can you use a glass bottle with the Fizz Giz Soda Maker and Home Carbonation Kit: Does anyone have any extra information on this?
921979
The only important compatibility you should ensure is a perfect match of the cap with the bottle. FiZZ GiZ caps do not fit all bottles. It's as simple as that. The fact is, nobody's cap fits all bottles. I tell people this: Try the cap on a bottle. If it's an absolutely perfect fit, use it. If it's not - don't. Getting a cap to fit a soda / seltzer / champagne bottle is not difficult. You can send them the cap that came on the bottle you like and they'll convert it to a FiZZ GiZ cap for the same price you'd pay for one of their fully assembled stock caps. Remember, caps 'n bottles - like nuts 'n bolts - must be a perfect match for a reliable seal to be maintained. You can't put a gas can lid on a Coca Cola bottle and you can't put a milk jug lid on a mayonnaise jar. To say that sounds ridiculous because it's so obvious. But the same principal can be true even when the cap 'n bottle appear to be a good match. IE, Coca Cola bottle caps are not compatible with Pepsi bottles and vice versa. Yep. You can thank 'Big Soda' for that! In 2007, almost all PET soda bottle caps were identical and interchangeable. Now, very few are. The one opportunity to do the greenest thing possible has been strategically rejected by almost all CSD bottlers because it would cut into their bottom line if more people reused bottles and made their own CSD's at home using homemade syrups or genuine Coca Cola Classic syrup from Sam's Club (same way many restaurants do - it's a heck of a lot cheaper). Thanks to big soda, it's more difficult for people to save 'n reuse the bottles than it ever has been in the entire history of bottled soft drinks. So go for it on the Gerolsteiner glass bottles. http://www.gerolsteiner.de/index.php?id=1571 shows the Gerolsteiner Gourmet bottles which have been reported to be a good fit. Just make sure whatever bottle you use (glass or plastic) is a soda or seltzer bottle designed for the rigors of highly pressurized contents.
1398065
These caps fit common 2 liter plastic bottles. However, I'd recommend the "carbonater" (sic!) caps, a real regulator, ball lock fitting, and food grade hose, as available from Amazon or brewing supply places online. The Fizz Giz system is a hokey kludge, really, and if you want to do it that way, just get a sports ball valve and stick it in the cap of your choice; simply drill a hole and insert.
1667611
The Giz, the caps, the cartridges, and the bottles are all you need. I've been making soda from unfiltered cranberry juice drink (sweetened with grape and apple) and mango-passion juice (to which I add passionfruit pulp) for more than two years now. Far superior to any soda you can buy. I reuse the same Trader Joe's 42-oz. bubbly water bottles, over and over and over. Still using the same 8 caps I started with. I buy 60 cartridges maybe twice a year (that's a lot of soda).
27667
One charge per use. The instruction manual says you can use two cartridges to make a bottle extra fizzy, but I haven't needed to do that- plenty of carbonation with one cartridge. If you buy them in boxes of 20 or more, they only cost about 50 cents each...
1321006
Hi Oscar -- Thanks for your inquiry. You can use any liquid you choose in the Soda Plus. It's fun to fizz up your favorite fruit juices and try different juice combinations -- and it's more economical. You can even make sparkling wines and re-carbonate beverages that have gone flat. Also, the Soda Plus is easy to use and uses any standard brand of CO2 cartridge so you're not limited by more expensive proprietary brands. We hope this information has been helpful. If you want to learn more, please feel free to contact us. Best regards, aaa kitchenstuff
1844152
Yes but the carbonation dies out. I don't recommend this though for little ones. I have a 9 yr old and a 6 yr old. I ended up tossing this after two trys and going with the chill factor cup. The slushy magic needs to be shaken and it goes literally everywhere. The chill factor just needs to be squeezed. I hope this helps!:)
1321005
Yes, you can add the Soda Stream flavors to the carbonated water. You can also carbonate wines and juices, which makes the SodaPlus superior to the other carbonation machines on the market.
1667613
Fizz Giz comes with everything needed to start carbonating soda. Mine came with two 16g CO2 cartridges that got me started, you can order more of them, search Amazon for Redrock Distributing: http://www.amazon.com/20-Gram-Unthreaded-CO2-Cartridges/dp/B001QA68LI/ref=sr_1_4?ie=UTF8&qid=1410872716. For flavorings, you can search the web for many great recipes, most of which can be made healthier than what you'd buy in the store.
235176
I have not made an attempt to do anything but water. I am very satisfied with flavoring the water as the instructions prescribed. The carbonation is excellent for adding whatever you prefer. You will probably have quite a mess with carbonating with juice.
1143536
my son buys sodastream syrup and tries to figure out the proportions....I just use the fizzy water and add a shot of peach juice or lemonade to it.
375090
Can't imagine it would work on plastic, it would collapse the bottle. And 10 oz glass bottles, probably, but for 10 oz of soda, why would you need it? I don't think it would do anything to save the carbonation, so it would be gross anyway.
2066934
from what i have seen on the two product pages, i don't think so. the fizzini has little knobs that allow for a quarter turn to seal. the soda stream bottle page seems to look like the bottle is threaded.
1279536
I have not tried that so I really do not know but I do bottle kombucha that has a lot better fizzy life with the smaller bottles.
1806921
You can use anything. All you do with the Soda stream is making carbonated water. To that you can out juice, or other flavorilngs like IMO, sweetened drink powder packets, etc. if you use juice use concentrated for a full flavor. Remember it is just carbonated water.
2066932
No. The Sodastream bottles are threaded and the Fizzini bottles have notches. I'm thinking the only other bottles that will work are the Primo soda station bottles sold on Amazon.
556753
You will need to add a little sugar during the bottling process for carbonation. You can use honey or corn sugar (or anything similar). Look up bottle conditioning or bottle carbonation on the internet for how much to use.
2218015
I've never tried it, but it should work as long as you do not fill it all the way. It does seal well so should hold the carbonation, but if it's filled to the top and agitated at all, opening the vent to drink will probably get a geyser of soda.