Melted Ice & Water
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CrashTD

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1,788 posts

234 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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This evening I began to construct scotch on the rocks. I had got as far as 'the rocks' when the phone rang. I returned 20 minutes later to find my ice had melted. All the nattering had left me parched so I drank the melted ice. The beverage failed to quench my thirst so I drank some tap water when I noticed a difference in taste. My ice cube water had come from exactly the same tap less than 12 hours previous.

Why does 'melted ice cube' water taste different from tap water?

SS HSV

9,646 posts

288 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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Sod the water comparison, drink the scotch!!!

rfn

4,609 posts

237 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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Is it something to do with the slight taste of the tray that your ice cube came from?

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Edited by rfn on Thursday 4th September 19:29

janszott

218 posts

287 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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Global Warming?

Shaolin

2,955 posts

219 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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Dissolved gases make quite a difference to the taste apparently, that's why water left overnight tastes different to what comes straight out of the tap. The melted ice probably had little dissolved gas.

Spam

1,067 posts

221 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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Shaolin said:
Dissolved gases make quite a difference to the taste apparently, that's why water left overnight tastes different to what comes straight out of the tap. The melted ice probably had little dissolved gas.
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Sgt Bilko

1,929 posts

245 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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Is it physiological?

Something to do with the temperature. Just-melted ice may be colder than tap water perhaps.

JM2pW

B16JUS

2,386 posts

267 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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same as water from a jug out the fridge always nicer

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filski666

3,877 posts

222 months

Thursday 4th September 2008
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on a similar topic - why does frozen beer taste so fking horrible? It should be the greatest thing for a hot day - a nice beer lollypop - but it just doesn't work - I think the alcohol seperates or something - they are just NASTY!

Pigeon

18,535 posts

276 months

Friday 5th September 2008
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It's because fridge goblins - that's the goblins that live in your fridge, right - wank into the ice cubes as they freeze. That's why ice cubes are cloudy in the middle.

Unfortunately you'll just have to put up with it because if you clear out the fridge goblins your fridge will stop working because there will be nobody to carry the cold in. Indeed, that's why they wank into the ice cubes - it's to help it freeze faster, not because they're dirty little bds. Well, not entirely because they're dirty little bds.

And you can't stop them wanking because otherwise their bks will explode and kill them and your fridge will stop working, and you can't import some female goblins for them to shag instead because the cold in the fridge makes their cocks so small that they can't actually get it in. Also female goblin fanny batter makes things melt so it would still make your fridge stop working.

I suppose you could always try looking critically at the cloudiness of the ice cubes as you take them out of the fridge and saying things like "Huh, tiny bks" to see if you can embarrass them into just wanking onto the walls of the fridge instead (that's why it frosts up, in case you hadn't worked that out by now).

slideways

4,101 posts

251 months

Friday 5th September 2008
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i must say i prefer fresh ice. not that frozen rubish

leggly

1,850 posts

241 months

Friday 5th September 2008
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try the dehydrated stuff, it's lovelysmile

Dilligaf10

2,431 posts

240 months

Friday 5th September 2008
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Pigeon said:
It's because fridge goblins - that's the goblins that live in your fridge, right - wank into the ice cubes as they freeze. That's why ice cubes are cloudy in the middle.

Unfortunately you'll just have to put up with it because if you clear out the fridge goblins your fridge will stop working because there will be nobody to carry the cold in. Indeed, that's why they wank into the ice cubes - it's to help it freeze faster, not because they're dirty little bds. Well, not entirely because they're dirty little bds.

And you can't stop them wanking because otherwise their bks will explode and kill them and your fridge will stop working, and you can't import some female goblins for them to shag instead because the cold in the fridge makes their cocks so small that they can't actually get it in. Also female goblin fanny batter makes things melt so it would still make your fridge stop working.

I suppose you could always try looking critically at the cloudiness of the ice cubes as you take them out of the fridge and saying things like "Huh, tiny bks" to see if you can embarrass them into just wanking onto the walls of the fridge instead (that's why it frosts up, in case you hadn't worked that out by now).
You really need to stop eating those mushrooms!!hehe

SpydieNut

5,959 posts

253 months

Friday 5th September 2008
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CrashTD said:
This evening I began to construct scotch on the rocks. I had got as far as 'the rocks' when the phone rang. I returned 20 minutes later to find my ice had melted. All the nattering had left me parched so I drank the melted ice. The beverage failed to quench my thirst so I drank some tap water when I noticed a difference in taste. My ice cube water had come from exactly the same tap less than 12 hours previous.

Why does 'melted ice cube' water taste different from tap water?
everything tastes different when you're trollied.

HTH


pugwash4x4

7,683 posts

251 months

Friday 5th September 2008
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its probably to do with gas sublimation and/or changes in the dissolution of calcium carbonate.