Why is SodaStream SO Popular?

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As sparkling water brands like Bubly and LaCroix pop up left and right, SodaStream claims they can save the planet (and your wallet) by allowing you to make your own bubbly water right at home. It almost sounds too good to be true, so is it??

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Script: Caroline Eaton Pickard
Editor: Kim Su
Project Manager: Lurana McClure Rodríguez
Host: Levi Hildebrand

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Hey everyone! Pinning this comment for visibility, but at 4:43 we DEFINITELY mean carbon dioxide, please don't put carbon monoxide in your water 😜 Thanks to everybody who caught that + thanks for joining us here !!

FutureProofTV
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Levi says sodastream puts carbon monoxide into the water, but it is in fact carbon dioxide. There is a pretty huge difference since carbon monoxide is poisonous.

stuartwgermain
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Hey, I feel you missed a couple (European) points.

Here in Germany / Europe, for many people fizzy water is a household staple. We drink it all the time as is or mix it with juices and more. 

Really a lot of people, go and buy like five to ten crates of water once a month (or one to two crates a week) at their local beverage or supermarket. That means lots of heavy bottles, which is just massively inconvenient and also environmentally unfriendly for all that shipping around of heavy water.

A soda stream solves that issue. If you calculate it over it's lifetime it's a bit more expensive than the really cheap supermarket water, but most people don't even care about price - the convenience of not having to lug around all that water, having empty bottles all the time and just generally having sparkling water whenever you like is just amazing. The CO2 bottles can be exchanged at every supermarket, so you just buy two in the beginning and then you always have a full one in reserve. 

It really replaces sugary sodas for me and a lot of people I know - which is also just so much more healthy but in a very low-effort way. So many people I know just have Sodastream bottles everywhere in the flat/house/office and everyone just has "theirs" which they carry around and drink from.

I generally really like your videos, but this one seemed a bit too centric on the Pepsi and canned water jokes. Which are funny, just maybe shouldn't be the main talking point here. I believe strongly from experience that sodastreams can be a great piece of kit for convenience, health and probably also the planet. Would have loved to hear these perspectives in a more nuanced way. That the company is shilling out is nothing new, but I feel the product is still great, and I feel that's the most important.

Kindest and fizzy regards from Germany

janik
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Here in Europe I grew up with a Soda Stream in the 90s and obviously I bought one for myself after moving out. For me the biggest advantage is not having to carry crates of water from the shops home. The ecologic and economic savings are just an added benefit.

GameOverX
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I used to buy bottled sparkling water before buying a sodasteam and now I no longer have to waste plastic bottles every week. The gas canister refill + return is great and makes this essentially waste free!

mavisowens
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Here in Argentina we have “soderías”, they are basically little factories near neighborhoods that bottle carbonated water in reusable soda siphons and also deliver them door to door by demand. So, they arrive to your place and deliver you your usual amount of soda siphons (full) and then you give them back your empty ones. We’ve been doing this for generations now. Though it’s pretty common to us, the idea might sound weird to foreigners 😂 feel free to look it up if you like.
Love the channel!! 🙌 keep up the good work 💪

celeesteee
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Another interesting perspective on how SodaStreams can help us be more environmentally friendly is for those of us who lives in areas where we can drink our tap water. Having a SodaStream cuts back the amount of liquid (which is pretty heavy) being transported, since we already have the water available in our houses.

While PepsiCo is undoubtedly a problem, their purchase made their sodas available as taste additives for carbonated water, which is really nice for those of us that likes their sodas.

Kahera
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My family has a SodaStream as in the UK they did a thing with the relaunch where you could trade in an old machine for a new one (we dug my gran’s out of the back of her cupboard). We use it all the time, but it didn’t really replace us buying fizzy water, more just gave us the option to have fizzy water whenever we wanted it. And yes we call it fizzy water.

okaykatieokay
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Bought my first soda stream 15 years ago. Back then I was weird. Now I’m a hipster. Funny how that works

christinebraun
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This „trend“ is kind of hilarious to me honestly ^^ my parents own a soda stream since at least 20 years (we live in Germany) and use it every day for all the water we drink 👍🏻

krischezockt
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The plastic bottles from Sodastream ironically also have a best-before date printed on and usually have to be replaced after 3 to 4 years. At least here in Germany. This is due to the pressure exerted on the bottles when the water is “bubbled”. According to Sodastream, the bottles should not exceed their useful life. There is no such problem with the glass bottles.

By the way, here in Germany, water with spring carbonation from areas of the Volcanic Eifel or other volcanic areas is absolutely natural. There are actually fountains along hiking trails here where you can fill your own bottles and drink bubbly water directly.

ThiemPlay
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I think the initial values of the company--eliminating plastic bottles and cans--still hold true. It's unfortunate that the money is going to PepsiCo, but PepsiCo's practices would remain the same with or without the Soda stream. The intensions of the product and the benefits still remain, regardless of the owner.

simones.
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In France, you don't have to send your empty canister back. You can just go to your basic supermarket and if they sell full canister they will take your empty one and deduce the price of the canister from your purchase.

Also wanted to point out an advantage of those machines is that you can control how bubbly you want your water to be. Like I'd put less for drinking it straight out of the bottle than for making mojitos for example

morysh
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We got our soda stream to cut out our soda consumption. My wife is diabetic, and was addicted to diet soda. With how bad aspartame is for you, that is also no good. The soda stream has worked wonderfully for us. We make our own flavors, so we can avoid the junk, and it has saved us money. So for us, it works. We got the one with the glass bottles, so we avoid plastics as well.

nathanielschaede
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This video is absolutely perfect timing. I just did the rough math with my coworkers who drink up to 4 cans of seltzer a day. The cost per 12oz of a can is about 42 cents where as 12oz of a soda stream using bubly flavoring will run you 31 cents. At that rate they would save about $120 a year. I had not thought about using a large CO2 with an adaptor. Levi and the team, please look into "recyclable plastic bags" I just talked about them briefly in my last video and I think it's important that more people know about them and how ridiculous they are

kylethecreator
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Yes them selling out to PepsiCO does devalue what they claimed their goals & priorities were. If I want to make my own spicy water I’ll buy a different brand for this reason alone — even if it’s more expensive. The hypocrisy rubs the wrong way. Imagine if some vegetarian/vegan brand of food that is owned by self-proclaimed “activists” sold their business to Cargill or Tyson.

maenad
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I'm a home brewer, and strongly agree with the point of using a big CO2 cartridge. I keep one of my kegerator taps dedicated for sparkling water. If anyone is looking for an alternate SodaStream option, you could get by with a corny keg, a regulator, CO2 tank, and a picnic tap. The total cost wouldn't be much more than a SodaStream, but you can get the refillable CO2 tank and corny keg used at most homebrew shops. Be careful though, you might accidentally acquire a fermenter...

dylanlauber
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Especially in Germany and other European countries people tend to drink more sparkling water than tap / table water. It saves SO MUCH plasic from the bottles and also so much heavy carrying from the grocery store!

destructyv
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My soda stream canister lasted ~6 months and I really carbonate my water. I was drinking 1-2 seltzers per day so definitely a money saver. I'd also like to think it's better for the environment especially since they refill the canisters.

mklinger
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Man, you are gonna get comments about the instant pot. Not a fad. As a disabled person, it changed my cooking game 100% and it also helped us cut down on eating out. Plus, one pot clean up means less dishes and water. But this video isn’t about the IP.

We recently bought a manual (no electricity required) soda stream starter kit (with a 50% off coupon) for $50 because we found out a member of our household has a high intolerance to HFCS. This was a much cheaper option that buying store bought “fancy” sodas made with sugar like Jones. So the fact that it saves money and cuts down on single use plastic or aluminum is a big plus, the “health benefits” are the main reason we finally took the plunge and bought ours; so no, I don’t care that it was bought out by Pepsi. It seems like everything I look at ends up being owned by big corps like P&G or Pepsi or Amazon; and sadly while buying “local” or from small businesses is nice and ideal, it’s not accessible for a lot of us and the goal of most businesses is to one day no longer be small, right?

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