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My friend has one and she loves it.

We use and love Soda Club. It is very cheap to operate, allows you to control the carbonation level, and doesn't have a large counter footprint. The bottles are made out of (safe) PES plastic. It works best with cold water we store them in the fridge. When we want cold sparkling water we have it about ten seconds.

We used to go through two cases of imported sparkling water a month. No more air miles! No more wasted glass bottles!

We had a soda siphon but it degraded pretty quickly and frankly, one bottle doesn't get you very far.

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We also use and love the soda club. We were buying so much bottled sparkling water that 2 summers ago we went ahead and bought the soda club "penguin" and haven't purchased another bottle of water since.

My boyfriend has 2 antique leaded crystal soda siphons. They're so sturdy and beautiful. Unfortunately they're not safe due to all the lead.

They make a nice addition to our bar collection though!

We have the isi soda siphon and have been quite happy with it. It makes 1 liter of soda water which is about as much as we drink with dinner anyway. We thought about the Soda Club but didn't want plastic bottles and could not afford the Penguin (the one that uses glass bottles.) This has worked out pretty well for us so far. We live near a beer brewing supplier, so buying new cartridges is only a short bike ride away.

My grandpa has one of these and has had it for at least 20 years. One of my earliest childhood memories is going to his house and watching him change the CO2 cartridge and drinking homemade bubble water. I remember it being much bubblier than store bought bubble water. I loved it.

Over the winter, I followed the instructions at this site http://foo.net/~jmgray/carbonation/ and built a seltzer maker on my own. Since it uses a CO2 tank you don't have to worry about buying replacement cartridges and you get that feeling of accomplishment from making something yourself! (Plus it looks cool and works great)

we've recently gotten addicted to pellegrino sparkling mineral water. i'd love to make my own, but how do i make mineral water? my husband really prefers the taste of mineral water to regular tap water. we try not to buy it too much due to how far it travels (all the way from italy, ugh)
any suggestions?

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I have the Isi cream whipper which uses N02 chargers instead of CO2. Does anyone know if the CO2 chargers are interchangeable on the cream whipper???

I bought the soda club middle-range model after the profile and give-away done on here a few months ago. It's great, takes up about as much space as a two liter bottle on my counter top. One of the things I've heard that many people prefer about it is that you can choose the amount of fizz you add, where as that's difficult to do with the siphons, or so i've heard.

Kathrine - isi sells separate cream and soda chargers; they are not interchangeable.

Still worth it though, yes?

I'd love to go using a siphon to cut down on plastic/bottles, food miles and cost but does anyone know if its possible to recycle the co2 cartridges? From googling, I haven't found anywhere to do so in Chicago yet.

I own the pictured isi soda siphon. I really enjoy it. We make mixes of juice and soda or add it to cocktails.

My friends have soda club and they love it. Their parents got it for them and insist on pronouncing it "kloob" because that's how they say it in spain. It drives my friends crazy.

Scarab1 -- The cartridges I use are steel, which is recyclable where I live.

So, which is going to be less harmful for the environment: accumulating plastic bottles , or soda cartridges?

How much do the replacement cartridges cost?

I saw a soda siphon on clearance @ William Sonoma but passed b/c I thought the cost of the cartridges would be too much..

Is it possible to use the old blue siphons one sees at flea markets? Their colors are so much more beautiful than any of the above....

I have a like soda club, but I wish I had bought one of these old fashioned looking ones so I could reuse glass bottles, and just because they look a lot more stylish.

By the way, I learned this week that it takes over 200 liters of water to make one liter of sugar soda (like Pepsi or coke) when you include the sugar and making the plastic bottle and shipping. More reason to make your own!

health effects of coke, pepsi--very bad. diet soda--extremely bad.

this water carbonation thing looks promising--maybe this sort of discussion can drive down the cost/landfill/transport impact. have to admit, i love fizzy water.

cassiopia, that wedding cake at on your threadtrace site--adorable, incredible.