Here’s your cheat sheet, my dehydrated friend:
Use distilled water for your iron, your car battery, your CPAP, or your terrarium that has a very dramatic fern. It’s the water that follows rules.
Use RO water for drinking, cooking, brewing coffee, and making your cat’s water bowl look fancy. It’s the water that’s good enough for life.
Can you swap them? Sure. But your iron might get a little crusty, or your coffee might taste like a science experiment. You’ve been warned.
So next time you’re in the aisle, grab the RO for your glass and the distilled for your steam mop. And if anyone gives you a hard time? Tell them you’re a water connoisseur. It sounds way cooler than “I panicked and bought both.”
Now go hydrate. You thirsty legend.