Sodastream Review
Just mix with your favorite fruit juice for a much healthier soda!
With home-made soda, your family will save in so many ways – save on trips to the store, save lugging and storage, save the environment, cut down on sugar and sodium…and save money!
Home-made SodaStream seltzer/sparkling water has several advantages over store-bought:
* First, you can make the carbonation as fizzy as you want! With SodaStream, soda stays fizzy, thanks to a special seal in the bottle cap. That means no more flat, wasted soda.
* Second, seltzer/sparkling water made with a SodaStream machine contains no sodium, unlike many store-bought brands.
* Third, with no high fructose corn syrup, you’re in control of how sweet or tart you make your soda!
* And, did I mention that you’ll save money! Seltzer starts at just 17 cents per liter.
User Review:
I love this thing! I bought it originally in order to stop throwing away so many plastic bottles (we're seltzer maniacs here).
Features:
* You can control the water source and filter it.
* You can control the fizziness (we're getting up to a level that boils in our blood for at least an hour after drinking it, but you can have a light Euro-water-style fizz as well).
* It's entertaining to use.
* It's better for the environment.
* The sound makes the dog get all wiggy, which is fun to watch. It sounds like a big raspberry when you fizz up a bottle of water.
* You'll probably be the only one on your block with a seltzer maker - it definitely spanks a bread machine.
I still haven't had to return the CO2 bottle, so I don't know how easy that's going to be. Delivery was slow but entertaining: about 3 weeks after we ordered, an actual Soda-Club delivery woman showed up at our door toting our new Soda-Club.
One caveat: the syrups are pretty revolting...at least the ones we tried. Plus, they all contain artificial sweeteners, even the non-diet ones. But we just add some lemon or orange essence (available in the spice section at your store) to pep it up a bit.
Also, if you go through fizzy water pretty fast, be sure to order two extra bottles. You have to chill the water before you fizz it up, so it's good to have a few in rotation.