Nutgraf

I’m really excited about the upcoming water taste test and have been giving it possibly too much thought. It seems like some sort of anxious madness is going around, because I’m all aflutter about everything. Kind of breathless, on tenterhooks, shpilkes (if you’re into that sort of thing), and generally running on really high RPMs for no discernible reason.

Spouse’s mother said something the other day about it being a Wolf Moon, and that being significant because a really big moon makes everyone really big crazy. This makes perfect sense to me.

Water Water Everywhere

Meanwhile, I’ve got some friends coming in to visit this weekend who are very picky eaters. Operating under the assumption that this means they have highly developed sensitivities, I think they are the perfect subjects for the water taste test. And so I plan to inflict the following on their good humor:

Waters to be tested

• Refreshe – Safeway’s store brand
• Dasani
• Deer Park
• Fiji
• GE Smartwater – my fridge’s filtered water
• Brita - old filter
• Brita - brand, spankin’ new filter
• Tap -Montgomery County’s finest

I’m hoping to lay in some Evian, and am accepting suggestions for other waters to include. I will not pay big bucks for a Pur assembly. I’ve got the Brita, and I’m running with it.

Methodology

1. Each type of water will be assigned a number.
2. I will write each number on the bottom of four opaque plastic cups, preparing four complete sets for testing.
3. I will pour numbered waters into their corresponding cups.
4. Having prepared four groups – each group can be shuffled, to ensure a blind study.
5. Testers will sample each water and write down observations by number found on the bottom of each cup. Testers will give each sample a rating on a scale of 1-10, with 10 being the finest, most heavenly water money can buy, and 1being gasoline.
6. Written observations should have comic value and mimic wine tasting notes.
7. Conclusions will be tallied and presented here.

Refinements, suggestions and all are welcome!

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