Fizz drops suck

[Scoper50]

I've been brewing almost exclusively with Northern Brewer extract recipe kits. Every kit comes with a package of fizz drops for bottle conditioning. I used the fizz drops for a couple batches early on and I got terrible results. The beer was fine but was severely under carbonated both times. After that I started throwing the fizz drops directly in the trash and I use regular table sugar boiled up with water as a priming sugar. What are the pro's opinions on fizz drops? Does anybody beyond an extreme novice use them? Why don't they work like they should?

[bpgreen]

I've never used them. The kits I've bought have always had bags of corn sugar. I keg, so I don't need the priming sugar, but I don't throw it out. I add it to the wort as extra fermentable sugar. If I got a kit with the carbonation drops, I'd do the same.

[Beer-lord]

I've tried a few versions of carb tablets when I was bottling but while sometimes it was good, others were not and I never knew what I'd get. It's just better to mix all the sugar in a bottling bucket and give it 2 weeks and you should be good.

[Kealia]

Never used them myself but I think I recall hearing that they took much longer to carb than the typical 2 weeks.
I have no experience with them myself, though.

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[mashani]

If you want to bottle prime at all still, Dominos Dots sugar cubes work great if you can get them. The right ones are the 2.5g cubes, they come 196 to a box. Use 1 dot per 12oz for most beers, or if you are using 16-24oz bottles, 1 dot for one of those for lower carb English beers. You will get full carb in 2 weeks always, and it's consistent.