We drink a lot of bubbly water in my home. We love a good carbonated water. Andy calls it tasty beverage swearing it is more thirst quenching than still water. So, you can imagine my excitement at getting this bad boy in the mail (*just in time* for Father's Day) in trade for a product review! EXCITEMENT.
We adore sparkling water but what we don't adore is all the waste. The heaps of plastic bottles in the recycling and we can't even recycle glass in Missoula. It is seriously agonizing to me. Also, it is a spendy little habit. Well. With this slick, charming unit we now have the dreamy combination of
A) Bubbly water whenever our hearts desire
B) No waste
D) A penguin on our counter
He keeps me company late at night all perched on his counter among the day's debris and the chickadee cookie jar.
I wanted to surprise Andy with it but our Sodastream Penguin happened to arrive on a Friday and he is home on Fridays. There was no hiding it plus I am a terrible liar. He was all, um, babe, why do we have a giant box that says it is combustible on our front steps? Really, there is no maneuvering around that one. Secretly, I was kinda happy because we got to crack into it right then. And, I might be a bad liar but I am a worse waiting-until-the-day-gift-giver.
We are impressed. It works well, is solidly made, well designed and super easy to use. Let Andy demonstrate:
Some cool features besides HAVING UNLIMITED BUBBLY WATER ACCESS:
- The glass carafes are a great size and have vacuum lids
- The CO2 canisters are refillable (seriously, no waste!)
- You can add syrups or fruit essences to make flavored bubbles like pop and tonic water
- Margot wouldn't be more tickled if a dinosaur and elmo joined her for pancakes in our kitchen
So, yay all the way around including yay that a dig reader will WIN a Fountain Jet Soda Starter Kit. It's not a penguin but still very cool. Leave a comment and I'll randomly select a winner. This giveaway is only open to peeps in the continental US and comments close at 10pm MST, Tuesday, July 6.
126 comments:
My favorite beverage in the whole world is seltzer!
I would love to have one of these. Thanks for the great blog.
We too love soda water, so much that my husband bought a keg system (yeah craigslist!) to have soda water on tap 24-7--he even takes it camping and to cabins with us. Not a full size keg...but smaller to fit in what else...a small kegarator! Tap water to him is "broken" water : )
Enjoy your new toy and having tasty water all the time!
MUST HAVE THIS "BAD BOY!"
Our family just moved back from Europe and we really miss gassified water. My 2.5 year old is always (always!) asking for "sparkly water".
LOVE THIS! We hardly ever buy soda because the kids will drink it in one day, but yay on this!
ohhhhhh...i was just telling beaver (my manfriend) how i want a contraption to make my own 'tasty beverage'! and i agree with andy, it's more of a thirst quencher than still water. plus, the penguin is super cute.
Would LOVE some bubbly water for my husband.
This would be wonderful to have ... large family = lots of plastic water bottles :( What a neat product!
Wow- bubbly water without the waste! Sounds great!
What a great invention..wish I had thought of it. My husband calls it "fizzy water". Would love to own it.
I have one of the older soda stream models and it is awesome! It is great not to have sparkley water whenever i want.
Kim
I love it! At least in CA we have recycling directly from our house, but still, buying all those bottles drive me crazy. It just makes more sense to make consumables at home with fresh products and put them in reusable glass containers!
I used to love soda, but a sensitivity to artificial sweeteners and a corn allergy means my soda consumption is non-existent. I caught a glimpse of this contraption at the Leaf and Bean the other day and am intrigued......
Awesome little penguin, quite a charming little guy to have sitting on your counter. I think my kids would adore him for his cuteness AND the pop :)
Soda has been making me feel a little ill since I recently became pregnant. Carbonated water would defninitely help with the nausea. And my son loooves penguins! Such an adorable design!
we have one, too. LOVE IT!!!
You think that somebody likes bubbly..
I'm sure that MY guy loves it doubly.
If it wouldn't be very much troubly,
Could I please win the prize for my hubb-ily?
Ha! Loved the video of Andy demonstrating how to use it - complete with a drink at the end! Pretty nifty little thing isn't it?
We call it fuzzy water. Would love to have one of those makers!
I would love to win this! Thanks for doing this giveaway.
What a great contraption! We love sparkly water! You know it's a special day when we splurge and get some. Have to hide it from Tim too and ration it out cause he'd drink all of it in the first 5 minutes if I let him! Love to you and the family! XOXO
That thing is great. The video of Andy just cracks me up everytime. He could be the next Billy Mayes. How much is that thing?
I was just buying some "fizzy" water at the store yesterday and was feeling both happy (looking forward to drinking it) and sad (hating to know I was going to be adding more waste). I'd love to try one of those to reduce the waste and yet let me enjoy my favorite kind of water!
Ha! I love it! I had no idea anything like this existed. I must admit that my family has a serious carbonated beverage habit, this would be amazing! I also really like that the company uses real sugar. I think I would be just as excited as Margot at breakfast to see that little guy.
I love this contraption - the penguin is pretty awesome.
Aren't they the best! I have one that's a couple of years old now and I just love it (I use it every day!). I do wish I had gotten the penguin though, as my plastic bottles don't hold the fizz as well and they're starting to wear out.
I've heard about these, and was wondering if they worked as well as they claim. Good to know that they do! I love your blog, by the way :)
How convenient! So much better than lugging the heavy soda bottles/cans home, plus you're not filling your recycling box every week! Here, they say we recycle, but we catch the garbage guys throwing the recycling in the back of their trucks all the time. Sigh.
I wanna play! I LOVE bubbly water!
wow! What a great invention- and your video of it in use is awesome. We would LOVE this for our home! :)
I'm on a big lemon water kick lately b/c I was sick of the plain old water so this sounds awesome!
Hey all...just to clarify the giveaway isn't for the Penguin, it is for the
Soda Starter Kit.
And, to answer price questions, the Penguin is $249. The site has several soda maker options starting at $100.
OMG. Something I really REALLY want! I used a friend's the other day and loved it. I thought I'd told the husband that this was a good gift idea, but apparently that didn't stick. Come through for me!
Wowza! How cool is that? We are also facing recycling woes down here at the bottom of the earth...After multiple discouraging calls to various city offices, we finally found that our city does indeed have a recycling center. No curbside pickup, but still...Crazy thing - they won't take glass either. It's killing me. I keep searching blogland for ideas to use my glass. No one here recycles which is unbelievable to us BUT in January we will be plastic-bag free citywide. Gotta start somewhere...
~Janna (sending you some Bratton Love....)
The bubbles tickle my nose!
wow that is so cool!! thanks for the video too, its looks so easy to use. and you can even make like coke with it?! my husband drinks diet coke like its going out of style, we sooo need one of these!
yay! I registered for this very seltzer bottle (penguin from sodastream) for my wedding last october and no one got it for me! I got refill cartridges but no penguin! I am so sad. I keep thinking I'm going to get myself one, but I have been trying to be good about my spending. I use bubbly water on a daily basis in my house in an endless list of drinks and I hate hate hate the cans and plastic bottles, plus once you open one, you have to hurry and use it or it goes flat and there goes some more waste. If I don't win one here, I think I really just need to bite the bullet and finally buy one.
Very cool! I agree...fizzy is much more thirst quenching than still.
Hey Nici,
Bubbly water is right up my alley. Would love to have one.
Zamma
fizzie water is what we call it at my house. traded plastic for cans...which stack up too; sometimes I pretend we drink coors light all day as I scoot through the house picking up cans. makes me smile. great gift for the male companion. Mom had a less snazzy one growing up...bubbley water for her.
Yummy! And how fun would it be to have that gem around when entertaining friends and family?!!
Hooray for fizzy water — the arbiter of summer!
*laugh* The penguin is cute. I also really love the chickadee cookie jar. :)
My husband is a drink-other-than-water fiend... this would be so nice for a summer's day beverage!
Oh my gosh! I would loooooove to have one of those.
And such a coincidence.... Just last night I read this article http://www2.macleans.ca/tag/magda-soda-water/ about the last door-to-door seltzerman in Canada.
Which made me really want to live in Toronto and be able to order me up some of that... Maybe I'll get a pleasant surprise and be able to stay where I am after all. ;)
Wow, we've been drooling over these for years ever since a friend had one on their wedding registry.
Sorry we missed you at the Made Fair, we were in town for the weekend and wanted to say hello. Thanks for the great blog!
Way cool!
ps..I think you and Andy might have a start in the commercial business!!
Way cool!
ps..I think you and Andy might have a start in the commercial business!!
That is cool! I'm addicted to fizzy drinks too....
we love the bubbles! thanks for researching this and telling the world about it. i feel like ive already won knowing this penguin exists. cheers!!!
This is soooo awesome. i am quite envious! I love bubbly water but rarely justify it. I hate the cost and waste of sodas so this would be amazing! So cool!!!
Morgan
Yum....I am thirsty already! What a neat gadget--and very cool for backyard entertaining in the summer months! I love it!
Yeah for sparkly water. The only thing that hampers my full enjoyment of my sparkle water is thinking about how it travels from Italy to me and even though the glass gets recycled, that's still sucks environmentally. Cheers to Eugene for recycling glass. I remember CRINGING everytime I tossed a beer bottle in Missoula.
Oh, sign me up for the contest. My man goes through that bottled water like crazy and I'd love to cut down on the plastic!
mamagay74 (at) comcast (dot) net (in case blogger doesn't give you my email address) :)
What a cool gadget! I love sparkling water too, but it gets pretty pricey.
How do these compare to a regular seltzer siphon? I have one and like it, but it only makes about two and a half large glasses of sparkling water per cartridge. (And those aren't cheap.)
Must have the penguin! I crave bubbly water like almost nothing else. And fruit essence? Yes Please!! Pick me!
Lindsay
My Man loves his bubbly with citrus and his birthday is just around the corner. This would certainly be an unexpected surprise for him.
I would love to have this!!!
Amazing! I also have that syndrome where I believe carbonated things are more refreshing than regular old water. This would be like Izze at my fingertips (without all the glass bottles!).
Oh wow! I didn't know you can make your own soda. This is so awesome.
jibssa at gmail dot com
sign me up Dig - I'd love to win that!
**OH my word is "pairtee!" - I translated as paaarty!
Who doesn't love anything sparkling or bubbly?! What a cool gadget :) xx
I love a contest! and bubbly water. Thanks for your great blog. I read it every week and get ideas for my garden, sewing, etc. You capture life with young children beautifully.
What a GREAT idea! Perfect for my mother who likes her flavored sparkling water! =)
Yay for bubbles, boo for plastic waste! Soda stream is the perfect solution!
Loving all the bubbly love...
To answer a question about how long a cartridge lasts and how much it costs:
You get to regulate the amount of fizz you'd like. Andy like more bubbles than I do (he did two pulls in the video and I like one).
We went through one cartridge in a few weeks making four bottles per day (!!!!! the novelty of it all!!!!!). So, thats 60 bottles of water. To have your cartridge refilled, it costs $15.
No more Izze at $1.75 would be sweet!!!
oooo I hope I win I hope I win. This sounds super fantastic even if I don't win, I would love to purchase one! b.
Delurking to express my envy!
We registered for something similar when we got married, but never received one. Being pregnant (and not getting cocktails) in the summer (when it's hot) makes me really love the fizzy water.
Oh, how I love sparkly water, but hate the waste. I'd be overjoyed to be able to make it at home!!
i haqve always wondered aboutthesea! cool ... can you use it one handed? because typing one handed is hard.
I would love to have a starter kit!
Love the photo os Andy with the light coming through the bottle. Bring on the fizzy!
great idea!
Erin
We love fizzy water and would love a fizzy water maker!!!
I love bubbly water and have been eyeing up one of those for a while now!! I would be so happy to be able to make my own at home.
I would love to have one of these! A wonderful idea! Thanks for sharing
I like fizzy water. I might like Andy's appreciation of fizzy water even more.
I love the soda stream! all of my friends have one.
i have never heard of such a thing, how fun! penguin or not, what an awesome product to have a chance at... enjoy that fancy schmancy penguin rig!
Sweet bubbly-water-maker. What a great idea.
Oh damn girl, I might really need this. I freakin' *swilled* bubbly water when I was pregnant and so far ten days after the fact nothing has changed (in our family we call it SPICY WATER). Hate all those bottles!
Smooches from Heather, Ben, and Oscar
What family doesn't need this awesome product? Penguin or no, we could definitely love a SodaStream!
love your blog, love chickens! and would love a soda stream of our very own. perfect for summer lemon beverages!
My daughter calls sparkling water, "mom's water" or "mom's special treat". Whenever my husband wants me to feel special, he buys me a mineral water. mmmm...I wish I had one now.
who loves bubbly? i do! i do! would LOVE to reduce my plastic (albeit recyclable round these parts) waste from sparkling water. didn't know these existed!
Would love one!!!
Yes! The perfect pairing for Minnesota Bootlegs!
ps....congrats on your new sponsor!
super awesome. love it. want it. thanks!
Hmm, this seems like a pretty cool product. Like the product demo, too cute!
oooh! Pick me, pick me! I just got married this past weekend and had 20 crazy New Yorkers in my house and oh yeah, I have a little cutie baby :)
Carbonated water is a splurge for me so this would make treating myself much more affordable and accessible!
my girls would love this. they call it "water that sparkles on your tongue."
I love "fuzzy water"! I became hooked on it when I was pregnant (good for nausea) and have been drinking it ever since. I also love that I can give it to my toddler nephew and he gets so excited and proclaims to everyone that he is drinking a SODA. Fuzzy water is one of those simple joys in life that makes me smile.
I often go to my friend Linsey's house just for her soda water...
I had no idea such a contraption existed. We too gave up on soda water due to the cost and waste. Now I have to find an excuse to buy one of these...maybe for Dustin's birthday. But damn, that's not until January. SHH, don't tell.
That looks awesome! I want a fizzy water maker! :)
Elle
(dash31 @ yahoo)
Okay, I am totally intrigued. Never heard of such a thing. Want one.
Love this idea!! I adore "fizzy" water as my 3 yr old son calls it. So of course, he always asks me--mommy, are you drinking fizzy water?
This sounds so ridiculously cool! I didn't even know something like this existed and the no-waste factor is pretty awesome. Hope I win! p.s. the magic codeword i had to type in was ungaggin which I think sounds funny.
HOLY MOLY THAT THINGS COOL!
We have a small addiction to seltzer, so thanks for sharing with us. Looks terrific!
You have no idea how much I want one of these things! I gave up fizzy water over a year ago because I couldn't rationalize the waste. I've been eyeing one of the rigs ever since.
Think of all the "fuzzy grape juice" and bubble water my boys could drink... this is too good to pass up.
Oh my family would love this! I love reading your blog! Thanks!
I've never seen such a thing! I love it!!! Bottoms up to anything bubbly. :)
What a GREAT idea! This would be a major helper in our house since I am pregnant and thrive off of "Mommy Cocktails" (Talking rain and a splash of pomegranate juice). While the bottles worked well as little greenhouses for our tomato and pepper seedlings, our cup runneth over. I am definitely going to Google this!
OH MY GOSH!!! Definitely amazing:)
Love your blog! Made the rhubarb pie for Fourth of July Clam steam and it was a hit!! even with the grandmother-in-law. Thank you for the inspiration to make anything and everything. Margot's quilted room is calling my craft bug next. Any tips or pointers for a beginner quilter?? Thanks so much for the recipes and fun reading.
Hi Nici- these are so great! My husband loves to drink bubbly water, and I never buy it for him due to cost and waste. We were at my sister-in-law's in Chicago a few weeks ago, and they had one... the coolest thing ever! If I don't win I will definitely be purchasing one for our house. Hope you are having a great summer! XOXO Erin
Didn't mean to say I was anonymous!
I had to laugh at your daughter's fantasy breakfast companions because my daughter would have chosen the same and we all would totally dig the seltzer penguin.
that's some darn good soda...
I love your bird-themed countertop!! And I love your blog--keep up the good work.
I love your blog and would love to win your giveaway!! Such a cute video of Andy demonstrating...so cool that you could see all the bubbles coming from the glass and tickling Andy's nose!!
Had no idea these existed--so awesome!!
Cooper and I were at the checkout at the grocery store the other day and he had disappeared around the end reappeared"mama look your bubbly water!" We heart bubbly
and would put a bubbly machine to good use.
Sodastream should totally use your video of Andy as advertising on their website. The smile at the end completely sold me!
ooohhh! That would look great on my counter! Would love to have one of these!
i thought that you blurred out andy's face in the video at first. that would have been awesome.
pretty pretty pretty please!(Fingers crossed)
What an awesome invention. This soda addict must have one, whether I win it here or not. :-)
Pick me! PICK ME!!
LOVE LOVE LOVE your blog!! Thanks for sharing all of your beautiful pics!
Dude, I am so bummed that I missed the deadline.
We love fizzy water and are not pop drinkers either. We have a vintage soda-maker that we use, but this looks so top shelf! I would love one.
Congrats, you lucky dog!
Hey girlie - didja get my email about this post? Holler if not, I will resend! xo Heather
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