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DanseurVertical
Joined: 24 Nov 2010
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 Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:48 am Post subject: washing out water bottles |
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I often visit my local 약수터 (spring) to refill water bottles. Almost always, I observe, the Koreans ahead of me appear to be washing out their bottles with water from the spring and dumping that water, and only then refilling. Once even, an older woman expressed surprise that I didn't do this as well and showed me their way.
I originally thought they may do this (at least in attempt) to clean out any moldy build-up that might form against the plastic. But then I observed other older Koreans drinking from the obviously moldy plastic ladles kept there for public use.
Does anyone know about this habit of washing out one's bottle before refilling it? |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:52 am Post subject: |
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| It's called rinsing. |
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DanseurVertical
Joined: 24 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 3:59 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| It's called rinsing. |
Cool, my English vocabulary is expanding.
Anyway, for what purpose do they "rinse"? These are the same bottles that recently contained essentially the same water and nothing else. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:21 am Post subject: |
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| DanseurVertical wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| It's called rinsing. |
Cool, my English vocabulary is expanding.
Anyway, for what purpose do they "rinse"? These are the same bottles that recently contained essentially the same water and nothing else. |
Because bacteria and mouldy stuff grows in containers. Even those that contained just water....would you bring an old 2 year old pizza box to the pizzaria and tell them to put your fresh pizza in there? |
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DanseurVertical
Joined: 24 Nov 2010
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 4:38 am Post subject: |
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| eamo wrote: |
| DanseurVertical wrote: |
| eamo wrote: |
| It's called rinsing. |
Cool, my English vocabulary is expanding.
Anyway, for what purpose do they "rinse"? These are the same bottles that recently contained essentially the same water and nothing else. |
Because bacteria and mouldy stuff grows in containers. Even those that contained just water....would you bring an old 2 year old pizza box to the pizzaria and tell them to put your fresh pizza in there? |
And so, drinking from ladles with obvious mold is good, but when there is no apparent mold, one should disinfect the container by splashing water?
If that is their purpose (even if the practice may not be effective) I can understand that. But why do they drink from moldy ladles?
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But really, I posted the original message in case someone might actually have communicated with some older Koreans about this and therefore may have some actual insight into what they're doing. And I don't think you have. I've never, for example, observed North Americans doing the same when refilling their water bottles before going hiking or at supermarket drinking water taps. So I'm curious about what people do here. |
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theevilgenius
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| Posted: Tue Dec 20, 2011 8:51 pm Post subject: |
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| I used to go to my local spring during the summer to fill up bottles and every time I did I'd always rinse out the bottle first, why? like eamo said, to clean out the bottle. It's not just Korea I do this, I used to do it back home too. I'm pretty sure most people do it. It could quite simply be that you are the minority on this one. |
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