On Apr 6, 7:48 pm, "Danica" wrote:
On Apr 5, 8:28 pm, DogMa wrote:



Danica wrote:
It's just a theory, somewhat supported by science:
http://www.chem1.com/acad/sci/abou****er.html

Here is what I believe to be true. Water is basically gel with
molecules bonding and un-bonding into clusters, generally not more
than 25 molecules in size, mostly 4-15. Negative ions promote water
molecules forming in clusters. *** Ionic minerals are what make water
taste good--that is, they are minerals with extra electrons which help
the water form into clusters around it. One might extrapolate that
these mineralized clusters may also bind the 'flavor' of the tea to
the water, giving a better tasting brew. When you bombard water with
radiation of any kind, it will neutralize some quantity of negative
ions in the water, thus removing the water's electrical charge. I
don't know if it leaves any of the water or minerals with a positive
charge (acidic). If you remove all the negative ions, you get neutral
unstructured water with teeny rocks (minerals) in it. It can't
possibly be a good conductor of flavor.

Scientists--do you have any thoughts?

Here are three for starters: Nothing south of the *** has anything
substantive to do with science. While beliefs play a real role in
sensory experience, prescriptive pronouncements about matters that are
speculative only insofar as they have not been compared with fact
probably do no-one a service. And there is a wonderful irony in the use
of scientific lexicon and syntax in making what amount to faith-based,
anti-scientific assertions, a practice regrettably prevalent in the
greater mythos of tea.

Sorry, but you asked.

-DM

I wouldn't say it's faith-based, rather a clever and possibly poetic
attempt to surmise what happens to water when it is boiled in a
microwave, and why it tastes so bad, without assuming that current
scientific paradigms about water are actually truth rather than
theory. In fact, I don't know why water magnetized in an iron
tetsubin on an induction plate is much tastier than water bombarded
with microwaves in a container. Perhaps it is gases. But is that
all? Maybe, maybe not.

You'll have to tell me what water magnatized in an iron tessubin on an
induction plate tastes like. I've been busy drinking boring old water
that can't be magnitized.