Quick and Easy Homemade Sparkling Water

Name: Quick and Easy Homemade Sparkling Water
Yield: 2 cups
Cuisine: American
Ingredients: 2 cups cold water (500ml); 1 teaspoon baking soda; 1 teaspoon citric acid

みきり～ん @cook_40093485

It's delightful to make sparkling water easily at home! With a bit more citric acid, you'll have a refreshing and delicious sparkling water. The story behind this recipe: In our household, we love sparkling water, but buying it from a vending machine at $1.30 a bottle is hard on the wallet! So, we decided to make sparkling water easily at home. Basically, you can create a chemical reaction to make sparkling water in any order, but it seems best to dissolve the baking soda in water before adding the citric acid.

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Ingredients

2 cups

2 cupscold water (500ml)
1 teaspoonbaking soda
1 teaspooncitric acid

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Steps

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Prepare an empty plastic bottle. *Use a bottle and cap designed for carbonated drinks!
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Cut a piece of parchment paper and place it on a kitchen scale (to use for adding ingredients into the bottle).
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Measure 1 teaspoon (5g) each of baking soda and citric acid, and shake the bottle well each time to dissolve them in the water.
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Pour into a glass, and enjoy the fizzy sparkling water!
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Since it goes quickly, I made a lot in a 1.5L bottle.
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Using a cylindrical shaker made it easy to add a spoonful directly without worrying about the narrow bottle opening.
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You can also make it directly in a glass. This might be even easier!
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If baking soda remains at the bottom, add cold water and more citric acid to make it drinkable again.
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Adding ice and stirring seems to activate it even more. Fizzy!
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Using 1 teaspoon each for a half portion (1 cup or 250ml) also tasted fine.
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By the way, this is store-bought sparkling water.
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Store-bought sparkling water might have larger bubbles.
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Recently started a protein lifestyle! The key to making it delicious is cold water and ice. It's the same here.