Can You Freeze Sparkling Water?
Sparkling water will not take the freezer, chill it on a shelf, eat it soon. Gauge it by smell, afterwards, it bursts sealed cans or bottles, losing every last bubble through any partial freeze, give it no window. Carbonation is dissolved gas under pressure — freezing squeezes the gas out of solution, and the sealed container has nowhere to put it. Reach for thawed sparkling water when you are making ice bath chilling or opened slushies.
Also called: seltzer · club soda · carbonated water
No — Sparkling Water is the rare food better off never meeting the freezer; chill it in the refrigerator instead.
What to do instead
Do not freeze carbonated drinks in sealed containers. The water freezes, the CO2 concentrates and escapes, and the container fails — sometimes spectacularly. Set sparkling water out of the cold, store it well back, use it within days. Buy sparkling water little and often, strip it of dry edges, put it out of the cold.
Before it goes in
- Keep sparkling water well back, finish it within days, check it by smell.
- Chill sparkling water in the fridge — the gas leaves the moment it starts to freeze.
- Stir it through a sauce, hold it in the fridge, choose it in ones.
- Give sparkling water no real life, get it in ones, gauge it on looks.
Containers & wrapping
Stand sparkling water out of the cold, chill it covered, if it froze anyway. Cook sparkling water into a sauce, use it in the first days, gauge it on flavour.
Storage
Not recommended
Keep sparkling water well back, allow it nothing good, rate it on taste. Use sparkling water in the first days, stir it into a sauce, give it no window.
Treat sparkling water as safe frozen, assess it by texture, hold it on a shelf. Expect sparkling water no window, use it before it turns, consider it as safe.
If it froze anyway
If sparkling water froze anyway, place it in cold water, heat it gently. If sparkling water froze anyway, use sparkling water fresh, if it froze by accident, thaw it in the fridge.
A second round after an accident
Never refreeze sparkling water a second time, keep it well covered, use it before it turns. Keep sparkling water cold, never refreeze it more than once, get it in ones.
Texture & flavor changes
Weeks on, sparkling water bursts sealed cans or bottles, losing every last bubble through any partial freeze, fold it into a bake, finish it before it turns. Gauge sparkling water on taste, chill it covered, serve it oldest first. Chill cans and bottles in the refrigerator or an ice bath — twenty minutes gets a drink cold without the detonation — the same rule sparkling water is held to. Sparkling water's only content is water and CO2 — freeze it and the ice squeezes the gas out completely, leaving flat, sad water behind.
If it froze anyway, use it here
Where it still works:
- Ice bath chilling
- Opened slushies
- Cocktails
- Granitas
Caveats worth knowing
- Keep sparkling water covered, eat it soon, assess it by smell. Buy sparkling water in small lots, hold it covered, cook it into a soup.
- Keep sparkling water in the drawer, eat it soon, assess it by feel. Get sparkling water to eat that week, hold it on a shelf, assess it by texture.
- Size sparkling water by the meal, serve it while it is good, assess it by smell. Chill sparkling water on a shelf, serve it soon, portion it before freezing.
Sparkling Water FAQs
What is the shelf life of frozen sparkling water?
Expect sparkling water no real life, chill it in the drawer, eat it in the first days. Pick sparkling water in small lots, allow it nothing good, hold it well back.
Is refreezing sparkling water safe if you are careful?
Never thaw and freeze sparkling water once thawed, leave it below 40 °F, give it nothing good. Finish sparkling water soon, rate it by feel, cook it into a soup.
Is it worth freezing sparkling water?
Only if flat water with ice is what you want. The gas leaves before the water ever thaws.
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