Anyone got a SodaStream?

If you buy the cheapest 2 litre bottles of sparkling water they are a chunk cheaper than running a soda stream.

Hard to put a value on the environment effect of bulk shipping bottled water to supermarkets and buying as part of a regular shop Vs the environment effect of either one off trips to Argos to do cylinder exchanges or the impact of courier delivery of gas from soda stream on subscription.

I did - then covid happened and gas became hard to get so got out of the habit of using it.

I just drink chilled tap water now.

i have one. it’s great. i exchange they cylinders when i go food shopping, so i’ll be using the petrol anyway

I use a Soda stream, became very conscious of the amount of plastic bottles I was going through. I've still got the same sodastream bottle I started with two years ago. Get replacement gas four times a year.

Yip, we’ve got one. It gets used every day, but the gas cylinders seem to last for ages

We've got a drinkmate - in a large part because of the plastic bottles thing, there's more negatives to plastic than just the enviromental impact of shipping it. Drinkmate is the same sort of thing as sodastream but claims to carbonate anything. We use it a lot and I've had some "fun" carbonating various things. I want to carbonate milk but I don't drink it and don't think I'd be brave enough to try it anyway...

i have one. it’s great. i exchange they cylinders when i go food shopping, so i’ll be using the petrol anyway

This is what I do.

Really like ours, use it daily.

Used to be so envious of my mate as a kid who had a Sodastream .
As much cola as I could manage, every time I went round 🙂

If you buy the cheapest 2 litre bottles of sparkling water they are a chunk cheaper than running a soda stream.

This was what I worked out. Would kinda like to be environmental, but not got the spare cash to throw at it.

I genuinely didn't know these were still a thing.  We got a Sodastream when I was a kid in the 1970s.  We thought we were proper royalty, no longer having to queue up at the Corona van to get our dandelion and burdock!

You'll be telling me fondue sets, space hoppers and clackers are coming back next!

@blokeuptheroad - they’re remarkably un beige nowadays but still very much the same - gettin’ busy with the fizzy

Sparkling Vimto anyone? 😃

It was definitely beige!

I bought an Aarke Carbonator a couple of weeks ago. I had a look at a few Soda Streams and the Aarke is a far nicer thing to have in the kitchen. Bought to replace buying plastic bottles.

Currently subscribed to a Soda Stream postal gas exchange scheme, which works out at £10 per cylinder. I have signed up to using 12 cylinders and then depending on usage will probably look at buying a larger cylinder and decanting CO2 into a Soda Stream cylinder, which will probably work out at around £3 per cylinder.

Just got one because we were filling the green bin with sparkling water bottles. Also the water would lose its fizz before it was drunk (especially when kids leave the lids off!). Had it about a week and it’s been great. Kids love it.

I may have imagined this, but arent Sodastream on people's dont buy list due to a factory being sited by the Israelis in occupied Palestinian land?

Caveat, i have had two recent brain operations.

I bought one when I stopped drinking alcohol to see if I could make anything suitable as a replacement. I couldn't but still use it quite a bit as I am not a big fan of orange squash (or other similar varieties). I keep two or three bottles of unfizzed tap water in the fridge and then when I want a drink I will fizz the water and then add the flavour - normally ginger and or lemon juice. Very refreshing and not sweet like orange juices.

Apparently you can get glass bottles for the sodastream now but I just bought the cheapest there was in Sainsburys and get refill exchanges from there when I need them. I am saving my liver, not the planet so I continue just to use the plastic ones that came with it.

Had a Sodastream - it was hopeless and got sent back after a few days
Now have an Aarke - which is great

However, I did try and explain to the better half that the economics didn't stack up ...
But it saves a shed load of plastic

Not that impressed with mine, seems to rocket through gas if I press the button enough to get it properly fizzy. Seems to go flat in the fridge. Gave up and just drink tap water coffee now.

Another bonus that I have just discovered this evening…

If you buy your wife the wrong wine, despite being issued clear instructions and you really should know this stuff by now, you can use the sodastream to make a more palatable spritzer, thus avoiding an expensive divorce

I may have imagined this, but arent Sodastream on people’s dont buy list due to a factory being sited by the Israelis in occupied Palestinian land?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SodaStream#Controversies

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Seems to go flat in the fridge.

all carbonated drinks do this. CO2 dissolves better in cold water.

We have one as we all like "Electric" water in our house. Overall I'd say we are saving money over just buying bottled fizzy stuff, and not generating extra plastic waste. It's better than bottled stuff as we tend to fizz up the small sized bottle, and use it there and then, rather than a big 1 or 2 ltr bottle from the supermarket, which goes flat before you finish it.

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Tea? This is STW. We need to be discussing shiney Italian coffee machines that cost the same as a 2 bedroom semi 😂

Got the Aarke but didn’t seem to fizz the water very much. If you added a flavour then that seemed to lose any fizz that was there. Thought it was faulty and had it replaced but same again with the new unit so it’s going back too.

Thats odd. Normally plenty of fizz from ours.

Is Sir doing it right? 4-5 3 second bursts without releasing the handle all the way?

I believe the flavour needs to be dribbled down the side rather than sploshed in.

made, you mean a Goblin Teasmade, Shirley?

I do remember we had a Sodastream as a family BITD, it was a metal jug thing and it was aerated with what now look like bike CO2 cartridges places in the exact same holder to stop hands getting cold.  It was on trend beige with a white 1970's pattern on it.

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I just bought one as a gift for a friend

My Aarke has always been great at fizzing.  For the supplied bottles I normally just give it two shots - holding the lever down until I hear the air release each time,   It only struggles to fizz when the gas bottle is getting very low.  I also use a small SodaStream water bottle and that only takes one lever pull.

I have always used fridge cold water, apparently that fizzes better than room temperature water.