# I put flavored bottled water in my iron...

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**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [October 18, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045 "2011-10-18T15:52:59Z")\
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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045/1 "2011-10-18T15:52:59Z")

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…and now my clothes smell like “mixed berries.”

To be specific, it’s Trader Joe’s sparkling mineral water, with “natural” flavor. I can’t see that it would hurt the iron, and now I have a delicious aroma.

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**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045/2 "2011-10-18T15:56:11Z")

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Brilliant. I don’t know why that wouldn’t work with a room humidifier too. Is there no coloring associated with the product?

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**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045/3 "2011-10-18T16:17:46Z")

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people would use deionized water in irons to keep down scale which would make the steam iron inefficient eventually. water collected in a dehumidifier works for that purpose also.

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045/4 "2011-10-18T16:19:28Z")

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I used to put rosewater in my iron. (Not as girly smelling as you might imagine.)

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**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 4:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045/5 "2011-10-18T16:23:59Z")

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> [@guizot](#):
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> …and now my clothes smell like “mixed berries.”
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> To be specific, it’s Trader Joe’s sparkling mineral water, with “natural” flavor. I can’t see that it would hurt the iron, and now I have a delicious aroma.

I hope you checked to see if that product has sugar in it. You may end up covered in ants and with your iron all gummed up.

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**Author:** ![guizot](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guizot/32/3636_2.png) [@guizot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/guizot)\
**Post date:** [October 18, 2011, 5:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/i-put-flavored-bottled-water-in-my-iron/600045/6 "2011-10-18T17:17:56Z")

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> [@lieu](#):
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> Brilliant. I don’t know why that wouldn’t work with a room humidifier too. Is there no coloring associated with the product?

> [@Chefguy](#):
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> I hope you checked to see if that product has sugar in it. You may end up covered in ants and with your iron all gummed up.

No color, no sugar.

I didn’t do this to deliberately infuse my clothing, by the way. I was just in a hurry to get to work, and didn’t want to use hard tap water in the iron. It wasn’t til I put the clothes on that realized something was different.

Next time I’ll try the orange flavor, or perhaps the lime.