I’m calling BS on this. Biggish claims that are so vague as to be borderline unverifiable, no scientific basis laid out.
https://www.wikihow.com/Make-Mineral-Water It's a thing, just a very niche thing. There are fancy walter filtration systems that put minerals back so it's more controlled. I suppose this is useful when you're living in America, where everything is chlorined to death.
Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
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Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#32A very strange project. I can see the reasoning to get something familiarly premium from a cheap source, but surely in any developed country your only ever starting point should be tap water. Water that has been bottled months ago and been in (usually plastic) bottles for months can never be better than your local aquifer even if the source is harder. Gets more difficult of course if you are in a big city and your ma…
In Barcelona, I just use bottled water. The tap water is disgusting due to both the extremely high mineral content, recycled water and the poor quality of the pipes.
The osmosis machines consume a lot of water which is quite expensive and problematic when we have droughts. I buy the cheap bottled water though, not Evian.
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#33Ok, 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.
Entire project is vibe coded nonsense.
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#34"Let sparkling water stand uncapped overnight to degas before mixing." This doesnt work. The water will taste nothing like the original desired base water profile. When water is carbonated the ph will drop (from say 7 to 4) and even when decarbed carbonic acid is still present from the process. In order to get the desired flavors just a ro water filter and build it back up to the desired profile.
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Re: Recreate famous water profiles using supermarket bottled water
#35A very strange project. I can see the reasoning to get something familiarly premium from a cheap source, but surely in any developed country your only ever starting point should be tap water. Water that has been bottled months ago and been in (usually plastic) bottles for months can never be better than your local aquifer even if the source is harder. Gets more difficult of course if you are in a big city and your ma…
My take is that it’s about better replicating products that use water. San Francisco bread for instance. So it’s not about the best water to drink.
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#37Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
I was complaining about stilted prose, and indeed a few years back I would just have let it slide. But now it grates more I guess.
Which is deeply ironic since a few years ago stilted prose would be unavoidable, whereas now it’s more often a result of the choice to not use an LLM to clean up your text.
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#39Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's because restaurants make the most money on drinks, so selling you overpriced water with artificial branding becomes an excuse to charge the same money for water as one would for sodas. And some cannot be convinced that tap water could be safe to drink. I know a few people who exclusively drink glass-bottled water, because they fear microplastics on top of that.
> And some cannot be convinced that tap water could be safe to drink. It's a cultural thing, mostly. Not everyone has the luxury of, like me, growing up in a place like Munich where the water source is clean and pristine needing very little treatment. In many places water has to be chlorinated or, in the worst cases, is contaminated with gases from fracking to the tune you can set it ablaze [1]. Or it's contaminated…
> people who grew up in developing countries or even in extremely rural areas of Western countries who grew up with water unsafe to drink before boiling it off will be even more skeptical.
I'm Brazilian. We learn early in school that water must always be boiled or filtered before drinking. I'd feel very uncomfortable drinking water directly from plumbing, no matter how much some people say it's safe.
Every place here (and I don't say that lightly, I don't think I've ever seen an exception) has either a water filter connected to the plumbing (for unlimited on-demand filtered water), or at least a separate standalone filter, or sometimes a drinking fountain which gets its water from large mineral water containers (and it's normally real mineral water bottled from real mineral springs, not that nonsense that is adding minerals to tap water and saying it's mineral water).
Edit: and IIRC, there's a law that bars and restaurants must provide filtered tap water to their clients without extra cost when requested. Even the law requires filtering.
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#40There's a process some brewers use to treat water, to make it similar to a well in England, called burtonisation, using various salts