SodaStream Source Home Soda Maker Starter Kit, Red

I had tried Soda Stream at a house party and like it. What I love is that I control how much of the flavor syrup goes in so I can make the taste lighter or stronger. The calorie count for the syrups is a lot lower than any regular soda so I don't have to buy diet. I don't mind getting 35 calories for the same size as a can of soda as compared to 160 or more. Besides I often use less syrup than recommended cutting those calories even further. So far I haven't tried a flavor that I don't like. Love the grapefruit and the ice tea ones but then again, honestly, I really like all of them! After the initial investment of the maker it is cheaper than canned soda. So glad I bought it!

Love this machine!!! I don't know that we are actually saving that much money by having it but I will say that we are using much less plastic than if we bought as much bubbly water as we drink. Having the bubbly water in the house so easily made and ready has definitely made us drink more water. The flavored syrup to make your own soda don't taste anything like the traditional sodas that they are attempting to recreate (overly sweet and chemically) but that's okay for us because we bought it primarily for making bubbly water.

Source Home Metal 3 Piece Sparkling Water Maker Starter Set Color: Red The LED didn't light up the first time I used this product. Result: over-carbonated water. Maybe I was doing something wrong? The next day I tried it again, going a little slower. Same result. I had absolutely no idea when to stop pressing down. So... a little Googling led me to a video of how to replace the battery. After unscrewing two screws, and prying off the cover what I found was a big mess. The battery had leaked acid all over the plastic mount and etched it away until the battery holder was just hanging by wires. It had fallen back into the machine. See the pictures I provided. Very poor showing, SodaStream. Quite disappointed. That being said, I give 5 Stars to both Amazon Customer Service and the third-party seller Dave Parkers. I had the return processed and on it's way back within a few hours, and on a holiday weekend!

I bought this because I really like club soda / seltzer water and to add it to fruit juice. I don't use the soda flavoring mixes at all. For that use, it does work out to be cheaper to use this than to go buy seltzer. It's also nice to be able to make it any time that I want since seltzer tends to go flat so fast. It looks good sitting on the counter, but sometimes doesn't add that much carbonation on the first attempt. At times, even when I use it for the "most carbonation", it's still not all that carbonated and I have to give it a second hit. But, overall, I like it.

Functions well, meets our needs. Gave to my husband on Xmas day ( didn't open box to check color). I ordered red to match our retro kitchen but it came in white. So that was disappointing. Too much trouble to go through return process but I won't order from this vendor again.

We got this machine as an upgrade to the basic model. Yes, it is more weighted so it doesn't jump around with a little rough handling or putting in the canister. But, It is harder to get the canister in, because it has a more molded shape back there... and less room for fingers. The most annoying thing by far is the "LED display which indicates three levels of fizziness for precise carbonation with every use." This DOES NOT INDICATE ANYTHING HELPFUL. It is a light timer, basically telling you how long you have depressed the top. If the nozzle clogs with ice, as it does if the water is cold enough, it doesn't change it's time to include the now reduced amount of CO2 getting into your drink. In fact, if you leave the top depressed long enough it just starts all over again. And now, instead of the "fart" noise you listen for with the basic model (they call it a buzz), you get a very loud and obnoxious "train whistle" that is more off-putting than anything else we have in the kitchen. We donated this and went back to our old basic model. DON'T BUY. The basic is more environmentally friendly, because it is made of less plastic and doesn't let you so easily dump CO2 into the atmosphere.

I believe the SodaStream Home Soda Maker is a dietary innovation even greater than Ron Popeil's Showtime Rotisserie & Barbecue. For a long time I've felt about 95% of the enjoyment of carbonated beverages derives from the CO2 gas in solution. The other 5% comes from flavoring. The flavoring is the killer, as fructose (corn-originated sweetener) isn't metabolized by the human liver, but stored directly as fat. Fructose sweetener (hello ADM) is the leading cause of epidemic obesity in the United States. SodaStream home soda water has the potential to reverse this health crisis and save consumers bundles of $$. I've used my unit for only three days and am ecstatic each time I "gas-ify" 30 ounces of refrigerated tap water. SodaStream carbonated water is an identical, one-to-one replacement for the 12-ounce cans I purchased from Kroger for years, and had to physically return to reclaim our 10-cent-per-unit aluminum can bounty (deposit). No more wasted gasoline. No wasted time. No messing with can-crushing equipment. No checkout lines. No corrugated packaging to recycle/discard. Home soda production via SodaStream could devastate the carbonated beverage industry and eliminate this needless waste of resources. Simultaneously, waistlines of U.S. soft drink lovers will shrink. Overnight !! Buy this product now. It is smart in too many ways to mention in this limited forum.

I love that this does not need electricity and allows me to drink fizzy water without creating cans or bottles to get rid of. I use the Sweetleaf stevia water drops or herbal tea to create 'sodas' . I just did the exchange of empty CO2 canisters but Target is backordered by a few weeks so I took them to Staples and received two 60L canisters at no cost. I don't know if that was a special promotion or if it will always be free, I doubt that but I'm glad I purchased the SodaStream.