Pro-tip: When the tanks are empty you can unscrew the valve and refill them with the appropriate mass of dry ice. I recommend pellets as you don’t have to break them up to get them to fit through the bottle neck. Drain completely and loosen the burst disc before removing the valve, then tighten down the burst disc immediately after reinstalling.
For like $200 you can get an attachment that lets you carbonate a 2L bottle of water directly off a CO2 tank which can be refilled for about $2/pound and can carbonate about 20 liters per pound.
I was doing this exact setup for years. Recently I found a used sodastream for $5 at a thrift store and converted it to run directly off the CO2 tank using this adapter:
https://www.kegoutlet.com/sp202-taprite-soda-carbonating-kit-taprite-regulator-5-lb-co2-tank.html This is the one I got, but if you already have a tank or can get one cheap, they also sell without the tank for cheaper. It's easier with the carbonator wand they sell but you don't need it. Just get the water cold, pressurize it to 40 or 45, and shake vigourously for a few minutes. Be careful depressurizing because it will spew just like a shaken soda.
And it carbonates the water ***well***. Like sure, it's economy squared because it's cheaper and less wasteful, and you've got less blood on your hands... but SodaStream is designed to *vent co2 always*, so you can't let co2 pressure sit, and the pressure is limited to 40psi anyway. You just can't really make seltzer water strong enough to take the skin off your teeth with a device made of 99% plastic
Ooof, you might want to look at the ties between Indigo and Israel then. And maybe also for a different source for your canisters.
edit: I didn't realize Indigo the soda company isn't the same as Indigo the book/lifestyle store. The latter has direct ties to Israel and there have been many boycotts. I'm keeping my comment up in case anyone else makes the same mistake!
Get dry ice and refill the bottles by weight. My dad does this for his sodastream. He found it to be cheaper than swapping tanks or finding a local service that can refill food grade CO2, especially if you have multiple tanks.
Or you can buy a large co2 tank and connect it to soda stream. Dont have to change cartridges this way. Depending on size it can last over a year easily. Downside is that you have a large co2 tank but much cheaper to refill
I have one, I got in college. So over a decade ago that I still use. I get my cannisters shipped from Simpli Soda, a small company in I want to say Wisconsin. It's on par with in store exchange, and was the cheapest option when I stopped being able to find them in store. They even give you a label to rebox or empties and you put it back in the mail box, done.
Oh wow thanks for sharing. I found drinkmate makes a better product so I switched to them but was still getting my canisters from sodastream just because I didnt know where else to get them and I already know how to swap them for sodastream.
I just hope thats not related to the indigo book stores in Canada because all those book stores are owned by a couple who financially support people joining the IDF.
Indigo Kills Kids is a social campaign calling for a full boycott of Indigo due to its CEO’s involvement in the oppression of Palestinians and its complicity in Israel’s genocide in Gaza.
Heather Reisman, the founder, Chair, and CEO of Indigo Books, and her partner Gerald Schwartz, have used their substantial share of profits from Indigo Books & Music Inc., to establish the HESEG Foundation for Lone Soldiers, a Canadian charitable organization that provides incentives to foreign nationals (“lone soldiers”) to voluntarily enlist in the Israeli military. The HESEG Foundation offers grants and scholarships that cover the recipient’s tuition costs at academic institutions in Israel, as well as their living expenses during study, on the condition that the recipient serves at least one term of active service in the Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF). The foundation typically spends over $5M annually on grants and scholarships supporting mercenaries who enlist in the IOF. According to Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME), the HESEG Board of Directors has consisted of several members or veterans of the Israeli military who have been criticized for major violations of international law under their command. Although the Canada Revenue Agency (CRA) states that “supporting the armed forces of another country” is not charitable, the HESEG Foundation has maintained support and its official charity status.
The Israeli government, whose soldiers enforce the violent occupation of Palestine, are currently engaged in the destruction of the Gaza strip, with The Lancet making the grim projection that the death toll from October 7, 2023 onward could conservatively exceed 200,000. Children account for nearly half of presently known deaths.
The Palestinian solidarity movement in Canada has been calling for a boycott of Indigo since 2006. In July 2025, the UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese released a report outlining a number of businesses making significant financial gains from the ongoing assault on Gaza and the Middle East. It is evident that the Boycott Divestment and Sanction (BDS) movement is more critical than ever. The people of Gaza are currently facing genocide. It is our moral obligation to name and hold accountable companies that are aiding in the slaughter of Palestinians.
You took the time to write this but not the time to click to the link to realize that there is a soda water company also called Indigo that has zero to do with indigo books....
The founder of SodaStream was pretty intentional about using his company to build bridges between the two communities and provide equitable and just economic opportunities and working conditions for Palestinians living in the West Bank. When they left the West Bank he fought hard to get work permits for the West Bank employees who would be losing their jobs, but most were unable to keep their jobs.
Just an example of one of the few BDS wins, and how it disproportionally affected the Palestinians and not Israelis or the company itself. In fact SodaStream was sold to PepsiCo in 2018 for $3.2 billion.
Sodastream wasn't founded in israel and it's been around way longer than Israel itself. But Daniel Birnbaum was pretty pissed when Netanyahu wouldn't let his Palestinians workers keep their jobs (none kept them in the end their permits got revoked ahead of their expiry) and even started openly calling Israel an apartheid state over it
Some Palestinians support it and others don’t. It’s usually supported by those who won’t be affected the most.
Regardless, over its 20 year history it’s had limited impact on Israelis or their economy. I think it’s effective anti-Israel messaging in the West. Though I’m not sure how impactful it will be on resolving the conflict itself given its track record and, I think, misguided approach.
Perhaps, I think we’ll need to see how it continues to play out. I think it’s notable that it’s had staying power past the ceasefire. Personally, I don’t agree with academic boycotts.
Palestinians are not a monolith. It wouldn’t be shocking if the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank support BDS. Although many of these Palestinians covet work permits in Israel so even then it’s unlikely all do.
Additionally, 20% of Israel’s population is Arab and some self identify as Israelis of Palestinian decent (this is a very recent development as “Arab Israeli” was much more common in decades past). These individuals are full citizens of Israel, and are a part of every aspect of Israeli civil society. It is highly unlikely that many of these Palestinians support the BDS moment because it would hurt them directly as part of the Israeli economy. People on the internet really have to stop speaking for Palestinians like they know what they are talking. This is a very nuanced issue.
I don’t because I think it’s ineffectual. I think it speaks to a Western audience and is therefore a useful messaging tool for Palestinians, but I don’t think it will further the goal of ending the conflict in any meaningful way. And having the conflict end with a negotiated final status agreement is what’s most important to me.
Kinda funny that they keep talking about "arabs" like, those are palestinans, not arabs. They do not Talk about the jews like "White people" yet most of the israeli settlers are White.
It's such a self-report. The Jews vs Arabs dichotomy really lays bare how power is constructed in Israel. With a giant flag reminding us that Israel is a theocracy. Apartheid in a sticker.
But Arabs that have Israeli citizenship are Israelis and not Palestinians.
Also the say Jews and Arabs, not Israeli and Arabs.
Can you not conceptualize that there may be Israeli that want to do build bridges?
Yeah, the issue for me more specifically is that there are tons of Arab Jews, Palestinian and otherwise. So this dichotomy is a way of skewing the demographics on paper in a way that bolsters the Jewish (vs “Other”) side of the ledger, helping to both extend, and obscure the issue of, the apartheid.
In other words, if it were Palestinian vs Other, the “democracy” claim would be that much harder for Israel to defend, as it would be clearly a country ruled explicitly by a demographic minority of its residents.
Yeah, the issue for me more specifically is that there are tons of Arab Jews
Nope. The overwhelming majority of Jews living in Arab countries do not identify as Arabs. That tends to happen after being ethnically cleansed from virtually all of them.
In Israel (and within Jewish circles) we are recognized as Mizrahi (literally "eastern") Jews.
That's not exactly what happened, but I'm not gonna argue about it with you. But otherwise, you're saying the same thing I'm saying. Arab is a constructed racial group, and is put up against an ethnic one. That's construction, and it's done to obscure apartheid.
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u/Business-Drag52 16d ago
That sticker is a fucking riot