Its screw-in bottle attachment isn’t quite as easy to use as the snap-in mounts of the SodaStream models, but we liked that it uses a lever to add gas, rather than a push button.

A carbonating rod goes deeper into the water than with the Fizzy, potentially improving its carbonating capabilities. This model is easy to use since you can insert your water bottle into the nozzle and twist it to lock it into place. The box comes complete with a 60L CO2 cylinder (which can carbonate around 60 liters of water), a refillable 32-ounce water bottle with chrome cap, as well as the necessary power cable. It’s possible to find occasional soda or beverage bottles not made from SodaStream that may fit these nozzles, but they are few and far between. Most people use the proprietary SodaStream flavored syrups to create their custom carbonated beverages.Making your own soda drinks and sparkling water at home couldn’t be easier with the electric-powered SodaStream Spirit One Touch Drinks Maker, and it’s great for cutting down your use of single-use cans and bottles* too.

Uniquely, it has three preset levels of carbonation, each with its own control button that you lightly touch to activate. This is a Starter Pack, which includes a carbonating cylinder, which is enough to create 15 gallons / 60 liters of sparkling water, and a 34fl oz / 1-liter reusable plastic bottle.Which is a nod to the early soda streams and soda siphons that dinners would use back in the day before bottled carbonated drinks were a thing. Six shots of gas, which create medium strength bubbles, took 11 seconds to be dispensed, while the strongest carbonation setting saw seven shots of gas added to the water in just 14 seconds. These glass carafes are dishwasher safe, making them much easier to clean than their plastic counterparts.

You can also spend a little extra and get a special “Hydration Pack,” which includes everything that the starter pack has, plus 2 extra 1 L water bottles and 2 0. Sodastream also offers a range of flavorings that you can add to your carbonated water to create soft drinks, with brand names such as Pepsi and 7UP available alongside generic cola and tonic syrups, and Kom Bucha, ginger ale, and other fruit-based syrups. The area underneath the bottle is just a smooth slope, so if anything leaks during the carbonation process, it will fall right onto the counter, forcing you to clean it up. The water came out really sparkly at the press of a button and, having put it in the fridge for a bit, it was still fizzy later on.

The Sodastream Crystal does the same thing as the others but instead of a plastic bottle to carbonate your water you have a nice crystal carafe. However, most people won’t carbonate beverages for longer than 7-12 seconds at most, with 10 seconds being the average level of carbonation for most 1 L bottles of water. Plus, the Jet comes with an automatic mail-in rebate for your first carbonating cylinder with the purchase. The 34fl oz / 1-liter plastic bottle that comes with the Spirit One Touch is filled with tap water and inserted at an angle into the cavity in the front, so that the carbonating tube sits in the water.