I have a soda stream somewhere. Used it all the time years ago. Then at some point it got put away somewhere and never got it out again. I’ll have to find it again
Wasn’t this brand it was the name brand… But I liked them. A little syrup and fizzy water, slightly more healthy than a soda.
@haydesigner I have seen plenty of diet options, but not flavored. Even in non diet, I think the most I’ve ever seen was a cherry coke. If you want a diet cherry pepsi you’d have to get diet pepsi syrup and some sugar free cherry syrup to mix into it. Name brand soda syrups usually cost about $24 for a 4 pack, but if you keep an eye on sales you can get them for $16-18 and a little cheaper if you don’t mind off brand flavors. As far as price comparison, it’s not great. Even if you’re getting the syrups on sale and you can find good deals on CO2, you’ll be saving in the range of dollars and cents. I only use mine because I find it more convenient than buying a bunch of cans or bottles I have to lug up into my apartment.
@haydesigner I looked into it a while back. You probably aren’t going to save any money with these.
Definitely not by buying the small CO2 cartridges. But the internet is a wonderful resource for instructions on how to connect a standard refillable CO2 canister to these.
If you do that, and you’d otherwise have a hefty budget spent on Topo Chico, this is probably a good deal for you. Perhaps a twist of citrus would give you a cheaper alternative to La Croix. Infusing vodka with berries and adding some to your soda water might be less expensive than buying White Claw.
If, however, you’re hoping to save money making Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, etc. at home… Forget about it! Again, the tiny syrup cartridges will wind up costing you more than just buying the ready made stuff from your local supermarket.
I haven’t seen any postings, but I’m sure there’d be a way to use a commercial syrup canister intended for fountain drinks with this, and that would be less expensive in theory. Except that stuff has a relatively short shelf life, and so you’d need to consume an incredible amount of one kind of soda to make that feasible. At that point, I’m not convinced that a SodaStream, or this knock-off version would hold up to that much use – Just like you won’t find other small household appliances in use in commercial settings either.
We still use a SodaStream, but we mix it with the trulime drink mixes. Unfortunately, our local Walmart stopped doing the exchanges so now we have to get them online.
If you want to be yourself with it, 1 packet of kool-aid (the real stuff, none of that crap in the jar with sugar already added), about 1/4 cup of sugar with hot water filled to about 200 ML in one of those salad dressing shakers makes a fantastic fruit soda concentrate for two quarts as I’ve been doing for nearly 20 years.
Damn, I’m old.
Alternately you can add 2 drops of kool-aid to the container and call it LaCroix.
Specs
Product: Ciarra Fizzify Soda Maker with 2 Bottles
Model: CAFSMO1-B
Condition: New
What’s Included?
Warranty
90 days
Estimated Delivery
Thursday, Jul 17 - Monday, Jul 21
Can it make a margarita?
@yakkoTDI No, but it can probably turn a margarita into a sparkling margarita.
I have a soda stream somewhere. Used it all the time years ago. Then at some point it got put away somewhere and never got it out again. I’ll have to find it again
Wasn’t this brand it was the name brand… But I liked them. A little syrup and fizzy water, slightly more healthy than a soda.
please-o-please-o-please do not sell the ninja Slushie machine.
I don’t have room for another one.
@alacrity Oooo, magarita slushies?
@Kyeh YAHTZEE!!
For everyone BUT @alacrity
https://home.woot.com/offers/ninja-rapidchill-slushi-machine-3
@andymand That new Woot logo is definitely lacking in the creativity department. Yuck.
So those of you who have something like this:
TIA
@haydesigner I have seen plenty of diet options, but not flavored. Even in non diet, I think the most I’ve ever seen was a cherry coke. If you want a diet cherry pepsi you’d have to get diet pepsi syrup and some sugar free cherry syrup to mix into it. Name brand soda syrups usually cost about $24 for a 4 pack, but if you keep an eye on sales you can get them for $16-18 and a little cheaper if you don’t mind off brand flavors. As far as price comparison, it’s not great. Even if you’re getting the syrups on sale and you can find good deals on CO2, you’ll be saving in the range of dollars and cents. I only use mine because I find it more convenient than buying a bunch of cans or bottles I have to lug up into my apartment.
Sincerely appreciate the lengthy reply, @skelex
@haydesigner I looked into it a while back. You probably aren’t going to save any money with these.
Definitely not by buying the small CO2 cartridges. But the internet is a wonderful resource for instructions on how to connect a standard refillable CO2 canister to these.
If you do that, and you’d otherwise have a hefty budget spent on Topo Chico, this is probably a good deal for you. Perhaps a twist of citrus would give you a cheaper alternative to La Croix. Infusing vodka with berries and adding some to your soda water might be less expensive than buying White Claw.
If, however, you’re hoping to save money making Coca Cola, Dr. Pepper, Mountain Dew, etc. at home… Forget about it! Again, the tiny syrup cartridges will wind up costing you more than just buying the ready made stuff from your local supermarket.
I haven’t seen any postings, but I’m sure there’d be a way to use a commercial syrup canister intended for fountain drinks with this, and that would be less expensive in theory. Except that stuff has a relatively short shelf life, and so you’d need to consume an incredible amount of one kind of soda to make that feasible. At that point, I’m not convinced that a SodaStream, or this knock-off version would hold up to that much use – Just like you won’t find other small household appliances in use in commercial settings either.
Got this in a whiskeyfy version?
The first half of the writeup kept making me retch! LOL
We still use a SodaStream, but we mix it with the trulime drink mixes. Unfortunately, our local Walmart stopped doing the exchanges so now we have to get them online.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07WHHW2Y2?pd_rd_i=B07WHHW2Y2&pf_rd_p=c8b39f81-ded8-4d75-80c2-6dfa03cbb699&pf_rd_r=ZBQGZKW86MD0VTZMVCYA&pd_rd_wg=htdzz&pd_rd_w=9IakS&pd_rd_r=254ac867-ea8d-4046-b817-b0a216261a30&th=1
If you want to get fancy with it, Prarie Moon makes some excellent syrups to match the brand names. https://www.prairiemoon.biz/flavors.html
If you want to be yourself with it, 1 packet of kool-aid (the real stuff, none of that crap in the jar with sugar already added), about 1/4 cup of sugar with hot water filled to about 200 ML in one of those salad dressing shakers makes a fantastic fruit soda concentrate for two quarts as I’ve been doing for nearly 20 years.
Damn, I’m old.
Alternately you can add 2 drops of kool-aid to the container and call it LaCroix.