• Buddahriffic@lemmy.world
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    2 days ago

    I’ve got an RO filter for my drinking water at home. I haven’t tried a bottled water that I like as much as my RO tap water. I suspect that even if I filled a plastic water bottle with that water and let it sit for the expected duration a bought one would sit for, it would also not be as good. I don’t think plastic is as inert of a material as we like to pretend it is, or that BPA is the only bad plastic chemical to avoid.

    • Valmond@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 days ago

      Good for you to have decent tap water!

      But real mineral water is another beast, you can’t make that at home.

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        18 hours ago

        There are six stage setups that add back minerals to tap water and I also have the quooker cube which sparkles it. Fab stuff

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          9 hours ago

          Fascinating!

          I have a SodaStream that would be the equivalent of your Quoker Cube I imagine. Do you add minerals to your drinking water?

          I had a filter for my coffee machine where you could tweak what you wanted removed (scale) and how much you wanted the rest filtered, but I have never come across adding things back!

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            5 hours ago

            I have a water softener that then feeds to an RO to make it potable again and that goes to a bunch of mineral “filters” to put back into before going to the tap. Between those is the cube which adds the gas. I know I could buy the syrups and such but typically I only want a water or a touch of Orange added.

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              2 hours ago

              Same here, a slice of lemon, a leaf of mint or the swedish variant, a piece of cucumber 😁, but usually just water & sparkles.