Comments on: DIY Seltzer http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/ Jews, Food, and Contemporary Issues Thu, 20 Nov 2008 13:13:20 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Adam Edell http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/#comment-2716 Adam Edell Mon, 10 Sep 2007 04:06:14 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/#comment-2716 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? 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?

]]> By: Alix Wall http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/#comment-2676 Alix Wall Fri, 07 Sep 2007 19:03:49 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/#comment-2676 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. 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.

]]> By: Eric Schulmiller http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/#comment-2674 Eric Schulmiller Fri, 07 Sep 2007 17:33:09 +0000 http://jcarrot.org/diy-seltzer/#comment-2674 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?) ;-) 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?) ;-)

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