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BritonGuy  Title: Serious Business
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Registered: 2004-3-4 20:43:50
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NonOffensiveName  Title: Touching people in special places all day long
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Registered: 2001-10-7 19:39:14
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_sooz_ posted:
NonOffensiveName posted:
I think the most aggravating thing for us using that would be that we have to filter all of our water so we'd have to filter the water first before we could even make the soda then filter more water just to have water to drink. Which we filter the water anyways so it wouldnt be an extra step but ya know what I mean lol It just seems very involved vs just going to the store and picking up a 12 pack. If you have your own deep well that you dont have to filter the water first it would be perfect.
So get a filter that fits on your tap. That's what we did, problem solved.
we have foudn those dont filter as well as the stand alone filters
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Ptilk Title: Creepy old pirate
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Registered: 2002-2-13 14:52:58
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If you really want to DIY, you can get a carb cap that fits on a 2 liter soda bottle from any home brew supply store for about 5 bucks, then you can simply attach your CO2 tank and carbonate the water (plus whatever flavors/sweeteners you want) for pennies.
If you really wanted to make it safe and easy to use, you could buy a slightly more expensive cap (around 15 bucks) with a built in adjustable pressure relief valve.
The only downside to something like the Sodastream is the incredibly high cost of replacement CO2 bottles. For less than you pay for one of their tiny little bottles with proprietary threading that will carbonate 40 liters of water, you can get a 20lb tank that will carbonate thousands of liters of water.
They are neat little things despite that however. We had one back in the day and used it to carbonate apple juice and koolade....we never bought soda.
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_sooz_ Posts: 1,256
Registered: 2004-12-4 11:40:44
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NonOffensiveName posted:
_sooz_ posted:
NonOffensiveName posted:
I think the most aggravating thing for us using that would be that we have to filter all of our water so we'd have to filter the water first before we could even make the soda then filter more water just to have water to drink. Which we filter the water anyways so it wouldnt be an extra step but ya know what I mean lol It just seems very involved vs just going to the store and picking up a 12 pack. If you have your own deep well that you dont have to filter the water first it would be perfect.
So get a filter that fits on your tap. That's what we did, problem solved.
we have foudn those dont filter as well as the stand alone filters
I hadnt noticed a difference between the tap and the jug filters. Water tastes the same in both cases (and unfiltered water around here tastes nasty, it has such a strong chemical taste that even flavour packets cant hide it), so we just stick with the one on the tap. Plus it needs changing less often, which is always good.
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-Foxy-  Title: Moderator
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Registered: 2002-5-29 21:46:17
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i think steel has one also
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-Ducky- Posts: 580
Registered: 2001-6-1 14:21:49
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How much do those things cost?
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-Ducky- Posts: 580
Registered: 2001-6-1 14:21:49
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Hmm. That looks kind of neat, and not too bad ($80 on Amazon). It would be fun to drink fizzy flavored waters, so long as they aren't flavored with a bunch of crap. I guess you could mix up your own using fizzy water and like lemon/lime.
Do the flavors taste pretty close to the real thing?
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the_great_ontex Title: This is what cool looks like
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Registered: 2012-2-13 18:38:12
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Hmmm it looks very intriguing. I wouldn't mind trying it. My biggest thing about bottle/canned drink is the amount of preservatives they put in it (in particular Benzonate)
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Caoilin Title: Instigator
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Registered: 2001-11-20 00:03:45
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-Foxy- posted:
i think steel has one also
LOL no. steel does his with his co2 tanks.
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_sooz_ Posts: 1,256
Registered: 2004-12-4 11:40:44
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-Ducky- posted:
How much do those things cost?
We got the unit for $120 (it was $150 but there is a mail-in rebate), you can get cheaper ones than that, I think the cheapest is like $80. The syrups are $4.99 each and make 12 litres of soda. I don't know how much the co2 canisters cost though because I haven't needed to exchange ours yet.
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