Same cost as cheap supermarket water - after initial cost of device - but now I don't have to traipse across town and lug six big 2 litre bottles back home.
Thanks for the video! If you want to increase fizziness, try to press a bit harder (until it clicks). I do like very fizzy water and at the beginning I was not able to get it but my mistake was not pressing hard/deep enough.
the gas bottles were always the expensive thing and never easy to find. most shops only holding a limited supply. still i like them and what i used to do is pay out for a spare gas so when one ran out i put the new one in and then got the first bottle replaced.
I just bought a Soda Stream, at the same time I ordered a few spare cylinders of CO2, namely because I heard one CO2 plant had been shut down recently. Amazon have stock of CO2 cylinders at this point.
Excellent and informative review. I drink a lot of sparkling water - mainly in the morning with squeezed lemon juice and apple cider vinegar. I normally purchase the half litre bottles, as the 2ltr variety tend to lose their fizz after a day or so. Recently, I've been considering one of these as an alternative. This, to cut down on plastic use, and not primarily to save money. However, I haven't used one since I was a wee boy back in the day, and just wondered what was on offer, how much they cost, and, of course, the ongoing running cost. At last, a non-cheesy and UK based review that gives you the skinny on where to purchase replacement cylinders and how much they cost. Much obliged!
Nice video. The biggest drag I found out is that the bottles "expire" about 3 years later. So about saving the environment, I'm sure it does help having a SS but having to buy a thicker and more expensive bottle (prob costs more and uses more resources to make) than the thin cheap ones from the store probably isn't as big an impact as their marketing team would like you to believe. Just like plastic bags and reusable plastic one from the supermarket. It's proven the reusable ones are worse on the environment when you factor everything in. Anyway. My back and arms will thanks me for having a soda stream and not carrying all those heavy bottles up 4 flights of stairs, so the SS is still very worth it to me.
Sodastream for me instead of collecting up all those plastic bottles, I will feel like I am doing something to help our planet along with giving up my red meat.
We had once of these when I was a kid. It's a gimic that you'll tire of pretty quickly. Doubt I'll ever own one again no matter how many times they try to bring it back.
Speaking of Big names Pepsi and 7up now I don't know if they were available back then but they are now I have to shop around for the best price on flavourings
If you buy a sodastream you are getting on a treadmill of expenses. It costs WAY more than buying regular fizzy drinks. It only gives you a slight saving if you only make a lot of fizzy water. Since Sodastream were bought out by Pepsi the flavour syrups went through the roof - that on top of the overpriced gas makes it a money making racket of epic proportions. Avoid!
make own syrups, and comparing soda water to this is only comparitive if your drinking water. You can't add syrups you make or buy with soda water as they dilute too much
No decent fizz even after 5 times pushing the button, normally the fizz is totally lost overnight. Less than 25L of drinks per each - expensive - CO2 canister... it's a rip off!
I turned away from sodastream for the point many make about costs, 25p per litre he states, when you can buy a 2L bottle for 20p at the supermarket. HOWEVER First your taking in account that you are going to consume 2L of the stuff before it goes flat, and also even at 20P you might not pour a drink because you just want 300ML of it and you feel its wasteful to pop open a bottle midweek. Therefore the convenience on being able to get 500ML bottles for sodastreams so you can make one drink at a time as you wish can take down the costs to ''slightly more'' if you was to not care about wasting. Secondly I like making my own syrups as they are healthier and no sweetners & cheaper, the issue with mixing these with soda water is the syrups are not fizzy so this dilutes the soda water, whereas with a sodastream put the syrup in the bottole when you fizz (they say you shouldnt but you can) Both of these reasons is why I have weened myself back into one, if you use heavily you can look at ways to fill up yourself (bit diy) Otherwise £13 for 60l can't be compared to directly buying soda water. A better comparisment here would be this. I love appletizer, this costs £2 per 1 litre (£1.90 in my tesco) Buys apple juice for 0.60p for 1 litre, fizzy with soda streams (25p) there you have appletizer for 0.85p I
@@marcteenhc9793 And then you've got packs of water sitting around, you're carting home 3-4 kg of water every few days, constantly changing bins because they're full of bottles (or keeping a separate bottle bin which is more space again), and a ridiculous amount of plastic going out into the environment. At least if you drink 2-3 a day like me.
@@KeanKennedy I do not know where you live buddy, but here the plastic is recycled - specially PET bottles- and I have to take out different sorts of trash almost on a daily basis. So, no real burden here...and I have to enjoy real sparkling water that actually still fizzes the next day.
@@marcteenhc9793 sadly I live in London where my corrupt local council don't provide my flatblock recycling bins. Even if that wasn't an issue, a lot of our 'recycling' plastic is sent overseas and much of that ends up in landfill or the ocean. So happily generating tons of plastic thinking the government is dealing with it unfortunately isn't the underlying reality here. Where do you find real sparkling water that fizzes the next day? All the ones I've bought from the supermarket go pretty flat overnight if they're anything less than 3/4 full.
Same cost as cheap supermarket water - after initial cost of device - but now I don't have to traipse across town and lug six big 2 litre bottles back home.
Thanks for the video! If you want to increase fizziness, try to press a bit harder (until it clicks). I do like very fizzy water and at the beginning I was not able to get it but my mistake was not pressing hard/deep enough.
same mistake for me not adding enough of the gas to the water. now all my sodas are fizzier than dr pepper
Gadget show on TH-cam! What a nostalgia hit
Jon is always the bloke you want to sit with down the pub.
the gas bottles were always the expensive thing and never easy to find. most shops only holding a limited supply. still i like them and what i used to do is pay out for a spare gas so when one ran out i put the new one in and then got the first bottle replaced.
I just bought a Soda Stream, at the same time I ordered a few spare cylinders of CO2, namely because I heard one CO2 plant had been shut down recently. Amazon have stock of CO2 cylinders at this point.
25 dollars nzd for a refill like 15usd
I don't like fizzy drinks but I'm still gonna watch a video with Jon in it.
Wierdo
I would too. He certainly is a happy chatty chappy.😊🌈🌈🌈
Excellent and informative review. I drink a lot of sparkling water - mainly in the morning with squeezed lemon juice and apple cider vinegar. I normally purchase the half litre bottles, as the 2ltr variety tend to lose their fizz after a day or so.
Recently, I've been considering one of these as an alternative. This, to cut down on plastic use, and not primarily to save money. However, I haven't used one since I was a wee boy back in the day, and just wondered what was on offer, how much they cost, and, of course, the ongoing running cost.
At last, a non-cheesy and UK based review that gives you the skinny on where to purchase replacement cylinders and how much they cost.
Much obliged!
Close your eyes and I swear it’s John Cleese explaining this to me
We had a soda stream years ago. Might be worth getting another one
I hadn't thought of making cola out of it - that's quite an interesting idea
chill the water first it holds bubbles better
Nice video. The biggest drag I found out is that the bottles "expire" about 3 years later. So about saving the environment, I'm sure it does help having a SS but having to buy a thicker and more expensive bottle (prob costs more and uses more resources to make) than the thin cheap ones from the store probably isn't as big an impact as their marketing team would like you to believe. Just like plastic bags and reusable plastic one from the supermarket. It's proven the reusable ones are worse on the environment when you factor everything in. Anyway. My back and arms will thanks me for having a soda stream and not carrying all those heavy bottles up 4 flights of stairs, so the SS is still very worth it to me.
I'm sure at 1 bottle a day, that 'expired' bottle would save you 1000 flimsier bottles of the same size, hardly a small impact in my opinion.
@@ginsederp might be good for the environment but I'm pretty sure using the same plastic bottle for 3 years is not healthy
This is a brilliant video. Answered all the questions I had.
Sodastream for me instead of collecting up all those plastic bottles, I will feel like I am doing something to help our planet along with giving up my red meat.
Please make more grunts and noises in your reviews. I love it.
Always been his quirk an feature
We had once of these when I was a kid. It's a gimic that you'll tire of pretty quickly. Doubt I'll ever own one again no matter how many times they try to bring it back.
Speaking of Big names Pepsi and 7up now I don't know if they were available back then but they are now I have to shop around for the best price on flavourings
Back to the future anyone?
Great review. I love the one canister test. Keep it up!
If you buy a sodastream you are getting on a treadmill of expenses. It costs WAY more than buying regular fizzy drinks. It only gives you a slight saving if you only make a lot of fizzy water. Since Sodastream were bought out by Pepsi the flavour syrups went through the roof - that on top of the overpriced gas makes it a money making racket of epic proportions. Avoid!
make own syrups, and comparing soda water to this is only comparitive if your drinking water.
You can't add syrups you make or buy with soda water as they dilute too much
Thanks for the advice. I thought it would be cheaper this way than buying Pepsi from Iceland/Asda/Tesco. If it's more expensive what's the point?
No decent fizz even after 5 times pushing the button, normally the fizz is totally lost overnight. Less than 25L of drinks per each - expensive - CO2 canister... it's a rip off!
No one cares lol
I care
I care too!
I bought a soda stream; worst decision ever. Total waste of money, dont buy.
I never heard of soda stream in the 70s or 80s
You must have been living in a cave or under a rock. Next you will be telling me you didn’t own a pair of luminous socks😊😊
I turned away from sodastream for the point many make about costs, 25p per litre he states, when you can buy a 2L bottle for 20p at the supermarket.
HOWEVER
First your taking in account that you are going to consume 2L of the stuff before it goes flat, and also even at 20P you might not pour a drink because you just want 300ML of it and you feel its wasteful to pop open a bottle midweek.
Therefore the convenience on being able to get 500ML bottles for sodastreams so you can make one drink at a time as you wish can take down the costs to ''slightly more'' if you was to not care about wasting.
Secondly
I like making my own syrups as they are healthier and no sweetners & cheaper, the issue with mixing these with soda water is the syrups are not fizzy so this dilutes the soda water, whereas with a sodastream put the syrup in the bottole when you fizz (they say you shouldnt but you can)
Both of these reasons is why I have weened myself back into one, if you use heavily you can look at ways to fill up yourself (bit diy)
Otherwise £13 for 60l can't be compared to directly buying soda water.
A better comparisment here would be this.
I love appletizer, this costs £2 per 1 litre (£1.90 in my tesco)
Buys apple juice for 0.60p for 1 litre, fizzy with soda streams (25p) there you have appletizer for 0.85p
I
Just buy 500ml bottles and problem solved! Much cheaper and you don't have to live with a big chunk of machine taking up space in your kitchen.
@@marcteenhc9793 And then you've got packs of water sitting around, you're carting home 3-4 kg of water every few days, constantly changing bins because they're full of bottles (or keeping a separate bottle bin which is more space again), and a ridiculous amount of plastic going out into the environment. At least if you drink 2-3 a day like me.
@@KeanKennedy I do not know where you live buddy, but here the plastic is recycled - specially PET bottles- and I have to take out different sorts of trash almost on a daily basis. So, no real burden here...and I have to enjoy real sparkling water that actually still fizzes the next day.
@@marcteenhc9793 sadly I live in London where my corrupt local council don't provide my flatblock recycling bins.
Even if that wasn't an issue, a lot of our 'recycling' plastic is sent overseas and much of that ends up in landfill or the ocean. So happily generating tons of plastic thinking the government is dealing with it unfortunately isn't the underlying reality here.
Where do you find real sparkling water that fizzes the next day? All the ones I've bought from the supermarket go pretty flat overnight if they're anything less than 3/4 full.
That's the terra not spirit
Burns through gas like an American car.
Fewer bottles consumed not 'less'
you guys
are the best
For goodness sake just go buy a coke😵
I really do think this is the most useless invention in history.
For those of us with dysphagia sparkling drinks are a life saver
@artichokenaturalfoods642 what's dysphagia