editors' tips: making seltzer at home
My husband, Matthew, and I are seltzer fiends. We were going through about 15 liter bottles of Poland Spring seltzer each week. This alarming consumption has made me feel guilty for a couple of reasons. First off, my apartment is on the fourth floor of typical New York City walk-up, so I'd always feel like a total crumb making the Fresh Direct delivery guy lug all that water up all those stairs. Secondly, such a large pile of plastic bottles makes for an embarrassment of waste. But my options seemed limited: Stop liking seltzer? Sell my apartment and move to an elevator building? For Christmas, Matthew surprised me with the third (and winning) option: a seltzer maker! He schlepped all the way out to Borough Park, Brooklyn, and brought home the Soda Club Home Soda Maker. It just takes a few tries before you're cranking out the seltzer like a pro. Now we have an endless supply of bubbly water. I'm a total convert and a proselytizer. I even got my brother-in-law into it (you can read his testimonial on his blog).
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This gave me a flashback to something from my youth in South Africa: the Soda Stream. Dunno if it was available here but the idea was that you carbobnated your own bevs by sticking bottles of water up this chute and then cranking a lever, probably simialr to what you have, K. Very popular in our fam. My stepdad was king of the Soda Stream and produced gallons Cola-Tonic and Lemonade throughout the summer...