Here’s a guide to making soda at home for beginners.
To make your soda fizzy and fun, you’ll need carbonated water, also known as sparkling water. The most efficient and effective way to get carbonated water at home is to purchase a carbonation device, commonly available as SodaStream. These machines carbonate water by adding carbon dioxide to the water, from a pressurized cylinder. A SodaStream can make the perfect soda water for your drink.
While purchasing a SodaStream (carbonation device), you must ensure that you’re purchasing the appropriate product according to your needs. You can browse over and analyze the best SodaStream brands to save yourself from hassle.
Here’s when the health card comes into play. You can control the sweetness of your soda while making the sweetening syrup if you’re health conscious.
While it’s all up to your personal preference, a basic sweetening syrup must consist of 1 cup of sugar. Add a cup of sugar and 1 cup of water in a saucepan, heat it and stir gently until all the sugar is dissolved.
Once you’re done, let the saucepan cool down and pour the syrup into a jar. You can also refrigerate the syrup to store it for up to 1 month.
Here’s when you can get creative. You are at liberty to prepare any flavor using your preferred ingredients to satisfy your taste glands. If you’re fond of fruits, you can choose a tasty combination of fruits for your soda. Else, you can also opt for herbs, spices or extracts.
The most common fruits used in sodas include berries, oranges, lime, pineapple, peach, grape, and clementine.
If you prefer herbs/spices or extracts, you can opt for ginger, chocolate, mint, basil, vanilla or almond extracts. You can either select a single flavor or combine 2-3 flavors for a different taste.
Once you’ve selected your desired flavor/flavors, you can start preparing your drink.
If you’ve selected fruits as a flavor for your soda, grab an appropriate amount of fruits and either cut them into small chunks or extract their juice.
Next, you can pour the cut-up fruit chunks or juice, the sweetener, soda water (carbonated water) and ice cubes into a glass and stir them up vigorously. Once your flavor, sweetener and soda water have mixed up perfectly, your homemade soda is ready.
You can decorate your soda glass using a fancy straw and enjoy your drink.