My reason for the dislike is it feels more like diagnosing a computer than a soda fountain. I enjoy old analog equipment. However the soda drinker side of me loves using them when they are working well.
Most CO2 tanks and brass fittings don’t inject money into the Israeli economy - that’s specific to Soda Stream. Also you won’t lose your warranty on a CO2 tank for fizzing things that aren’t water, but you will with Soda Stream. Also, without a real Soda Stream, you won’t be forced to stay in each of a power outlet to run an LED that doesn’t accomplish anything except giving the machine a reason to refuse to run without electricity.
Don’t compromise - if you get a competing countertop fizzing system with a pretty case, it won’t fund a genocidal state, void your warranty for fizzing juice, or require power for no good reason. These are unique Soda Stream advantages.
Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
What was the worst thing you ever saw? I’m guessing if you maintained them you occasionally were called I to fix things when something went wrong. So what went wrong?
Don’t have to be American afaik. That’s a box of soda/pop sodapop syrup. You open it up, and connect it to the hoses that connect to the fountain. Can lick tho cap before you toss it too, usually a bit of extra syrup in them. :3
Aaaah OK, no i KNOW that we have these syrup containers in Europe, but never saw one in my life for real. Always thought those where like giant plastic bottles
Soda fountains/soda machines dispense the beverages from a large bag of syrup (maybe the straight beverage itself if they are non-carbonated) that is usually like 3 gallons which mixes with CO2. So the Coca-Cola in the image is hooked up to a tube that funnels the syrup into the machine and mixes with the CO2 to create the beverage you want.
Non American here… What am I looking at?
Edit: thanks for explaining. Its not an american thing like I thought in the first place ^^
BIB - Bag in a Box
Standard format for soda and juice sryurps around the world. Dispensed via a fountain or a bargun.
Feel free to ask me any thing, installing and maintaining soda equipment is my life.
Just don’t ask me anything about freestyle machines, cause I don’t know jack about those monstrosities.
How much would it be to install a single flavor fountain in-home? And what would be the most expensive parts?
Shit I’ve been wondering this as well. It’s probably not a super complicated mechanism behind the opaque facade.
That is the first time that somebody made soda equipment sounds interesting and I am ready to dive into a new rabbithole while I cannot sleep 😆
What are “freestyle machines”?
https://youtu.be/-a29Ygyzc2c
I expected that response, see the fern video.
My reason for the dislike is it feels more like diagnosing a computer than a soda fountain. I enjoy old analog equipment. However the soda drinker side of me loves using them when they are working well.
Free-style is Coke’s brand of pick-your-flavor touchscreen hell.
you asked the one thing they told you not to…
What’re your thoughts on SodaStream?
You can achieve the same results with any CO2 tank and a few brass fittings
Most CO2 tanks and brass fittings don’t inject money into the Israeli economy - that’s specific to Soda Stream. Also you won’t lose your warranty on a CO2 tank for fizzing things that aren’t water, but you will with Soda Stream. Also, without a real Soda Stream, you won’t be forced to stay in each of a power outlet to run an LED that doesn’t accomplish anything except giving the machine a reason to refuse to run without electricity.
Don’t compromise - if you get a competing countertop fizzing system with a pretty case, it won’t fund a genocidal state, void your warranty for fizzing juice, or require power for no good reason. These are unique Soda Stream advantages.
What was the worst thing you ever saw? I’m guessing if you maintained them you occasionally were called I to fix things when something went wrong. So what went wrong?
So I’m thinking of picking up a used system off Facebook, good or bad idea?
Don’t have to be American afaik. That’s a box of soda/pop sodapop syrup. You open it up, and connect it to the hoses that connect to the fountain. Can lick tho cap before you toss it too, usually a bit of extra syrup in them. :3
Aaaah OK, no i KNOW that we have these syrup containers in Europe, but never saw one in my life for real. Always thought those where like giant plastic bottles
I have changed these in Europe, so yeah, not limited to the US.
That’s only because the US is not limited to the US -_-
Ahh didn’t see the Coca Cola logo at first, I thought it was the ketchup boxes you hook up to the pump at the self service station.
Here’s Heinz Ketchup/mustard keystone bags:
As a bonus, here’s a used bag from a batch that probably should have been recalled due to a packager malfunction:
I assume these other connectors should not be in there?
Nope. They were floating in the ketchup instead of being embedded in the wall of the bag.
It’s like art. Funny, I was just talking about Dadaism under another post lol
Soda fountains/soda machines dispense the beverages from a large bag of syrup (maybe the straight beverage itself if they are non-carbonated) that is usually like 3 gallons which mixes with CO2. So the Coca-Cola in the image is hooked up to a tube that funnels the syrup into the machine and mixes with the CO2 to create the beverage you want.
It is mixed with CO2 and lots of water. usually about 5:1, so this BIB makes 30 gallons of soda.
It’s soda syrup. Fast food places buy these and CO2 dispensers to make soda that most Americans drink.