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Distilled water and glass bottles are the way to go. You can get a small distiller for your home relatively cheaply.
by redm 7y ago
Distilled water and glass bottles are the way to go. You can get a small distiller for your home relatively cheaply.
- galangalalgol 7y agoThe distiller is cheap but the power is not. Its like running a microwave 24/7 to make enough water for two people. I want to try making a solar one.
- outworlder 7y ago> The distiller is cheap but the power is not. Its like running a microwave 24/7 to make enough water for two people. I want to try making a solar one. Or one powered by solar panels? :)
- notadoc 7y agoAre you concerned about electrolyte imbalance with drinking distilled water?
- vangourd 7y agoPut salt in your water?
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoWouldn't you taste that?
- mrob 7y agoYes, and it would improve the taste. If you like San Pellegrino, you can get a similar taste at much lower cost by adding "Burton Salts" (a blend of salts meant to imitate the water of Burton on Trent, which is famously well suited for making pale ales, widely available from brewing suppliers) to soft water. And people have made spreadsheets to help with cloning specific mineral waters with the exact blend of salts, e.g.: https://blog.khymos.org/2012/01/04/mineral-waters-a-la-carte/ https://blog.khymos.org/2012/01/04/mineral-waters-a-la-carte...
- read_if_gay_ 7y agoVery interesting, thank you!
- Cytobit 7y agoI've often heard that drinking distilled water is bad due to it leaching minerals/electrolytes. Has anyone done the math on this to either validate or debunk this? A 16oz bottle of San Pellegrino has 20mg of sodium. How can such a small difference in sodium intake (and other minerals) have a meaningful influence on electrolyte levels?
- calculuscrayon 7y agoIt is a common misconception that drinking distilled water is dangerous. Water isn't a major source of minerals. [source](https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/7194 https://biology.stackexchange.com/a/7194)
- claytoneast 7y agoIf the microplastics are coming from the water source (not from the actual bottling, wherever the water is coming from, it already has microplastics in it) then this wouldn't do anything, right? Or is there a way to heat the water/steam to such a high temperature that the microplastics "melt" out of it?
- copperx 7y agoThe idea is that microplastics don't become vapor. Which seems more than plausible.