How to make mineral water at home. Soda water - what is it? DIY mineral water

Soda water- one of the types of soda, which is made by introducing soda and carbon dioxide into ordinary purified water (see photo). Often this liquid also includes flavors, sweet syrups and other additives.

Today it is known for sure that this type of carbonated water was invented by two people, completely independently of each other. The first inventor of this drinking product is the famous chemist and mineralogist Thorbern Bergman. In 1770, this Swedish scientist built a special apparatus, with the help of which he began to saturate spring water with carbon dioxide.

In 1772, brewing specialist Joseph Priestley created a recipe for making soda water. One day he discovered that the air that constantly accumulates in barrels of beer can be introduced into ordinary mineral liquid. A little later, the brewer found a separate way to make carbon dioxide by combining chalk with sulfuric acid. From that moment on, he began adding carbon dioxide of his own design to the water.

How is soda water different from sparkling water?

Surely many are interested in knowing how soda water differs from regular carbonated water, because today we encounter this drinking product not only in stores, but also in many restaurants and cafes. First of all, it is worth noting the fact that the taste and appearance of these two liquids are identical, so it is almost impossible to distinguish them by such indicators. They are both fizzy and pleasant to the taste.

The main difference between soda water and carbonated water is that the first liquid contains water, soda, carbon dioxide and various additives, while the second drink contains only water and carbon dioxide. Both types of soda are good thirst quenchers.

We can safely say that soda liquid is less beneficial for humans than carbonated mineral water. The thing is that mineral water is always of natural origin, since in the process of passing through minerals located underground, it is naturally saturated with carbon dioxide. As for soda, such water is the result of a technological process. It is produced using a special apparatus by mixing such components:

• water;
• salt;
• soda;
• acids

Today, soda is very often sold under the guise of real natural mineral water. Sometimes such counterfeits can even be found under the brands “Essentukov” or “Borjomi”.

How to cook at home?

If you learn to prepare natural soda water at home, you will no longer need to buy imitations of this drinking product in stores, which, as a rule, contain a lot of harmful food additives. Using the instructions below, you can make your own soda water that is truly healthy for the body.

For a standard glass of purified water, take citric acid (0.5 tsp) and baking soda (1/4 tsp). Note! You can also make delicious soda using herbal infusions, various juices, purchased mineral water and more. First of all, dissolve citric acid in the liquid. After this, mix the composition and add soda. It is recommended to prepare the drinking product in large containers, since after adding the soda ingredient to the water, as a rule, a chemical reaction begins. If necessary, you can add sugar or some other sweetener to the resulting drink..

Use in cooking

In cooking, soda water is used extensively in the bar area. Based on this drink, various alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails are created. All drinks prepared with the addition of soda water are divided into the following types:

• shake - to make this type of drink, all ingredients, including ice, are mixed exclusively using a shaker, and the finished product is immediately poured into glasses;
• blend - in this case, the cocktail is whipped using a blender; drinks made in this way, as a rule, have a thick consistency;
• build – the components for preparing this category of cocktails are mixed directly in containers intended for drinking;
• old - the drink, as in the previous case, is prepared directly in a drinking glass, but in this case the cocktail liquid is necessarily supplemented with ice at the end.

The table below shows the most popular and delicious alcoholic and non-alcoholic cocktails with soda water.

It would seem that from such ordinary, at first glance, water with the addition of soda, you can prepare truly unusual and, most importantly, very tasty drinks.

What to replace it with?

You can replace popular soda water with any sodium bicarbonate mineral water. In this case, Nagutskaya 26 mineral water is ideal.

If soda is required to make a cocktail such as a mojito, then lemonade or Sprite would be a good alternative. Also in this case, you can use regular soda.

In the event that soda water is needed only to quench your thirst, then you can take any mineral carbonated water instead.

Benefits and harms

It has been scientifically proven that only homemade soda water is beneficial to the body, since almost all store-bought drinking products contain substances harmful to the body (dyes, flavors, flavor enhancers, etc.).

It is recommended to drink water prepared with your own hands using soda in the morning on an empty stomach, as this product helps cleanse the stomach of toxins and improve its functioning.

With regular consumption of soda water, appetite decreases and metabolism also accelerates, which allows you to use this drink for weight loss. For the same purposes, you can use a soda bath, which you need to take for fifteen minutes twice a week.

Some doctors claim that using natural soda water can relieve symptoms of nausea, and there are also rumors that this drinking product is effective in treating cancer, but this is most likely a myth.

Despite its versatility, in some cases even homemade soda water can harm the body. It is highly not recommended to drink it if you have diabetes, as well as pregnant women and nursing mothers. This product will not benefit people with stomach, liver or kidney diseases. It is also worth paying attention to the side effects of drinking such water when using it for weight loss:

• inflammation on the body;
• prostration;
• nausea;
• stomach ache;
• headache;
• vomit.

Soda water only at first glance seems like an ordinary drinking product. In fact, it has a lot of advantages not only in cooking, but also in the field of medicine.

The other day I thought, homemade soda is real. It’s summer, it’s hot, and I want to drink and drink, so it was decided to make homemade soda with my own hands at home. I can already feel the sarcastic smiles of some people and their thoughts about the fact that it’s easier to buy sparkling water in the store. I agree, but since the site is called “How to make it yourself,” we try to do it ourselves.

I already told you how to make bread kvass at home which quenches thirst well, but takes a day to prepare

Homemade soda is made faster, and you can prepare it according to your own recipes and tastes.

First, a little theory and history. Sparkling water is very easy to make. To do this, you need to add carbon dioxide CO2 to the water.

Its main properties: colorless, odorless, does not burn, heavier than air, soluble in water and has a sour taste.

Those who saw Soviet times and soda fountains on the streets remember them with great warmth. They contained a large cylinder of carbon dioxide and the gas was dissolved in water under pressure.

There is also a way to make homemade soda using a siphon and carbon dioxide canisters. These siphons are still sold now, but they cost a lot. As you can see, to make soda at home, you need water and carbon dioxide. There are no problems with water, but where can we get carbon dioxide?

How to make homemade soda with your own hands

Carbon dioxide can be made from things you can always find in the kitchen. This is baking soda and vinegar. When they are mixed, carbon dioxide, water and salt are obtained. If you know how to cook, then you know that in some recipes it is customary to extinguish soda with vinegar and it is carbon dioxide that makes the dough soft and porous during baking.

Therefore, to make homemade soda we prepare:

• Baking soda - 2 teaspoons
• Vinegar 9% - 7 tablespoons
• Plastic bottles - 2 pcs (preferably dark ones from beer)
• Water – 1 – 1.2 liters per 1.5 bottle
• PVC tube - 1 meter
• Bottle caps - 2 pcs with holes for tubes

The tube is a cambric tube, taken from a television cable.

The tube should fit tightly in the lids and not allow gas to pass through in these places. To do this, we make holes in the covers smaller than the diameter of the tube and pull it in with force.

This bottle will contain water for homemade soda. And in another container we will mix vinegar with soda. In order for the reaction to be delayed with some delay, wrap the soda in a paper napkin and add it to the bottle with vinegar. Therefore, before the gas starts to be released, we will have time to close the lid and not lose some of the carbon dioxide.

In the photo above, instead of a napkin, I used a plastic bag, pouring baking soda through a funnel and cutting off the top.

While mixing carbon dioxide and water, the water bottle should be shaken well for 3-4 minutes. In the photo I have too much water for homemade soda, please note that you need less.

This way I managed to make sparkling water or homemade lightly carbonated soda with my own hands.

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I really want to warn you about safety precautions.

It is better to use dark bottles, without scratches, they can withstand more pressure than light ones. In no case, when repeated, do not increase quantity soda and vinegar. If there is too much gas, the bottle may explode with a loud bang and damage your eardrums, fingers and eyes. This is well explained in the video using liquid nitrogen as an example.

Over time, I think I’ll improve the recipe so that homemade soda can be made easier and safer with my own hands, but this requires equipment and experiments, so for now I’m publishing this slightly carbonated method.

I visited the Arkhyz mineral water plant, located in the village of the same name in Karachay-Cherkessia. Arkhyz mineral water is produced by the Visma company, founded in 1993, which today owns several factories in the country. This is one of them.

One of the wells is located in this house. Water is extracted from a depth of 150 meters. Water comes from the well around the clock. By the way, mineral water is already quite carbonated with natural gas, so very little gas is added. The water supply to the village of Arkhyz comes from wells adjacent to the factory.
The rules strictly limit the amount of water that can be taken from a well per day.

This is the same well, extending 150 meters, through which Arkhyz mineral water flows. Mineralization of Arkhyz occurs while passing through mountain ranges and entering an underground glacier from which it flows out.

Local residents work at the plant. The average salary is 15,000 rubles. They work in shifts, each shift lasting half a day. This is done so that after work (or before it, if the shift is evening), a person has time to do some housekeeping at home.
Representatives of the Kronos company also work at the plant, using equipment that produces water.

Water is collected and stored in these tanks.

This tank is filled with water and sent to another plant, in Cherkessk, where water is bottled for 0.5 and 1 liter bottles.

The compressor produces a pressure of 40 atmospheres, thanks to which bottles are blown out of plastic test tubes.

From such a test tube a 5-liter bottle is born from which we drink Arkhyz water.

Rotating molds for creating bottles.

Filling bottles with mineral water.

The plant can produce more than 7,000 bottles of water per hour.

This device helps identify underfilling, overfilling, or an incorrectly installed cap. As soon as such a bottle is identified, it is knocked out from the total mass of bottles traveling along the conveyor and sent to scrap.

Today, Visma employs a total of 1,500 people.

The growth of the company's beverage production is impressive: if in 2011 81 million bottles were bottled, then in 9 months of 2012 there were already 91 million bottles.

Here 5 liter bottles are palletized and sent to the warehouse.

19-liter bottles of water face a slightly different fate: they are held up to the light and wiped clean from production contaminants, after which the bottle is sent to a warehouse, where it is individually wrapped in film.

And now some interesting information about mineral waters and which of them and how they affect human health:

You will say, “Well, another mineral water, but aren’t there enough of them on the market? How to choose?”, so I will write further about those properties that distinguish Arkhyz water from all other mineral waters.
So, firstly, the composition of Arkhyz water is the closest of all mineral waters to the composition of the liquid contained in human cells.
Secondly, only Arkhyz mineral water contains natural iodine. There are mineral waters on the market that contain iodine, but it is artificially added and, which almost no one knows, leaves the water very quickly, so in all cases except Arkhyz, when mineral water is written “contains iodine,” this is a marketing ploy that introduces consumer confusion.
And thirdly, and most importantly, this is a unique level of mineralization.
A little background. There is such a country as the USA. This country has the strictest standard for water mineralization. Any water with a mineralization of more than 200 mg per liter is prohibited for sale, since it is believed that a large amount of salt in mineral water is fatally harmful to humans. Such strict standards were introduced to save Americans from diseases of the joints, cardiovascular system and other troubles that salt brings.

Now let's see what mineralization is contained in a number of popular mineral waters known to us.
Borjomi - on average 6 grams per liter.
Narazan - on average 2.5 grams per liter.
There are also a number of mineral waters in which this figure averages 9 or 12 grams per liter.

That is, when a person tells you that “I take care of my health - I drink Borjomi every day,” this means that he says “I take care of my health - I eat two tablespoons of salt a day”! It just sounds funny. The place for these waters is exclusively on the shelves of pharmacies. They can only be used as medicine, in courses under the supervision of a doctor, if there are medical indications, when the negative effect of salt consumption is less important than the treatment of some diseased organ. And this, mind you, in strictly defined doses, like “a quarter glass of heated water half an hour before meals for two weeks, twice a year.” All! You can't touch this kind of water anymore. And here it is on store shelves.

Now compare the indicators of these waters with the indicators of Arkhyz: on average 250 milligrams per liter, thus, in terms of its lower indicators (Arkhyz mineralization from 150 to 350 milligrams), Arkhyz meets even the very strict American standards of mineralization, which the above-mentioned waters absolutely do not meet. That is, Arkhyz can be used constantly, including for cooler use or for boiling (due to its low mineralization, it does not harm the dishes).
Finished goods warehouse.

Delivery of one bottle of Arkhyz outside the Urals costs 8 rubles. And to the Far East 16. Producers of mineral water, unlike producers of Lada Kalina, do not receive any preferences from the state. Therefore, for residents of the East of the country, water is more expensive. Fortunately, we managed not to carry water in refrigerated cars, which Russian Railways insisted on (carrying water in a refrigerated car costs 50% more than in a regular one), since water is stored quite normally at normal temperatures. This reduced the cost of mineral water for consumers. It should also be mentioned that there are several producers of mineral water in our market, which, of course, is not as healthy as Arkhyz, who pay money to retail outlets so that a competitor in the form of Arkhyz does not appear there.
Loading products into trucks.

In addition to mineral waters, the Visma company produces Megavita and Zhivitsa drinks - these are waters with unique characteristics.
Megavita is a unique energy drink, has a fruity taste and is the only one in its class. After the effect of this energy drink in the body ends, a person does not experience a loss of strength, as happens when consuming conventional energy drinks, so it is recommended for athletes. Unlike conventional energy drinks, it does not have any negative effect on the body and consists only of natural ingredients.

And Zhivitsa water is based on larch extract and has the taste of pine needles. There was no similar drink in the world yet.

This is how my trip to the Arkhyz mineral water plant went. During this trip I learned a lot of new things and this information will make me reconsider my attitude towards my health, at least in the area of ​​drinking mineral water. I hope that you also learned something useful that will have the best effect on your health!

Carbonated water (soda) or soda has been known to mankind since the end of the 19th century. Previously, it was sold in special vending machines, but soon appeared on store shelves. Today, residents of developed countries cannot imagine life without this drink, and carbonated drink manufacturers successfully take advantage of this, increasing the price of their product. Therefore, we will tell you how to make sparkling water at home and save your money.

Making homemade sparkling water is a simple and fairly quick process. All methods are based on the addition of carbon dioxide, which has neither taste nor odor. This gas dissolves easily in water, making it taste sour.

Using special siphons

To prepare sparkling water, the easiest way is to use a special cylinder or siphon with ready-made carbon dioxide. They are sold in any hardware stores. You can also order online.

To use a device for carbonating water at home, you need to do the following:

1. Pour cooled water into the siphon.
2. Screw on the carbon dioxide cylinder.
3. Unscrew the valve and wait a few seconds for the carbon dioxide to flow into the siphon.
4. Twist the bottle and close the siphon to prevent gas from escaping.

It is very convenient to pour soda from a siphon into glasses. To do this, you just need to press the lever until a sufficient amount of drink is poured. If you compare the cost of purchased and home-made carbonated water, the latter will be more profitable for the consumer.

Cooking with improvised means

There are also many ways to carbonate water at home without using a siphon. All the necessary components can be found in the kitchen of any housewife.

First way:

1. Place a teaspoon of baking soda in a glass.
2. Add to it 2 teaspoons of squeezed lemon juice or half a spoon of citric acid.
3. Fill everything with clean chilled water and stir. Soda is ready!

Using these ingredients, you can prepare large portions of soda. Plastic bottles or other tightly sealed containers are acceptable as containers.

To improve the taste of the drink, you can add powdered sugar, syrup, honey and other natural additives. And its basis, instead of water, can be any juices and fruit drinks.

The second method differs from the previous one by using vinegar instead of lemon juice. For preparation you will need:

• 1 liter of clean chilled water;
• 7 tablespoons 9% vinegar;
• 2 teaspoons baking soda;
• meter tube;
• 2 dark plastic bottles;
• 2 caps with holes smaller than the diameter of the tube.

Cooking method:

1. Attach the edges of the tube to the two caps.
2. Fill one bottle with cold water.
3. Wrap the soda in a napkin and place it at the bottom of the second bottle.
4. Pour the vinegar solution over a napkin.
5. Cap the bottles tightly to prevent carbon dioxide from escaping.
6. Shake the bottle for 5-6 minutes until the gas evolution reaction is complete.
7. When the water is saturated with gas, close it with a simple lid and place it in the refrigerator.

This is a very cheap way to make soda. But it is not recommended to drink such water often, since it contains residues of vinegar and bicarbonate acid, which, in high dosages, are irritating to the mucous membranes.

You can make sparkling water at home using fermentation. To do this, prepare the following ingredients:

• 4 liters of drinking water;
• 1 glass of warm water;
• ½ cup sugar;
• bread yeast - 1 tablespoon or brewer's yeast - on the tip of a teaspoon;
• food additives and flavorings to taste.

Cooking method:

1. Pour the yeast with warm water and leave for 5-10 minutes until completely dissolved.
2. Transfer the yeast to a container and mix with sugar and food additives (if any).
3. Slowly pour cold water into the container, stirring constantly. Make sure that all ingredients are well dissolved.
4. Pour the prepared solution into plastic bottles and close them.
5. Leave the mixture in a dark place until the end of fermentation (about 5 days), unscrewing the lids from time to time.
6. After fermentation is complete, the bottles should be stored in the refrigerator.

The fourth method is to use dry ice. It is not so easy to get, but if you succeed, you need to use it immediately, since it is stored only at very low temperatures. To carbonate, fill a liter jar with water, add a small piece of dry ice, wait a few seconds - and the drink is ready!

Carbonated water at home is not only cheaper, but also much healthier than store-bought water. In addition, you can add various additives and syrups to it, getting new delicious drinks for the whole family.

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How to make mineral water at home? What is needed for this and in what doses? and got the best answer

Answer from Stranger[guru]
Did you mean soda? Water ~250ml + ~Soda10mg + ~vinegar5ml!

Answer from IK[active]
Depending on the region, tap water is already mineralized :)

Answer from Lllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll[active]
What does mineral water mean? For soda, they also sell siphons with gas cylinders. But mineralization - here it’s better without amateur efforts.
But I also heard this method: add 1.5 liters of “hydrosaline” to the water. water - one sachet - you get mineral water.
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About soda.
There are only three ways to make "pop"
1. Chemical - soda + food acid in equimolar quantities, for example citric acid.
2. Saturation - direct dissolution of carbon dioxide in water. Occurs better at higher pressure and lower temperature. This is how fizzy drinks are made, including all kinds of lemonades and “fast” varieties of fizzy (champagne) wines in factories or at home - in what are called “siphons”.
3. Fermentation, when carbon dioxide is produced by yeast and slowly saturates the liquid in which fermentation occurs.
There is no fourth way. Well, or he is unknown to me.

Answer from Margarita Andreevna[newbie]
take a glass of water, pour the juice into it in the form of a powder) and stir a teaspoon of baking soda and voila

Answer from Katya Bogdanova[newbie]
3kg vinegar

Answer from Alexander Tkachev[newbie]
water, soda and sugar and don’t forget about vinegar

Answer from Vadym Mykhailov[newbie]
gas from home into a bottle and some water I got so high once

Answer from VENERA JOY[newbie]
ripich

Answer from 3 answers[guru]

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