Drinkmate OmniFizz Sparkling Water and Soda Maker, Carbonates Any Drink, CO2 Cylinder Not Included (Royal Red)

This thing is dead simple and works great. It requires no power source and has a pretty small footprint. I have never been much of a seltzer drinker, but now I pretty much exclusively drink highly carbonated, unflavored water. Funny thing is, I bought this for my significant other. She is a seltzer addict, and likes this just fine. She enjoys the serious concentration of bubbles you get with this. I did not expect to get in on the action, but here I am. I really have no issues with this, after a year. It makes really fizzy water, and the water stays fizzy for hours in the bottle with the cap closed. It takes seconds to make. Two two-second pushes of the button and you are good. Do yourself a favor, and buy a CO2 tank (like this - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00IE1DJ2I) and get it refilled at a place that does home brewing, or a commercial beverage supplier. Look around online and see what's in your area, before buying a tank, of course, but if there is anything around, do it. You will save a lot of money versus doing the exchange on the little cartridge that comes with it. If you decided to go this route, the only other thing you need is an adapter (like this - https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0CP96GL76) to go between the cartridge and tank. Look for videos on YouTube. It might seem scary, but it's really no big deal, in my experience. The tank has already paid for itself, no question. I fill it for $20. Drinkmate will only let you send back at least two empty cartridges. This comes with one, which would mean you have to buy a second to send back and get a $20 "coupon" to use on buying more cartridges, which start at $60 for two (before "coupon") plus shipping and tax. It's not hard to figure out that buying your own tank is the way to go, if you can swing it. You should probably also buy more beverage bottles, unless you live alone or only one person will use it. Keep in mind they expire, so don't buy them just to buy. The expiration maybe seems dumb, but I do suppose that constant pressurizing takes a toll on the plastic.

I’ve wanted a soda maker since they first popped up in the market. I had seriously considered purchasing this one about 2 years ago since it’s the only one that can carbonate everything, but never did because it just seemed like a product that was “too good to be true.” I am very sorry that I didn’t purchase this 2 years ago....it is AMAZING. No idea whatsoever why this isn’t the very first machine that pops up in stores and ads when you search for a soda maker. This thing is HIGHLY UNDERRATED!! Easy to use, less waste and cheaper than buying a carbonated beverage every day, TASTES JUST LIKE A STORE BOUGHT SODA. The carbonation and fizz is every bit as satisfying as you’d hope it to be. Hubby and I love soda and this is just so exciting to us that we never have to buy another one again. On top of it all, plain water doesn’t get that weird seltzer aftertaste the store bought stuff has, but still has all the carbonation. I’ve been wanting to make cocktails and homemade sangria and carbonating that stuff is going to make life a loottt more enjoyable. All that being said, we just make some carbonated plain lemon water and also Diet Coke using the soda stream flavor syrups and always keep a couple stocked in the fridge in the drinkmate plastic bottles. This thing is so satisfying and I cannot stress enough how this thing should be in every home.

Had it for weeks, use it 3+times per day mainly carbonating water then adding a squirt of liquid drink mix from the drink mix isle. Lemonade, fruit punch, grape, orange and mixed berry are my favorites. I also occasionally use the typical soda syrups, and I know that if I use drink mix powders instead, to add powder very slowly to carbonated water or else it'll bubble over quickly. I managed to buy 10 full carbonation canisters for $4.05 each at a store that sells overstocks. What can I say, I'm a bargain hunter. Very simple learning curve to using the DrinkMaster. Drinking carbonated water is better for you so say some doctors on the internet. I'm not going back to the high sugar sodas at fast food places. My bottles of choice is reusing 1 litre sports drink bottles and I discovered that if I carbonate a liter of water before bed, it's still carbonated sufficiently in the morning to add my squirt of liquid drink mix and go. I recommend this product over the competition for its extra utility value of being able to carbonate other drinks than just water.

Bought this to replace my 10 y/o Sodastream. I use my own 5 lb rechargeable bottles w/ adapter kit I bought somewhere here on Amazon. Sodastream changed their bottles to stay exclusive. This drinkmate Omni Fizz still takes standard threaded bottles (that my adapter mimics). With the removable charging head, there is an extra step to making the bubbles, but also makes it easy to clean the charging head. On side note, other brands didn't have a removable back cover. If you are using an adapter kit, you need this access to put on your adapter.

I am a soda person. While everyone else is making coffee at work, I'm at the soda machine. When everyone else is drinking sweet tea, I'm ordering coke. I love the tingling bubbles and the sharp, acidic taste that it adds to everything. I suspect my blood is fizzy! But I'm constantly told that drinking sodas isn't healthy for me and people ask me to drink juice instead, with the idea that maybe by drinking something natural, I could still get that sugary flavor that I crave, but not drink so much high fructose corn syrup. But I don't like plain juice! That's where the Drink-Mate comes in! Now, with the push of a button, I can have carbonated, fizzy orange juice (no pulp!) if I want to, or carbonated cranberry juice. Carbonated milk? Haven't tried that yet, but seems doable. Carbonated apple juice! Awesome. Here's another thing that the Drink Mate is awesome at doing and will save you money too - everyone knows that two liter (and THREE liter) drinks are WAY less expensive than any other method of buying a soda. But they go flat before most people can finish them, and they take up too much space in the fridge. The Drink Mate can RE-CARBONATE your flat soda. Take one sip of a flat soda, and pour the rest into the Drink Mate bottle and re-carbonate it and you are off to the races! I truly didn't expect it to be as easy as it is to carbonate a beverage, but you just put the bottle on the stand, press the button on top a few times, bleed off the excess pressure and voila, you have a carbonate beverage. ONE THING TO BE CAREFUL OF, I accidentally ordered the package with NO SAMPLE CARBONATION CYLINDERS for Christmas. Fortunately, I'm the kind of person who over thinks everything and I had ordered a pair of refill cylinders so our disaster was averted. But what happened was that I had put the version with the little 3 oz (or whatever) sample cartridge in my cart, then later saw what looked like the same exact thing at a lower price, so I thought, "Hey, that one is cheaper!" I didn't notice that it was cheaper because it didn't have the sample cartridge in the pack. So watch out for that! Anyway, I recommend this to all my friends - it is loads of fun and it is also a great way to get the kids to drink healthy drinks like juice instead of kool-aid type drinks and sodas.

This product failed for me due to my use case. If I were to occasionally need to make a carbonated beverage once a week, perhaps with its construction, it might last long enough to deliver as advertised. In that case it would get one more star on my review but not over come how cheaply made this product is for the price. For transparency, I drink a lot of soda - three to four liters a day. When I saw that my favorite soda drink maker had syrup for these systems, instance soda makers like DrinkMate and its competitor, I was hooked on the cost saving potential and the reduction of plastic recycling bottles. I first bought the competing brand and to save even more money and the adapters to hook it up to a 5lb CO2 cylinder obtained from my local brew store. The competitor brand lasted 3 weeks before the main seal failed at the quick release fitting. DrinkMate supported a screw fitting I thought would be much better. It worked once, yes just one time before I was unable to trigger the gas release pin through the button push. I do find blame for the cheap plastic in all these systems for a purchase north of $100. It costs I am sure 10% that to manufacture. For serious soda drinkers, pony up all the additional costs and get a Kegarator with a CO2 cylinder and corney kegs that you can get through your local home brew shops. They carbonate water naturally under 30 lbs pressure over a few days and is a lot less fussy. I spent $500 dollars between, both this brand, its competitor, and the adapters for a process that was flawed to begin with.

I recently purchased this Drinkmate OmniFizz to replace a Sodastream that only lasted about 9 months before the seals inside blew out which is pretty common with them from what I read. This machine works great.

I did a lot of research before going with the drinkmate. A few things that made me pick it over other brands and models- -No need to be plugged in so it can go anywhere on the counter -Small footprint which is great when counterspace is already limited -you can carbonate things other than water, recarbonate flat drinks, or make fancy cocktails/cocktails with it so the carbonation is distributed throughout the entire drink as opposed to just the water -distribition of carbonation is high and even -ease of use and maintenance, you just click it on and press a button a couple of times It really has delivered on all key points, we bought extra bottles and keep them in the fridge and ready, I hand wash as needed and so far it's been great we have carbonated things other than water and it has performed extremely well and cleaning and maintaining it is super easy. We have had no issues clicking on and off the carbonation head which I saw can be difficult with some other brands. Over all I would go with the drinkmate again and again.