Water for Coffee FAQ
Frequently Asked Questions about water for coffee.
This FAQ about water for coffee was compiled and written by Jim Schulman jim_schul...@myrealbox.com with numerous contributions by others.
0. If you don't ever want to mess with this stuff (Water for coffee)- Use Volvic or Crystal Geyser Natural Alpine water in your ...
- 0. Content note: (Water for coffee)
- The alt.coffee archives have answered almost all my ...
- 1.1 Water hardness defined
- Hardness is the term for the calcium or magnesium ...
- 1.2 Limescale precipitation, PHs & the Langelier index (Water for coffee)
- Whether and how much scale precipitates depends on the water'...
- 1.3 Water analyses and testing
- Water authorities must publish their waters' composition, ...
- 1.4 More on alkalinity and simplified calculations (Water for coffee)
- There are two items that need to be noted prior to ...
- 1.5 Calculating acceptable hardness at various temperatures (Water for coffee)
- As one can see from the LI formula, rising temperature ...
- 1.6 Estimating scale deposition rates (Water for coffee)
- When calcium/magnesium carbonate precipitates out as scale, ...
- 1.7 Estimating scaling rates in espresso machines (Water for coffee)
- When a given lot of water has dropped enough scale to ...
- 1.8 Corrosion and water hardness (Water for coffee)
- When corrosion is a danger in hot water systems, as ...
- 2. Water treatments (Water for coffee)
- If the local tap water is unsuitable, and bottled waters ...
- 2.1 Charcoal filtering (Water for coffee)
- Charcoal removes chlorines, odors, colors, and cloudiness, ...
- 2.2 Mineral introduction (Water for coffee)
- When water is deficient in some key mineral for it's ...
- 2.3 Distillation and reverse osmosis (Water for coffee)
- Distillation removes all water impurities, good or bad....
- 2.4 Ion exchange softening (Water for coffee)
- Ion exchange runs the water through a polystyrene resin ...
- 2.5 Total or combination water treatments (Water for coffee)
- The above treatment options can be combined to get water ...
- 2.6 Non-mineral adjusting water treatments (Water for coffee)
- There are anti-scaling treatments available that do not ...
- 2.7 Brands of water treatments (Water for coffee)
- I regret that I could not find enough information, nor had ...
- 3.1 Facts and theories about the best coffee water
- The taste of straight water is quite subjective. ...
- 3.2 A taste test (Water hardness and taste)
- These disputes call for a taste test. However, there's ...
- 3.3 Other water factors in coffee taste
- There are several websites that insist good coffee water ...
- 4.1 Scope (Water treatment and preventive descaling for espresso machines)
- This section does not deal with what commercial ...
- 4.3 Boiler flushing (Water treatment and preventive descaling for espresso machines)
- Obviously, no one in their right minds would want to ...
- 4.4 Choosing a water treatment (Water treatment and preventive descaling for espresso machines)
- There's basically three choices: Using boiler safe water ...
- 4.5 A note to commercial operators (Water treatment and preventive descaling for espresso machines)
- With conventional water inlet design, a commercial ...
- 4.6 A water treatment for gaggia home machine boilers
- High alkalinity and low hardness water protects a Gaggia,...
- 99. Web references (Water treatment and preventive descaling for espresso machines)
- http://www.corrosion-doctors.org/NaturalWaters/Frames....
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