How many liters of soda can be made with one cylinder? What is the cost per liter at typical retail prices for the supplies?
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I'm not sure. I haven't used my sodastream in over a year, greatly preferring my alternative set up. If I remember, there are two different sizes of sodastream canisters, the 60L and the 130L. While I cannot verify this, many users state that they do not get the advertized number of liters from the sodastream canisters. It might depend on how much you prefer to carbonate your water. I got my sodastream as a Christmas present in 2013; it came with a filled 130L canister. Unfortunately, no store in Tucson could refill the 130L despite Staples saying they could. After seeing the ridiculously expensive usage costs I immediately looked around for a better solution and found one many times less expensive to use, much more versatile, and one that uses a much cheaper, non-proprietary local CO2 canister (&lt;$20 for 5lbs of CO2 and a one time charge for the exchangeable canister.) The gift sodastream was purchased at Costco and could use either of the two proprietary canisters. If I remember correctly, sending the 130L to sodastream for refilling would cost in the vicinity of $50 including postage, and would require ecologically extravagant and wasteful shipping methods, and buying a spare canister was expensive even when not filled with CO2. Because the sodastream canisters are proprietary local CO2 venders cannot fill them; sodstream purposefully put an incompatible valve on their products. One of my hopes when I got the sodastream was that I would reduce my carbon footprint. The 5lb has carbonated over 200 liters and is still going despite the fact that I tend to use a lot of CO2 when I carbonate. The materials are all found locally, thereby reducing considerably my carbon footprint and I find that it is fun to experiment with carbonating things other than water. As you may know, using the sodastream on anything other than water will cause problems (exploding containers) and that even with water the recommended carbonation is not enough for many users, including me. Hope this helps and good luck. . .
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The kit I got did come with 8 bottles and caps included but this was a couple of years ago so if they havent changed, yes. That really is not a problem as they sell extra bottles and I have also used empty plastic water or soda bottles when I was making more batches faster than it was being consumed. Definitely would order one or two extra refill kits and they are available in many different varieties. Also the unknown is you can experiment making flavored beer by adding herbs, spices or even citrus to the mix as it is brewing to get beer unlike what is available for sale in stores.
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I had this issue when I got a 10 pound tank for my Soda stream. I ended up going to a welding supply. It only costs me 17 dollars to fill a 10 lb tank....
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don't use 2 cartridges, it may blow the top off. Yes you can make less than 1.2 liters
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HI - You do still pay - but not as much. I go to Bed, Bath and Beyond and bring old cylinder to Customer Service. They give me new cylinder and I pay $15 I think for the small one. Hope this helps. I have been doing it for a year or two. I love it. The best plan is to own two cylinders so you always have a full one.
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The CO2 bottle is a standard 20 ounce paintball cylinder which you can get at a sporting goods store or Amazon. Dick's will refill the cylinder for about $4.00. There's a plastic adapter that screws onto the top of the CO2 cylinder - I'm not sure where you might get another of those.
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Go to kohls. Extra bottles are 20.00. 60 liter size. I paid 80.00 for the 130 liter bottle
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Small bottle, co2, nozzle and maker. No flavors but you can immediately make soda.
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Yes, it was for one can. I actually stopped the order before it was sent and did not order through Amazon because of this price difference.
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I got my price was 250 ml per 1 liter bag I bought came at me was enough. Put it in you to fill bags come easy.
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Liters? I'd guess somewhere between two or three, but I live in 'Merica so I not exactly sure :)
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There are just 67.62 oz. in a 2 liter bottle of soda. I hope that helps. I was looking at these too and wondered the same thing.
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Don't know. Got this for my husband. He carbonates just enough for one sitting at a time.... we reuse a 20 fl. oz. "disposable" soda bottle. The cartridge lasts for multiple bottles over a week or two, but not sure exactly how many he's filling. I'm sure in the Fizz Gig, one CO2 cartridge would carbonate as much as one CO2 cartridge in another brand soda maker. My husband loves it. He even carbonates orange and cranberry juice. Doesn't work as well on juice with pulp. It takes a little practice to get it right, or it won't seem to add much carbonation. Recommend watching the video on the maker's site. Don't know. Got this for my husband. He carbonates just enough for one sitting at a time.... we reuse a 20 fl. oz. "disposable" soda bottle. The cartridge lasts for multiple bottles over a week or two, but not sure exactly how many he's filling. I'm sure in the Fizz Gig, one CO2 cartridge would carbonate as much as one CO2 cartridge in another brand soda maker. My husband loves it. He even carbonates orange and cranberry juice. Doesn't work as well on juice with pulp. It takes a little practice to get it right, or it won't seem to add much carbonation. Recommend watching the video... » Read More Don't know. Got this for my husband. He carbonates just enough for one sitting at a time.... we reuse a 20 fl. oz. "disposable" soda bottle. The cartridge lasts for multiple bottles over a week or two, but not sure exactly how many he's filling. I'm sure in the Fizz Gig, one CO2 cartridge would carbonate as much as one CO2 cartridge in another brand soda maker. My husband loves it. He even carbonates orange and cranberry juice. Doesn't work as well on juice with pulp. It takes a little practice to get it right, or it won't seem to add much carbonation. Recommend watching the video on the maker's site. « Show Less
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Well, I made my own because I own a machine shop, but you can get a fairly simple one for under $20.00 here on Amazon: search "Bottle Capper - Red Baron for Homebrew" . It's about $17.00 and is eligible for FREE shipping.
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2 liters or 1.5 liters. It's not rocket science. The instructions call for "up to 20%" of the total volume. You could start with 1 liter to be safe.
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Keith, this is the small one, 3.4 oz. there is a larger size, 670 ml retails for $40. Amazon $27.00 lasts about a month if used sparingly.
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Hi, the CO2 soda cartridges are not included with the soda siphon. You will need to purchase those separately. We offer iSi and Kayser Soda cartridges on our seller page. Please let us know if you have any questions or need any assistance. Thanks!