water, Evian has a faint metallic tinge to it but I don't always notice it, probably depending on what other crap has gotten in my nose that day.
I'm sure there are many people who can't tell the difference. That doesn't mean that nobody can. I agree that anyone who drinks bottled water because it is safer, or healthier, or more natural, is crazy, but I couldn't care less about any of that, I just dislike the taste of chlorination.
Tomorrow I will do a blind taste test and see if I am right or wrong. I'll mark the bottles, then get my gf to pour me a glass out of each out of my sight, then have her bring me the glasses and I will tell her which is which. 6 trials should be enough to determine if I am crazy or not; I will need to get all 6 right, which has a 1/64 chance of happening at random.
PS - Also, the study that showed people preferred the NYC municipal water cannot be used to show there is no difference between the tastes of different waters; if that was so, then NO preference would have arisen thru the tests, not a preference for one type. Taste being partially subjective, it also doesn't mean that a particular person can't prefer the taste of a particular brand over other brands or the finest municipal bouquets, either.
PPS - I used to have a filtration system when I owned a condo; now I live in an apartment and while you can get countertop systems or install them under the sink, I am not spending my money to upgrade my landlord's water system. Maybe if I wasn't being gouged every 6 months to pay more and more rent in a building built back in the 60's...
|
We have in North America some of the cleanest and best water in the world. Its cheap, free, and even IF you could find some slight difference you would get used to it.
Take 9 bottled waters, a Calgary tap water. Put them in glasses, all the equal temp.
The vast majority could not pick out the tap water. Hell do it with 4 bottled water and 1 Calgary water.
I did focus group tests for a friend who was looking into getting into the bottled water market. The results were hilarious, and its a true crime how much money bottled water companies make on this stuff.
I also looked into this 6 years ago in Iceland, where the water is claimed to be the cleanest water in the world. In fact, you dont' btw want pure water, minerals in water are important.
Think of it this way.
Take a bottle of plastic, fill it with tap water, wait 1 month and taste it.
Tell me you don't taste 'dead water'.
Because you are taking water, making it still and of course closing it from air.
Its not good, it tastes dead.
Listen whatever people convince themselves of, bottled water is one of the biggest scams around. Its next to nothing to bottle, its a HUGE mark up, Coke and Pepsi WISH everyone stopped drinking coke and only bought their bottled dead tap water with ZOMG reverse osmosis.
Clean water isnt the goal. Water with minerals, no taste and fresh from the tap is much better than overly clean, tasteless, dead water.