Is a sodastream worth it?

[Theblackdogagain]

I like drinking fizzy water, however I hate the plastic waste by buying bottles. Would it be better to buy a soda stream, or does the co2 shortage make it pointless?
Is it expensive to buy the canisters etc?

We switched a few years ago. It’s no cheaper than bottled sparkling but we do it for environmental reasons. We’ve had no difficulty getting gas, we have a subscription so they send us replacement bottles automatically (we return empties).

sodastream.co.uk/products/sparkle-savers-plan

We got our subscription on a deal a couple of times, otherwise it’s about £10 a month if you use a lot.

Love my soda stream. Fizzy water on tap. I don't rate the flavoured concentrates but love it with a bit of lime juice. It gets a lot of use and we buy replacements at The Range, and I think our local Asda has started doing them as well.

I think it depends on how drinkable your tap water is? I live in a very hard water area, the tap water is nasty. I overlooked this when I bought the sodastream which means it doesn't really get used. But if I lived somewhere with reasonable tap water it would have been a much better idea!

We also have one for environmental reasons. We get refill gas canisters from the Argos inside our local Sainsbury's. I've had it a couple of years and must have saved hundreds of plastic bottles from landfill in that time.

If you have rubbish tap water you could always get a brita filter jug or a fridge that filters water when you next replace it.

We got the cheapest one and it was so crap we sent it back after a week. So disappointing. Didn't hold tlits fizz at all.

More expensive ones may be better?

Sent ours back. Totally hopeless
My sister tried the more expensive one and not impressed either

Another fan here. Love the fizzy water and the rest of the family love the different flavours.

I just buy sparkling water in glass bottles.
The tap water is so hard where I live.
I haven't owned a SodaStream, so I probably shouldn't even be on this thread. But I have been tempted to buy one. Just not sure, with my tap water's taste and nasties and all. Watching with interest!

I love mine, I keep still water chilled ready to fizz rather than pre fizzing and letting it go flat. I have it in my chillys bottle at work too. Love it with cordial or in a spritzer as well.

@Hungry675tf

We got the cheapest one and it was so crap we sent it back after a week. So disappointing. Didn't hold tlits fizz at all.

More expensive ones may be better?

No they don't hold their fizz like "proper" bottles of fizzy water. But it stays fizzy for a day or so and the whole point is to just make it when you want some, so it doesn't really need to hold the fizz for long.

I love ours, we use it loads and I'm sure I've saved loads of plastic bottles as I've only bought about 6 bottles in the 10 years that I've had the SS

Thanks everyone, I do live in a hard water area so it sounds like I'll hate the taste of the fizzy water as much as I hate normal tap water.