Sodastream for a present

blueakama

My husband suggested that he'd like a sodastream for christmas. Trouble is we aren't big soft drinkers, but he does sometimes drink gin and tonic water. A couple of questions. Can you use it to make tonic water? Also can you add bubbles to fruit juice to make flavoured mineral water? Can you use it to add bubbles to coffee (he's a big coffee fan)?

aqualeo1

I used to have one and I really liked it! You can carbonate any liquid you want! If you do plain water it would make more of a club soda so you would have to add sweetener and some lemon juice or something to make it taste like tonic water.

Alatariel75

There is a tonic water syrup, yes. And it isn't half bad. They do a large range of flavour syrups.

You wouldn't use it for fruit juice of coffee, as the way it carbonates is for the plastic tube to go into your water and force the gas into it, so if you do it to anything but water, you'll gum up the works and potentially get flavour/bits transfer into your next drink.

It is designed for you to carbonate plain water, then add flavouring, not to carbonate other liquids. Not to mention trying to carbonate an already sugary liquid (like cordial/kool aid etc) results in some spectacular fizzy explosive messes (as my husband found out when trying to spruce up flat Coke).

Apparently you CAN carbonate some other liquids (I've ehard you can make regular wine into sparking!), if you then carbonate plain water after to clean the nozzle, but it's really at your own risk.

I have one and use it multiple times daily, I just drink carbonated water with a squirt of lemon or lime juice.

Jelaan

We have one and love it. I add slices of lemon or lime to carbonated water, or a squirt of Mio for different flavours. So much better than having multiple cases of different types of pop, soda water, sparkling water cluttering up the house. Less recycling too.

blueakama

Thanks for the replies everyone.