Is drinking distilled water safe?

You should actually drink this with demineralized water
which is basically 50 times purer than distilled water

No way! It’s actually the exact opposite...

Maybe our buddy James Taylor51 is actually thinking about deionized water?

Just so we’re on the same page here, distilled water is actually way more pure than that demineralized stuff...
Listen, rustymoose54, I noticed we’ve got pretty similar setups, but I gotta say, yours looks a hell of a lot more high-end than mine.😉 👋

Honestly, give the author some credit... I mean, I’d probably call this "The Pearl Collection" if I felt like being extra, but I really can't be bothered to deal with the drama that comes with being right all the time...

So, anyway, regarding water purity—going from basically nothing to the real deal:
1. demineralized
2. distilled
3. deionized (that's when you run the distilled stuff through an ion exchanger)

I gotta say, I’m honestly scratching my head over why anyone would bother running distilled water through a cross-ion exchange system... maybe they're trying to dodge scale buildup before the actual distillation process, but I just don't see the point. Anyway, the way we handle things around here is by doing a double-distillation pass. We run the first round through some KMnO4 mixed with a bit of acid to oxidize any organic junk lingering in there. That's how we end up with the lowest conductivity readings possible.

Seriously, can you guys just clear up all those ties for me now?

rustymoose54 said:Water made that way has basically zero conductivity.

Deionized water actually has even lower conductivity. 🙂

Honestly, I’ve got no clue what they were even getting at earlier when they tossed around the term "demineralized" water... what, like just settling out the salts? Because once you settle out those inorganic salts, you're still gonna have some stray ions floating around in there, no matter how hard you try. Even distillation won't totally kick them all out—and look, if you're really obsessed about having zero foreign ions in your water, the smart move is just to run it through an ion exchanger after you distill it, and then you're golden...