My tapwater alternately tastes like mud or bleach, and pretty much all bottled water has various minerals and stuff in it.
But what does absolutely pure (distilled, filtered, with no impurities of any kind) H[sub]2[/sub]O taste like?
To me it tastes real bland. I grew up on mineral filled well water, and that is essentially my control group from which I base taste, meaning that that is no taste, and and however the taste of something else differs from well water is the tase of that substance.
I’ve tasted distilles water. Pretty much no taste at all.
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I’m told that people who have one sense damaged have their bodies naturally compensate by heightening the other senses. My hearing is damaged and I wear glasses… but I have a killer sense of taste. As in, I can taste the difference in brands of bottled water.
Water, to me, can be compared to… um… chocolate milk. Chocolate milk is chocolate milk, but there’s a flavor variation dependent on how much chocolate you put in.
Okay, my analogies suck.
Colorless, oderless, tasteless.
The SO could in a blind taste test identify well water (not hard) and two brands of bottled water, but then she’s a Yankee and you can sell them anything. Next they will be selling compressed Colorado air in cans.
Isn’t water used as a control substance in science experiments because of its, by definition, ‘tasteless, colourless, odourless, pH of 7’ qualities?
Pure distilled water is indeed tasteless. It’s meant to be refreshing, not nourishing 
I’ve heard that distilled H2O is bad for you and you shouldn’t drink it, as the minerals and things in natural water are essential to your body. I think my HS chemistry teacher told me that, and she’s not one for spreading incorrect information. Anyone know about this?
Chicken?
Chicken?
Nope, I would prefer to have the pot roast. In regards to water, it is much like chicken. Both have very little taste boiled, but with the right seasoning both can taste heavenly. Add curry poweder to chicken and it will taste hotter and sweeter. Add calcium to water and it will taste just crispier and sweeter. Add pepper to chicken and it will taste hotter and spicier. Add lithium to water and it will taste a bit heavier but a lot happier. Add a human placenta to chicken and you will get something that while in theory is edible, is not something you would enjoy. Add fish residue from improper filtering and you get water that tastes a bit like sardine oil.
Heh, heh, heh. I especially liked the chicken analogy;) What goes around comes around.
I’ve always said that the perfect water has absolutely NO taste whatsoever. And that’s the way uh, uh, uh, uh, I like it…
I don’t know, maybe I do have a sensitive taste sense, but I can’t stand drinking water. Tap, bottled, or anything. When people ask me why, I tell them the truth: I can’t stand the taste. Everyone tells me water has not taste. Since this is related, by all these tastes of water, I’m not nuts?
Pure, unadulterated water has no taste, odour nor smell. Actually, I’m pretty sure quite a few substances have those qualities. However, water is more adundant and is neutral acidity-wise.
Me too. That’s what I was getting at–all the water I can find tastes bad.
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It has a WHAT?!?
A typo, apparently. I meant:
as defined by Dictionary.com
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Deionized water, water that has been filtered of all impurities, is bad for you. You can consider DI water to be a soup of hydrogen and hydroxyl ions (H+OH, instead of H2O); these will react with stuff in you body and will “really clean your insides out”, as it was casually explained at work.
Distilled water still has enough impurities that it can be considered safe to drink.
Admittedly, I’m just giving a seat of the pants answer here. I’m sure that the chemistry/physics/industrial experts here can give a more accurate explanation.
Knew all along. Just pulling your leg and “forgot” the smilie.:D:D
(one extra, for good measure)
What I remember from Chem class is that all water has a certain amount of “loose” H+ and OH- ions floating around in it. In normal H20, The concentration of each is a power of -7. In acidic things, the power of Hydrogen, pH, is lower (ie, the concentration of free hydrogen is more, because the exponents are negative) The power of hydroxide, pOH, is the complement of the pH.
Now, there is no reason that pure water is bad for you.
There are always some free ions in water. If there are some compounds dissolved in the water, that may change the pH by attaching to some of the free ions, but that doesn’t reduce the amount of ions in the water, just changes the proportions of OH and H.
If you want to taste distilled water, any supermarket should have it.
No, I believe that’s incorrect. The reason you shouldn’t drink “pure” water is because we rely on the additives in our tap water for our health - such as the flouride. The water itself is harmless, as we need 8 glasses a day. If you can get the flouride somewhere else, its perfectly fine.