"Bluesea" > wrote in message

> It's generally accepted amongst knowledgeable tea drinkers that one should
> use bottled water for tea if one's regular tap water doesn't taste good.
....
> in the r.f.d.t. FAQ that bottled water is preferred over
> filtered water unless it's drawn and immediately put on to boil and not
left
> sitting in a filtering carafe or pitcher.

I can use the tap water nearly imediatly as it passes through the tap filter
as fast as usual, and it takes 2 minutes to get it though the Brita. It's
not really left sitting.

> Even if not, both bottle and
> carafe are made of plastic and will affect the taste depending on the
> quality of plastic used and bottled water sits in it's plastic bottle a
> *whole* lot longer than home-filtered water sits in a pitcher waiting to
be
> used.

I agree if it's a plastic bottle, I find the water smells of plastic when
you open it, so when I have no other choice (than bottled water) I pour the
water in a glass half an hour before drinking it. Mineral water in glass
bottle is great, but not very convenient to get at home.
The Brita pitcher doesn't give taste to the water. You can also make your
own : place a carbon (I get them at the grocer's in Japan and was told
aquarium shops retailed them in other countries) in a glass pitcher.
For the oxygenation, isn't that possible to do it by whipping the water or
pouring it back and forth a few times
(pouring from very high like when serving mint tea) before boiling it ?

Kuri