Just want to say cheers to this tea for still tasting good with my icky chlorinated water! I was getting depressed when some of my more delicate teas were completely ruined by it and thought I’d have to stick to flavored teas and tisanes completely but on a whim I brewed some of this up with lots of leaf and it’s kept me happy through several steepings!
So yay for new apartment! Yay for new beginnings! Booo for nasty water :(
I’m not going to rate it now cause I’m sure it’d taste even MORE yummy with good water but for now I’m a happy camper. I highly caffeinated happy camper but one none the less.
I’m waiting not so impatiently for my Golden Tips tea club order to come. It’s out for delivery so no more caffeine for me till it gets here :(
I might sneak in one of 52teas flavored whites or greens shhhhhh.
People who liked this
Comments
I read that you can boil water for 15 minutes to remove the chlorine.
If it’s just chlorine, it will dissipate out of the water if left out over night. A pitcher on the counter overnight will have lost the majority of the taste/smell by morning….
Brita filters do wonders for chlorine taste as well :) We recently got the travel Brita filter bottles for our traveling tea and coffee needs!
I have a PUR filter on my sink spout and it works great. I got the device and the refills at Costco
I think it’s more than just chlorine but I’m going to try leaving some out overnight until I can get a filter. I’ll report back.
If I end up getting a countertop one this is what I want http://www.amazon.com/MAVEA-1001125-Elemaris-Filtration-Pitcher/dp/B002U50QQQ/ref=sr_1_11?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1404754163&sr=1-11&keywords=water+filter It’s huge enough to fill my Zo a good ways and I like that it takes out the icky tasting stuff while leaving in the minerals. The design is also huge plus for me, I want the purple one.
I’ll check out the PUR. I"m not a huge Brita fan but they do the job in a pinch. I hate the charcoal floaties I always seem to get even after pre-soaking the filters and going through the first few fills.
I made a thread on water filtration on the general boards. You all need to go post there! This is valuable information that I’m sure other people need to. Tea is 99.99% water and if the water isn’t good the tea won’t be either.
I think people who think they don’t like tea don’t understand that. They use too hot(for greens, oolongs, and whites) bad water for the wrong amount of time on tea bags. No wonder it tastes bad!
Oh, they have an ORANGE filter! That is so awesome.
Dexter— I think leaving the water out overnight helped.
But now I have this sneaking suspicion that my cat assumed open source of water simply meant really big water bowl for her, on the kitchen counter. Not because of anything in particular, just because of how well I know her.
I read that you can boil water for 15 minutes to remove the chlorine.
If it’s just chlorine, it will dissipate out of the water if left out over night. A pitcher on the counter overnight will have lost the majority of the taste/smell by morning….
Brita filters do wonders for chlorine taste as well :) We recently got the travel Brita filter bottles for our traveling tea and coffee needs!
I have a PUR filter on my sink spout and it works great. I got the device and the refills at Costco
I think it’s more than just chlorine but I’m going to try leaving some out overnight until I can get a filter. I’ll report back.
If I end up getting a countertop one this is what I want http://www.amazon.com/MAVEA-1001125-Elemaris-Filtration-Pitcher/dp/B002U50QQQ/ref=sr_1_11?s=kitchen&ie=UTF8&qid=1404754163&sr=1-11&keywords=water+filter It’s huge enough to fill my Zo a good ways and I like that it takes out the icky tasting stuff while leaving in the minerals. The design is also huge plus for me, I want the purple one.
I’ll check out the PUR. I"m not a huge Brita fan but they do the job in a pinch. I hate the charcoal floaties I always seem to get even after pre-soaking the filters and going through the first few fills.
I made a thread on water filtration on the general boards. You all need to go post there! This is valuable information that I’m sure other people need to. Tea is 99.99% water and if the water isn’t good the tea won’t be either.
I think people who think they don’t like tea don’t understand that. They use too hot(for greens, oolongs, and whites) bad water for the wrong amount of time on tea bags. No wonder it tastes bad!
Oh, they have an ORANGE filter! That is so awesome.
Dexter— I think leaving the water out overnight helped.
But now I have this sneaking suspicion that my cat assumed open source of water simply meant really big water bowl for her, on the kitchen counter. Not because of anything in particular, just because of how well I know her.