Soda Syphons

[PoohBang]

I didn't see a thread on this so I thought I'd start one...

I love Soda Syphons. I have a huge gold 70's one my fridge for summer soda because it can hold 2 litters.

But this is my favorite I own. A Norman Bel Geddes from the 1930's. It's even better in person...

I have more pics on my blog of this great syphon and would love to see what you have...

 

[Bruce Wayne]

it looks interesting, but what is a soda syphon?
thanx!!!
Charlie

 

[MisterCairo]

Is that what can mix a non-carbonated liquid with CO2 gas to make pop (soda pop)? Kind of like a seltzer bottle?

An aunt and uncle had a soda pop maker, you added syrup (cola, ginger ale, whathaveyou) to water, and a gas-charged canister added the fizz.

It looks cool in any event!

 

[PoohBang]

A soda syphon is a home unit of a seltzer bottle.

Seltzer Bottle were pre-made and delivered or picked up.

A Soda Syphon was a unit that any home could make seltzer water.

You then could mix your water with syrup or your favorite drink and have a soda. From Ginger ale or Scotch and soda.

I use one to make soda pop all the time.

they run with a co2 cartridge and water.

 

[KittyT]

There is a thread about siphons in the Connoisseur forum

 

[PADDY]

Just grabbed this one...

You should feel the weight of this - HEAVY!! Glass incased in medieval chain mail (or that's what it reminds me of).

There's a screw on piece to dispense the CO2 gas into the water, and then it screws off again. For a few pounds, (buried under dust on the top shelf of a junk shop) and it's in excellent working order, I'm pretty pleased with this vintage addition to the PADDY WAGON COCKTAIL CABINET.

I'm just cleaning and sterilising it tonight (GMT) before using it. Also came with a box of ten original and unused cannisters!!

Any idea of era, period folks...? All info welcome, but this is one heavy duty piece of kit.

 

[Shangas]

What's the difference (if any) between a soda syphon and a seltzer-bottle/gasogene (call it what you will)? They seem to perform the same function. Or am I missing something?

 

[John in Covina]

I have seen that some use a CO2 cartridge and others may use the Nitreous cartridge as used for whipped cream anyone know if they taste different work different.

 

[PADDY]

History to Soda Water...

History
In 1767 Englishman Joseph Priestley invented carbonated water when he first discovered a method of infusing water with carbon dioxide when he suspended a bowl of water above a beer vat at a local brewery in Leeds, England.[1] The air blanketing the fermenting beer—called 'fixed air'—was known to kill mice suspended in it. Priestley found water thus treated had a pleasant taste and he offered it to friends as a cool, refreshing drink. In 1772 Priestley published a paper entitled Impregnating Water with Fixed Air in which he describes dripping oil of vitriol (sulfuric acid) onto chalk to produce carbon dioxide gas, and encouraging the gas to dissolve into an agitated bowl of water.[2]

In 1771 Swedish chemistry professor Torbern Bergman independently invented a similar process to make carbonated water. In poor health at the time yet frugal, he was trying to reproduce naturally-effervescent spring waters thought at the time to be beneficial to health.[citation needed]

Ányos Jedlik (1800-1895), a Hungarian, invented consumable soda-water that continues to be a popular drink today. He also built the world's first carbonated water factory in Budapest, Hungary[citation needed]. After this invention, a Hungarian drink made of wine and soda water called "fröccs" (wine spritzers) was spread throughout several countries in Europe.

Since then, carbonated water is made by passing pressurized carbon dioxide through water. The pressure increases the solubility and allows more carbon dioxide to dissolve than would be possible under standard atmospheric pressure. When the bottle is opened, the pressure is released, allowing the gas to come out of the solution, thus forming the characteristic bubbles.

In the United States, carbonated water was commonly known by the name of soda water until World War II. During the Great Depression, it was also referred to as two cents plain, a reference to its place as the cheapest drink available at the soda fountain. In the 1950s new terms such as sparkling water and seltzer water began to be used. The term seltzer water is a genericized trademark that derives from the German town Selters, meaning "water from Selters." [3] where naturally carbonated water has been commercially bottled and shipped into all parts of the world at least since the 18th century.[4]

 

[Talbot]

it looks interesting, but what is a soda syphon?
thanx!!!
Charlie

You need to watch more of the Three Stooges

I remember taking the empties to the local and having them refilled.

Scotch and soda never tasted better.