Should I get a home carbonator?

Asked by sarahsugs (2906

) April 23rd, 2007

We love bubbly water around my house, but I know that bottled water requires lots of energy for packaging and shipping, not to mention all of the empty bottles that pile up. I love the idea of a home carbonator, but a cursory web search revealed that many use only plastic bottles (I'm trying to move away from plastic) and/or disposable canisters for the CO2, which doesn't seem sustainable either. Is it worth it?

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Yes! We used to have a glass carbonator. I don't htinkg you can get away from the disposable co2 cartidges, but they're recyclable, i believe.

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We had a beautiful glass co2 canister carbonator growing up, but we didn't use it that often. One of the problems is the actual quality of the carbonation was less "tight"... If you love bubbly water you could try it, but I'd be wary. Perhaps there are new machines that are better, but it might be easier to buy in bulk and spend your positive sustainable energy elsewhere.

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I never noticed that with our carbonator... it made fizzy juice drinks delicious. We also used to rock the whole thing back and forth ten times and let it sit to distribute the co2

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