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Offline Celtic Rose

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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #25 on: June 11, 2013, 11:54:48 AM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 11, 2013, 11:11:36 AM
Don't set your burner above "medium". High heat gives boiled water a burned taste.

I've heard this from people who swear they can taste tap water.

Some tap water does taste disgusting.  When I lived in Berkeley I couldn't drink the tap water because it tasted so awful.  I had a brita pitcher that I had to use first.
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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #26 on: June 11, 2013, 12:21:45 PM »
Quote from: GOBUCKS on June 11, 2013, 11:11:36 AM
Don't set your burner above "medium". High heat gives boiled water a burned taste.

I've heard this from people who swear they can taste tap water.

As someone who tested drinking water for 13 years, that's true.  A lot of it has to do with what the watershed has in terms of farms--a lot of farms (especially cattle/pig farms), a lot of waste products, so a lot of cholrine/bromine is needed to kill whatever microorganisms are in the water.  Vegetable farms?  Fertilizer runoff.  That can impart a taste.

As for burning water . . . Let's just say that it takes a speshul (yes, lurkers, I deliberately misspelled that word) kind of stupid to accomplish that. O-)
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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #27 on: June 11, 2013, 12:25:11 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on June 11, 2013, 11:54:48 AM
Some tap water does taste disgusting.  When I lived in Berkeley I couldn't drink the tap water because it tasted so awful.  I had a brita pitcher that I had to use first.

That Brita filter may have saved you from being assimilated into the Proglodyte Borg.   :wink:

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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #28 on: June 11, 2013, 12:28:27 PM »
Quote from: BlueStateSaint on June 11, 2013, 12:21:45 PM
As for burning water . . . Let's just say that it takes a speshul (yes, lurkers, I deliberately misspelled that word) kind of stupid to accomplish that. O-)
Really?  Starbucks does it every day and they charge you for it.
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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #29 on: June 11, 2013, 12:29:29 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on June 11, 2013, 12:28:27 PM
Really?  Starbucks does it every day and they charge you for it.

Putting burnt matter into boiling water doesn't count . . . :tongue:
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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #30 on: June 11, 2013, 12:42:38 PM »
Quote from: Celtic Rose on June 11, 2013, 11:54:48 AM
Some tap water does taste disgusting.  When I lived in Berkeley I couldn't drink the tap water because it tasted so awful.  I had a brita pitcher that I had to use first.

To be fair, it isn't the water. Its the contaminants dissolved in it. Pure water has no taste.
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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #31 on: June 11, 2013, 01:08:03 PM »
Quote from: miskie on June 11, 2013, 12:42:38 PM
To be fair, it isn't the water. Its the contaminants dissolved in it. Pure water has no taste.

Distilled water makes a nasty cup of coffee.
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Re: primitives discuss boiling eggs
« Reply #32 on: June 11, 2013, 01:16:05 PM »
I can't get past the Penn & Teller episode where they had people reviewing the taste of premium, $10 bottled water, labelled as having come from glaciers, icebergs, springs, etc.

They were ecstatic about some, disliked others.

All the bottles were filled from a garden hose in back of the restaurant.

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