Is the SodaStream Home Soda Maker worth the investment?

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

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[pampered1224]

uuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhhh YUP! THAT'S IT!

 

[KaryCam]

We have had our SodaStream maker for 2.5 years now.
One thing I really like to make is seltzer water.
Sometimes DS mixes the grapefruit flavor and the orange mango flavor together. DH only likes the regular Fountain Mist.
Now that BBB carries them, we use our 20% off coupons when we need to get replacement canisters & syrups.

 

[pampered1224]

We really enjoy ours. We found several flavors that we really like, Diet Fountain Mist, Diet Root beer, Diet Grapefruit and the Cola Zero is not bad either. Pat loves the diet orange but we laughed when he read the Grape ingredients as they replace half the sugar with Splenda and there is absolutely no grape juice in it! Same with the Diet Orange. The Diet Ginger-ale is sorta OK but I have to add a smidge bit more of the syrup. I love the idea of the mixture of grapefruit and orange-mango though. Very tropical! I am glad we got it.

 

[lt1jane]

John, I would recommend when you can spending the $50 to buy the adaptor so you can use regular paintball CO2 tanks instead of refills. Refills of CO2 are under $10 when you have a tank and adaptor.

 

[lt1jane]

It would be a great savings if my kids/husband would bother to use it!! I got mine in the recruiting promo last fall, they all thought it would be great and we used it for a month or so and now it sits in the closet and the syrups sit in the cupboard!! I don't drink soda at all, so I never initiate pulling it out!
They had no complaints about taste at least at the time!

we found a spot on the counter for ours. Also, I do the majority of the grocery shopping and I refuse to buy cans of water/soda any more.

I'm loving that I can carbonate a bottle, pour a smaller glass and flavor that for my son. I don't care if he doesn't drink a glass, but no more wasted cans or even the larger homemade bottles.

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

John, I would recommend when you can spending the $50 to buy the adaptor so you can use regular paintball CO2 tanks instead of refills. Refills of CO2 are under $10 when you have a tank and adaptor.

Just remember to leave out the paint balls, or you're liable to get some very interesting colors in your beverages.

 

[baychef]

I think I liked the names of these drinks more than the taste!!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

He looks like a paint ball.

 

[pampered1224]

Oh my he sure does! Loud Mouth Lime! I remember that. Chinese Cherry, Goofy Grape, Injun' Orange, Rootin Tootin Raspberry, and name changes when it became not so politically correct, Choo Choo Cherry, Jolly Olly Orange, Freckle Face Strawberry and a ton of others. I am going to try something. I buy the packages of drink mixes from Aldi. Each packet makes 2 qts of lemonade or grape or tea or punch. I am going to try splitting the packs and adding that to sparkling water. I love fizzy lemonade when you add it to gingerale so I figured what the heck, add the powder to the carbonated water and see what happens. I may end up with an explosion of flavor but I will pour the powder in over the sink to be sure!

 

[The_Kitchen_Guy]

"Orange" is always a difficult one to put with a snappy name. Here's the difinitive list of words that rhyme with "orange":All Words That Rhyme With "Orange"

 

[lt1jane]

I am going to try splitting the packs and adding that to sparkling water. I love fizzy lemonade when you add it to gingerale so I figured what the heck, add the powder to the carbonated water and see what happens. I may end up with an explosion of flavor but I will pour the powder in over the sink to be sure!

Make sure to presweeten anything that is not sweetened. My husband has Gatorade packets. He liked his Gatorade experiment. A word of warning, don't put the powder in too fast or it will bubble over on you.

 

[pampered1224]

Sort of like pouring in the root beer syrup too fast! Now that was funny because it was Pat and not me who did it! Half the bottle went! I will watch it! And thankfully it is pre-sweetened with Splenda so no sour puss! (well at least not the soda!)

 

[schel]

Love, love, love my Soda Stream!!!

 

[Teresa Lynn]

Everyday I make 2 bottles worth,of water add 6-8 fresh strawberries and juice of 2 lemons. Drink it all day LOVE it Sunday i made tea and put fresh mangos in MFP and then added my carbonated water, it was the hit of my open house!