Soda stream plus it promotes peace in the Middle East

I have a drink mate and love it

We have the most basic soda stream that was on clearance at wal mart for about $50. It downs do any flavors, just carbonates water and it came with 2 nice glass bottles. For the price I have no complaints!

I changed from sodastream to drinkmate and am extremely unhappy. Since February I’ve had 8 bottle lids need replacing because the silicone seal has come loose, and of the 3 fizz infusers I ordered, 1 is dead, 1 is dying and 1 is playing up. I’m not willing to waste more money on a sub par product. I wish I’d bought the Breville, but for now I’m going to switch back to my sodastream once this canister is empty.

Long time lurker, first time posting.

Saw this article in one of my feeds and thought I'd share.

Carbonation caps

Universal healthcare? Nah. Omnifizz for all? Yeah!

I changed form Sodastream to DrinkMate and I’m very happy. In general I avoid Breville.

I think you have some great ideas but I will say I LOVE that my SodaStream is cordless. I live in a very small house that is very old, the kitchen just doesn't have the electricity outlet to spare. I'm happy to stick my bottle in the fridge to chill. I wouldn't buy your machine with cooling and electric hookup but if you kept it simple I would be a bigger fan.

I'd want something that can highly carbonate on demand, like a soda fountain, but without the ice/bulky equipment/cost. Might be a bit hard to do on the cost side though (Sodastream and others are the low end, and you're talking a thousand plus for the fountains). The cost is probably the part that'll get you.

Sparkel does it that way

https://sparkel.com/

uses a "secret" mixture of citric acid, sodium bicarbonate and maybe an extra acid in the powder.

its slower to use but you can do a high pressure extraction with it, ie put in fresh mint leaves or fruit slices and it squeezes out flavor from those into the water.

Citric acid and Sodium bicarbonate can produce CO2 in a short time and they are cheap and easy to get..

Hey if you are doing a system that relies on base and acid combination can I maybe recommend simplifying the combination chamber system.

The Sparkel system seems to have an issue with powder getting loose up by the inlet and causing a less than perfect seal and sometimes particulates can make it through the pump into the drink.

Not sure, maybe they mean a proprietary one? I’m sure one with a standard connector would be fine to most people.. even soda machines at restaurants have them.

SodaStream with a Sodamod adapter. You just hook up a big CO2 canister that you can refill at any paintball supply store or gas store and you can make sparkling water for like $0.02 per liter.

I did this (there might be other links out there as well - so do your research):

https://www.popsci.com/diy/article/2012-06/how-make-your-own-home-carbonation-system/

and got what feels like 100s of 3liter bottles of soda out of it over the past 8 or so years... and the CO2 canister is still 80% full ...

so if you are somewhat handy - go for it

bonustrack: I had an emergency situation where I needed an air compressor for a few seconds... that setup did the trick!!!! bonustrack 2: I also started making home-made ginger-ale ... surprisingly easy and tasty ... google that as well ;-)

cheers and best of luck

They picked the one with exploding bottles. Nice choice. DrinkFizz I heard was like a Hummer, Sodastream like a prius - DrinkFizz wastes CO2 - tons.

My Terra makes my cold water fizzy and I like it. Everyone has an opinion.

I'm too invested with SSverse to give up now. Just picked up a SS Revolution and it is dynomite!!! Prices are so low used right now, $20-30 and massive discounted bundle at Costco right now.

I have the Omnifizz and LOVE IT. I had carbonated mulligatawny soup for lunch with a cup of hot steaming carbonated java!

Just a bit of warning— if you don’t clean a soda fountain daily, you’re going to have all kinds of gunk and slime and shit in the nozzles. It’s pretty disgusting.

I used to manage a restaurant, and you wouldn’t believe how much maintenance those things require. You can’t just half-ass clean it.

I’d look into the pepsi spire. Not 100% if you have to be a business to get it but I think they have a small one which would be good for home use.

We need more of these questions, lol.

Gotta love the dedication, some people go all in.

I know it's a poor man's version, but I have a sodastream, and it does it for me :)

On a budget and manual carbonation: Fizzi.

You can make it rain, electric, carbonation with an user-friendly button press: Fizzi One Touch.

I am very happy with the Fizzi One Touch.

Genesis for the most fizz. Play for decent fizz & bottle locking mechanism. Fizzi has the bottle locking but also seems to hold back on the fizz because people don't like the loud buzzing. Fountain is cheap, screw in bottle, decent fizz, dirt cheap. Fizz can handle bigger CO2 bottles, as can the Play. There are many pros & cons with the various models.

The cheapest one. They all do the same thing.

I love my sodastream power. Discontinued, bought used on Craigslist. I also make like 4 liters a day lol. Its nice to have the power version

You can pick up a two flavor fountain off bevco for less than $400.

I just got my first Sodastream, I ordered the terra model bundle that came with 3 quick connect co2 canisters and 1 1L bottle for $116. I’ve made 19 bottles in 5 days lol and I do 4-5 pumps for fizz. I have a 20oz tumblr and the bottle fills it perfectly lol. I like the sharpness of plain fizzy water but have added some lemonade mio flavoring in as well.

I love the Jet. Good seal and doesn't need electricity, which is incredibly useful since I don't have to deal with plugging it in all the time or keeping it out on the counter.

The plastic bottle thing concerned me initially, but it's only me using the device and replacement bottles are cheap on Amazon.

I really like my Fizzi with 20# external tank. I use the half size bottles, which I keep 6 of in the fridge full of cold water. Grab one, pop it in the Fizzi, (occasionally add a packet of True Lime or True Grapefruit), and I'm good. Easy peasy. I like the Fizzi because I use the machine so often the single button push operation is really nice.

While there is the plastic expiration thing, I really love my Terra. Got a 5 lb tank for it and drink 3-4 bottles of fizzy water per day. Mostly just water, occasionally I’ll throw some lemon or lime juice in for good measure.

Old school jet model