Can a make mineral water with a soda stream?
Umm..I’m pretty sure the difference between mineral water and soda water has nothing to do with mineral content. Both are carbonated, but soda water also has sugar added and some flavour added. Sometimes soda water is pink. A home carbonation machine would not make soda, since it would not add sugar or flavouring. It would make mineral water if by that you mean bubbly water. I kind of wonder about the kind of bubbles though…It’s been years since I drank anything carbonated, but I seem to remember that the the bubbles in water seemed smaller/fizzier than the ones in pop. I’m not sure what creates the differnece. It’s possible that carbonating water would give you something closer to flavourless pop than mineral water (i.e. the bubbles would be too big and it would seem wrong).
Soda water: water that has been carbonated, sometimes by using bicarbonate of soda. I’ve never encountered it flavored, but apparently it is sometimes. Mineral water: contains minerals (natch) that alter its taste, and can be either still or efffervescent. So if you want to make bubbly mineral water, find a still water you like and carbonate it. If you have a freind in a rural area that has a well, there will be minerals in that water- put it in your Soda Stream, voila, sparkling mineral water. Tonic water is carbonated water flavored with quinine. If you’re into that flavor, you could infuse your water with cinchona bark (I’ve seen it in tea bag form) and then carbonate it.
Just to be clear, define:Mineral water – Google Search. Conversationally, I don’t think I have ever heard someone refer to their tap water as “mineral water” and I have lived in Ohio (where the water is exceptionally “hard”) nor in Paris where the water is heavily laden avec calcaire.
or would this be soda water instead? Here in Australia there is a difference. My GF and I have the SodaClub “machine” and use it all the time. The way it works is by injecting CO2 into a screw-on bottle filled with whatever you want carbonated. The CO2 comes from a canister that attaches to the back of the unit (it’s quite small and will fit on a countertop easily). There’s a built-in pressure-release system so you can’t over-carbonate your bottles. I imagine this is for safety reasons. Anyway, to answer your question, all it does it carbonate. It doesn’t infuse any extra chemicals or minerals. If you buy some cheap mineral water and carbonate it, you get a good San Peligrino knock-off. They also sell flavor “packets” that you can add to your mixture. The coke flavor is abysmal, BTW, but I’ve found their fruit flavors are quite good. They offer both regular and diet flavors (with Nutrasweet). My GF was commenting about a year ago that they should expand their product lineup to try and
