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Why spend energy producing and transporting heavy water and plastic bottles with this pre-mixed Soylent? Everyone already has plentiful water and receptacles at
by Wintamute 11y ago
Why spend energy producing and transporting heavy water and plastic bottles with this pre-mixed Soylent? Everyone already has plentiful water and receptacles at home. Seems like a retrograde step, unless I'm missing something?
- kondro 11y agoSoylent has a better texture after hydrating for some time.
- turtlebits 11y agoIt also goes bad in 3-4 days, even refrigerated.
- jimrandomh 11y agoThat probably won't happen to the bottles, since they can make them sterile. When you mix it yourself you let microbes from the air get in.
- viewer5 11y agoFrom what I've read (I think in the most recent Ars Technica article on it, not counting today's 2.0 one), soylent has to sit for a while in the fridge after you make it or it's absolutely awful.
- saddestcatever 11y agoTrue. I'm on my first batch of 1.5 right now. The instructions are pretty clear about it needing to be cold. Room-temperature, the Soylent mix is pretty gnarly (think chalk), but once properly chilled it pretty much tastes like nothing.
- fudged71 11y agoPeople will pay a premium for convenience. Also the convenience could allow them to sell these as individual drinks in grocery stores and convenience stores.