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Q: When cooking noodles or rice should I used filtered water or is tap water fine?
8 years 51 weeks ago in Health & Safety - China
you can use anyone.. both are more or less equally polluted...
I was always told that tap water is OK for pasta/noodles but use bottled water for rice. Something to do with rice absorbing more water during cooking. No idea how accurate it is, but works for me.
Well all restaurants use tap water, and either way you cannot avoid it. If you could use filtered water then I don't see any reason why you shouldn't. The chinese seem healthy enough even though they eat food made from tap water and even drink that water, so....whichever is convenient for you
my wife use tap water, I am using bottled one, and she wondered why I can cook it tastier..
I use bottled water for rice and tap for noodles. The "logic" being that the rice suck up all the water whereas the noodles don't. Since I started this practice I have realized how flawed my logic is as the noodle also sucks up a lot of water
hunny797:
compare the sizes of rice and noodles before and after boiling..it is clear that noodles absorb much more than rice...
yongge:
Leave the noodles standing for a few minutes and all the water will be absorbed.
I use tap water to cook with... boil it....bottled water to drink... .. even my coffee often just gets tap water......... see you in another life.
bottled water is just for me when I am not drinking beer...... 5 gallon /5wks +/-.
I use filtered water (not from a bottle, but water run through a filter I have at home). Whatever you cook will end up absorbing the water, pollution and all, so might as well use the cleanest you can get.
Bottled H2O if you can afford it. Me, I'm too cheap, but I do spring for bottled water for my java-juice.
Chinese tap water can contain fecal matter and heavy metals and other nasties sometimes, although sometimes it is fine, but that is impossible to know what is in your tap water. You cannot trust Chinese 'mineral' water in large cooler tongs or small bottles as the mentality is to make as much money as possible, and the health of the customer is meaningless, compared to the health of their bank account.
So there are only two reliably safe ways. One is to buy imported mineral water, the other is to buy an under-sink water filter.
A lot of rice is grown with deep well water that is high in arsenic content. The water you cook it with matters not compared to the water it was grown with. Bing it. Nothing to do with pollution. Just the natural elements in the areas where it is grown.