Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
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Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
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Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#2Oh great. After never fully grasping tasting notes of food, coffee, wines … now water.
Jokes aside this is seriously impressive and makes me want to try and see if I can register them as unique enough. I certainly can taste different water bottle brands difference, but going from that to saying what’s good for x recipe is pretty next level
Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#3Ok, so:
"""You’re not fighting the water or compensating for it; you’re working with a clean, neutral base that lets the coffee do the talking."""
The author is I think letting something else than coffee do the talking here. Have a brew maybe?
Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#4Oh great. After never fully grasping tasting notes of food, coffee, wines … now water. Jokes aside this is seriously impressive and makes me want to try and see if I can register them as unique enough. I certainly can taste different water bottle brands difference, but going from that to saying what’s good for x recipe is pretty next level
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Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#5Interesting! Given the obvious AI-written nature of this, I'd probably want to double-check the math, but it's a neat concept.
As a homebrewer, the standard approach is to look up / measure your tap water's profile, buy a few grams of additives (gypsum, calcium chloride, epsom salt, etc), and add them to compensate. But if you don't have your water profile handy, this could work in a pinch. 5 gallons of bottled water is an expensive approach, though!
Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#6I’m calling BS on this. Biggish claims that are so vague as to be borderline unverifiable, no scientific basis laid out.
Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#7I grew up in the Sierras. We got our water from Marlette Lake. It tasted "correct," like that's how water is supposed to taste, and water from anywhere else tasted wrong/gross.
I presume a big contributor to that is familiarity. But still, it makes me curious how that water compares to other sources. I'd be curious to see the water I grew up with broken down on a site like this.
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#8I’m calling BS on this. Biggish claims that are so vague as to be borderline unverifiable, no scientific basis laid out.
The whole thing is slop.
Why x Matters: is absolutely a tell
Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#9Ok, so: """You’re not fighting the water or compensating for it; you’re working with a clean, neutral base that lets the coffee do the talking.""" The author is I think letting something else than coffee do the talking here. Have a brew maybe?
Are you complaining it looks AI?
It might be, but it's also a sentence I might have read on any "choosing water for coffee" article of the last twenty years.
Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#10I make my own mineral water - it's surprisingly straightforward. Make a concentrate of whatever you like, add a bit of it into a carbonation bottle, carbonate it, shake, refrigerate, and either consume sparkling or let it offgas.
You have to carbonate because (at least in my case) the amount of minerals per liter is too much for them to dissolve on their own, but they generally stay in suspension even when degassed