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I'm not supposed to drink alcohol due to Type 2 diabetes/insulin resistance but on a rare occasion a Heineken goes down good.

These days my cold drink of choice is carbonated water, either plain on ice or else with a little bit of non-sweet or artificially-sweet flavoring. So much so that I bought an old-style "siphon" bottle that takes CO2 cartridges.

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Jacob Petersheim said:
I'm not supposed to drink alcohol due to Type 2 diabetes/insulin resistance but on a rare occasion a Heineken goes down good.

These days my cold drink of choice is carbonated water, either plain on ice or else with a little bit of non-sweet or artificially-sweet flavoring. So much so that I bought an old-style "siphon" bottle that takes CO2 cartridges.

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That is interesting , @Jacob Petersheim ! I drink mostly sparkling water also, and I have a Sodastream that i use for mine. Sometimes I get the San Pellegrino Sparkling water, because it is a mineral water (from Italy) and adds more minerals than the filtered tap water that I use for the sodastream.
Where does the CO2 carbonator bottomless attack with your device , and how does it work ?
Bobby just drinks black coffee, and sometimes, iced tea. I drink coffee in the mornings, and in the winter, I will sometimes have coffee during the day because it helps me keep warmer.
 
Yvonne Smith said:
Where does the CO2 carbonator bottomless attack with your device , and how does it work ?
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There is a long siphon tube that reaches to the bottom. You remove this to fill with cold water.

Then there is a silver ornamental cover cap you unscrew, and replace this with that black thing with the "wings" (there for torque) after inserting a cartridge. Screw at on, screw it down, and the cartridge gets punctured at its tip by a needle. The CO2 rushes in and down the siphon tube into the water. After that, shake well so that the water can dissolve more of the CO2 that floated up to the bottle's headspace. Once bubbles stop coming from the end of the tube, unscrew the black thing and recycle the empty cartridge as steel scrap, like a tin can. Put the silver knob back on to protected the needle and the threads.

There is a valve level to let the CO2 pressure squirt water from the nozzle, just like in The Three Stooges (I always laugh - wooop-wooop-woop).
 
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Jacob Petersheim said:
There is a long siphon tube that reaches to the bottom. You remove this to fill with cold water.

Then there is a silver ornamental cover cap you unscrew, and replace this with that black thing with the "wings" (there for torque) after inserting a cartridge. Screw at on, screw it down, and the cartridge gets punctured at its tip by a needle. The CO2 rushes in and down the siphon tube into the water. After that, shake well so that the water can dissolve more of the CO2 that floated up to the bottles headspace. Once bubbles stop coming from the end of the tube, unscrew the black thing and recycle the empty cartridge as steel scrap, like a tin can. Put the silver knob back on to protected the needle and the threads.

There is a valve level to let the CO2 pressure squirt water from the nozzle, just like in The Three Stooges (I always laugh - wooop-wooop-woop).
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WOW ! ! I am definitely going to stick with my sodastream, yours sounds a lot more complicated. I see why I couldn’t figure out where the CO2 went though, it is because yours uses a cartridge, and mine uses the large canister that goes in the back of the sodastream. I just take it to Walmart when it is empty, and there is a return credit on the old bottle when I get a new one, which lasts me quite a while, depending on how much i use it.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
I'm not supposed to drink alcohol due to Type 2 diabetes/insulin resistance but on a rare occasion a Heineken goes down good.

These days my cold drink of choice is carbonated water, either plain on ice or else with a little bit of non-sweet or artificially-sweet flavoring. So much so that I bought an old-style "siphon" bottle that takes CO2 cartridges.

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So many minerals in our well water, we now alternate between distilled and well water because I hear too many minerals are bad on the kidney's, all our coffee is made with distilled for 2 reasons, one health, the other to eliminate the residue stains inside the pots.
 
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My goodness, what mega web address that was so I deleted it.
If interersterd in distiller, it is an H2O home gallon size distiller.
 
Marie Mallory said:
So many minerals in our well water, we now alternate between distilled and well water because I hear too many minerals are bad on the kidney's, all our coffee is made with distilled for 2 reasons, one health, the other for pots the minerals stain with white residue.
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Can you have your well water test and then look into some sort of water treatment? Might be cheaper and healthier than drinking distilled water for long periods. "Minerals" doesn't mean "bad." Drinking distilled water isn't natural, and I don't mean that in any hippie-dippie way.

But I'm not here to tell anyone what to do. You guys can make your own choices.
 
Jacob Petersheim said:
Can you have your well water test and then look into some sort of water treatment? Might be cheaper and healthier than drinking distilled water for long periods. "Minerals" doesn't mean "bad." Drinking distilled water isn't natural, and I don't mean that in any hippie-dippie way.

But I'm not here to tell anyone what to do. You guys can make your own choices.
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Not taken in a hippy way,;). Too many minerals along with my diabetes are not good for the kidneys, so I'll drink both well for minerals I may need without going overboard and distilled water, so I don't go to the other extreme.
 
Marie Mallory said:
Not taken in a hippy way,;). Too many minerals along with my diabetes are not good for the kidneys, so I'll drink both well for minerals I may need without going overboard and distilled water, so I don't go to the other extreme.
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Sounds like you have things covered. I didn't mean to argumentative or possibly come off that way. Thank you for being understanding.
 
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