Soda Stream

Friend of mine has it and it tastes pretty similar to that of a soda, but without the HFCS. If you're a soda drinker and need carbonation, then you should probably get it, lol.

I was going to buy one of these until I realized they have some proprietary CO2 refilling mechanism so you can't just use normal canisters. The extra cost isn't a big deal, but I hate douche moves like that.

there's an article on gizmodo i think that showed a guy that made an attachment for the soda stream. basically, the canister can't be filled w/o a proprietary connector. so the guy just made an adapter for a standard CO2 canister (paint ball gun left overs) to fit into the soda stream. a friend at work bought one and now cycles through 2 CO2 canisters that he gets filled at Academy as needed.

i'll try to find the link, and i assume there's more than 1 vendor of this now.

edit, this looks like the adapter, dunno if same seller my friend used or not. i thought it was less than 60 bucks though:
http://www.mnn.com/food/beverages/bl...od-co2-adapter


anyways, he gets creative w/ simple syrup and anything that comes to mind. his carbonated sweet tea was really very good. he made a purple drank that i swear was welches.

Ryanz_sl said:

It doesn't taste like name brand soda at all.

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I had one for a week and returned it because the flavors weren't even close to name brand soda. Aside from the flavors tasting like ass it did perform as advertised.

yeah, don't expect the cola to taste like coke (especially since no other company can get real coca extract), the citrus soda to taste like 7up, etc.

I have one and it's great. The flavors don't taste exactly like storebought soda, but they taste just fine themselves once you get used to it. A lot of the difference you're tasting is that they don't use HFCS.

Yeah, I have one at home and one at the office and find them great. Yes the flavours aren't exact duplicates but they are certainly inoffensive enough that I can drink them and not care it's not diet coke or pepsi max or redbull for the savings per liter. They're also great when you have people (or especially kids) around, you don't have to keep an ass-ton of drinks on hand just have a few different syrups in the fridge and people then have a choice of what they want to drink without you having to have your fridge full of crap you likely don't drink.

I've thought about buying one, then I came to my senses. This is one of those things that seems like a good idea, until you start drinking far too much soda because you can.

You can carbonate with yeast also, if you don't mind a little alcohol in your soda.

I have one. Thought it was amazing at first but you quickly grow tired of having to make yourself soda every day. Between having to resupply on co2, ordering the flavors, and cleaning out the bottles, it ends up being a bigger pain than just buying a case of soft drinks every few weeks while at the grocery store. It wouldn't be so bad if you could go gangbuster and make gallons of soda at once and then put the machine away for a month, but unfortunately the "fizz" doesn't last that long even while capped, not to mention the bottles sell for like $15.

I now only use it as backup in case I run out of real soft drinks.

I use mine all the time. I don't usually buy the extracts though. I use mostly lemon or lime juice and a little sugar. Works great and the canisters last awhile. Bed bath and beyond will exchange empties, I don't mail anything.

My son got one for Christmas. The LED lights in the front were not working, so I took off the front cover. The battery connectors were loose and once tightened all was good. The energy drink tastes just like Red Bull to me. I'm in love.....