Using the right water for coffee was one of the best tips I learned from multiple sources in order to improve coffee at home. I live in a place in Italy with extremely hard water, so I have a cleaning filter installed that still leaves a series of minerals. Water is good to drink but not to brew coffee.

The solution I’m using now is bottled water, which works really well except for the fact that buying and wasting plastic isn’t ideal at all

Is there any way to obtain good quality water without having a ton of plastic in my bin? I mean I could buy mineral pills or something but still I’d need first to get demineralised water somehow, most likely bottled. So I don’t know really

  • ccunning@lemmy.world
    8·
    6 天前

    I can only speak to the U.S. and Thailand, but those two are so disparate I always assumed it must be fairly universal. Maybe Italy has something like it too…

    They both have reusable water bottle delivery available in ~5 gallon/~20 liter bottles typically used for water coolers. In the U.S. the delivery costs are pretty ridiculous so many grocery stores also run little bottle exchange kiosks where you can return your empties and pick up full bottles.

    • Bo7a@piefed.caEnglish
      3·
      6 天前

      This is the way. We got most of our water from a creek, which is GREAT for washing hair and clothes. But no so great for drinking. So we had to use one of those office cooler/heater units with the big jugs of spring water for drinking/cooking.

      Now that we have a well we still use the big jugs because of the convenience of boiled water as well as chilled water. And the coffee is just better.

      I will admit we are also very lucky in that our part of the world has abundant springs. So we can fill our jugs at a perfectly clear spring for free.