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I think it was in one of the Scottish Freedom threads thhat we touched briefly on water quality - buying excellet tasting Scottish water - and this bit isn't relevant to that debate, but ........ in the main, I use Scottish Mountain Water as supplied by Sainsbury. This water is slightly hard and leaves a calcium deposit in the kettle - not much but it does build in time. It is slightly alkaline. Due to reasons beyond my control and a fuck up on my part, I'm currently stocked with English water from Tesco and it is slightly acidic. Rather than drink the dissolved calcium deposits, I thought to de-scale my kettle. Everyone laughed at the suggestion, comparing the slight scaling in my kettle to their own, with heavy scaling due to local tap water. Anyway, I did the job - lovely shiny kettle again.
But - the quality of the tea and coffee I use seems suddenlly to have leapt ten or twelve levels of quality. Using either Scottish and English water in a clean kettle allows the flavour of my teas and coffees to leap out at me. They are just so gorgeous again - all for the want of de-scaling my kettle! I would not have thought the improvement possible, but there it is
De-scale your kettles, guys!
But - the quality of the tea and coffee I use seems suddenlly to have leapt ten or twelve levels of quality. Using either Scottish and English water in a clean kettle allows the flavour of my teas and coffees to leap out at me. They are just so gorgeous again - all for the want of de-scaling my kettle! I would not have thought the improvement possible, but there it is
De-scale your kettles, guys!