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Anonymous B joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 33 minutes later[^][v]#418,016
wut
Anonymous C joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 1 hour after the original post[^][v]#418,018
Because it was frozen, you mora.
Anonymous D joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 22 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,022
Its taste will resemble whatever smells and crap there is in your freezer, or wherever the water was frozen!
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 13 minutes later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,026
@previous (D)
I once froze ice in a completely empty, just-cleaned freezer, and it STILL had the frozen taste when it melted. I think your theory is flawed.
Anonymous D replied with this 13 years ago, 1 minute later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,028
@previous (A)
Maybe it's from the plastic, then? Like how you get that plastic-y taste if you drink water from a plastic jug.
Anonymous A (OP) replied with this 13 years ago, 59 seconds later, 2 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,029
@previous (D)
OHHH. Maybe. I should experiment with different materials. Thank you, Anon D.
Anonymous E joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 7 hours later, 9 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,096
Maybe it's because you are fat
Anonymous F joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 2 hours later, 12 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,107
Dissolved gasses, you moræ
!KThEOwLwbU joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 1 hour later, 14 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,112
oxygen innit
Anonymous H joined in and replied with this 13 years ago, 9 hours later, 23 hours after the original post[^][v]#418,170
Posted By: William M. Rich, MD faculty,Univ. Med. Ctr
Area of science: Chemistry
I am assuming that you are using tap water. Tap water contains a lot of
things besides just water. There are dissolved salts, gases and hopefully
not too many organic substances.
When water freezes it forms a crystaline lattice that is usually very precise.
There is not much room for the dissolved salts and other debris so they are
squeezed out. As the ice remelts they will be in higher concentration in the
ice-water mixture and the water may taste different. Also, once excluded
from the ice which when it melts, may not go back into solution. The gases
may even dissipate. Alternatively, when water freezes some gasses are
trapped in the crystaline structure, which it why it expands.
In any event, when you freeze water and then melt the ice the water is not
the same as it was prior to freezing. At least I hope this is the explanation
rather than your water bottle growing a culture of some noxious bacteria,
fungus or algae. You might experiment with distilled water to see if it
changes also