Why does my distilled water have an unpleasant taste?
Assuming that your Essential Extractor was clean before you began the distillation, the only reason for any odor or flavor in distilled water must have come from the original un-distilled water.We have experienced this ourselves and we finally tracked down the culprit. We were filling the kettle using a regular garden hose and the hose was tainting the water. This off-odor and unpleasant flavor was eliminated when we stopped using the garden hose and switched to a hose made of food-grade plastic.