Many people overlook the amount of tap water that they use for cooking on a daily basis. And if you’re concerned about the quality of the tap water that you drink, shouldn’t you also be concerned about the water you use for cooking? Today we’re going to talk about the effects of cooking with unfiltered tap water and how a water filtration system can improve the taste and health of your food at home!
Cooking with unfiltered tap water can affect your health
We use tap water for almost everything we cook in our kitchens. Whether we are rinsing off vegetables or boiling a pot of pasta, the food we cook almost always comes into contact with whatever contaminants are lurking in our tap water.
That means that if you are cooking with unfiltered tap water, you are susceptible to the same health problems that you would be from drinking it.
Cooking with unfiltered tap water can affect the way your food tastes
In addition to affecting your health, cooking with unfiltered tap water can affect the taste of everything that you make and consume at home. Just consider these common household foods and drinks that use water as a primary ingredient or require water for cooking:
- Coffee, tea, hot chocolate and other hot beverages
- Ice cubes
- Sauces
- Soups and stocks
- Pasta (boiled with water)
- Fruits and vegetables (washed with water)
If your tap water is contaminated with anything that alters its taste, it will also alter the taste of the food that you cook with that water.
Install the right filtration system for cooking with tap water
Improving the tap water you use for cooking will require a filtration system that provides more than just pure drinking water. A whole house filtration system, for example, will filter all of the water in your home, including all of your kitchen’s taps. We here at North Carolina Water Consultants will be happy to help you choose a filtration system that will make your home cooking both healthier and better-tasting!
If you have any questions about cooking with tap water, or if you’d like a water treatment system serviced or installed in your home, contact North Carolina Water Consultants. We service and install Hague water treatment systems in North and South Carolina, including towns like Indian Trail, Monroe and Oakboro, NC.