https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Distilled_water#Drinking_dis...
"Distillation removes all minerals from water. This results in demineralised water, which has not been proven to be healthier than drinking water. The World Health Organization investigated the health effects of demineralised water in 1982, and its experiments in humans found that demineralised water increased diuresis and the elimination of electrolytes, with decreased serum potassium concentration.[citation needed] Magnesium, calcium, and other nutrients in water can help to protect against nutritional deficiency. Recommendations for magnesium have been put at a minimum of 10 mg/L with 20–30 mg/L optimum; for calcium a 20 mg/L minimum and a 40–80 mg/L optimum, and a total water hardness (adding magnesium and calcium) of 2–4 mmol/L. At water hardness above 5 mmol/L, higher incidence of gallstones, kidney stones, urinary stones, arthrosis, and arthropathies have been observed.[citation needed] For fluoride the concentration recommended for dental health is 0.5–1.0 mg/L, with a maximum guideline value of 1.5 mg/L to avoid dental fluorosis.[17]"
I have gotten used to the taste of my Zerowater filter and so I got worried when I saw your comment. Maybe its better to drink the clean water and supplement with electrolytes and vitamins/minerals. That way you control all the parameters vs leaving it up to chance.
However, during normal daily activity and by eating, you're supplementing your body with enough salt (and other solutes) to compensate for what isn't in your distilled water.
Now it's a totally different question whether we're getting PFAs out of our water with the Zerowater filters. That should rightfully incite some panic.
They recently sent me an email claiming that they remove 95% of PFOA and PFOS
I went with a still because I wanted to be sure it's "just water". I feel like even if it did filter out the microplastics there's some other things it won't, so the simplest thing was just to ensure it's only water. No lead, no plastics, no plastic filters, no mercury, etc.
Can you share your preferred tools for boiling the water? Seems simple enough but at this point I'm very skeptical of online claims, so always prefer something the HN crowd has examined in detail.
I'm in the process of getting rid of my beloved goerge foreman out out concern of the mon sticky surface as well...
But there's plenty of other ones out there. I liked that one because it's simple and seems unlikely to break soon.
I just fill it like a coffee maker at night and run it while I'm asleep. Fresh water in the morning, then I'll fill it again after breakfast and run it during the day.
> the molecules in liquid water are held together by relatively strong hydrogen bonds, and its enthalpy of vaporization, 40.65 kJ/mol, is more than five times the energy required to heat the same quantity of water from 0 °C to 100 °C
-- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enthalpy_of_vaporization#Therm...
I'm aware of that, but I didn't realize "boil out" (turning all to stream) means something different from "boil" (to just heat to reach boil point or rolling boil).