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Question: can SodaStream carbonate arbitrary liquids like orange juice, or just pure water? If it can only carbonate water, which you then mix with flavoring, w

by fipple 8y ago

Question: can SodaStream carbonate arbitrary liquids like orange juice, or just pure water? If it can only carbonate water, which you then mix with flavoring, what’s the advantage over bottled seltzer from the store?

jjcm 8y ago
Yea. It's just adding pressure to liquid. You can carbonate whatever you want in it. Tried it was apple juice once and it was neat, but ended up really using it almost exclusively for carbonated water.
karmelapple 8y ago
Officially, just pure water. Unofficially, you can hack it [1]. Back in 2015, there were plans to unveil something that could officially do more [2], but that seems to not be for the consumer market. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/dining/hacking-home-soda-making-machines.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/dining/hacking-home-soda-... 2. https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/04/sodastream-mix-will-carbonate-any-and-all-liquids-including-alcohol https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/04/sodastream-mix-will-car...
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lathiat 8y ago
The problem is that when you release pressure on anything but water, as the CO2 starts to come out of solution it bubbles up and tends to spill out of the bottle. I'm sure there is science on this but my naive guess is that this is partly because theres more nucleation sites to bubble more, and then the non-water fluid will "soap" up a bit for lack of a better description (form bubles) causing it to then spill up and out. You can get around this by releasing the pressure slowly. Some models of SodaStream (e.g. the Source) let you do this and others do not (e.g. the electric model). As a secondary concern if the fluids do spill up out of the top into the valve area, it gets stuff on the seals etc and it doesn't seal as well later. Lower pressure = less carboned. And it's very easy to do this even releasing the pressure slowly. So; yes.. but.. no. If you want to do that regularly, you're better off making some other kind of solution I think. It's pretty easy to make your own rudimentary sodastream. (and as others stated, they specifically tell you not to do this)
awiesenhofer 8y ago
> what’s the advantage over bottled seltzer from the store? Not needing to buy plastic bottles and trashing them when you are done with them!?

by fipple 8y ago

jjcm 8y ago

Yea. It's just adding pressure to liquid. You can carbonate whatever you want in it. Tried it was apple juice once and it was neat, but ended up really using it almost exclusively for carbonated water.

karmelapple 8y ago

Officially, just pure water. Unofficially, you can hack it [1]. Back in 2015, there were plans to unveil something that could officially do more [2], but that seems to not be for the consumer market. 1. https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/dining/hacking-home-soda-making-machines.html https://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/27/dining/hacking-home-soda-... 2. https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/04/sodastream-mix-will-carbonate-any-and-all-liquids-including-alcohol https://firstwefeast.com/eat/2015/04/sodastream-mix-will-car...

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lathiat 8y ago

The problem is that when you release pressure on anything but water, as the CO2 starts to come out of solution it bubbles up and tends to spill out of the bottle. I'm sure there is science on this but my naive guess is that this is partly because theres more nucleation sites to bubble more, and then the non-water fluid will "soap" up a bit for lack of a better description (form bubles) causing it to then spill up and out. You can get around this by releasing the pressure slowly. Some models of SodaStream (e.g. the Source) let you do this and others do not (e.g. the electric model). As a secondary concern if the fluids do spill up out of the top into the valve area, it gets stuff on the seals etc and it doesn't seal as well later. Lower pressure = less carboned. And it's very easy to do this even releasing the pressure slowly. So; yes.. but.. no. If you want to do that regularly, you're better off making some other kind of solution I think. It's pretty easy to make your own rudimentary sodastream. (and as others stated, they specifically tell you not to do this)

awiesenhofer 8y ago

> what’s the advantage over bottled seltzer from the store? Not needing to buy plastic bottles and trashing them when you are done with them!?