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Think Geek has a do it yourself carbonator that does not need a CO2 tank
Posted by beerorkid in random crap
This is clever as heck and only costs $7
I have been carbonating stuff for a while using a CO2 tank.
I tried this with strawberries and it did not come out very well. Decided to try it with raspberries. Used a full 10 oz pack, blended with a bit of water, strained out the chunks, 1/2 cup of sugar, filled the 2 liter about 3/4 full with water, and carbonated it. Still not strong enough flavor wise and needed a bit more sugar, but decent. Went really well with tequila.
Oh green dooks, how I missed you. Only thing I do not like about grape soda / kool aid is the salty flavor. Since there is no protein in there it does not hold the foam, but the bubbles make it awesome.
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crappy pompei citrus juices and too cheap spices at open harvest
Posted by beerorkid in me make food
So been carbonating the sparkly water and wanted to try some other flavors. i like the minute maid lemon juice and wanted to try lime. So I grabbed some of these pompei juices and tested them out. They are very weak, like no power at all. Not worth it at all.
Headed to open harvest to get some more bay leaves. Got a good amount and when it was rung up it was 25 cents. I cannot see how they make any profit off of spices there.
I am not a huge fan of plain water, but carbonated water with some lemon juice in it rules. I am on my 4th bottle now. No sugar, just water and squirt lemon juice for a bit of flavor. This is the best use of the carbonator so far. Sure the other stuff was fun, but this is something I will be making for a long time.
Some friends came over Friday eve and we enjoyed drunken wii boxing, drunken pinball, and drunken carbonated Jager shots. Jager has a lot of sugar in it so I got the foamy goodness when I released the carbonator. Had to let the bubbles settle before I completely released all the pressure. Carbonated jager is darn good.
There was going to be some orange in there, but our orange was lame. I bet the canned mandarin oranges work better.
Theresa took this into her work party. She said the grapes were the best, pinapple good, and apples did not take on much fizz.
EDIT: did another for my fams TG
The fruit salad I did today was awesome. Canned mandarin oranges, maraschino cherries, grapes, and pineapple. The cherries and oranges really took up the gas since they were so wet. My family thought I was strange, but really enjoyed it. My little nephew Ray, liked it too.
So I guess back in the day you could buy a special sparkling jello that you made with club soda. It would make bubbles get trapped in the jello making it look like it was sparkling. It lost the carbonation though. Well that simply would not do. Mixed it up, force carbonated it and put it in the fridge overnight. Getting it out of the bottle was strange. When the lid was cracked it expanded and then shrunk back down. You could hear it crackling. I cut it out with some scissors and scooped it onto the plate.
It was really fizzy and the tart CO2 taste was really there. Made it a bunch of fun. A great treat for the kiddies I bet. Theresa likes to make the mixed with whipped cream fluff jello. We put a bit or table cream in the smaller bottle, but it did not hold in the CO2 very well and fell apart. It does not last for too long, which is a bummer.
