I bought myself a cheap sodastream for fathers day recently. I did some research and lots of DIYers recommended getting your own CO2 tank and adapter hose to hook up to the sodastream directly instead of refilling the small canisters that sit inside.
I waited to make sure the sodastream was going to be something I liked before committing to the big tank. I’m a big dr pepper fan and the dr pete syrup wan’t very good. It was metalic and tasted like a cross between dr pepper and pepsi. I’m not a huge cola flavor fan. But I love carbonated waters and got the bubly natural flavors and those have been good.
Nobody in the family really liked their first drinks. A lot got poured out. But, I decided to pull the trigger and got a big 20lbs tank for no other reason than to save money on all the carbonated water I buy. I go through 1-2 cans per day. That shit’s only getting more and more expensive too. I took it to the local gas store and filled it with beverage grade CO2, ($40) hooked it up, and was pleasantly surprised.
Not just that it worked, but by how GOOD it tasted. Even plain with no flavors. Had others in the family taste to confirm and they all agree the new CO2 tank tastes WAY better. I wonder if the small canister that came with the sodastream was just sitting in a warehouse for so long it started to pick up a lot of taste from the metal or something.
Very happy, gonna need to retry the dr pete syrup, and see if that was the problem.
the local gas store? specifically for different types of gases? I’m unfamiliar.
Beer making supply stores often have food-grade CO2 for refilling tanks also.
Wait wait – we reduce the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by making a fuck ton of beer.
Fermentation releases an order of magnitude more CO2 than you put back into it when you carbonate it
Keep making more.
okay thanks
Welding supply store i assume. Most places have one.
Yep, non-chain place does mostly welding gases and supplies, but also food grade CO2.
When I was in restaurants, i got my CO2, or beer gas, ( CO +N2) delivered by the same company that filled our LNG / propane from, and heating oil from. Theyre also who you get liquid nitrogen, and people go to for acetyline, and other welding gasses like argon/ co2 mix. All the stores got their helium for balloons too, before our town banned it…
So yeah, a gas store.
unfortunately the American dialect of the English language chose the absolute worst word for petroleum fuel: gasoline or gas. It muddles conversation
There are stores that specialize in providing gasses in various purities. Depending on what you get from them, you probably just think of them as the [whatever gaseous chemical you’re buying] store. I could name a few, which might not be entirely ethical, or you could look up where to buy helium or oxygen or nitrogen.
Name a few! How is that unethical?
Clients used them, I wouldn’t know the information otherwise.
My clients paid for confidentiality.
There are secret gas stores you claim you “could name” but are choosing not to? wtf are you talking about?
Gas stores are on google maps! they are stores selling compressed gases for refill, exchange or purchase.
Ffs, i understand these stores are not common knowledge, it’s why i asked for basic clarification, but i don’t need an ancient aliens hypothesis about helium storage.
You don’t know. It’s fine. Nobody else here did either.
i have given you enough information to find what you need dude. the fact that you can’t is a skill issue. and if you could find it on google, it’s not a secret.
frankly, the fact that you’re starting shit here seems like you’re not a good fit for the dull men’s club.
Again, gas stores are not a secret and it’s weird you’re pretending they are some hidden market that only you have access to.
It’s fine that you’re ignorant about gas stores, i was too, it’s why iask questions. You don’t have to answer questions you don’t know anything about.
i’m just going to need to repeat myself aren’t I, as one of the persons who told y’all about the gas stores. I can’t be reading my clients’ checkbooks and telling you who they paid.
not taking “no” for an answer is rapist behavior
I understand you are excited to parrot information we already talked about and pretend you provided it first, but your “hidden knowledge” routine is completely buffoonish.
In case you really are this far gone: no, you should not become a “rapist”.