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home water carbonator protip

(this one works best if you have a carbonator that lets you disconnect the bottle while keeping it under pressure but you could theoretically shake the whole carbonator as well)

if you pressurize the pressure bottle until the overpressure valve opens then shake it, the valve will quickly close again -- I believe because agitating the water allows more of the carbon dioxide to go into solution instead of creating a saturated boundary layer at the top of the bottle and an unsaturated layer underneath it

so if you like your angry water to be as angry as possible, I suggest removing the bottle from the carbonator during and/or after you pressurize it and shaking some more of the CO2 into solution

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ivym
@ivym

sadly mine unseals when you detach the bottle but i think i may be able to achieve a similar effect by removing the bottle, shaking it and then charging it more. something to try anyway. love some angry water

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vogon
@vogon

listen I'm upset about it too but the fine people of soda sense corporation would not play a parlor trick on me like this

I wonder if you could put a pH indicator in the water which changes color somewhere between "tap water" and "dilute solution of carbonic acid"

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jun
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I recall reading in one of my cocktail books about how using the co2 itself for agitation as for instance sodastream does is wayyyy less efficient than just, i guess what amounts to adding the gas and shaking to dissolve

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Jonah
@Jonah

I've got an old sodastream that depressurizes when the bottle is removed (and that thing is hefty), but I'm going to be thinking about the poor lost bubbles every single time now.

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vogon
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also I feel like it's fairly widely understood that the temperature coefficient of solubility of carbon dioxide in water is steeply negative (i.e., that warm water dissolves less carbon dioxide than cold water) but I just want to reiterate that you should make your water for angry water as cold as possible: https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Carbon_dioxide_(data_page) says water at freezing dissolves more than twice as much carbon dioxide as water at room temperature

and also mention how weird this is because afaik this is a behavior only water/gas solutions have

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