Can the Selah Dual-Pod Water Bottle De-Throne Cirkul?
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2024
- Today I'm testing out the Selah flavored water bottle (pronounced "sella" per the company). I test and rank all 10 flavors and ponder how it might fare against the Cirkul.
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0:00 Intro & Unboxing
1:36 Loading the Pods
2:58 First Try
4:06 Additional Observations
5:49 Tasting and Ranking All 10 Flavors
13:05 Second Round of Tastes
13:38 Final Ranking
14:27 Selah vs Others
17:00 Conclusion
#waterbottle #cirkul #flavoredwater 
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They took the business model employed by printer makers and applied it to flavored water.
Except Brother...
That’s real bad 😣
Plus they made it worse in every possible way. It's more expensive and the bottle sucks. I use a double walled vacuum water bottle that holds ice overnight in the summer.
The Selah is a thin plastic bottle that will be 85F in 15 minutes in the summer.
I'm obsessed with vacuum bottles ❤
That's why I have an Epson Ecotank. You just fill the tanks with more ink when you need it. The off brand ink made by Koala only cost 10-15 dollars for all the colors. Black ink can be purchased separately really cheap. Basically, the average user won't spend more than 10 dollars a year on ink. I'm above average printing around 500 custom, colored Christmas cards each year, which is why I bought it, and still don't spend more than 20 dollars of ink a year. You can flush the ink, and put in other types of ink, but that's for advanced, fabric users, which doesn't apply to most people.
Epson is like the Kool-aid pitcher of printers, and you just fill it with whatever flavor packets and water you want.
The fact that you rated both the watermelon flavors the same and they turned out to be the exact same gives you credibility.
in the netherlands we have bottles of concentraded ''sirup'' that you add to your water, we have a brand that has no sugar or artificial sweeteners and 1 liter bottle costs about 3euro en that bottle lasts many refills. these bottle systems seems like the ''inkjet printer'' of concentrated sirup.
Yea we have them in few forms the “mio” style, the crystal lite straw style, the seasoning pack style like kool-aid, and breadcrumbs tub style.
These products are peak plastic world.
Same in australia, $5 for 750 ml any flavour cordial. These Selah just cause more rubbish.
What’s the brand name? I’m from The Netherlands and I haven’t seen them
thous type of syrops do exist in America its just that not a lot of people seem to buy them as if a store stocks them you will be lucky if they have two different flavors.
@@mramisuzuki6962 Exactly this is reinventing the wheel
The thing that makes the Selah make no sense to me is that it just squirts the flavoring into the water and flavors the whole amount of water in the bottle. Which means... why tf even have a fancy bottle and dispensing system and special pods...? There's no difference between this and if they just sold little squeeze bottles of their flavoring that you could squirt into any bottle or cup. It's just MiO etc but with a convoluted delivery system to get it into the water. Everything about this system is redundant and needless other than the flavoring liquid in the pods. The only thing that makes the Cirkul _slightly_ less needless is that you can freely adjust how much flavor you get at any point if you want I guess. I've also heard people say the Cirkul cap fits on other insulated bottles etc so there's that I guess. This Selah thing doesn't even have that one small advantage though, and is literally just selling a fancy bottle so that you have use their flavor ecosystem and their bottles that don't actually do anything. If those flavor pods were little squeeze bottles instead, this whole system literally becomes irrelevant, because all it does is squirt flavor into a bottle of water in an overly-complex way.
Just to illustrate what I'm trying to say: *He just poured all of the flavored water samples into cups to drink later because it is the same outside of the bottle...*
The bottle is entirely pointless after using it to squirt the flavor in. There's 0 reason for it to be in that bottle. If those pods were squeeze bottles MiO or packets like Crystal Light those cups of water would be exactly the same as they are after pouring them out of the Selah bottle. The bottle system _doesn't actually do anything._
100% agree and the fact that if you added too much flavor you're screwed until you're able to add more water to balance it out or you're having to pour the flavored water out to make room for fresh water. Doesn't seem very efficient to me.
Yeah, I was just about to say the same. If keeping up with that tiny squirt bottle of MiO is too much trouble, you're going to hate this thing. Not everything has to be complicated and look like it came out of a sci-fi movie by Stanley Kubric. Honestly, these pod systems for drinks and coffee products can't be good for the environment, either. It's just a subscription based product designed to keep you buying their pods like Kuerieg, or the Juicero which folded in no time. I think I remember that thing costing several hundred dollars and didn't even work correctly. At home I just toss lime wheels, cucumber slices, and a pinch of sea salt into a jug and shake it up. Flavored water...done, and no weird chemical aftertaste.
That thing looks like the bank's drive thru plastic pod that shoots up the tube back to the teller...😂 great video as always James 👍 Happy Saturday 🎉
It's made to shoot your money back to the vulture capitalists.
Pneumatic tubes, cool stuff.
*Lol I thought that too. Great minds think alike!* :-)
Where do you live that that's a thing? Where I live there's nothing like that. You just drive up to the ATM and do your business. That sounds super archaic.
@@Lucifaar Well, it is. Pneumatic tubes went out of fashion in most places a while back.
But for a bank drive through, I don't know what places wouldn't have them. Also, the tube sends it to a real person so you can cash checks and stuff.
Been coming to this channel off and on for years and I think I keep coming back because he is just wholesome and genuine
SO 12 servings per 5 dollar pod, 12 at one click, and most everyone will use 3 clicks, so 4 servings for 5 dollars, unless you use 2 of them, Too expensive.
How many ounces in a “serving”? Still haven’t figured out the math.
@@kaiballington5520 ounces. Full bottle.
@@kaiballington55flavors the whole bottle, so 20 oz
@@kaiballington551 serving is 1 click. They say a pod will make twelve 20oz bottles of lightly flavored water or six 20oz bottles of fully flavored water. As shown by James in this video you’ll usually use 2 servings (clicks) so expect 1 pod to last 6 refills on average.
Cirkul however was much more expensive since one pod only lasted about 2 bottles for me. I needed it around five or six to even taste the flavor.
What i like about cirkul is control. Mio, you can control, but you can't just have plain water. it's whatever you sneeze. The Saleh bottle has a good concept with using 2 capsules instead of one, but just like mio, it squirts it in the water. Cirkul is the best, in my opinion.
I’ve used multiple Cirkul flavors and I really did like it, however every time I drank from it I’d start to get splitting headaches and I found out the sucralose was actually causing them
I'd rather just put my own flavoring into a water bottle.
Agree. Why don’t they just put this into a squeeze bottle and let us use our favorite bottle. I prefer my water cold and with ice sometimes. Their crazy bottles won’t keep anything cold.
@@lorrainefoster7000 Cirkul has metal bottles. I put ice in mine and it stays cold all day, even after several refills of water.
Like mio!
@@lorrainefoster7000great point. My klean kanteen is insulated and holds a shit ton more water
I have only tried Cirkul and I love it! They have such wide variety of flavors!
I loved cirkul.
The reason I gave up on it (besides always finding out someone at work was throwing my bottle out because they thought it was just a water bottle) was the amount of cirkul pods I was buying that didn't work
its funny you bring that up but I get given those bottles all the time to throw away as the janitor, and theyre useless to keep unless your gunna go buy the pods.
Wtf why were people at your work just throwing other people's things away?? That would make me irrationally angry.
@@WeiChei Lost and found, you get 30 days to claim things otherwise I toss them, and or keep whatever it is. Thats why you dont bring extra BS to a business as a customer. And why there's signs everywhere not to leave your property there even as an employee. Theyre not responsible for it all really, the lost and found is a good will gesture as it is. But the point is every place has a completely different system. Maybe they were just dicks at their place but not mine.
We're your flavors also rancid or just plain leaking? It was fine for me at first until the peach tea nearly made me throw up
Complain to Cirkul they’ll replace your flavors that don’t work. You just have to have a receipt and the picture of the pod
I'm glad you mentioned mold I did notice mold growing inside the pod I had not drank out of the Cirkul in awhile and wondered what was going on inside. I'm good about washing the Cirkul but between the nozzle and flavor solution there was some stuff growing in there. So don't leave it out.
Great video. I have no interest in flavored water but I watch every video you make. You are to the most complete reviews on RUclips
This looks ok, I guess. However, my kid absolutely HAD to have a Cirkul (all his friends had one). The pods were on sale so we bought aton of them, fast forward 6 months and I have a great water bottle that I use to this day! 😂
I bought a cirkul bottle like 2 years ago and I love the thing, it’s pretty dented and has some paint chips but still works great
This is an overpriced and over complicated method to do the same thing that squirting an instant flavor enhancer into your own bottle does. You buy this, you're stuck having to buy their propriety pods through their subscription.
I know right? I probably would never buy one on my own but I got a Cirkul for free at a festival. When the flavor that came with my bottle ran out I just disassembled the cartridge and kept the top part. Now it functions like a normal water bottle and it holds a little bit more water without the bottom part on it. Though I heard you can get one of those flavor enhancers and squirt it into the Cirkul cartridges to refill it so I may try that in the future.
Quickly sat down for a coffee, and this channel popped up, .... lol that was 30 minutes ago, .. love this channel ,especially the year on reviews
Two things about the Selah: it's harder to toy with the level of flavoring. If you add too much, then you are stuck with that unless you dump it out or dilute it with more water. With the Cirkul, the dial is easier to adjust since it doesn't add the flavoring until you actually drink the water. If it's too strong, you can just dial it back down. Also, if you really wanted you, you can refill the cirkul pods on your own. You can separate the pieces, add in your own flavoring (I usually use those mio pods), and then put it back together. That saves you quite a bit of money in the long run. In the end, for me, it comes down to the variety of flavors and how well those flavors taste that decides which one comes out on top.
My son and his family have the Cirkul and they love it. He said that the flavor is not injected into the water, but you taste the flavors when you take a drink. He said that he can refill the flavor section with those little Fuel squirt flavor drops bottles or any other brand even sugar free so he saves a lot on the flavor pods: this one looks good, but def more complicated to use and it doesn’t look like you can refill it with your own flavors.
How do you refill with the drops?
@@maryroberts2099 I'm pretty sure there's videos here on RUclips explaining how to do it. I'll search...if I don't edit this there is. I'm trying a "refill Cirkul Pods" search in case it helps.
This is a bad idea you'll get gross pods mold etc
You are BAD with money if you use this thing
Thank you for the review. Great detail as always.
Few years ago you had something similar that was all the rage made by Crystal Light. It was just a small bottle with liquid that you could squirt into your water bottle and shake. I am sure they are still for sale and are much easier to use and cheaper. I don't understand why you need a special bottle for this.
So you are locked in a proprietary system with expensive consumables
Is it Mio you are thinking of? I agree completely, trying to get to buy a special bottle and be locked into their pods is such an anti consumer thing that happens everywhere these days it seems.
@@TheHrb1234Lots of companies have their own versions. I think Mio was the original but @Syntax.error. was correct as well in there being a Crystal Light version.
@@TheHrb1234 yea, mio and crystal light
I’ve used Mio and really like a specific flavor that seems to be really tricky to find. The biggest thing for me is the drinking while driving - very annoying among other things. I use a straw all the time and it’s a whole lot safer than tilting a bottle right in front of my face!! And then there’s the cost!! No thanks!!! Love your videos though😀😀😀
I love cirkul for the fact I can use the cap on a Bubba and keep it colder for a lot longer.
which bubba bottle?
Son used the cap on his Nalgene
@@magmasoul4001rambler 24 and 32 oz
You can also "hack' the circul and refill the pods with Mio, Crystal Lite or the concentrate of your choice.
A lot cheaper too
So just to let you guys know they sell lime juice and lemon juice and little squeeze containers at the grocery store you can actually squeeze those into your water
We know but thank you for the reminder 😊
As well, there are several other water flavorings that come in squeeze bottles too. For example, Mio is the popular one. Also available at most grocery stores. Cheap. Doesn't require a special water bottle.
I’ve tried that. I’m not a big fan of lemon or lime.
@AgentOrange96 but the problem is that they can be difficult. I tried those squeeze bottle flavoring and it never worked out for me
Those little squeeze bottles of juice are awful. Horrible. Metallic tasting and....ugh. Just buy a lemon or a lime, or drink your water plain.
I don't get these flavoured water pods, do you guys not have squash/cordial? I can buy a bottle of concentrate for £2 and flavour about 15 litres of water with it.
the cheaper way is to get sodastream refills and put into squirt bottle, 2 small squirts per big glass and rest water. 7 bucks lasts you 2 weeks. (12 gallons give or take)
I have had my Cirkul for almost a year now and I drink way more water than I ever had in my life. For two years my liver enzymes were on the high side and just had it tested again recently and it is back in normal range and I think it has to do with my water intake increase due to the Cirkul!
iv seen that the Cirkul cartridges are easily diy refilled, what about the Selah cartridges?
refilled? How? and with what?
@@pkohler20you could refill it with anything you want by taking it apart
Never heard of any of these products. I'll stick to plain water, thanks. Good video James.
Hope you're having a great weekend. 🤗🤗
I have concentrated strawberry squash and 2 litre bottles of sparkling water, put a little bit of strawberry squash in a glass and fill it with sparkling water to make a strawberry sparkling water drink. You can get many flavours of squash to make these cheap sparkling water drinks... each drink costs about 10c...!
Sparkling water is the worst thing ever created
I’ll stick with cirkul since I can use it on different bottles. Also it’s nice that I can adjust the flavor as I drink. With the other one once you mix it you’re stuck with whatever you mixed. It is nice that you can mix flavors but that doesn’t outweigh the pros for the circkul.
My favorite is honestly waterdrop. I do own one of their bottles, which is a very pretty, very nice bottle which I love. But, I like that I can just pop a few of the little cubes into my purse or pocket and drop them in a bottle of generic bottled water anytime I want. The cubes can be a little on the expensive side, usually around $11-13 for a box of twelve, but I have found them on other sites for closer to $9, and I really enjoy the convenience and the flavors, so it is worth it to me. Thanks to the waterdrop cubes, I have almost completely quit drinking sodas and coffee and greatly increased my water intake.
I think I'll stick with using baker's natural flavourings in my water. A few drops is enough for a really nice tasting bottle, I can use whatever bottle I like, and works out MUCH cheaper. I can get one bottle of 15ml baker's flavouring at the same price as the pod - 12 servings in the pod compared to 30 servings per baker's flavouring bottle.... (in case anyone's wondering, I use Foodie Flavours brand)
I decided to give one of these a shot based on your video and I actually really like it! We'll see how I feel over time pricewise though it might become pretty expensive but at the same time compare that to the cost of a single soda at a gas station and it doesn't seem too bad.
I’ll stick with my Cirkul bottle. Very cool concept but for me just too much to it. Springs, multiple pods,just too many moving parts for my liking. Cirkul bottle fill with water and put pod in. If you want just water you can do that too.
Always love these reviews! Whew, the price tag on this water bottle is a slap. $40 with four pods, then $5 per pod after with a minimum of four pods per purchase. Especially comparing to Amazon best sellers running around $5 for the bottle, and a bottle of flavor drops at $3. Maybe good if you've just got extra money to spend, then residually on the pods though.
Just got a cirkul and have been using it about a week. My favorite thing so far is that it only flavors the water as you drink. I had a long busy weekend watching a dance competition. Sometimes I wanted a little lemonade, and sometimes I wanted plain water. I loved having that option with one bottle.
I like using True Citrus. The lemon is the only one i have used, so far & one packet is for good 64oz to me. 500 packets for $22 on Amazon at the time I got it was a deal.
How is the mouth feel though, the issue with a lot of flavor enhancers especially crikul is that it often made your mouth feel quite dry after drinking it.
do you also get any of the artificial sweetener after taste?
Cool,no sugar,pods might try. I use lemon or lime in the water for drinking, thanks for the info and trying them out,
I have the cirkul bottle. I use to have the sleeve on mine too. I noticed with the sleeve on and if I didn’t like rinse or wash out my bottle just refill it with water it would get this clear slime on the inside. So I just bleach it out rinse it really good every time now and it will still work. My favorite number is 4. With 4 I get at least 3 refills on that then I turn it all the way up and get another 3 bottles of water out of it for a total of 6. It’s the only way I’ll drink water now.
It sounds like if Selah put a squirt top on their flavor pods, that they could do away with the special water bottle and you could flavor any amount you wanted, drinking out of your favorite cup or one of the water bottles you already own. Thanks for the review James.
The cirkul lid will fit on most steel water bottles The plastic bottles wont stay cold for very long. Yes you can refil the cirkul pods your self, You tube will show you how. I am sure the selah last twice as long as the Cirlul, but it uses two pods instead of one. The pods for the cirkul can be cheeper if you use a monthly subscription. Just cant see how the selah is a better option than the cirkul. I dont want to have to use two pods and try and guess which flavors go wtih wich flavors.
It's a cool concept. Don't even have to mix flavors, can double up on one flavor to have more flavor capacity. But I'm mostly looking at how much electrolytes it's giving and it doesn't seem to give as much compared to what Body Armor can do. Really important I get enough electrolytes in my body with summer coming up or something can go wrong at the wrong time when I work outside.
I dont know what level he's setting it at bc i have a cirkul and it is at level 1-2-3 usally 2 but i get about 10-15 uses even more, works really well love my cirkul
Same, it takes me like a week to get through a pod.
I wonder if you can just buy the pods and squirt the flavor in a regular water bottle. Might be worth trying in a video.
Yeah the bottle isn't actually doing anything in this system. It's just squirting the syrup into the water. After you do that you could just pour the water into something else and drink it, so this whole thing is pointless lol. You might as well just buy something like MiO so you can put it in anything you want.
What I'm wondering is why I need a special water bottle in order to inject flavoring into my water. They could just sell the flavoring like MIO and it would do the same thing. I could also use whatever water bottle I want instead of their fancy pod water bottle.
Personally I haven’t tried this but I like my cirkul. I don’t like plain water and those flavor enhancing drops taste weird to me like crystal light etc. I got my mom and nephew on the cirkul as well. The cartridges last at least a week for me if not longer but I try to start the flavor on a 2 or 3 and just work my way up when it loses the flavor. The only thing I don’t like about it is my nephew seems to go through them quickly even though when I take it apart the cartridge will still be full. I think there’s something about the way he drinks from the bottle like not turning it upside down enough. Also I recently found mold in the colored part of the lid so now I check it every day instead of once a week.
I bought the cirkul after your review a year or so ago. Then Walmart started to sell them so it was very easy to just buy the replacements. My last three I hated. I don't know what happened. But it was hard to suck? The water and the flavor out of the replacements. I don't know they did something different so I discard the bottle at times. Then I had to throw out the thing after 1 or less of uses. So I'm wasting my money . I might try this out. I just like try new things out like you do. Just not getting paid for it lol
I love the cirkul bottle and haven't bought flavored drinks since. The pods last me about 3 1/2 days so they only cost $1 a day which is cheaper than a single Gatorade or energy drink. I like that you can turn the flavor off also and just drink water.
I've used an Infuze water bottle for a few years. Same concept, except that they have a resevoir that you just fill with any liquid flavoring you want. It works really well. Sadly, I just looked it up, but it looks like the company may have since gone under so I guess I'd better make mine last.
I received a Cirkul as a gift and while it was novel, it's far from perfect. The thing dribbles water from the drinking spout constantly, meaning your desk, or your clothes end up getting soiled. I like my water ice cold, but Cirkul can't handle the temp change without wetting itself. I might have to try this Selah although I'm resisting the urge to spend even more money on something that's been around for years. I'll probably go back to a good vacuum insulated tumbler or "Coldest" bottle and the pre-packaged flavors.
Good work James, other than I will add that the Cirkul wins on capability. Having standard size top makes it so nice, I can throw the Cirkul top on any size Hydroflask or any other bottle. So like for day trips I can do a giant bottle, for car trips I can throw it on a smaller bottle so it fits in my cupholder better
I've become addicted to carbonated water. I just fill up my SodaStream with filtered water and carbonate it. I'll add some lemon or lime and drink that. I've bought a few shaved ice concentrate non-sweetened soda flavors that you mix with sugar water but it's honestly not even necessary. And I used to be a big soda drinker! I think the best option is just to get root beer extract for like a buck. And then I refill the CO2 canister with dry ice that I run through my food processor, but that requires a bench vice to close up tight.
The squid in the water bottle got me for some reason 😂😂
Love my cirkul because at a twist I have regular water or flavored water. At night I tend to only drink water to avoid staining my retainers and I can do that with my cirkul. If you’re going through all the extra effort for flavored water just buy the flavor additives you can find in almost every store like mio or Gatorade flavoring
This is cool but I’ll still keep using my cirkul pods. It’s just more convenient since it fits my 40oz flask. A single cirkul pod in my experience last 3 full refills before I need to change it out but it also varies from flavor to flavor, though generally consistent
I actually use a regular water bottle and I put in about 50 drops of peppermint extract because I like my water to be minty and there's no sugar. I don't really like my water to be sweet but I do like it to be minty and I think it's better when it's not cold and just room temperature because the peppermint actually cools the water. I think it's much more refreshing than regular water and I use it with spring water. I just decided to try it one day and ever since then I've been hooked. There are other waters that are flavored naturally that are really good and there are no sugar added and no colors added and it's called hint water. My favorite flavor of that one is the crisp apple which is more like a green apple flavor and then I also like the kiwi strawberry and the peach. So I would rather drink something like that then have to deal with something that contains stevia which I think is way too sweet or an artificial sweetener like sucralose which is very controversial whether or not it makes you sick.
Thanks for the Review.
6:03 Come on now 😂 Thanks as always for the review!!
Nice thing about the Cirkul cartridges is you can take them apart pretty easy just need a flat head screw driver for the plastic tabs, then refill them with any liquid flavoring like Mio and depending on the size of the flavoring liquid you can refill the Cirkul cartridge 3 or more times for about $5.
I’m going to try this out. I think I do need to drink more water. I just ordered the starter pack from my local Walmart. I’m not a big fan of watermelon, so I guess we’ll see what I prefer. I’m also a big fan of freakin reviews. I’ve also purchased a lot of products that Mr. White has reviewed and he’s never let me down.
Try cirkul instead. It’s a way better product and this one is just a sad attempt to rip them off.
@@dylanthomas2298 thanks for the comment. Could have used it a few days ago. Using freakin reviews links I purchased the cirkul from my local Walmart not realizing it wasn’t the product mike was reviewing. I returned it and ordered the selah from Amazon arriving this Saturday. Either way I’ll drink more water.
Thanks for your review. I always trust your reviews and most of the time, I agree with them. This time I do not agree with you though. I have the Cirkul. One of my favorite things about the Cirkul is that the water does not get flavored until you drink it. I can refill my bottle halfway through, and it won't dilute my drink. I also like that as my ice melts, it does not dilute my drink. I can also, drink just plain water while still having the Cirkul flavor capsule inserted.(I do that often) I also like that Cirkul sells insulated stainless steel bottles and that the CIrkul lid also fits many other brands of stainless steel bottles. Enjoy your Selah and keep the great reviews coming. Thanks!
In the UK you can buy a concentrated cordial or squash as we call it, it comes in a little bottle and has 20 servings and cost a mere £1.49, so thats 7 ½ pence per serving. No expensive bottle needed, the obviously made it so you NEED the syrup as the bottle is useless without it.
I haven't used the Selah but I do own and use the Cirkul. I completely disagree about how long the cartridges last. Even the worst cartridge will last at least 4 complete bottle fill ups for me. If they're not lasting that long for you then you must prefer it a lot stronger than I do. When I first insert the cartridge, I generally set the flavor level to 3 on the Cirkul and increase it the more I use it. I don't know why it's not consistent with the flavor but I have gotten over 9 full refills and still had flavor on some cartridges. Also, the Cirkul cartridges are way cheaper, especially when you order about 5 at a time because they're discounted at that quantity and free shipping. I think they are about $3.75 each at that point. There are also more flavors. I do like the idea that you can mix them and make your own flavor but they have so many choices, it's not necessary. As far as your mold concern, I am pretty sure, that's almost impossible in the short time the cartridges last. I will say, I have noticed that over time there is some debris that forms around the outer threads of the bottle so I definitely clean it after about every other cartridge replacement. I agree about Sucralose, I am not sure why they call it no artificial flavors when most flavors have Sucralose. Then again, I really don't like their flavors with Stevia, it just doesn't taste good in their product. I have had other things with Stevia that taste fine but not with their drinks. Sucralose is a perfectly safe sweetener and actually has a slight laxative effect so it might aid slightly in losing weight.
Wish they had more unsweetened options, as I'm not a fan of stevia nor am I a fan of tropical flavors.
there is something very wrong with cirkul pods
i have it too and like you said they fade after 2 fills
but if you open the pod up its full of flavor but it wont come out when you drink it
With cirkul, I typically get 5-6 bottle refills before my pod is empty. I think you put it on a setting and try to leave it there as you drink, you need to turn it up when it starts to fade to keep the flavor going (because of the way it dispenses). You're probably throwing out tons of flavoring and don't realize it.
WOW.THIS LOOKS GREAT.I GOTTA LOOKS THIS UP
It squirts flavor in a bottle, amazing...lol. I would just use MIO or some other enhancer and add to a bottle myself and save a ton of money.
I waited 7 minutes but you finally said it was "locked and loaded" 😂🎉 Great video!
Can the plastic pods be recycled? If not… here we go again
I have a cirkul and it works but I wish the pods lasted as long as they used too. I basically get no more than 4 bottles out of one pod now where I used to get 5-6.
I always wonder, do other countries not have syrup concentrates to put in a regular bottle? Like lemonade, in The Netherlands you can buy a huge variety of flavors of concentrates, with sugar or without, with fruit, added flavorings etc that you just add to water in a bottle. It seems way cheaper than buying a separate system.
It's the same here in Sweden. I guess Americans are just obsessed with making extra unnecessary plastic waste that they also don't recycle (at least not at the same rate as recycling in Europe)
We have concentrated lemonade. It's called lemon juice. Just add water and sugar.
But jokes aside. We do have plenty of flavord drink concentrates. Not sure if I would call them syrup. More like liquids that taste kinda like the fruit it's named after.
You can find actual drink syrups in the USA but not very common.
At least not where I'm from.
We do have a good variety of powdered drinks.
Settle down, Sweden. We have flavored syrups here too at every grocery store
I would love an update, I think you said it's $.40 per drink, although at the beginning you did three pumps of one and one pump of the other. You also said about 12 drinks per pod. with everything you've done, it sounds like the cost per dink goes up and the amount of drinks per pod is reduced. is it more reasonable to say it's closer to $1.20 to $2.00 per drink? At that point I'm drinking Bubly Flavored Carbonated Water. Just asking for a Friend 🙂
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39 and I remember Tang. good times. My folks had a Tang branded glass pitcher
with the cirkul you can also use a different bottle too. hold more water, etc
Nice Squid Edit lol
You buy an expensive, overengineered waterbottlesystem that creates more plastic trash than a 4-person household. I squirt a few ml of my favorite syrup that costs me pennies in my reused, free water bottle I filled with tap water and get the same result, if not better. We are not the same.
I will one up you, i use a few drops of realmon lemon juice in my reusable bottle which costs me fractions of a penny and has zero sugar and no artificial syrup or flavours. We are not the same 😂
Lemons have sugar
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We enjoy James’ reviews. Trying to figure out how many ounces would you get at full flavor?
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I went to their website & saw that they offer a bunch of different colors. It would be nice if some of these water bottle & mug companies made different sizes too since some of us have problems with our hands due to health issues & can’t hold a bottle or mug that big.🙁
I have a cirkul cap on my camelbak bottle, and it's nice, but too expensive to keep getting official refills, and too much of a hassle to keep refilling myself.
After watching this video, I'd be up for trying the selah if it had an insulated option, but I doubt that's possible, the way everything is engineered.
Cirkul sips are super easy to take apart and refill with any squirt bottle water enhancer
it would be interesting to see u do that experiment on the circle bottle
Can you close the lid while 'priming' to avoid wasting the flavor?
Awesome video 👏🏻😊
Think it'd work if you put plain black or green tea into it?
It's just squirting concentrated flavor into the jug right?
Edit: he answered my 2nd question. Stevia isn't terrible
It's stevia, which is technically an artificial sweetener in the sense that it's not sugar, it's still a naturally derived sweetener. Unfortunately I'm allergic to it and it's the only sweetener they use so I can't try it.
wish you tried to mix the flavours. in particular as you even said the lemon one could work well with other flavours.
I am not, nor have I ever been a water drinker. So my SIL bought be the little 12 oz cirkul bottle in hopes of getting me to drink water, I have tried 3 flavors so far and some where ok and 1, not so much. It was the mango flavor and it was gross lol. I still don't drink much water but will take a few sips here and there lol.
If someone made a bottle that I could just fill with Mio style mix I would be on board. I have a Cirkul and I used it about 2 weeks then started refilling the pods...then just switched back to drink mix packets.
Hello, I have a circle bottle at 32 ounce one and I think that it doesn’t last as long as they claim it too. I go through filters very quick. I would like to try the new one does it come in only 20 ounce or does it come in 32 ounces?
When the pods are outside the bottle, do the liquid inside them stay inside them if they are turned upside down?
Keep up the good work. 👌
In April it will have been a year that I’ve had my cirkul. I struggled to drink water. The flavor packets were not helping me except the rootbeer. I’m filling my bottle up several times over in a day. I can go through 3 pods a day. But I subscribe and for about 3.00 each. It’s better than code red mt dew! If the pods seem to empty out quickly I let the company know. They send. Me 1-2 free pods. Just looking at that bottle looks like it’s gonna break. If my bottle breaks I can buy a similar bottle the cap can fit on. Or just buy a cap! And use on the bottle you have. It’s going to take a lot to make me give up my cirkul. Thank you for being a honest, reviewer!!
I’m autistic and sometimes it’s hard for me to get plain water in. I don’t like the plastic waste or cartridge cost, but I absolutely love the Cirkul because the form factor does good things to my brain (like a tactile version of what ASMR does to some people), both in the action of drinking and the feeling in the hands. The flavors are hit and miss but finding good ones is relatively easy. And I can swap cartridges and save them in the fridge super easy if I can’t deal with a flavor I liked yesterday- I’m sure other autistic folks run into that too. Being able to adjust my flavor level to what my brain wants that day is unbelievably nice. The Cirkul feels like it was designed by someone who needed to get water into a disabled person but had the good financial sense to market it to rich yuppies instead of us.
The Selah looks like it removed all the features that make the Cirkul nice, convenient, and good for extreme niche use cases like mine and went all in on the predatory cartridges. It’s no different than a normal bottle with crystal light except with more moving parts.
This comment is accurate. In no way is this better than cirkul. They won’t be around that long. This is just an inferior product for a lot of reasons.
Looking at it, I almost wish they had food coloring so you could see the flavor/strength, but fewer additives is good too.
I have wanted to try one of these flavored water bottle things for a while. But recently I learned of people that refuse to drink water unless its flavored and that dissuaded me from buying one. I get that plain water is boring but if someone cant drink it because of some weird phobia then they need help. And I am saying this as someone with ARFID. But no water is a step too far.
You sir have a great timing on these videos. Mr Beast just did a sponsor in his video for Cirkul. Great timing.
I am much more likely to try this one since it has no sucralose! Awesome! I just can’t stand the flavor of it, but I don’t mind stevia.
I have the Cirkul and I agree with you the flavor after a few drinks the flavor gets weeker
I just had a mixed berry that is still going after 5 refills.