Wow so many different answers to this question and a lot sound like they could possibly be correct. So tonight I’m going to test the cold beverage theory. Will poring cold soda into my tumbler full of ice result in less fizz bubbles. Up until now I’ve only pored warm soda into the ice fill receptacle.
I will also test the suggestion to used watery ice instead of the cold dry ice right out of the freezer. Will the watery warmer ice result in less fizz. I will use my warm soda along with watery ice to see if I get a different result.
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The soda coming out of the machine is colder, and colder liquids hold onto their fizz better.
Because the soda you get form a machine isn’t quite the same as the soda from the bottle.
Restaurants get packs of the soda syrup that they hook up to the machine, which the machine then mixes with water and adds the carbonation right then and there as you push the lever. This means that the carbonation is less throughly mixed/dissolved in the soda. There is less carbonation in soda from the machine than bottled soda.
The machine at your local restaurant is half water.
50% water and 50% soda come out at the same time, if you pay attention to the stream you’ll easily be able to see the half water mixture.
This means it’s only half as fizzy, thus it doesn’t overflow like pure soda.
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