/ck/ - Food & Cooking

How much do you guys filter your water? I purchased some bamboo charcoal the other day because I
heard that it would be a suitable replacement for a brita pitcher. Purchased around 6 sticks and the
directions said "one for a bottle, two for a carafe" Two seemed to MAYBE have an effect but I wasn't
entirely convinced so I pushed the brink by sticking all six charcoal sticks into the bottom of my brita
filtration pitcher so I could definitively identify a distinction. Now I'm no professional water/tea taster and
I didn't even do any blind tests, but the tea that this brita+charcoal water brewed seems to be really
thick in body, but also a little clouded (flat?) in taste. Could it be that perhaps my water is too soft now?

How much filtering does tea water need, /tea/? Is there a balance to be struck? Has anyone here ran experiments with this kind of thing?