How do you keep the FIZZ in a 2 litre Cola bottle ????? - Page 2

01-30-2005, 02:27 PM

I once saw a guy use a cola gadget to pump air into it. I guess it was pressurizing the air so the CO2 wouldn't escape. Anyone know if those work ? Where do you buy them ?

I was also thinking you could mix carbonated water but that would dillute it. Maybe one of those funny looking Co2 capsules used for air rifles but how would you use that ?

Dry Ice ? Nah.

Any tinkerers or chemists out there have any ideas ?

**BigMeatballDave** · 01-30-2005, 03:55 PM

Move to a planet that has a 100% CO2 atmosphere...

ROYC75 · 01-30-2005, 04:02 PM

Easy, don't open it , works for me .

01-30-2005, 04:35 PM

Squeezing all the air out can't possibly be right. The Co2 wants to leave the liquid. This is what the pump does. Pressurizes the air so the Co2 has no place to go but stay trapped.

yunghungwell · 01-31-2005, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by unlurking

I'm telling ya, just twist the cap all the way until it locks. Fizz will last weeks.

Only if you don't open the bottle in that time period. The problem is not CO2 leaking out of the cap. It is the dissolution of the dissolved CO2 in the soda into the headspace of the bottle. Each time the bottle is opened the equlibrium is upset and more of the dissolved CO2 will escape into the air at the top of the bottle. Basically the more times you open the bottle the more fizz you lose.

ROYC75 · 01-31-2005, 08:59 AM

I'm tell'n ya, don't open it.

jspchief · 01-31-2005, 09:01 AM

We're talking about a .99 bottle of pop...throw it out when it loses it's fizz.

unlurking · 01-31-2005, 09:02 AM

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Originally Posted by yunghungwell

Only if you don't open the bottle in that time period. The problem is not CO2 leaking out of the cap. It is the dissolution of the dissolved CO2 in the soda into the headspace of the bottle. Each time the bottle is opened the equlibrium is upset and more of the dissolved CO2 will escape into the air at the top of the bottle. Basically the more times you open the bottle the more fizz you lose.

Well, true, but who opens a 2 litre moe than 2 or 3 times before emptying it?

**Bob Dole** · 01-31-2005, 09:03 AM

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Originally Posted by warpaint99

Squeezing all the air out can't possibly be right.

Nope. It works just fine at Bob Dole's house.

Gaz · 01-31-2005, 09:07 AM

That Slovak guy chugged 60 bottles of beer and you can’t finish off a puny 2-liter?

Geez, what a wimp.

xoxo~
Gaz
A chug and burp kinda guy.

**Skip Towne** · 01-31-2005, 09:10 AM

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Originally Posted by Phobia

Why buy a device to take up valuable real estate in your kitchen? For $19.95, I'll teach you how to preserve the fizz in your 2 liters with nothing to buy, no products to store, and best of all, NO shipping and handling.

You've been taking lessons from BroWhippenidiot.

Kris Kringle · 01-31-2005, 09:43 AM

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Originally Posted by unlurking

I'm telling ya, just twist the cap all the way until it locks. Fizz will last weeks.

This is the absolute best way to do it. It bugs my wife because she then can't get the cap off, but too bad for her.

**ptlyon** · 01-31-2005, 09:44 AM

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Originally Posted by Gaz

That Slovak guy chugged 60 bottles of beer and you can’t finish off a puny 2-liter?

Geez, what a wimp.

xoxo~
Gaz
A chug and burp kinda guy.

No kiddin - my whiskey cokes and whiskey 7's usually aren't around long enough to lose fizz.

But that being said, I use the squeeze method.

Kris Kringle · 01-31-2005, 09:46 AM

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Originally Posted by jspchief

We're talking about a .99 bottle of pop...throw it out when it loses it's fizz.

Truly, I think this is the best answer on this thread.

patteeu · 01-31-2005, 11:07 AM

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Originally Posted by unlurking

If you tighten it enuff, you don't lose carb. The only problem is getting a grip to get the cap off. I have a few tools in a kitchen drawer and just use a small crescent wrench.

This doesn't work (except when the bottle is nearly full). See yunghungwell's explanation of why the fizz is lost in the first place.

The pump is the solution I would have gone with, but Phobia's (and el borracho's) cost-free solution is even better. Brilliant.

patteeu · 01-31-2005, 11:08 AM

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Originally Posted by warpaint99

Squeezing all the air out can't possibly be right. The Co2 wants to leave the liquid. This is what the pump does. Pressurizes the air so the Co2 has no place to go but stay trapped.

By squeezing the air out before you tighten the cap, you are leaving no room for the CO2 to escape after the cap is on.

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