Pennsic-water-msg - 9/1/07
Dealing with the Pennsic drinking water. Filters. Alternatives.
NOTE: See also the files: P-history-msg, Eatng-Pennsic-art, Pennsic-ideas-msg, P-stories-msg, BPThingie-art, camp-showers-msg, camp-kitchens-msg.
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From: "deborah minyard" <dminmin at hotmail.com>
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mattress sacks for Pennsic
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 04:25:22 +0000
>By the way, bringing it back vaguely toward food stuff: does anyone have
>any experience at using filters (Brita or one of its clones) for the
>Pennsic tap water? Do they work well? Do they work at all?
>
>Alban
The household I camp with uses 4 household filters in line. They're changed
once a day. We still don't drink it or cook with it. It's still Orange.
Debbie Minyard
From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:44:08 EDT
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mattress sacks for Pennsic
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
Alban at socket.net writes:
> By the way, bringing it back vaguely toward food stuff: does anyone have
> any experience at using filters (Brita or one of its clones) for the Pennsic
> tap water? Do they work well? Do they work at all?
A new Brita filter will usually make it through Pennsic, but the two weeks
will totally kill it....We used a Brita pitcher in camp one year. For a few
people they work fine; for more than about 5 you cannot keep enough water
filtered in a timely manner to be practical. The pitchers are just too
small.
Brangwayna Morgan
From: Bronwynmgn at aol.com
Date: Wed, 25 Jul 2001 08:44:10 EDT
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Mattress sacks for Pennsic
To: sca-cooks at ansteorra.org
dminmin at hotmail.com writes:
> The household I cmp with uses 4 household filters in line They're changed
> once a day we still don't drink it or cook with it. It's still Orange.
Obviously YMMV. I've been cooking with Pennsic water for 12 years without a
problem. It's only orange if you let it sit so the iron in it oxidizes.
Get it fresh out of the tap and use it! For that matter, even though my camp
puts bottled water in the jugs, I have no problem drinking camp water when
out on the battle field or elsewhere. It has never bothered me, and for the
first five years I never even used bottled water.
I know some people get the runs or the opposite effect from it, because of
the mineral content. All I'm saying is that it doesn't bother me, and I get
sick of people saying that the water is "unusable". It's not unusable; if
you choose not to use it, it's an esthetic thing, not a "because we can't"
thing.
On the other hand, people choosing not to use it cuts down on the strain on
the wells, which is a good thing, and tends to keep it better for those of
us who do use it. So go ahead and buy water.
Brangwayna Morgan
Date: Sat, 3 Jun 2006 13:41:25 -0400
From: "Saint Phlip" <phlip at 99main.com>
Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Pennsic on a shoestring
To: "Cooks within the SCA" <sca-cooks at lists.ansteorra.org>
On 6/3/06, Sharon Gordon <gordonse at one.net> wrote:
> I was talking with a couple of people going to Pennsic this year who are
> on a really tight budget. They asked me if they cooked all their food in
> camp and brought food and firewood from home, if they could eat for $10 each
> per week. I told them I doubted it, but I thought they could do it for $15
> each if they could get access to water filtered at Pennsic and didn't have
> to buy bottled water. That's assuming they got all their food on sale and
> only used their cooler for the first day or two with ice brought
> from home.
They can get access to filtered water, but it will require a bit of hiking,
if they're planning on camping as single. The spigot by Chirurgeon's Point
is filtered, deliberately, so people get the water they need, but the center
of Pennsic is quite a ways away from where most single campers camp, at
least any that get there after the first couple of days.
--
Saint Phlip
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