This picture may not look like very much, but this is my homemade
cucumber water. The thought came to me recently when I was listening to
the Alton Brown Podcast. Alton confessed his love for
lemonade to quench his thirst, but his true love of cucumber water.
I became very curious of cucumber water since I have drunk lots of glasses of lemonade, and wanted to see what makes cucumber water so special.
Cucumber water is actually crisp and refreshing to drink. If you want you can stick in a piece of cucumber and a piece of lemon, and some
ice cubes. You can even add mint. I keep my water in the
refrigerator when I am not chugging away.
There are a many recipes for cucumber water on the internet.
I have a water container in the refrigerator so that I always have cold water. I took a medium sized cucumber and scrubbed it well, and took off about half the skin and cut it into slices. I then took the pieces of cucumber and put them into a cheesecloth type piece of fabric and stuck that into the water container, and placed the cover back on top and placed it in the refrigerator. You can throw out the cucumber the next day.
Within an hour my water tasted like cucumber. I was drinking more of it than regular water.
