SodaStream?

[Lady's Human]

Well, we got a sodastream soda make for Christmas. Don't know what we're going to do with it, but I'm open to suggestions?

From their website:

Regular flavors contain no high-fructose corn syrup, and diet flavors are sweetened with Splenda® brand sweetener, not aspartame.

Frankly, being that ALL of their products contain artificial sweeteners of some sort, and the one that's common to all of them gives me rather.........explosive and noxious gastrointestinal issues, how is that "better" than most commercially sold soda?

[RICHARD]

Well, we got a sodastream soda make for Christmas. Don't know what we'
re going to do with it, but I'm open to suggestions?

From their website:

Regular flavors contain no high-fructose corn syrup, and diet flavors are sweetened with Splenda® brand sweetener, not aspartame.

Frankly, being that ALL of their products contain artificial sweeteners of some sort, and the one that's common to all of them gives me rather.........explosive and noxious gastrointestinal issues, how is that "better" than most commercially sold soda?

It depends, Does it have a high capacity CO2 tank on it?

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RE the gastro issues, does the government know about your ability to create WMDs - Wind of Mass Destruction?

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I was looking into the value of owning one and came across a rather lenghty review about the costs involved. It was funny because the guy have figured out the prices down to the .001.

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I'd keep it for a party or the summer when the kids are running around and losing their fluids?

[Lady's Human]

Careful, now you're going to have the BATFE coming to my house looking for unregistered destructive devices.

The first time I had sucralose it left me unable to digest anything without REALLY noxious ......wind.... for about 3 days until my system cleared out. It was REALLY unpleasant for all parties involved, though it did let the mob team brush up on our chemical warfare response time.

[Karen]

Does Soda Stream have an recipe book for "make your own"? Or is it a cartridge-based system?

[Lady's Human]

They have various syrups available to mix into the carbonated water.

I was wondering how they managed to make the 1L syrup packs so small, as with normal syrup it's a 5 to 1 mix, which would make the syrup packs about 1/2 cup, and the syrup containers are barely a couple of tablespoons.

The answer? A nasty mix of artificial sweeteners and preservatives.

[Alysser]

Those actually look pretty cool, but I have to think, what if the products goes off market? Where can you get the soda syrup for it then?

[RICHARD]

The SS - the maker not the German bad guys - has a cartridge to it.

The cartridge is about 70 dollars to buy, you can recycle the old one and replace it for about 13 dollars at different stores.

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They are sold in different bundles, some with extra flavors, bottles and an extra CO2 cartridge to them.