@CoyoteOldMan I do not know if you make pour overs. If you do, do you use the water from the Zero Water jug? MediumRoastSteam says the coffee from V60 tasted hallow and flat (distilled + bicarb).
The reason I ask is my daughter has already taken my pour over kits - V60, Aero Press, accessories and gooseneck kettle. It’s London hard water. I was thinking if I it is worth sending her a zerowater jug. She isn’t some one who will go to local store and drag a 5L water bottle! 😊
LMSC Sorry - no pourovers… unless you count Turkish as such? In which case, I can confirm that to my palate it tastes much better when there is some hardness in the water; I tried “pure” deionised out of the Zero jug and with bicarb, and while both were drinkable, adding some magnesium or calcium salts improved the flavour quite a bit.
Descaling a kettle is a whole lot easier than descaling an espresso machine, but there is no doubt that the water we have around here is very hard.
LMSC MediumRoastSteam says the coffee from V60 tasted hallow and flat (distilled + bicarb).
It was definitely not hallow. I used distilled water, not holy water! 🤣
(sorry I couldn’t resist). 😂👍
On a serious, note… It was hollow, flat for sure. I couldn’t drink a cup of it. I certainly did not enjoy. I’d be curious to taste what a V60 from a Zero Water jug would taste like in comparison.
CoyoteOldMan I do make pour overs regularly but use the mineralised RO. I find it fine. I did find a massive difference in tea with / without hard water. The tea from mineralised RO is lighter and taste a lot better. I always found the tea with hard water even with a drop of milk was harsher in taste.
Agree, easier to descale the kettle. I will defer it until/if she comes back. The risk of she asking for a hand grinder for pour overs will be more than the water filter! I think I should better look for an electric grinder for myself before my hand grinder disappears! Anyway, that’s another thread. 😂
MediumRoastSteam holy water!
The holy water can whip people’s passion in some country! I will leave it to your imagination and I will 🤐🤐🤣🤣
MediumRoastSteam I’d be curious to taste what a V60 from a Zero Water jug would taste like in comparison.
Yeah! exactly. Some time, some where perhaps! I only have the OZ.
MediumRoastSteam If you have a V60 filter… I have a ZeroWater jug!
I used to mix Zero water with tap water to remineralise, aiming for about 50mg/L alkalinity.
Easy to do on scales whilst filling the kettle.
CoyoteOldMan - Ha! I sold all my filter coffee paraphernalia a while ago. I don’t really enjoy it. I much prefer espresso :-)
MediumRoastSteam To be honest, I suspect that there is no difference between RO and DI demineralised water. If it’s H2O, it’s H2O
LMSC The tea from mineralised RO is lighter and taste a lot better. I always found the tea with hard water even with a drop of milk was harsher in taste.
My wife far, far prefers the tea made from the service boiler, which is zero water and sodium bicarbonate than from the kettle. Not only does it taste a lot better, but it even looks so much better too.
I live in London and the tap water is pretty horrendous, so maybe not such a surprise
CoyoteOldMan So, a visit here needs to be arranged, I suppose.
LMSC Where is “here”, if I may ask?
You are always welcome here if you visit your daughter in London and go by Oxford!
CoyoteOldMan We live in Wokingham! Thanks for invitation. Much appreciated.
This is rather an unusual year for us. Covid relaxations have exposed us to unusually large number of guests, who have been visiting us since May this year; They will be (in addition to an 83 year old staying with us) until the until the end of Nov. So, although we are kind of frozen out for this year, we could pencil something in in Wokingham as well early next year! :-)
LMSC For some strange reason, I thought you were in Lancashire! Then “here” to “there” is easy. Even on a pushbike and a Zero Jug in a rucksack.
CoyoteOldMan Exactly. Shouting distance - you, MRS, Dave and self!
CoyoteOldMan - I’m not quite so sure. But again, I can’t explain why. I tried RO water at Dave’s, both from the Osmio and from the undercounted RO system. That’s drinkable and tastes OK.
Distilled water… Not quite the same.Surprising, I know, but I don’t know why.
MediumRoastSteam The RO leaves traces of minerals in there. Did you by any chance drink mineralised? Does Dave use the mineralisation cartridge ?
Zero Water doesn’t taste great - I’ve tried it a few times and not sold on it at all.
Remineralised Zero Water through the machine with coffee / tea however is a different animal.
LMSC I tried from the Osmio with the remineralisation cartridge and from the RO under the sink, which I think it was just RO water.
Water from the Osmio does taste great I must say!
