What do you get when you add boredom and a water filter?Normal people get a hobby. I'm not normal. I enjoy playgrounds, bouncy balls, and playing with my food. I like to make my own fun...
First, to make it seem scientific, we ran a filtered water test. Having a new water filter attached to the sink, we had the opportunity to test it against a two year old water filter that had been in storage for more than a year, with a control of tap water, and a super non control of double filtered water.
We enlisted the aid of one of our friends to run taste tests for us on the water. We figured, as we knew which cup was which, we were no longer impartial. The results were somewhat surprising.
The tap water sucked, that's a given. The new filter on the sink was good, but the two year old slightly used filter was better, and best of all was the double filtered water.
But, that test was no fun, so we kicked it up quite a few notches.
White Grape juice was up next. I should now point out what we expected when doing this. We figured that the filter would take out any imperfections in the liquids, but on what we planned on testing, that things would be pretty much the same going through as they were to start. It turns out that the filter seemed to remove much of the flavors out of the drinks.
My partner in crime and I agreed that the filtered white grape juice was significantly weaker than it's unfiltered counterpart.
Next up was Loganberry - for those unfamiliar with the juice, it tastes much like robitussin, but doesn't clear your nose.
It's also red.
Well, as a drink much stronger than the white grape juice, we expected that more of the flavor would remain, but instead, it seemed that what if kept in flavor was perverted somehow into a more crappy flavor that it originally was.
Maybe I'm just a touch bitter, because before our next test, I had to spend an extra 20 minutes cleaning the filter...
Makes strong bones, eh?
Well, of course we put it in the filter...
Well, the outcome was something that no one would ever want to drink. A strangely milk like liquid that tasted nothing like milk. I know this sounds bad, but it was almost salty, and very unappealing.
Tab, the diet soda. Mmm. Well, it poured in fine, but the filtering seemed to have almost stopped.
Seems that the bubbles on the outside have stopped the liquid. At least, that's what we thought, until it occurred to us that if bubbles are on the outside, they have to be on the inside too. We waited a little while for out tasty filtered Tab.
New filtered Tab appeared so much lighted in color, that we had to take a picture.
The filtered soda lost all carbonation, and most of it's flavor. It smelled pretty unpleasant, and tasted salty, as did the milk.
We decided to do one last test.
Watered down beer, meet water filter.
That urine color lets you know it's going to be good.
The beer, in this case, turned out much darker than it's non filtered counterpart. We tried it, and found it to be unpleasant, but much better than the original, non filtered kind. We feel this is in part to this being the only time we didn't rinse the filter from the previous (Tab). In fact, aside from having no carbonation, we both agreed it was much better than regular Coors Light.
Well, there you have it, a water filter can filter many things. If you would like them to taste good, you should just stick to H2O.
The tap water sucked, that's a given. The new filter on the sink was good, but the two year old slightly used filter was better, and best of all was the double filtered water.
But, that test was no fun, so we kicked it up quite a few notches.
White Grape juice was up next. I should now point out what we expected when doing this. We figured that the filter would take out any imperfections in the liquids, but on what we planned on testing, that things would be pretty much the same going through as they were to start. It turns out that the filter seemed to remove much of the flavors out of the drinks.
My partner in crime and I agreed that the filtered white grape juice was significantly weaker than it's unfiltered counterpart.
Next up was Loganberry - for those unfamiliar with the juice, it tastes much like robitussin, but doesn't clear your nose.
It's also red.Well, as a drink much stronger than the white grape juice, we expected that more of the flavor would remain, but instead, it seemed that what if kept in flavor was perverted somehow into a more crappy flavor that it originally was.
Maybe I'm just a touch bitter, because before our next test, I had to spend an extra 20 minutes cleaning the filter...
Makes strong bones, eh?Well, of course we put it in the filter...
Well, the outcome was something that no one would ever want to drink. A strangely milk like liquid that tasted nothing like milk. I know this sounds bad, but it was almost salty, and very unappealing.
Tab, the diet soda. Mmm. Well, it poured in fine, but the filtering seemed to have almost stopped.
Seems that the bubbles on the outside have stopped the liquid. At least, that's what we thought, until it occurred to us that if bubbles are on the outside, they have to be on the inside too. We waited a little while for out tasty filtered Tab.
New filtered Tab appeared so much lighted in color, that we had to take a picture.
The filtered soda lost all carbonation, and most of it's flavor. It smelled pretty unpleasant, and tasted salty, as did the milk.
We decided to do one last test.
Watered down beer, meet water filter.
That urine color lets you know it's going to be good.
The beer, in this case, turned out much darker than it's non filtered counterpart. We tried it, and found it to be unpleasant, but much better than the original, non filtered kind. We feel this is in part to this being the only time we didn't rinse the filter from the previous (Tab). In fact, aside from having no carbonation, we both agreed it was much better than regular Coors Light.Well, there you have it, a water filter can filter many things. If you would like them to taste good, you should just stick to H2O.
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