Morton
While out riding yesterday, I decided to try out the Morton salt stuff. Results were mixed. It wasn’t an especially hot day, so the liklihood of cramping was lower, but I was wearing a GoreTex jacket which make me sweat like a pea-eye-gee pig. Anyway, I mixed up the stuff and didn’t cramp, so no problems there.
The trouble is, it doesn’t taste very good.
The Elete Water is made from concentrated seawater and that has a sort of, um, “live” taste to it (for what small taste there is). Sort of oyster-y or sushi-y. The Morton Salt tastes sort of, oh, … processed or something. Astringent, maybe. It’s like when you drink water out of certain types of plastic. You can taste the bottle more than the water. This tastes like the box. Not that there’s a lot of taste, but it’s just enough to put you off. And if it’s enough to put you off, it’s enough to keep you from drinking it, and that defeats the whole purpose.
I may try some other experiment. I found an analysis of seawater so maybe I’ll experiment with that. Morton also makes pure KCl (as “Salt Subsitute“) that you can use to add any missing K. It would be more expensive as “minimally processed” or “unrefined” sea salt is a bit pricey (as these things go), but it might taste a little better.
November 7th, 2005 at 1:49 pm
What a sad day in that you’re pining for the day when your water tasted more “oystery”.
For your next ride, fill your bottle with Clamato, mount a salt lick on the handlebars and call it a draw.
November 7th, 2005 at 2:56 pm
Not really more oystery, but certainly less cardboardy.
In re: the other: I’d need celery.
And vodka.