XPost: alt.home.repair   
   From: xxx@yyy.zzz   
      
   On 2022-12-10 15:07:04 +0000, The Real Bev said:   
      
   >> Making your own soda is WAAAAAYYYY cheaper than buying it in bottles.   
   >   
   > Perhaps if you buy name-brand stuff when it's not on sale...   
      
   At twenty dollars for five pounds of carbon dioxide, my math works out to   
   about 10 cents per liter of carbonated water, assuming NRE is ignored.   
      
   Since I already have that carbon dioxide tank, and since replacing it with   
   a new tank is free every five years, the only cost now to me is the gas.   
      
   The sodastream canisters are 410 grams of CO2, and they say they fill 60   
   liters but it's more like 45 liters by almost all accounts on the net.   
      
   Using easy math, that works out to about 10 grams of carbon dioxide per   
   liter of carbonated water.   
      
   At about twenty dollars for about 2,250 grams of liquid CO2 (five pounds),   
   that works out to 225 liters of carbonated water for about twenty dollars.   
      
   Keeping to easy math, that's about 10 cents per liter of carbonated water.   
   Where do you live that you buy a liter of carbonated water for < 10 cents?   
      
   >> Leaks can be easily prevented.   
   >>   
   >> The people that fill the container are the same ones that provide it to   
   >> every restaurant and tavern you have been to.   
   >   
   > REI?  They were the only people around here who could do it.  NOTHING   
   > they sell is cheap.   
      
   Who mentioned REI?   
   Nice stuff. But expensive.   
      
   I do very much love walking around REI though.   
   It makes me WANT to camp!   
      
   >> My CO2 supplier is a welding shop, and their biggest buyers of CO2 are   
   >> for beverage production or serving.   
   >   
   > Just buying the flavor-things and the CO2 costs more than real soda,   
   > plus the gas for the special trip you have to make to the CO2-supplier.   
      
   For flavoring, the only thing I add is a tiny amount of "Calm" which is a   
   magnesium citrate that gives the carbonated water a lemony type of flavor.   
      
   I don't know what the commercial flavors cost, but I'll bet it's a lot.   
   Here is a $135 bundle, for example, as my first result on a search.   
   https://www.amazon.com/SodaStream-Sparkling-sodastream-Original-   
   ariety/dp/B09C7ZDBRJ/   
      
   I don't remember what the magnesium citrate "Calm" powder costs, but one   
   large tub lasts a few years so I think that cost is in the noise level.   
      
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