Gotham Gadgets: Genesis by Soda Stream makes it FUN to make your own Seltzer says Peachy Deegan

The Genesis soda maker, the second soda maker Whom You Know has featured by Soda Stream, is based on a modern slim-line design which looks beautiful in any kitchen, and is a great choice for small kitchens like many of us have in Manhattan. Among the Genesis features are: automatic access gas release mechanism, an attractive and unique color variety, a clever design ensuring minimum space taken on work top, customized carbonation level, and and easy to clean drip tray.  This is another winner from Soda Stream, and the first model we featured here.  They are right: they have made a smarter way to enjoy soda, and we prefer their seltzer because we are from the school of French Women Don't Get Fat.  In fact Peachy Deegan just made a bottle of the Berry Sparkling Water!  We just love it.

We especially like how we can make seltzer so inexpensively: Fresh, Fizzy Sparkling Water for 25 cents per liter!  Call it sparkling water, soda water, club soda or seltzer... But no matter what you call it, you'll save on lugging, storing and disposing of cases of sparkling water.   Plus, with SodaStream, you control the fizz. Enjoy lightly carbonated water…or seltzer so fizzy it will tickle your nose. However you like your sparkling water, you can make it precisely to taste at just the touch of a button!  We like to add a few drops of SodaStream's all-natural, unsweetened MyWater flavor essences to give it a kick.  This device is so simple to use, requires no electricity, and you will wonder what you did before you had it once you've got it!

We love how this is environmentally friendly!
SodaStream is an "Active Green" product, meaning that consumers are actively reducing their CO2 footprint every time they make soda or sparkling water at home instead of buying it from the store. The more the system is used on a daily basis, the more CO2 footprint the user actively saves. (This differs from "Passive Green" products, which use green-friendly production processes, but their products are not inherently helping the consumers save on their daily footprint.)

Because SodaStream uses water straight from the tap, the system makes traditional store-bought beverage bottles obsolete. That means less plastic manufactured, less plastic waste is created, and fewer bottled beverages must be transported from manufacturers to distrobutors to stores to homes.

Globally, 206 billion liters of bottled water were consumed in 2008 (Zenith International Global Bottled Water Report, 2008). The energy required to make water bottles in the US only, is equivalent to 17 million barrels of oil (Container Recycling Institute, 2002).


According to the US Recycling Institute, more than 80% of bottles in the US do not get recycled and end up in landfills. Also, an estimated 4.7 million tons of greenhouse gas emissions were produced in the process of replacing the 134 billion bottles and cans not recycled in 2005.

Using your own home carbonation system means:
Less packaging waste from cans and bottles.
Less pollution caused by transport of bottled beverages.
One SodaStream carbonator makes 60 or 110 liters, equivalent to 170 or 310 aluminum cans! When empty, the carbonator is refilled and reused, ready to make more fizzy and tasty soda whenever you want it.  We enthusiastically recommend this product!