Is it bad to drink boiled water mixed with normal cold tap water?

If the non-boiled water is safe to drink then you’ll be fine.

You say that you “usually add some cold water”. Does that mean that you’ve done it there before? If you’ve had the tap water and you didn’t get diarrhea, chances are more of it isn’t going to give you diarrhea.

I believe it’s an old wives’ tale.

@jfos Correction; I usually drink tea with milk but when we’re out of milk I mix cold water and I only did it yesterday and today and only one tea so it’s too soon to tell.

I wouldn’t worry unless the tap water is generally known to be unsafe.

If Holland has safe tap water then it is safe.

Has your boyfriend recently been transported from the 1970’s? Cos that might explain his concern….. But no, with todays water treatment you’ll be fine :)

It’s safe. You can drink the tap water in all of Western Europe quite safely now, it’s just that a lot of people are still stuck in the days when tap water wasn’t adequately treated.

Can you not go to the shop to buy some milk?

Sounds like a 3rd world issue.

Is your boyfriend from a country where you can’t drink the tap water? Like my husband has lived in the states for over 20 years but will not drink straight form the tap. I figure it is a leftver from being raised in Mexico. The water has to go through some sort of filter for him to think it is ok. Can be just Brita (if you know what that is in Holland?) but straight from the tap he still thinks it is a bad idea. He will drink “tap” water in restaurants and water fountains, but he is sure they filter it LOL.

What’s funny is that in Italy everyone drinks from public fountains but wouldn’t dream of drinking tap water.

@Snarp I just gave you a GA, because you basically just said what I said about my husband in the states.

The water is fine in Holland. The temperature makes no difference.

Is your BF from India or Mexico? Old habits die hard.

I don’t see any problems to mix cold and boiled water, as long as the cold tap water is safe to drink. Even not safe to drink water being boiled can be drank. I lived 7 months in China where not boiled tap water can give you a bad diarrhea but once boiled it’s not a problem.

The hot/cold mix is maybe more about food, like eating an ice cream and drinking a tea just after, but it also depends on the person’s body reaction, but here, as said before, mostly old wives tales ! ;)

@JLeslie Haha I know I asked him, he’s from the former Sovjet-Union, and I told him, I said, are you sure you believing that isn’t because you grew up in Kazachstan and were raised to believe that. He moved to Berlin when he was 12 and he believed he learned that while he was already in Germany so.
@Dibley I was in the store yesterday but I forgot ^_^ Of course I can go to the store, I just need to remember or write it down lol.

@whyigottajoin Well, that explain everything. Haha. Some habits die hard.

Sure does.

When you boil water for ~5 min, it kills everything in it. In places where water is contaminated with life-threatening bacteria, drinking tap water could kill you. In places where non-contaminated groundwater is your source of potable water or where surface water is treated to stringent standards and monitored closely, drinking tap water is fine. I drink tap water every day! And just to be clear, there is no health issue from mixing boiling water with cold water – unless the latter is contaminated.

It would only be bad in places where the tapwater itself is not safe to drink. And in places whee it’s not safe, it’s usually fine to boil it then let it go cold.

@lilikoi Not exactly true. My sister’s husband is a missionary in Ghana. They had to filter, bleach and then boil the water. There is a worm that lays eggs that would not die just from boiling the water. These worms when mature could pop out of your body from anywhere.

@WestRiverrat Okay.. I was just about to go to bed I hope I don’t get nightmares from reading that, ieuw! O_o!

This question along with all of the dialogue is just mind boggling.

Boiling water destroys bacteria in it.

In most countries, tap water is already filtered before it leaves the water plant, so it makes no difference if you mix tap water with boiled water, and your boyfriend is being paranoid.

But if you live in a country where the tap water isn’t safe to drink, then your boyfriend is right that you don’t want to mix it with your tea.

@HungryGuy I told him he was being paranoid, and I told him I said, but then that means that it’s unhealty to drink a normal full glass of cold tap water too so. He still believed there was some sort of difference so then I decided to put this question up, to prove my point that it’s not unhealthy in this country.

@whyigottajoin So he is ok with drinking a cold glass of water from the tap, just not mixing it with boiling water. Sorry to say that is nothing short of ridiculous.

@JLeslie I know, that’s what I thought! =P