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Articles on How to Make Soda Pop and More
Why choose the Fizz Giz home carbonation machine?
- Better Carbonation - The process of making soda with the Fizz Giz home soda maker involves shaking the bottle - something you can't do with the competition's soda making machine. Because of that, you needn't be disappointed with the low level of carbonation their soda makers deliver. With the Fizz Giz your soft drinks will turn out nice and fizzy just like you'd expect... Read more
Soda Making FAQ - Answers to Your Health and Safety Questions
Q. Isn't soda unhealthy?
A. The health risks associated with soda are primarily due to the sugar content. With respect to that, it is important to distinguish between refined sugars and the sugars that occur naturally such as the sucrose in fruit. As far as carbonation is concerned, there is nothing unhealthy about it; it's no different from the carbon dioxide that's present in the air we breath... Read more
Home Carbonation 101 - Crash Course - Instructions for Using the Fizz Giz
Fill any PET bottle (except for Coke brands because the thread size is incompatible) with the beverage you want to carbonate leaving about a two inch gap at the top. The more room you leave here the faster will be the carbonation... Read more
Home Carbonation 102 - Thorough Instructions
Although many could watch a video or read the crash course instructions and carbonate a drink with no problem the first time around, this set of thorough instructions is designed to put aside all doubts. In addition to that... Read more
Do It Yourself - Can I Build My Own Soda Maker?
Items You'll Need:
- common 28mm soda bottle cap - free for the taking, likely to be found within 40-50 feet of your present location
- rubber valve from football, basketball or soccer ball - free for the taking from an unwanted sports ball
- a piece of cotton string 16-18" long... Read more
How to Make Soda
Carbonated drinks sold commercially come in hundreds of flavors. Some are colorful. Others are colorless. Some are more popular than others. Some are very sweet. Some are not sweet at all. Some are more highly carbonated than others and some contain alcohol. With all these differences, the common thread connecting them all is the presence of dissolved carbon dioxide gas in the mix... Read more
The Fizz Giz Edge for Making Soft Drinks
When the cost of 16-g CO2 cartridges is taken into consideration, using the Fizz Giz may not be your best choice as an alternative to buying two-liter bottles. Each cartidge costs about a buck a piece, and that is sufficient to fill one two-liter bottle. Most brands of soda cost about a buck and a half, so when you take into consideration the cost of your ingredients... Read more
How the Bottling Companies Put the Carbonation in Soda Pop
The first thing to know about how the bottling companies carbonate soda is that they don't produce the carbon dioxide themselves there at the plant. Rather they get it from suppliers. It would be possible to produce carbon dioxide by mixing acid with some other chemical compound such as calcium carbonate, but doing so would be very expensive... Read more
Making Healthy Soda
Soda almost always gets a bad rap, but it's not the carbonation that is the issue. There is no difference between the CO2 that makes your soda fizzy and the CO2 in the air we breath. There is nothing unhealthy about it... Read more
How to Make Carbonated Water 18th Century Style
In 1772, four years before the birth of the United States, an important document was published in London, England announcing the birth of man-made carbonated water. This document was published by Joseph Priestly, also known as the father of the soft drink. In it he describes his process for carbonating water... Read more
How is Carbon Dioxide Produced?
Carbon dioxide is a very common byproduct of a large number of reactions. As humans we are producing CO2 all day long as we breath. This is because a very common reaction that occurs within the cells of our tissue is the oxidation of glucose. When we breath in, a fresh supply of oxygen is carried from our lungs to various parts of our body... Read more
Myths about Beer Carbonation
When it comes to kegs and pony kegs, there are a number of myths floating around with respect to carbonation and how to prevent your beer from going flat. If your beer should go flat you can always recharge it with the Fizz Giz, but it's best to know the facts and take precautions... Read more
Properties of CO2
At standard temperature and pressure (STP: 0°C; 100 kPa), CO2 is a colorless, ordorless gas made up of two oxygen atoms covalently bonded to carbon. Each oxygen atom forms a double bond with the carbon atom, giving the molecule a linear structure. It is non-flammable and moderately reactive. Its molecular weight is 44.01 g/mol... Read more