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DIY Seltzer

by Leah Koenig · September 7th, 2007
Gadgets, Global Warming, Holidays, New Products, On The Web

As Ben, Aaron, and other The Jew & The Carrot bloggers have mentioned in previous posts, this country’s obsession with bottled water has reached epi(demi)c proportions.  We spend 10.8 billion dollars/year on bottled water (and growing), while people in many US cities could enjoy water straight from the tap.  Our addiction adds up - in dollars, in packaging going to the landfill, and in CO2 (from importing water to the US from far off places like Fiji.)

I’m personally ready to put a cap on my own bottled water consumption - give me a Britta and a good looking Nalgene and I’ll get along just fine.  I’m not, however, ready to let go of seltzer water - that “traditional Jewish” bubbly beverage that just feels a little more exciting than its non-carbonated cousin.  Luckily, I just found out about a company called Fountain Jet that offers a “Home Soda Maker” - that promises as little or as much seltzer as you want “with the push of a button.”  I know I sound like an informercial, but I’m pretty excited to think that I could make all my own seltzer for the Rosh Hashanah table and not have a pile of plastic messing up the kitchen afterwards. 

Check out Fountain Jet here.

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3 Responses to “DIY Seltzer”

  1. Eric Schulmiller Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 12:33 pm

    The first rule about Soda Club is you MUST talk about Soda Club!

    I’ve had the Fountain Jet for a year and a half now (I got it to make high-volume Egg Creams for Pesach), and I LOVE it!!

    Since it utilizes an pre-installed, replaceable CO-2 canister (and not individual cartridges), tt takes all of 10 seconds (including the time it takes to fill the bottle with filtered water) to make bottle after bottle of home-made seltzer. Add some juice, and you’ve got your own, natural, sweetness-controlled spritzers!

    Since you use the FJ’s accompanying (consumer-safe) reusable plastic bottles over and over again, you definitely keep a lot of plastic out of the landfills, and sodaclub’s customer service has been great.

    Go out and get one today! (OK, sodaclub, where’s my $50?) ;-)

  2. Alix Wall Says:
    September 7th, 2007 at 2:03 pm

    Those of us in the Bay Area also have a delivery company, the Seltzer Sisters, who deliver 12 bottles a time of the bubbly. They filter our own tap water and carbonate it themselves, and use reusable bottles, so there is virtually no waste. Since it’s delivered, it’s also nice not to have to shlep it any further than from the front porch. I only found out about them recently, so Bay Area readers can find them at seltzersisters.com.

  3. Adam Edell Says:
    September 9th, 2007 at 11:06 pm

    Before I started food work, I was repping for Corporate Accountability International (and still do) on their Think Outside the Bottle Campaign. Here’s a tremendous resource:

    http://stopcorporateabuse.org/cms/

    There’s a thousand reasons to not support bottle water and I’ll talk up tap water to anyone who will listen. Until now, the spritzy stuff has been a guilty pleasure of mine (Gerolsteiner), even if does come in glass and from a volcanic source.

    I’ve been working up to getting spritzer for a while now. Thanks, Leah.

    So here’s my question, then: are there blessings over water? I make a conscious effort to acknowledge the water before I drink, bathe, and wash with it. I think it’s as important as blessing our food, since without water, no food. What would a nice water blessing look like?

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