Kake Lover
Veteran
I've just come home from a weekend at my parents and the thought struck me how quickly I'd got used to their hard water. We have very soft water and one of the first things I did was wash up a water bottle and a flask, but I squirted far too much washing up liquid in and I had to rinse everything much more thoroughly.
It got me thinking about the effects that the hardness or softness of water has on the way we cook and experience our food and drinks.
The only other things that I have noticed besides needing more detergent with hard water is:
What about you?
It got me thinking about the effects that the hardness or softness of water has on the way we cook and experience our food and drinks.
The only other things that I have noticed besides needing more detergent with hard water is:
- tea brewed with hard water tastes so much better, but that could be that was what I grew up with. I know that a good real ale will have been brewed with hard water.
- boiling anything in a pan like eggs will leave a white mark around the edge of the pan, which is why we always have one old saucepan that is only used for boiling eggs.
What about you?
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