water & u

I like room temp water but Melb's water is very clean and tastes good (well, most of the time, occasionally it is v vagely bleachy), but the water in Perth is GODAWFUL, in the north anyway, it is incredibly chloriney and has a strange soapy/salty taste and the only way I could stomach it was icy cold which killed any "flavour" in it blegh. Canberra's tap water tastes like a swimming pool :(

Brita pitchers at room temp grow green slimy shit p quickly ime

Jaq do you like vanilla coke zero? So good!!!

Haven't tried it, but will do now! I mainly just doctor regular diet coke with torani sugarfree vanilla syrup.

Since I lost my sense of smell I prefer Coke Zero and regular Coke. Both used to taste too sweet, and Diet Coke had a nice light "crispness" about it. When I got anosmia, Diet started tasting like garlic, which was weird.

i used to just drink a couple glasses of ice water a day but then a gastroenterologist with a bow tie scolded me and now i'm up to like 3.5 liters/day, from a smartwater bottle which i fill with regular dumbwater. i had a v. strict preference for freezing too but it was surprisingly easy to kick. when i get anything else though i blitz it with ice. and then eat all the ice.

A bow tie. Well no wonder.

I drink a lot of water. SF water out of the tap is excellent. I'm not a huge fan of the American habit of super cold water. My favorite bottled fizzy water is Badoit.

xxxp: I presently drink tap exclusively, mostly as tea or coffee. I definitely plan on installing post-plumbing reverse osmosis filtration on a drinking water faucet once I'm settled down, but it isn't the fluoride that concerns me. I thought this hypothesis of copper plumbing as a cause of the modern Alzheimer's epidemic was pretty compelling.

Jesse, do you have an anosmiac assessment of Pepsi Max?

I'm not even sure what Pepsi Max is. Is it like Jolt! cola?

Hey, remember Coke Black? I lived in a Jesuit priests' residence for a couple months while working New Orleans and they went through a lot of Coke Black. I don't think it still exists. Poor priests, having to drink regular brown Coke.

I drink a lot of water, have a big 24oz water bottle I fill 2 or 3 times a day, and I drink a few glasses at home. Don't like freezing cold water much, not a big ice fan either. Just room temperature water is good enough for me.

Sac's tap water is pretty drinkable, but we keep a Brita in the fridge.

Omg I loved that shit. Summer of '06 was the last I saw it

I had no string opinions on it. It was just Coke with espresso, right? It was mostly just a bit confusing for my tongue, but inoffensive.

THose of you who insist on ice, how do you get over the horrid taste ice always has? Mine always does anyway, it... I dunno, it aborbs fridge smells or something?

ooh the freezer smell - frozen meat - totally

Whatever it is, it is metallic and weird. I mean I'll use ice anyway but that fridgey taste :(

IME ice gets that taste from sitting around too long, which mine doesn't get to do. Tho sometimes if there is some strong stuff in the freezer with it, it picks up the flavor That sucks.

IME ice gets that taste from sitting around too long, which mine doesn't get to do.

Ditto. Our ice tastes fine, but we outpace the icemaker most days.

That's another reason why we don't bother with ice. By the time we use the ice, it's all fridgey.

USE MORE ICE

We never have room in the freezer for ice, either.

My parents have an ice maker that's separate from their fridge and it makes really awesome ice that is perfect for crunching and I use lots of ice when I'm at their house.

smelly ice? never heard of it. crazy.

i <3 water but i don't drink a ton of it, even all day cycling i'll rarely drink more than a litre. if i don't have any to hand though, i panic.

I have considered buying a standalone ice machine. I would love to find one that dispenses these things

http://www.manitowocice.com/images/uploaded/mii/ice_forms/alt-ice-type-tubular.jpg

Which Manitowoc Ice Machines calls "tubular nuggets" and says of them Softer, chewable texture with good cooling. Cylindrical shaped nugget with 5/8'' diameter and average length of approximately 1''. With the longer pieces and 90% ice quality, tubular nugget is ideal for dispensing applications.

This discussion reminded me of this gourmet ice company in Chicago:

But Lang, whose grandfather founded the company in 1923, said Gourmet Ice is special. It is frozen over 48 hours, as opposed to about 12 minutes for a conventional cube. Air bubbles, which cause cloudiness and trap freezer smells in other cubes, are removed, as are dissolved minerals.

I think on a whole, ILX drinks too much water.

I'm sure that statement will make some people IA.

I was arguing with a friend on FB about the cult of hydration. She was saying she was trying to drink more water b/c she was always dehydrated. I really, really doubt that many people are actually regularly dehydrated. The eight-glasses-a-day thing is kinda malarky. The bottled water industry has been successful in convincing us that we're dehydrated, I think.

I mean, the body is pretty good at telling you when it needs water. Unless your nervous system has some kind of glitch, you probably can drink fluids when you're thirsty and all will be well.

Or if you have gotten into some kind of disordered hydration habit. Which I guess is pretty likely if people are saying "I hate water."

I almost never drink water alone but I drink tons of herbal tea

I love those tubular nuggets of ice!

Maybe another reason I don't care for home ice is because when I have ice, I eat it and home ice isn't very fun to eat.

When a friend of mine was pregnant, she used to crave ice from a very specific Burger King and would often go out at inconvenient hours to just get giant cups of their ice.

If you piss about 5 to 7 times a day, you're adequately hydrated, unless you are introducing obvious diuretics into your system, such as several cups of coffee. That throws everything out of whack.

My sister-in-law craved pellet ice when she was pregnant.

Which reminds me: that side of the family, which is made up entirely of horrible people, hate water. My s-i-l's mother drinks literally ONLY Diet Rite.

My s-i-l's close friend puts Mountain Dew in her babies' bottle as a "treat" while they were nursing, and later because "they like it" and "water is gross" ("it rusts your insides lol!"). The s-i-l would probably have done something stupid like that, but my brother put strict limits on the kids' soda intake. Even so, she would sneak sugar in their water b/c "water is gross," nevermind that my niece loved plain water as a toddler.

you guys should read the chapters of this book i have about pica that address a fixation with eating ice

http://img2.imagesbn.com/images/101640000/101643417.jpg

Oh! I want to read that!

Huh, so apparently I'm part of a trend in ice munching.

-Sales of machines that make easier-to-chew ice jumped about 23% [from] 2006 from 2003, according to data from the Air-Conditioning and Refrigeration Institute.
- Ice chewers swap tips on Icechewing.com.
- Amy Grant bought Vince Gill an ice pellet machine for Christmas. Gill says [i]"Europe is a drag," he says. "I ask for ice, and they give me one or two cubes. They're stingy with their ice. I'd never survive there."[i]

http://online.wsj.com/public/article/SB120165510390727145.html?mod=blog

I became anemic a couple of years ago because of a medication I was taking and experienced some pica-like cravings as a result. It was disconcerting.

ice chewers are disgusting savages imo

even the sound of someone biting down on a popsicle makes my whole nervous system wig out

oh man i wanna read that pica book. i used to eat a lot of paper. (eighth grade was a hard year.)

it's pretty good, would recommend!

> I have considered buying a standalone ice machine. I would love to find one that dispenses these things

Which Manitowoc Ice Machines calls "tubular nuggets" and says of them Softer, chewable texture with good cooling. Cylindrical shaped nugget with 5/8'' diameter and average length of approximately 1''. With the longer pieces and 90% ice quality, tubular nugget is ideal for dispensing applications.

― Sandbox Jesse, Saturday, December 31, 2011 2:27 PM (7 hours ago)

Not quite that shape, but Manitowoc's SM50. residential ice machine does make these terrific, perfectly clear, gem-like octagonal ice cubes. It's what I hope to have in my kitchen someday. Once you try these you'll never want to go back to the smelly, cloudy-white ice crescents that your refrigerator makes again.
http://www.towsleys.com/mfsg/itemimages/IF14_rg.jpg

Scotsman makes a good undercounter ice machine too, and less expensive, which makes cylindrical ice. Every other residential undercounter ice machine i'm aware of makes boring rectangular cubes, although they'll still taste good and be perfectly clear.

water with lemon juice squeezed in, about 2 liters a day. refrigerated, no ice.

must have lemon because i just don't really like drinking plain water. this is probably cause i grew up in a town with very chemical-ly tasting water, i always hated drinking water as a kid. now that i've discovered the magic of putting lemon in my water, i drink it constantly, and have stopped drinking soda almost completely.

that said, soda water is awesome. i went through a diabetes scare + doctor complaining about my "liver numbers" and suggesting i cut back on teh booze, so i stopped consuming sugar but needed something non-alcoholic to drink at the bar that wasn't sweet sugary coke. soda water totally works for that, and bonus, bartenders usually give it to me free

Water w lemon was my jam until I discovered water w lime

Not quite that shape, but Manitowoc's SM50. residential ice machine does make these terrific, perfectly clear, gem-like octagonal ice cubes. It's what I hope to have in my kitchen someday. Once you try these you'll never want to go back to the smelly, cloudy-white ice crescents that your refrigerator makes again.

I don't think those are chewable like the pellets (the website for a commercial ice maker company actually said "often called 'rabbit turds'") I like. Apparently the pellet extrusion machines are impractical for residential use at this time. Or they were in 2011. Maybe now that it's the future things are different.

since i got a 32oz nalgene last christmas i have drank at least 1 gal of water a day and have been more energetic, had better bowel movements, been hungover less, and had little to no acne. i prefer it just below room temperature, sometimes drinking very cold water is shocking.

also i feel compelled to drink tap water because though i know it contains things that are probably bad for me i have been told by my girlfriend that it's good for your immune system. and i haven't gotten sick in a very long time. and basically i do whatever she says because she's always right.