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20 bucks for 1.75ml of cola seems like pretty bad value.

To be clear, it made about 1.75L of syrup, not cola. I kept the cola syrup jug in a fridge for like a year, and when I wanted a glass of "cola" I'd add about an oz of the syrup concentrate to a glass of carbonated water (which I pre-carbonated with my DrinkMate), and stirred to combine.

I used like half the amount of sugar the cube-cola recipe recommended, because it seemed high. It wasn't Coke sweet but it was still plenty sweet for a soft drink, to my palette.

EDIT: Originally said 1.75 ml, meant to say Liters.

An oz is ~29.57 ml (mililiters), so I think perhaps you meant that you made 1.7 l (liters)?

Do you mean L? ml to me would be millilitres and one fluid ounce is ~30ml.

Yes, typo on my side. Thanks for catching!

This is why normal folk use quarts and gallons so there is no confusion. An mg vs ng of astrophage is deadly.

How is the cleanup with DrinkMate? Washing everything was my primary problem with SodaStream.

Not hard? I mean you need a dedicated bottle brush, but the bottle itself is the only thing I recall having to clean. The DrinkMate advertises itself as being able to carbonate other things (juice, flat soda, etc.), but I never carbonate anything other than water in the bottle, then add my syrups only after decanting. It prevents the bottle from getting sticky.

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