Soda stream - worth it or not?

Can't comment on the product itself, but buy directly from Soda Stream. They have a bundle for £10 more on the black version and comes with two bottles and tonnes of flavours

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Definitely worth it, if the main reason is having a constant supply of sparkling water without lugging bottles all of the time. I have a couple of friends who have one as well, and we all agree that it's one of those cheap life improvements that's worth having.

Neither of us likes the syrups though, I tried a couple and ended up throwing them away. The water is great though, don't get the point about it not being fizzy enough - you can choose how much fizziness you want, and I always drink it after making it (mostly before having dinner) so haven't noticed it losing fizz - I don't leave it the fridge etc.

had one around 4 years ago, it was a fad that quickly got old and end up being given away in the end. The fizz doesn't last long and doesn't taste better than the others. The gas bottle lasted a while though. Personally i would avoid (aside from maybe the novelty factor).

We looked into one and found it's the same sort of racket as you get with coffee pod machines. Cheap entry point with the machine and usually a bottle of syrup bundled in, like they do with the coffee machines and say a dozen capsules included. But after that, it felt that the price really didn't differ much from buying the proper drink and - if my FIL's SS machine was anything to go by - produced an inferior drink. And that's without replacing the gas every X drinks. It's probably cheaper if you buy syrups in bulk but I think you'd have to enjoy that style of drink - more reminiscent of a soda fountain at a pub or cinema - and be committed to a particular drink to get any true savings benefits from it.

I thought that the gas canister refils worked out quite expensive.

There are lots of modification guides out there so you can adapt the machine to use a different, larger (and cheaper to fill) CO2 canister)

We found it doesn’t taste as nice as normal fizzy drinks and gave it away after a few months, just a novelty, but that was just our opinion, our friends love theirs

Own one and i would say it's ok.

Use it from time to time, find some syrups are better than others. Got it on a black Friday deal last year for £34.99, would not advise paying much more for one.

Canisters can be replaced at certain stores (halfords, currys, argos etc) but does come at a cost.

As someone said earlier it's a novelty, can get the same taste from supermarket own brands if i'm being honest. It's currently sat in the home bar and used to make mixers for spirits.

I have had one for about ten years now. Got it for £15 in Tesco and it has certainly paid for itself. Managed to get a whole heap of the gas bottles reduced to clear in Dunelm for £5 too which helped. I like a lime and soda in the summer which it is great for. The Pepsi max syrup is very good. We use ours most days

Thanks everyone for your thoughts and feedback