H20=Tasteless. Tap water tastes like taps... and chlorine, flouride etc. Why does this thread exist again?
Describe the taste of water.
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I live in an area of the UK with hard water, so there is always an underlying taste of the dissolved mineral ions, tastes like a paracetamol when you've held it too long on your tongue without swallowing?
This is one tricky question, since we're so used to water being the underlying base to simply bear other flavours along the palette, but I think it's easier to taste water (and I don't know if anyone else notices this) when you're thirsty, properly thirsty, and the water is so cold it's just short of being ice. I know that technically makes it a thermoreceptive response as opposed to actual taste, but it's the best answer I can think up.
This is one tricky question, since we're so used to water being the underlying base to simply bear other flavours along the palette, but I think it's easier to taste water (and I don't know if anyone else notices this) when you're thirsty, properly thirsty, and the water is so cold it's just short of being ice. I know that technically makes it a thermoreceptive response as opposed to actual taste, but it's the best answer I can think up.
The drinking fountains in my old school had water that tasted like rusty, dry, spit. you know, that taste that sometimes forms at the back of your mouth/throat after a hard night of drinking.
Fresh spring snow melt from up in the cascades, I have had tastes like... The meaning of life. That's the best way I can put it, and probably the most accurate as well. Drinking it is like spring on a mountain far from "civilization", tastes just don't do it credit. But if I had to try, I guess it tastes similar to pure ice cubes... The ice cube, not the water from when it melts.
Ice cold water is fucking delicious.
Fresh spring snow melt from up in the cascades, I have had tastes like... The meaning of life. That's the best way I can put it, and probably the most accurate as well. Drinking it is like spring on a mountain far from "civilization", tastes just don't do it credit. But if I had to try, I guess it tastes similar to pure ice cubes... The ice cube, not the water from when it melts.
Ice cold water is fucking delicious.
There's sulfur in your water?!?... um... Are you by any chance the Devil?darkstone said:
I don't like the taste of water unless I'm thirsty, in which case there is no sweeter tasting liquid. It is the ultimate thirst quencher, but drinking water for the sheer sake of it? Bleugh!
The taste of something is determined by your taste buds/whatever you have.
Human tasting apparatus does not detect pure water. Go ask a Wookee.
Human tasting apparatus does not detect pure water. Go ask a Wookee.
I'm not the devil but the heat here sometimes makes me think that the area I live in is hell.Hero in a half shell said:
Sulfur is about the best way I can explain the taste, and like I said absolutely no one drinks the water unless they get one of those expensive ass water softeners and even then those barely help.
Exactly this. Water is the only substance that pretty much everything is soluble with or enhanced by. Water loves to take on the taste properties of what ever it is put into. If you put water into 3 containers; a plastic cup/bottle, a glass cup/bottle, or a metal cup/bottle, each one would taste different from the others. The plastic will taste different from the glass, and the glass different from the metal container. The temperature of the container and water too will effect the flavor. As in with an increase in temperature will increase the leeching of any particles from the container. The closest you can get to the tasteless "flavor" of water is to use a glass container since the only thing that should have been used in it's making is the quartz sand, but it depends on if any contaminants from the making process will leech into the water. Still though you won't get the actual taste of water itself since if you use tap water the metal from the pipes leeches in, the petroleum products in any plastic piping, the natural contaminants already found in the water from things such as minerals, industrial or residential waste in the water table, the chemicals added in at water treatment plants, and even any detergent you use to clean your glassware or cups.Mr.Tea said:
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If you could get 100% pure water with nothing becoming soluble in it, good luck by the way, then the water would indeed be tasteless and the only way to describe it would be rather the lack of a taste and more rather the affect it has on other senses. Effects such as the temperature and the wetness. Cold water would be described as more refreshing and crisp usually.
