SodaStream Spirit

This wee Gadget is absolutely brilliant. After reading some ok reviews by some people regarding this soda stream i have come to the conclusion that those people must be THICK. This little gizmo is so simple to use Fill the bottle to the mark (for best results fill slightly over the line marked on the bottle). To Insert Gas cylinder remove back cover. Tear plastic covering off cylinder then unscrew white plastic top from cylinder. Screw the cylinder up into unit and replace back cover. Insert water bottle up into front of soda stream no need to screw into place just push up then push bottle back into unit. Now this is where people may be getting it wrong. If you like your water really FIZZY press the Grey button the top for 5 two second bursts. Press firmly down don't be scared. You may hear gas escaping perfectly normal don't worry this means its working and you are pressing the button hard enough. Like i said before 5 times 2 second bursts makes perfect fizzy water. Should have bought one of these years ago. My wife loves it as well no more carrying heavy packs of fizzy water home from shopping. I must admit the instructions (Pictures only) may be vague but they are very self explanatory. Anyway very happy with this Soda stream GREAT Purchase. Thank you Amazon

I'm moving away from cola and other fizzy drinks, and trying to reduce single use plastic usage, so this seemed worth a try. Fizzy water is more interesting and if we do use it for squash it seems to need less concentrate. Bought when on special offer but I think still worth a go at full price. This model is easier to use than the ones where you screw the bottle up into the assembly. Quick and easy - fill bottle to the line, push up and back into unit, give it a couple of 2 -3 second presses on the button, pull back and it's done. We often keep a bottle in the fridge once carbonated. Cylinders can currently be exchanged at Robert Dyson shops for a tenner or so.

I love fizzy water! We used to get through loads of bottles of mineral water and when I saw my boss bringing soda stream bottles to work I considered getting one. Growing up in the early 80s I thought of it as a lemonade or cola maker, we'd always had a simple siphon instead. I chose this model as it was good value for money at the time I bought it. It is easy to operate but you must push the bottle fully upwards as you clamp it in, if not then the seal isn't made and the water won't be fizzy. They could have made that clear in the instructions. I like that you can get money off the gas cylinders when you use SodaStream returns as well. That makes it economically a much better choice and it's easy to do. I'm a little disappointed in the quality of the item, the plastic feels very light and cheap. I suppose it is important to remember that around £25 of the cost is likely to be for the cylinder, the remainder is for the SodaStream unit.

Love, love, love it! Makes excellent sparkly water. I press the button 5 times, in quick succession. The water remains fizzy for a good while...even overnight if left in the bottle. If you want more or less fizzy, then playing around with the fizz-button will get you your perfect bubble. Make sure you don’t fill the bottle above the line otherwise you’ll get water everywhere. I use my Sodastream on average twice a day and the cyclinder has lasted me seven weeks. When I registered it with Sodastream I got a replacement cyclinder for £12, with £10 refund when I return the empty one! Easy to replace using Click and Collect, so no Post Office hassles. I am sure there are other places to replace them, but this is the easiest for me. I really am pleased with it and the fact I’m using less plastic than with bottles is a good feelings. Small actions make a difference. Aaaanyway, I really recommend it. Oh! I haven’t used syrups, but have used Ribena which is delish!

It takes a bit of getting used to but once you've sussed it out it works like a dream. It's manual operation which for me is perfect as I didn't want another mains powered kitchen appliance which would add to the cost, especially with rising energy prices. Bear in mind that the 60l gas quote is based on 3 presses which is a pretty flat fizz, 4-5 presses works best so you'll get through the gas quicker than the estimated 60l to about 35-40l. I'm two weeks in and it's still going after making 1-2l a day. Can't say the flavours are very good but you can use any squash or cordial to add flavour once you've fizzed. Another top tip is to use a Brita filter to filter your tap water before you fizz, it just taste's better. I'm also amazed at how it's massively reduced my recycling waste, that alone makes it worth it in my mind.

I wrote this review because I saw so many conflicting ones regarding ease of use and lasting time. I have found this so easy to use: fill with cold water to the line, put up over nozzle and push backwards to lock (no need to turn the bottle) then push on the top button for 2 seconds as many times as you want. I like 4 as super bubbly. I stopped drinking diet coke and Pepsi and this has been a really refreshing alternative as it's super cold and the bottles are nice to drink from. We did need to buy more bottles as only one comes with it. So now we have a bottle each. We have had it about 2 weeks and the only issue was the gas cannister becoming loose a couple of times, just needed tightening. Really light so it's portable around the kitchen, and I feel much better with the lack of sparkling water bottles were getting through.

I love my soda stream maker, I need to give it a few more presses than it recommends on the button, but a cylinder of gas still lasts a month and I probably make about 1.5 litres of sparking water a day. The flavour bottles I bought were lemonade and diet cola from Lakeland as that was the only place I could find them and they have lasted well as well, but the best is just to put in a slice of fresh lemon and that works a treat really bubbly and refreshing and because you can get 0.5l bottles it means that my sparkling water is always sparkling as I just make it as and when I want to drink it, so there's no waste and no plastic bottles. You can even subscribe to get gas bottles delivered and returned and so reduce your costs through the year. Very pleased with this as a way to cut down on our plastic bottle useage, our recycling bin is now taking weeks to fill.

The unit initially worked well. It's simple enough to install a gas bottle and the water bottle used for gassing just clips into place. Pressing the gas button gives a good blast of gass but right from the start there was a little bit of water leakage from the machine. Nothing major, and the instructions did explain that a little bit of leakage was to be expected. It's been working reasonably well and giving nicely gassed water, but suddenly and for no apparent reason it's now completely stopped gassing the water. It would appear that the bottle isn't sealing into the machine. I can't tell if it's the grippers that clamp the next of the bottle or the rubber washer. Either way - for a £70 spend you'd expect to get more than just a few months out of the product. We had purchased a gas replacement subscription. But I'm not going to buy another machine, so unless I can get it replaced or repaired by either Amazon or Sodastream, then I'll be cancelling the gass subscription and giving it up as a bad job. Shame, because so far we must have saved close to a hundred plastic bottles that we would have purchased from the supermarket. UPDATE: Amazon were kind enough to replace the item. The new one, although apparently the same, is definitely behaving differently. Maybe our first unit was not working properly all along, or maybe Sodastream have fixed something. The new unit grips the neck of the bottle properly, as the original one used to do, but I've noticed that when filling there is a much stronger burst of gas delivered and much less leaking of gas. Also, if one presses and holds the gas injector button, after a few seconds there seems to be a safety release happening. What sounds like a valve seems to be opening to release the excess gas. Maybe this is new. Maybe it's just the new unit's seal allowing a more controlled escape and the unit just sounds differently. Obviously I don't do this a lot, but did it just to check the new unit's behaviour. So far, the new unit seems to be working much better than the original ever did. Time will tell. I've upgraded the review to three stars on the basis of giving Sodastream a second change.

Premetto che conoscevo questa marca di gasatori, ma non l’avemo mai provato perchè, piacendomi molto l’acqua in bottiglia naturale leggermente frizzante, ero molto scettico pensando che la mineralità risultasse, come dire, innaturale, artificiosa, ma qualche settimana fa, avendo avuto modo di testarlo a casa di amici, mi sono dovuto ricredere, e approfittando del prime day l’ho comprata ad un ottimo prezzo, e dopo qualche giorno di utilizzo confermo la sua validità. Il montaggio della bombola di anidride carbonica è semplicissimo e, dopo un paio di giorni di prove con differenti pressioni sull’erogatore, si riesce tranquillamente a trovare la gradazione desiderata. Io, personalmente, schiaccio un paio di volte in maniera breve per avere un’ acqua leggermente frizzante, e devo dire che non noto differenze con quella della bottiglia. Questa versione senza bisogno di corrente, poi, la trovo particolarmente comoda e pratica visto che è possibile metterla ovunque senza l’impiccio di ulteriori cavi in giro per casa. Il fatto che non ci siano, come in altre versioni del sodastream, più pulsanti per avere delle gasature preimpostate, lo trovo, a differenza di alcune recensioni, un pregio, visto che mi dà l’idea di poter avere ancora più sfumature di gasatura in base ai secondi in cui si tiene premuto il pulsantone in alto, tra l’altro molto comodo essendo bello grande, ma questa è una questione di gusti. Comunque sia, una volta presa la mano, non è difficile regolarsi. Esteticamente risulta molto carino e rifinito, anche se il materiale, in plastica, scricchiola un po’ quando lo si maneggia, ma niente di trascendentale, e l’inserimento e lo sganciamento delle bottiglie compatibili risulta comunque solido. E a proposito delle bottiglie (nella confezione ne troviamo una), anche loro sono esteticamente molto belle, e il materiale plastico di cui sono fatte è evidentemente di alta qualità, tanto che, quando l’ho viste dal mio amico, ad un primo impatto credevo fossero di vetro tanto sono rigide e limpide. Tra l’altro c’è un segnetto (a 840 ml) che ci dice fin dove riempirla per una perfetta gasatura, e il tappo a vite ermetico permette di tenerle anche coricate nel frigorifero, oltre che di mantenere la gasatura almeno per un giorno tranquillamente. Nulla posso dire per ora sulla durabilità della bombola di anidride carbonica da 80 lt, molto leggera, avendola solamente da una settimana, ma anche questo immagino dipenda dal grado di frizzantezza che si usa quotidianamente. Bisogna però dire una cosa, immagino che la bontà dell’acqua dipenda anche e soprattutto dal sapore dell’acqua di partenza, ecco perchè io ad esempio, abitando a Roma, dove l’acqua a un buon sapore ma è pesantissima per via del tanto calcare, l’ho unita in combo con una di quelle brocche filtranti che rendono l’acqua un po’ più leggera e gli danno un sapore migliore, ma questo evidentemente dipende dai gusti e dalla zona in cui si abita. Conclusioni: consigliatissimo. Al di là delle mie aspettative, e per ora non ho riscontrato difetti; l’acqua viene bene e non sembra artificiosa, proprio come quella in bottiglia, e finalmente in caso siamo anche un po’ più eco friendly, il che non guasta, avendo tolto di mezzo tutte quelle bottiglie di plastica nonché il peso delle casse e il doversi ricordare di comprarle; e anche se probabilmente un po’ sarà dovuto all’effetto novità, ci trovo anche più gusto e soddisfazione a farla da solo, alla gasatura desiderata al momento, in modo che si possa “personalizzare” la frizzantezza per i vari componenti della famiglia o gli amici quando vengono a cena.

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Si vous en avez marre de transporter des packs d'eau gazeuse et de remplir vos poubelles des bouteilles vides qui finiront plus ou moins bien recyclées alors cette machine est pour vous ! Machine assez légère et peu encombrante qui produit de l'eau + ou - gazeuse très bonne (j'utilise de l'eau du robinet filtrée dans une carafe ) ,sans problème, en fonction des goûts de chacun . La bouteille livrée avec la machine a une contenance réelle de 80 cl d'eau . La mise en route de la machine est très intuitive, l'installation de la cartouche de gaz (capacité annoncée de 60 l d'eau) est très facile ainsi que celle de la bouteille , il suffit de suivre les "dessins" ...La cartouche de gaz est consignée ce qui fait que l'achat d'une nouvelle cartouche coûte entre 10 et 13€. Le prix de revient pour 1 L d'eau est donc très avantageux . Je n'ai pas encore essayé les "sirops" Sodastream mais votre sirop habituel mis directement dans le verre fera parfaitement l'affaire! En résumé , bon produit , écologique, économique, je recommande !

Consumo muita água com gás. Esse produto trouxe uma excelente solução para mim, pois eu tinha que estocar muitas garrafas de água com gás em casa. Assim que comecei a usá-lo, não tive mais qualquer necessidade de armazenar garrafas de água com gás. O único problema é reabastecer o cilindro, mas isso é feito poucas vezes ao ano. Compensa muito!

Después de usar el carbonatador SodaStream 1011711411 durante varias semanas, puedo decir que es un producto muy satisfactorio para quienes disfrutan del agua con gas. Su diseño compacto y moderno en negro encaja bien en cualquier cocina y es fácil de usar gracias a su mecanismo de bloqueo a presión para la botella. Lo que más me ha gustado es la posibilidad de ajustar el nivel de carbonatación a gusto personal, lo que permite obtener un agua con gas muy fresca y con burbujas bien definidas. Además, el hecho de que incluya una botella reutilizable ayuda a reducir el consumo de plástico y es una opción más ecológica y económica a largo plazo. La recarga del cilindro de CO2 es sencilla y dura bastante, lo que aporta comodidad y ahorro. Como puntos menos positivos, el precio inicial puede parecer algo elevado, pero se compensa con el ahorro en agua embotellada y la reducción de residuos. También es importante seguir bien las instrucciones para conseguir el punto óptimo de gas, ya que al principio puede requerir algo de práctica. Tips útiles: siempre usa agua fría para mejores resultados, no sobrepases la línea de llenado de la botella para evitar derrames, y presiona el botón con pausas cortas para controlar la intensidad del gas. En resumen, recomiendo este carbonatador para quienes quieran disfrutar de agua con gas de calidad en casa, con un aparato fiable, fácil de usar y respetuoso con el medio ambiente.