SodaStreams - Make your own soda at home!

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From Wikipedia, because I'm lazy:

"The SodaStream Sparkling Water Maker is a device that forces carbon dioxide (CO2) gas (stored under pressure in a cylinder) into water, making it sparkling (fizzy). The product includes a machine, a carbon dioxide cylinder, and one or more reusable beverage bottles. The bottle, filled with water, is inserted into the machine, and with a button push or two, compressed CO2 from the cylinder is injected, creating carbonated water. Varieties of concentrated syrups are available, to create regular or diet soft drinks by adding a small amount of concentrate to the bottle after carbonation."

Does anyone else use these? I have one, and it's great. It's expensive upfront, but much cheaper in the long-run, and saves on plastic bottles. My favorite flavors are diet Pepsi and diet Cranberry.
 
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My buddy has one of these, tried a few different flavors (the cola, root beer and Mountain Dew flavors) and wasn’t that impressed. It just tastes off, like a partially flat cheap brand soda. I don’t drink much soda anymore and I don’t know if my friend just fucked up making it but it tasted gross each time.
 
Dwight Frye said:
My buddy has one of these, tried a few different flavors (the cola, root beer and Mountain Dew flavors) and wasn’t that impressed. It just tastes off, like a partially flat cheap brand soda. I don’t drink much soda anymore and I don’t know if my friend just fucked up making it but it tasted gross each time.
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I used someone's to carbonate cranberry juice watered down with tea and it was pretty good. Forget the syrups, only the CO2 matters.
 
I had one. The CO2 bottles are stupidly expensive and it doesn't carbonate well since its not a tight seal. I highly recommend making your own. Maybe about 100$ in parts but the cost to fill your own CO2 canister (any craft brew store should be able to do it) is like half the price for 3 times the amount.
 
I liked it for sparkling water but I found the refill CO2 or whatever it is to be too expensive. Aren't they like $30?
 
Never made economic (nor taste) sense to me to buy Soda Stream unless you can get the syrup cheaper somewhere. I guess if you dont have a car you dont have to haul bottles of soda.

If you're big into carbonated water that's not mineral water then it's good tho.
 
My Mom was asking me about getting me a Sodastream for a holiday gift, so this is interesting to see.
What do you actually do with the Sodastream that's better than buying from the store? A lot cheaper? (Would take a hell of a lot of soda, I think, to make up for the upfront costs.) Is there something interesting you can make with it?

My thinking is it's mostly a toy to make weird shit like sparkling tea or sparkling whiskey or sparkling coffee.

If anybody's willing I want to see an argument in defense of this thing, because I'm interested but I'm not sure I want a $130 bullshit machine in my apartment.
 
Ughubughughughughughghlug said:
My Mom was asking me about getting me a Sodastream for a holiday gift, so this is interesting to see.
What do you actually do with the Sodastream that's better than buying from the store? A lot cheaper? (Would take a hell of a lot of soda, I think, to make up for the upfront costs.) Is there something interesting you can make with it?

My thinking is it's mostly a toy to make weird shit like sparkling tea or sparkling whiskey or sparkling coffee.

If anybody's willing I want to see an argument in defense of this thing, because I'm interested but I'm not sure I want a $130 bullshit machine in my apartment.
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I don't know how it is in your country but in my country the litre price for the finished product from the syrup is higher than buying bottles in a cheap store.
 
My family has an older-model SodaStream and it’s mostly used to make sparkling water, it usually comes out with the same carbonation levels as San Pelligrino or Perrier but tastes like tap water. I remember trying the syrups at some point but I never really liked ‘em, then I swapped ‘em for the essences and it was a bit better.

The main issue I have with SodaStreams, or at least the one we use, is that can’t mimic the carbonation that soda has. You either get water that has very little carbonation or water that borders on tooth-dissolving.

Oh, and as far as the syrups are concerned I distinctly remember seeing Pepsi-branded syrups, specifically ones based off of Pepsi and Diet Pepsi instead of the shitty SodaStream-branded ones.
 

Again don't buy that soda stream garbage. The ball lock coupler is how you don't have CO2 leaking out when carbonating which the soda stream lacks (underhanded kike trick to sell more carbonation? Maybe)

As for syrups. You can make your own if you want to go full DIY. I usually had a ginger extract from making candied ginger that just need to melt sugar into (double boiler method so you don't burn sugar) for the desired consistency. There's some recipes for coke flavor floating around on the internet.

Edit: or just bulk buy syrup that they sell for soda fountains.
 
Been thinking of getting one of these. I love bubbly water and think just some water with lemon would taste great. But they look like a pain in the ass
 
s0mbra said:
Been thinking of getting one of these. I love bubbly water and think just some water with lemon would taste great. But they look like a pain in the ass
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I got one to carbonate water for cocktails. I actually have a minor tip to improve your results. Fridging the water before you carbonate produces a better result if your seltzer comes out a bit flat. Colder water allows more CO2 to stay in solution.
 
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If you want a mildly carbonated soda that you can experiment with flavors and stuff, just get a bottle of seltzer water (NOT tonic water, NOT club soda) and add stuff to it. You can find at practically any grocery store--but it's in the beer & wine department with the mixers (the whiskey sour mix, the bloody mary mix, etc.).

Other than that, soda is pretty cheap and it's just easier to buy it yourself, whether the name brands or the generics or the cheap brands (Shasta, Faygo...Jarritos), and if you want something new, just head off to a store that stocks gourmet foods. When I lived in my old town, I could get soft drinks like Cheerwine or Moxie at Spec's, and the Indian store had Thums Up. (Pibb Xtra, on the other hand, was impossible to find locally, as was Dr. Brown's Cel-Ray).
 
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