SodaStream Gaia Sparkling Water Maker, Black

If you don’t do this, you will have a mess and Water will be all over. I guess that is the chief complaint about this device. But you gotta be smarter than the device and actually turn it to where it is sealed before turning it on. one complain on this is that when you go to put pelletized dry ice in the bottle it has a slow leak. I guess that’s how they get you to buy more of them. You gotta love how people just spend more money on their products. I like this device, but I wish that it would take the blue canister instead of the pink one, the pink canister is designed to leak, causing you to buy another canister at $37 I don’t know about you but I go through a canister every two weeks. They should make restaurant ones for households just thought I know not many people would buy it, but I would depending on the fact if it might be

I did a lot of research before buying my Soda Stream. I drink a lot of diet soda and the price for them had gotten really expensive. After I purchased my Soda Stream, I kept track of how many liters of soda I got out of one canister of CO2 plus factored in the cost of the syrup. It was slightly less expensive than buying 12oz cans. We decided that with the amount of waste we were saving, it was well worth it. I also found that the gas exchange program directly through Soda Stream was better than going through Amazon. Apparently I missed the fine print that said they would email you a code for the gift card. I thought the gift card would be automatic so I didn’t think they were receiving me canisters. When I realized it, all f the emails had been deleted. It is much more straight forward when you go directly through Soda Stream.

Our last Soda Stream lasted us for 10 years. We ordered a different brand and found that it didn't carbonate as well. So we ordered another Soda Stream and the carbonation worked just as well as our last one. The plastic bottle supplied seems to be smaller than what came with the original. This model was supposed to have included one Diet Pepsi and one SugarFree Mountain Dew flavoring. What came was two Mountain Dews, no Pepsi. Not a deal breaker but it's going to take us forever to go through two bottles of MD. I hope this one lasts as long as our last one.

This model that's sold here on Amazon for the Soda Stream, the Gaia, it is not sold in the United States it's only sold in Europe and that was a decision by the Soda Stream Corporation or powers that be of Soda Stream. It's just that they made it for Europe; it's a very good item, it's manual so there's no power cord or anything like that you just simply put in the the unit in the back for the carbon and put the water in the container and press. It's amazing and you can control how strong it is by how many times you press it. You can purchase the flavoring and I just thought it was amazing and I don't know why I haven't purchased this before; it's saving me a lot of money in the household as well as enabling us to control how much sugar is in our drinks and after using this I realized that I don't want it as sweet as I drink before. I like this.

One piece of fine print says "compatible with all soda stream bottles" - and then another one says "Only compatible with the quick connect bottle" - misleading and did not work with our regular soda stream bottles.Also, the design is poor. The gas bottle now quick connects (which you replace every few weeks) but the water bottle (that you have to connect a few times a day) is threaded and takes longer to connect. The design is the wrong way around.

While I don’t love that it’s yet another appliance on the kitchen counter, I do love having carbonated beverages on hand whenever I want them. So far we’ve only tried two flavors, root beer and orange (the SodaStream brand), and the whole family agrees they taste the same if not better than the normal pop from the store. Looking forward to trying the Bubly flavors too since we drink a lot more seltzer than pop. I also like that it’s not an electric appliance, so it doesn’t need to be near an outlet.

Great device!! Upgrade from my older model

Easy to use, lightweight