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Fuck soda stream, not only because there Israeli and had a factory in the occupied territories until backlash forced them out, they're also anti-repair.
I have one and one time I pumped it a bit too much and heard a pop and it would no longer work. I opened it up and found that a piece of foil had been ruptured, and found a video online of someone replacing it by unscrewing a plastic bit and replacing the foil. I eventually stripped the screw trying to get it out only to find in the comments of the video that they glue that screw in now . They don't sell a replacement part for it either so I eventually just had to use hot glue to seal it, which doesn't feel safe.
The foil seems designed to pop as a safety pressure release mechanism, but it basically bricks the unit afterwards and you have to buy a new one.
LPT: go get
That's everything you need to carbonate soda yourself without some proprietary bullshit device.
(I found the best price for the gas cylinder from a local company that resupplies restaurants etc. with soda dispensers, which is convenient because they can also refill it for you. The rest of the stuff can be found easily enough from Amazon or whatnot. I wouldn't buy the cylinder from Amazon unless I wanted aluminum instead of steel, for no good reason.)
Works if you have space to put a 10lb CO2 cylinder
There's also smaller 5# tanks
The paintball ones?
You have to make sure whatever you use is food grade. A paintball refill wouldn't have to be and could contain weird oils you wouldn't want to ingest.
Even better: get a soda keg, fill with water and charge with CO2. Seltzer on tap!
Better, but more expensive and space-consuming, especially if you want to store the keg in a fridge. One day I'll do it right (including storing the keg(s) in a mini-fridge in which I've cut a hole to route a line to a dispenser), but that day is not today. : (
they're*
Your right. But don’t be that guy.
Yes I did it on purpose.
You're*
Whoosh.
Whoo'sh*
Nah we just think you're a dick.
For suggesting someone not be a grammar nazi!? It doesn’t add anything to the conversation. I did the “your” thing on purpose to see if he’d do the same thing and of course he did. I’m not being a dick, I’m suggesting maybe overlook people’s little mistakes and contribute something worthwhile. But if that makes me a dick, then I’m a dick I guess.
Did you know that correcting grammar mistakes does not make you a grammar nazi? If the guy was being condescending when providing the correction, then he is one. Simply giving the correct word to use in a simple and concise way is completely fine. Your over-reaction to his comment is the unreasonable one in this case.
Your responses make you look like an overly-sensitive, humorless jagoff, hence the vote differential.
You're all good dawg, people need to chill
*eat chili
I checked his comment history and literally his most recent comment had "its" instead of "it's". And that explains everything you need to know.
If you get a working one again you can get a 10lb CO2 tank from a local homebrew supply and an adapter from the Amazon and never have to worry about their shitty bottle exchange ecosystem ever again