And Then I Tried to Kill My Family With A Home Soda Maker

Let me preface this story by saying home soda makers are SAFE!  I WAS NOT FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS! DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME! DO NOT SUE ME! 

(Legal disclaimer over.)

We have one of those "home soda makers," and since this post was sponsored by no one, and once you read it the makers of the "home soda maker" will probably not want to be associated with me, I will not tell you which one.  But I generally like it.  I don't drink soda, but I use it to make flavored seltzer water and Doug makes natural soda.

There is a warning that you should not fizzelate (our made up word for using the machine) after you add the flavoring.  But I messed up and thought Doug had already fizzelated so I added my seltzer flavoring. Not wanting to throw out an entire bottle of water and flavoring, I attempted to fizz it.  I figured what was the worst thing that could happen.

THIS IS WHEN I STOPPED FOLLOWING THE DIRECTIONS THAT CAME WITH THE PRODUCT.

If you are familiar with these home soda makers, you know that you infuse the water with CO2.  And when I did that with water that had already been flavored, the bottle exploded and water went everywhere.  I mean everywhere.  And the water was powerful.  It went on the ceiling.  It went across the room.  Doug ducked and thought he had been hit by a bottle.  Michael screamed.  It was all pretty dramatic.  And humorous.  

Directions people, this is why you follow directions.

When the dust settled I was soaking wet and laughing.  Doug did not think this was so funny because he thought I ruined the ceiling.  We cleaned up the water, realized the bottle managed to somehow survive, and once Doug calmed down he found humor in it as well.

Our ceiling is fine in case you were worried.  (I never was.)  We all survived my attempt to termite us all via home soda maker.

Lesson learned: when a product says not to do something, they are not kidding. Because you might die via fizzelation.

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