To reuse hot water bottle water?

[BernadetteRostankowskiWolowitz]

Not to be tight or even conscious of anything environmentally....

I've got bad cramps. I made a hot water bottle earlier which has since gone cold. I'm off to bed now so I want to refresh it.

Ive poured the content of the hot water bottle back into the (empty) kettle, reboiled it, and put it back in the hot water bottle.

Is that grim?

I used to do that but I then read something about the rubber from the hot water bottle contaminating the water with something (?!) and that you shouldn’t really be putting that into something that you essentially drink out of (tea, cooking water etc from the kettle) Sorry I’m not sure that makes sense but the short version is that you shouldn’t!

I wouldn't myself, mainly because it might make your next hot drink taste rubbery...

Odd and I wouldn't fancy the next cup of tea from the kettle. Why not just fill it from the tap?

Why not just fill it from the tap?

The hot water bottle? Because it wouldn't be hot enough.

Why?

That is why not fill the kettle from the tap?? bizarre

Ick Hot water bottle water stinks. Why put that in your kettle?

I wouldn't but I collect the water for my house plants.

Just abit odd if not for saving water etc then what was the benefit?

I did it once. My next drink tasted so rubbery I've been put off it for life

I fill the kettle with hot tap water. It uses a whole kettle to fill the bottle so I refill with cold after. Boils faster.

No

You need to wash your kettle out properly now. (Wasting way more water than just using fresh water)

However WTAF did you do it?

Using the same kettle as for hot drinks may make you hot drinks taste rubbery! We used a spare camping kettle just for hot water bottle water one winter when we lived without central heating.

Can you water plants with the hot water bottle water instead?

Oh god I did this all the time when I was younger!

Rarely used the kettle for much else other than hot water bottles and instant noodles.

Haven't done it in ages but I hate throwing away all that water!

Blimey. How much water are you wasting really if you just poured the cold water from the hot water bottle down the drain and started afresh with water from the tap going into the kettle? I agree with others that I would not want to make a drink from a kettle that has had rubber-tainted water poured into it previously.

I wouldn’t put it in the kettle but I do use it for the plants

This is so weird! Why?

I did once when our water went off on a miserable day. Huge mistake as all my drinks tasted weird once I could use it again.

I pour the water from hot water bottles into the plant pots outside my house. Same with the water bottles the children take to school: emptied onto plant pots and refreshed in the morning before school.

I do this but I have a kettle in my bedroom just for hot water bottles. I never use it for food or drink. I wouldn't suggest reboiling water more than once, twice at a push because sometimes it overboils if it's been boiled too many times. I wouldn't do it with cold water though, I don't see the point. I do it when the water is still warm but not hot enough to help with the pain/cold.

What about the water you've boiled eggs in? The old wives tale was that if you used that for anything you'd get warts, so I've always thrown that away. Still get warts though.

I bet the inside of hotwater bottles is black with mildew

I use the water for house plants or the pots outside. If nothing needs watering at that moment I put it in a watering can for another day.

I don't understand why you would do that and surely now your drinks will taste rubbery

@user127819

I do this but I have a kettle in my bedroom just for hot water bottles. I never use it for food or drink. I wouldn't suggest reboiling water more than once, twice at a push because sometimes it overboils if it's been boiled too many times. I wouldn't do it with cold water though, I don't see the point. I do it when the water is still warm but not hot enough to help with the pain/cold.

Genuine question: what does "overboils" mean here?