Comment on whats your dumb purchases?

• interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I theory yes, In practice nobody makes contaminated industrial CO² since the 1950s. If there are contaminant the gas supply will be VERY upfront about it. Usually it’s over 99.99% pure, very low moisture There’s also usually very few commercial sources of industrial gases in any particular town, so it’s usually not difficult to source it.

  If you want to pay extra, then find “food grade gas”, it’s probably the exact same gas because the industrial gas is already so pure it meets food grade quality. Probably the only difference is the fitting is kept “food clean”

  My gas guy gets it from “air liquide”, it’s a welding shop

  And when you look at the product’s safety datasheet

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  It even already lists it as “food grade” They even list it as “100%” pure but of course, nothing is 100% pure.

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  • Hotrod54chevy@lemmy.ml ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Personally, after seeing inside industrial facilities I’d personally prefer to use something they’re forced to classify differently. Yes, I know there’s a level of acceptable puss in milk or bugs in food, but I’d rather play pretends that the person processing everything is also concerned that I might be ingesting whatever is in the canister. Some people don’t like using tap water on their pasta and we humor them because it’s going to get boiled anyway but it’s their own personal use.

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    • interdimensionalmeme@lemmy.ml ⁨14⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      It really depends on the production process,
      Imagine of the production process intrinsically produces 3% carbon monoxide,
      that would be very bad for inhaling !
      But as industrial inputs that can be perfectly OK, as long as it is known, expected and dealt with.
      But over time, gas manufacturer devised ways to make pure gas for the lowest price as any other production process.
      So that’s the only gas that is available already, and has been for a long time.

      That’s why I’m not worried about CO2 gas for the welding shop. The most likely contaminant is going to be a few milligrams of regular air

      But yes in the abstract, you can’t use anything but certified food safe gas. The problem is that now your distributor needs to have food safe practices along the whole supply chain.

      That means not the welding shop, because they’re not a laboratory or kitchen, they don’t have a food safe protocol for gas handling.

      And the industrial distributor will not sell you any gas if you buy less than a couple tons.

      So, in this case buying a sodastream cylinder retail is probably going to be your only option.

      And that means paying 18$USD for 380 grams of CO2

      Instead of paying 20$USD for 2270 grams

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• Tja@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  In Germany every supermarket has their own sodastream-compatible cartridges, 100% sealed and food safe. And 30% cheaper or so.

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  • Redjard@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨22⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Going by memory there used to be competition a few years ago, so they may still be consolidating the market and stabelizing their monopoly before tightening prices.

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