I bought these the last time and love them. I make my own soda and discovered the CO2 is too much pressure for these. One exploded yesterday sending soda all over the desk ruining DVDs and papers.
@cengland0 as a soda maker - I have so many questions. Are you carbonating in the bottle with yeast? Or are you bottling post carbonation and putting into the bottle?
@dbq I carbonate the water using CO2 from 20 ounce paintball canisters that I refill at Dicks. I add the flavoring after the water is carbonated.
Using several adapters, I was able to connect them to my soda stream so I don't have to buy their expensive cartridges.
I don't want to drink out of the one-liter containers used to make the sodas so I was pouring half of it into these Contigo containers and it's been fine until yesterday.
What happened is that I got stuck on the phone for almost 3 hours after I filled it all the way up and I never opened it to take a drink. I then took a shower and heard an explosion and a glass breaking sound. I rushed into the livingroom area to find out what happened and there were Contigo fragments all over the livingroom. The furthest component was about 20 feet away. I still haven't found the rubber gasket. It could be under the couch or chair but I haven't had a chance to hunt it down yet.
3 hours without opening the Contigo was too much time. You need to constantly drink from it and release the pressure periodically.
@RedOak About being frugal, I wonder if the lifetime warranty would replace the "defective" unit I have. As long as I don't have to pay to ship it back, I might as well try.
About someone being in the room, I was two rooms away and nearly had a heart attack. I thought someone was breaking into the house. Mrs. cengland0 is out traveling so I was in the house all alone -- pretty scary. She wasn't here to protect me.
@brhfl In homebrewing, you end up with carbonation as a byproduct of yeast turning sugar to alcohol. If you had just plain water, there would be nothing for the yeast to convert, and no carbonation.
@dbq you can make various fermented products to make your own soda as well without yeast. I do believe there are small amounts of alcohol, though it is quite minimal (as someone else pointed out). For example, you can make ginger ale by making a "wort" with fresh ginger and sugar and water. I'd suggest searching for "homemade soda" or something similar. It's quite easy! Not exactly soda but close enough--I have a continuous brew kombucha set up, and do a secondary fermentation with fruit that carbonates it. Odd if you're not used it, but super tasty!
@jml326 Ha, food grade. When doing my research, many of the experts said people might say that. There is no such thing as food grade CO2. Some companies say theirs is food grade but so it everyone else's.
I considered getting a 20 pound CO2 bottle and having it filled at a welding shop but I have been unsuccessful in finding a place that will fill the big containers in my local area. I went the paintball canister route instead because I have two options for refilling -- Dicks and Academy Sports.
Academy Sports is a little cheaper but when you want to get one filled, you stand in the front waiting for someone to help you for about an hour. That's too much of a waste of my time so I pay a little more to get quick service at Dicks.
@cengland0 The slight difference between industrial-grade CO2 and food-grade CO2 is the type of tests that are done to qualify CO2 as beverage or beer gas-grade compared to industrial-grade. Currently, the FDA's requirement for food-grade CO2 a 99.90% purity rating. The other .09% is made up of impurities such as hydrocarbons or nitrogen. Industrial grade CO2 is 99% pure CO2, also containing impurities such as hydrocarbons or nitrogen. One impurity that all homebrewers should be aware of is benzene. Benzene is a no-no for homebrewers. If the CO2 that you are purchasing has high benzene levels, it will leave you and fellow drinkers with terrible headaches. When I say high levels, we are not talking about much. Benzene is usually an impurity that is referred to in PPB. The benzene level should be around 20 PPB.
I understand my base is from brewing beer and from a chemist stand point but just be careful.
@cengland0 Food-Grade, anything (in the US) means special requirements on transport and handling, which implies more expense. So even though the same plant may produce it, the pipes leaving the plant have to be food grade, the tanks the product goes into has to be food grade. The non-food grade version will go through less expensive /less-maintained/less-cleaned pipes and into similarly treated containers.
So your CO2 in a painball gun, could have oil in it (or remnants of oil) from any of the things it's passed through Tanks, Tubing, fittings, valves.... which won't hurt the gun, but would not be good for food uses. Other than oil, is lead, as most fittings (Brass) can and do contain lead, Most food grade CO2 fittings are stainless or aluminum to avoid lead contamination.
Food grade CO2 is so cheap for the little you need for carbonated water I wouldn't bother with paintball gun gass you get at Dicks. Its $21USD for a 25lb tank of food grade CO2 here in small town Michigan, with no deposit on the tank. I would expect it to be even cheaper in a larger city.
Ask around anywhere that sells kegs of beer. Food grade CO2 can be used to dispense beer, keeping it from going bad as fast as it does with hand pumps (Atmospheric Air). So some of your keg-beer shops will have it. All Pop Distributors will have it too since its required for both BiB and premix systems, but they tend to cost more for the same CO2.
From my independent research, there are just as many or more articles that say it doesn't matter. As me my own personal opinion, I don't care about some of the contaminants that could be in there such as nitrogen because I breath that in every day. It's a major component of air.
@OlBren Thanks. I'll have to give them a call. According to their site, they do "co2 exchanges" and I would prefer a refill so I know I'm getting a quality container back. I also fill up my own LP tanks instead of using the swap method for the same reason.
@OlBren Update on that justbrewitjax.com company. I visited them on Monday and they do swap out CO2 containers so I will be doing business with them. Thanks for finding them. A 20 pound CO2 swap is $40. Unfortunately, they didn't have any in stock so I have to go back later and they are very far from the house.
@RedOak I contacted them about a warranty exchange through their website and just got a response back today. Looks like they will be sending me a replacement lid free of charge. I love this company!
@cengland0 hah! That is good news from a company clearly interested in proving it is good as well!
I'd be just as interested in your explanation to them as the trigger for the failure. ;-)
Since the letter didn't come from their attorneys disassociating themselves from this "unanticipated and unapproved" use of their product, I'm guessing you said something like "I don't understand - the top just spontaneously combusted!?!"
@RedOak Believe it or not, I was very honest with them. I explained that I filled it up with soda and left it for a couple hours and it exploded and broke the flip lid.
For future reference, I plan on continuing using them for soda but will make a couple changes. First, I will only fill them half way so it has more room for the CO2 to expand. Then, I will leave the lid open if I plan on leaving it without drinking for a long time. It might lose some fizz but I'd rather do that than break another one.
These are seriously great for toddlers and early schoolers. Easy to open, and do not spill when closed. (UNLESS you forget/lose the gasket on the lid. Then these motherfuckers will leak like a sieve.)
@haydesigner I don't think you should be allowed to use toddlers and motherfuckers in the same paragraph. Just my opinion...or maybe it's a law somewhere...
@haydesigner is the mouth too wide open for a toddler? I'm afraid mine will just constantly wear whatever is inside. Not that that is any different from any other time!
Bought these last time, have become my favorites. Easy to chug at the gym, no more sucking on the mouthpiece like the more expensive bottles. I take one up to bed so the cats can't drink my water. They're great. I'm getting another pack to share with the kids.
I bought 2 sets, last time. I think my son got a little rough when washing 1.. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T KNOCK THE GASKET IN THE LID OFF THE TRACK.. LEAK-PROOF MY ASS!!!.. When using them now, I always check the lid...
Question: Would these be liked by a kid who runs on a cross country team? She needs new water bottles, but I wonder - would the smaller nozzle versions be preferred or these wide mouth versions?
@RedOak I'm gonna say no. Runners really like squeezy bottles, not hard sided. You can drink from a squeezy bottle one handed while your chest is heaving, try to do that with an open flow of water or a cup without choking. Pro tip - the Polar or Camelbak insulated ones are the bomb. I'm a runner
Weird...watching Pulp Fiction and I remember to check meh.....and Samuel L's smiling face greets me. OK...come again....what do they call a Big Mac in France?
@eeterrific Wasn't the question "What do they call a quarter pounder with cheese?" Because they are on the metric system they wouldn't call it the quarter pounder. So I believe they mention in the movie it's called a Royal Burger.
@gregormehndel Okay, so they first discussed the quarter pounder with cheese then Samuel asked what they call the Big Mac. Both were mentioned. I was just going by memory which isn't too bad.
Meh...I just bought these...it feels like it wasn't even a month ago. Of course, after my spending on Force Friday, Meh may not get much money from me for a while...
Horrific-abundant-lamb..just couldn't put that photo here. Best descriptive one I found was a pile of dead bloody-faced little lambies. Too horrible for sight, but probably very good eating!
Specs
Condition: New
Warranty: Lifetime Contigo
Estimated Delivery: 9/15 - 9/17
Shipping: $5 or free with VMP
What’s in the Box?
3x Contigo Jackson water bottles
Pictures
Retail packaging
3 Bottles
Carrying loop
Chugalug
Price Comparison
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Warranty
90 days
Bottle meh.
This deal gets me so wet
@lichme water you talking about?!
@jsh139 hydro know what you guys are talking about
@lichme Try to keep those puns bottled up.
@cengland0 cantigo a little while longer with the puns? Pleeeease
@lichme Okay, I'll go with the flow.
@lichme I don't drought that.
@lichme Put a cap on it, guys. I've never wetnessed such a pourable deal. waves goodbye :P
I'll drink to that..water :)
Knives? Check.
Water bottles? Check.
Speaker docks...
Speaker docks...
... hello speaker docks where are you???
@thismyusername how about some speaker rocks?
Already bought these from meh..no meh need anymore
Have too many do hydrogen monoxide containers already.
@jsh139 err. Dihydrogen. Thanks iPhone.
I bought these the last time and love them. I make my own soda and discovered the CO2 is too much pressure for these. One exploded yesterday sending soda all over the desk ruining DVDs and papers.
In for 3 more :)
@cengland0 as a soda maker - I have so many questions. Are you carbonating in the bottle with yeast? Or are you bottling post carbonation and putting into the bottle?
@dbq I carbonate the water using CO2 from 20 ounce paintball canisters that I refill at Dicks. I add the flavoring after the water is carbonated.
Using several adapters, I was able to connect them to my soda stream so I don't have to buy their expensive cartridges.
I don't want to drink out of the one-liter containers used to make the sodas so I was pouring half of it into these Contigo containers and it's been fine until yesterday.
What happened is that I got stuck on the phone for almost 3 hours after I filled it all the way up and I never opened it to take a drink. I then took a shower and heard an explosion and a glass breaking sound. I rushed into the livingroom area to find out what happened and there were Contigo fragments all over the livingroom. The furthest component was about 20 feet away. I still haven't found the rubber gasket. It could be under the couch or chair but I haven't had a chance to hunt it down yet.
3 hours without opening the Contigo was too much time. You need to constantly drink from it and release the pressure periodically.
Update: I just found the gasket. It was in the kitchen on one of the cabinets. Wow.
@cengland0 First, darned clever. And well-crafted frugality.
But yikes - good thing nobody was in the room!
@RedOak About being frugal, I wonder if the lifetime warranty would replace the "defective" unit I have. As long as I don't have to pay to ship it back, I might as well try.
About someone being in the room, I was two rooms away and nearly had a heart attack. I thought someone was breaking into the house. Mrs. cengland0 is out traveling so I was in the house all alone -- pretty scary. She wasn't here to protect me.
@dbq I really want to try carbonating my own water w/ yeast. Will have to bring this up with the forum homebrewers…
@cengland0 RE the warranty, can you find anything in the fine print prohibiting the use of paintball tanks to fill them? If not, go for it!
@brhfl In homebrewing, you end up with carbonation as a byproduct of yeast turning sugar to alcohol. If you had just plain water, there would be nothing for the yeast to convert, and no carbonation.
@cengland0
Co2 from dicks would not be food grade...eww
@OlBren true, though sugar water might give you something fizzy..
@dbq you can make various fermented products to make your own soda as well without yeast. I do believe there are small amounts of alcohol, though it is quite minimal (as someone else pointed out). For example, you can make ginger ale by making a "wort" with fresh ginger and sugar and water. I'd suggest searching for "homemade soda" or something similar. It's quite easy!
Not exactly soda but close enough--I have a continuous brew kombucha set up, and do a secondary fermentation with fruit that carbonates it. Odd if you're not used it, but super tasty!
@jml326 Ha, food grade. When doing my research, many of the experts said people might say that. There is no such thing as food grade CO2. Some companies say theirs is food grade but so it everyone else's.
I considered getting a 20 pound CO2 bottle and having it filled at a welding shop but I have been unsuccessful in finding a place that will fill the big containers in my local area. I went the paintball canister route instead because I have two options for refilling -- Dicks and Academy Sports.
Academy Sports is a little cheaper but when you want to get one filled, you stand in the front waiting for someone to help you for about an hour. That's too much of a waste of my time so I pay a little more to get quick service at Dicks.
@marklog It would. Depending on how much sugar and the strain of the yeast, youd end up with yeasty, carbonated water, and alcohol.
@cengland0 Call up a homebrew shop and ask where to get CO2 for a keg system filled. They'll know.
@cengland0
The slight difference between industrial-grade CO2 and food-grade CO2 is the type of tests that are done to qualify CO2 as beverage or beer gas-grade compared to industrial-grade. Currently, the FDA's requirement for food-grade CO2 a 99.90% purity rating. The other .09% is made up of impurities such as hydrocarbons or nitrogen. Industrial grade CO2 is 99% pure CO2, also containing impurities such as hydrocarbons or nitrogen.
One impurity that all homebrewers should be aware of is benzene. Benzene is a no-no for homebrewers. If the CO2 that you are purchasing has high benzene levels, it will leave you and fellow drinkers with terrible headaches. When I say high levels, we are not talking about much. Benzene is usually an impurity that is referred to in PPB. The benzene level should be around 20 PPB.
I understand my base is from brewing beer and from a chemist stand point but just be careful.
@cengland0
Food-Grade, anything (in the US) means special requirements on transport and handling, which implies more expense. So even though the same plant may produce it, the pipes leaving the plant have to be food grade, the tanks the product goes into has to be food grade. The non-food grade version will go through less expensive /less-maintained/less-cleaned pipes and into similarly treated containers.
So your CO2 in a painball gun, could have oil in it (or remnants of oil) from any of the things it's passed through Tanks, Tubing, fittings, valves.... which won't hurt the gun, but would not be good for food uses. Other than oil, is lead, as most fittings (Brass) can and do contain lead, Most food grade CO2 fittings are stainless or aluminum to avoid lead contamination.
Food grade CO2 is so cheap for the little you need for carbonated water I wouldn't bother with paintball gun gass you get at Dicks. Its $21USD for a 25lb tank of food grade CO2 here in small town Michigan, with no deposit on the tank. I would expect it to be even cheaper in a larger city.
Ask around anywhere that sells kegs of beer. Food grade CO2 can be used to dispense beer, keeping it from going bad as fast as it does with hand pumps (Atmospheric Air). So some of your keg-beer shops will have it. All Pop Distributors will have it too since its required for both BiB and premix systems, but they tend to cost more for the same CO2.
@OlBren Apparently we don't have any home-brew shops around here either. Who would you recommend in the Jacksonville Florida area?
@cengland0 Found this one http://www.justbrewitjax.com
@jml326 I see you got your information here: http://cooking.stackexchange.com/questions/43655/is-there-such-a-thing-as-food-grade-co2
From my independent research, there are just as many or more articles that say it doesn't matter. As me my own personal opinion, I don't care about some of the contaminants that could be in there such as nitrogen because I breath that in every day. It's a major component of air.
@OlBren Thanks. I'll have to give them a call. According to their site, they do "co2 exchanges" and I would prefer a refill so I know I'm getting a quality container back. I also fill up my own LP tanks instead of using the swap method for the same reason.
@OlBren Update on that justbrewitjax.com company. I visited them on Monday and they do swap out CO2 containers so I will be doing business with them. Thanks for finding them. A 20 pound CO2 swap is $40. Unfortunately, they didn't have any in stock so I have to go back later and they are very far from the house.
@RedOak I contacted them about a warranty exchange through their website and just got a response back today. Looks like they will be sending me a replacement lid free of charge. I love this company!
@cengland0 hah! That is good news from a company clearly interested in proving it is good as well!
I'd be just as interested in your explanation to them as the trigger for the failure. ;-)
Since the letter didn't come from their attorneys disassociating themselves from this "unanticipated and unapproved" use of their product, I'm guessing you said something like "I don't understand - the top just spontaneously combusted!?!"
@RedOak Believe it or not, I was very honest with them. I explained that I filled it up with soda and left it for a couple hours and it exploded and broke the flip lid.
For future reference, I plan on continuing using them for soda but will make a couple changes. First, I will only fill them half way so it has more room for the CO2 to expand. Then, I will leave the lid open if I plan on leaving it without drinking for a long time. It might lose some fizz but I'd rather do that than break another one.
@cengland0 cool. Odd they didn't recruit you to do some further durability R&D. ;-)
Please help me. I just traded 4 hours of my life for 6 plastic bottles.
@dbq Hold up, so does that mean you make $6 per hour? ($6x4=$24/2 packs)??? Please say no.
I mean wtf, why can't Contigo sell their own stuff? Always wholesaling it off.
Someone must have wished for these back. I hope you're happy.
meeeeeeeh
These are seriously great for toddlers and early schoolers. Easy to open, and do not spill when closed. (UNLESS you forget/lose the gasket on the lid. Then these motherfuckers will leak like a sieve.)
@haydesigner I don't think you should be allowed to use toddlers and motherfuckers in the same paragraph. Just my opinion...or maybe it's a law somewhere...
@haydesigner Putting toddlers in the bottle is difficult unless you bought the Blendtech.
@haydesigner anybody who has/had toddlers knows they leak like a sieve regardless of whether or not you use a gasket.
@haydesigner is the mouth too wide open for a toddler? I'm afraid mine will just constantly wear whatever is inside. Not that that is any different from any other time!
Bought these last time, have become my favorites.
Easy to chug at the gym, no more sucking on the mouthpiece like the more expensive bottles.
I take one up to bed so the cats can't drink my water.
They're great.
I'm getting another pack to share with the kids.
@ellett ah, someone else whose cats comandeer the water cups during the night.
I bought 2 sets, last time. I think my son got a little rough when washing 1.. MAKE SURE YOU DON'T KNOCK THE GASKET IN THE LID OFF THE TRACK.. LEAK-PROOF MY ASS!!!.. When using them now, I always check the lid...
Question: Would these be liked by a kid who runs on a cross country team? She needs new water bottles, but I wonder - would the smaller nozzle versions be preferred or these wide mouth versions?
@RedOak I'm gonna say no. Runners really like squeezy bottles, not hard sided. You can drink from a squeezy bottle one handed while your chest is heaving, try to do that with an open flow of water or a cup without choking. Pro tip - the Polar or Camelbak insulated ones are the bomb. I'm a runner
Weird...watching Pulp Fiction and I remember to check meh.....and Samuel L's smiling face greets me. OK...come again....what do they call a Big Mac in France?
@eeterrific Wasn't the question "What do they call a quarter pounder with cheese?" Because they are on the metric system they wouldn't call it the quarter pounder. So I believe they mention in the movie it's called a Royal Burger.
@cengland0 Nerp. Skip to 59 seconds for the burger talk:
@gregormehndel Okay, so they first discussed the quarter pounder with cheese then Samuel asked what they call the Big Mac. Both were mentioned. I was just going by memory which isn't too bad.
Flexible-Oily-Underwear.
I am not going to even try to google that pic.
Probably the result of an exploding Contigo bottle.
@icehole I'm not afraid.
@icehole wouldn't want that order number on my orders page. ;-) Cancel. Reorder. (Within an hour)
Maybe if you offered them with a speaker dock and headphones
@cranky1950 no problem. Wait a week. Done. (As long as you don't mind them coming in different boxes.)
imperfect-mummified-bear ........ Well
Meh...I just bought these...it feels like it wasn't even a month ago. Of course, after my spending on Force Friday, Meh may not get much money from me for a while...
Love these! In for another set.
Horrific-abundant-lamb..just couldn't put that photo here. Best descriptive one I found was a pile of dead bloody-faced little lambies. Too horrible for sight, but probably very good eating!
Am I really the first person to google "the three jackons" and find this?
http://www.thethreejacksons.nl
I'll bet these would have sold-out already if they were purple.
@heartny from @barney alone!