Somehow I just don't think this option is going to cut it on the home kitchen counter though.
Home Carbonation System...Cheap, Healthy, and Green.
I think the paradox is that the richest aren't working for the money, and maybe they never were-- it's just a scoreboard. Unfortunately the personal sacrifices they made to get up on that scoreboard aren't worth the money, either.The fact is most Americans don't want to get rich. Sure, they would like the money. But they don't want to make the sacrifices necessary to have a shot at becoming really wealthy: the enormously hard work, missed birthdays, long days and forgone vacations and weekends.
For many, additional income increases the incentive for leisure. Recent research by Nadia Steiber at the Vienna University of Economics finds that employees who are moving up in the world would actually prefer to work less. And with the advent of cheap manufactured goods and free sources of entertainment like Facebook and YouTube, it's easier than ever to find happiness with modest wealth.
Yes. The idea of a continually growing portfolio creates some new decisions. Hopefully we can defer them but it does weigh on us....Although we've added some conveniences to our lives, the extra wealth seems to be more of a self-imposed "stewardship burden" than a luxury. Even giving it away or gifting it is fraught with value issues.
Sure beats the alternatives.Yes. The idea of a continually growing portfolio creates some new decisions. Hopefully we can defer them but it does weigh on us.
However, it is a nice problem to have!
FD - looking into the sodasteam - have you any issue with refills and cost/shipping? Understand the cylinders are good for 60 liters of soda and cost ~$30/refill. Shipping? A throwaway 1 liter soda siphon charger costs $.40-$.50/charger and would seem about the same cost, though without the simple separate bottle of the sodastream. Also have read their flavors aren't so great, though we would probably limit ourselves to a squeeze of lime or lemon. Your experience?
Good article - we've been spending money on and transporting around and drinking water. Water with no sugar or artificial sweeteners or coloring in it, because that would be Bad. It does have some carbon dioxide mixed in, and sometimes some alcohol. Can't believe we are doing that, and what we're paying for fizzy water. Somehow I just don't think this option is going to cut it on the home kitchen counter though.
Home Carbonation System...Cheap, Healthy, and Green.
brewer12345 said:Any homebrew supply shop can sell you a second hand cornelius keg, CO2 bottle, regulator and fittings for maybe $150. You can make tons of soda, sparkling water, carbonated milk, carbonated cocktails, etc. for peanuts.
I do not consider these sites as entertainment.And with the advent of cheap manufactured goods and free sources of entertainment like Facebook and YouTube, it's easier than ever to find happiness with modest wealth.
/facepalm
I read that, and thought to myself: why would you need carbonated liquids for peanuts? Is there some cool combination/recipe I don't know about?
Then I thought: maybe they go really well together, drinking carbonated drinks and eating peanuts..
Finally I got it.
Ever have those moments when you question wtf route your brain took to get something so simple?
What about this option?
Sodastream | Turn Water Into Fresh Sparkling Water And Soda
I have one of those contraptions and it works great.
Brewer's suggestion really is the best option.
I've been making my own carbonated water this way for many years. The keg sits in my beer fridge, with its own tap, so I fill a glass whenever I want one.
The carbonator caps also work well with one- or two-liter soda bottles, if you prefer to avoid the keg. But note that these "kegs" are only about 8.5 inches in diameter and a bit over two feet tall, so they do have a small footprint.
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I stopped drinking the carbonated water and ...my kidneys are functioning better and I have no pressure or urgency feeling or the need to go constantly that I had with the carbonated water.
Could be a matter of degree because like I said...I drank it all the time.! Carried bottles of it around with me.
I'll hie me to a brew shop and check out carbonator caps - the link I first posted had directions for homebuilt units using Schrader valve tire stems ERD50, but I'm going to need to achieve a certain veneer of civilization for the project to gain approval. Read a few links suggesting that regular rubber tire stems transferred flavor and you wanted to go with the rigid metal stems as used on many mag wheels.
Don't know about Brewer, but I was born and raised in Brooklyn, and to this day an authentic egg cream is my absolute favorite beverage. In my younger days, you could only get one at the soda fountain in a neighborhood candy store/luncheonette (although they were ubiquitous). It was my treat on my way home from high school. These days I make 'em often at home.
A slight correction to the directions in the link: egg creams were always made (at least in my part of Brooklyn) with only about an inch of milk in the glass. Then the chocolate syrup, then stirred with a long spoon while the seltzer was being added.
Yeah, but the luncheonette owners in Brooklyn learned from the those in the Bronx Those were certainly the days. I used to also buy my black market fireworks from Richies Luncheonette.
Borough, schmorough. The point is that the egg cream is a quintessentially Nyawk City drink. I've never met anyone from elsewhere who has ever heard of it, except from one of us.
As the classic line has it, "Anything west of the Hudson is camping out."