Ninja Thirsti Drink System, Soda Maker, Create Unique Sparkling & Still Drinks, Personalize Size & Flavor, Carbonated Water Machine, 60L CO2 Cylinder & Variety of Flavored Water Drops, Black WC1001

I've been totally happy with my purchase. I've had it a few months, and the low CO2 warning just recently came on. It's in regular use by 3 people. My 12-year old probably uses it the most. It was a big hit while entertaining over the holidays! I ordered replacement canisters through Ninja on January 14th, just a couple of days after the warning light came on. They arrived the 19th. It's now the 30th, and I still haven't needed to put in a new canister. The lowest carbonation setting is just fine for me. My sample flavor pack had two vitamin flavors, one energy (caffeinated), and one hydrate with electrolytes. All are sweetened with sucralose, which I dislike. I wish it had included at least one unsweetened option. I don't think I'll be purchasing the Thirsti brand flavor cartridges. They're convenient, but I don't think they're worth the cost. The great thing about the home machine is you can truly customize. Maybe you want to get away from sugary drinks, but you're not on the soda water bandwagon. You can mix your carbonated water into fruit juice or soda to start acclimating to less sugar. It's also simple to purchase any brand of flavor drops to mix into your drink, and if you want sweetener you can use any kind and amount you like! I don't even bother with the flavoring most of the time. Just the carbonation is good enough for me! We were constantly buying bottles and cans of soda water for our household. It was taking up a lot space! I love having this machine instead. I've even reused disposable empties to take my "fizzy water" on the go. It's easy to position even a narrow bottle opening under the dispensing spout. Using cold water is recommended. The reservoir comes with a cold water indicator, which I eventually removed. It didn't seem like it was turning as blue after a couple months of use. I deemed it unnecessary anyway, and possibly a place for bacteria to grow. You can store the water reservoir in the fridge, but I don't because my refrigerator already has a water pitcher spot. Using ice works great, too.

It is super easy to use, and the drinks it produces are absolutely delicious.... With a very few exceptions. Everything I have made with this is very good, but I really don't have a liking for the 'splash' series. These are very lightly flavored. Some people may like the very light hint of fruit, but not my cup of tea. The rest of the flavors are excellent! The hydration series is delicious and provides electrolytes, the energy tastes great and provides caffeine, and the vitamins series are also delicious and provide variations of vitamin B. The machine is very easy, even for children, to use and select the options they want. I have also experimented with blending the flavors quite a bit and everything is yummy for the most part. I have also made plain carbonated water with this, and added a squeeze flavor from the grocery store and they taste great as well. I have also seen people use other vendor syrups with this machine, and have great results, but the Ninja instructions don't recommend this. Overall, this thing is easy to use, takes little counter space, and can produce sports drinks, energy drinks, mixers, sodas, and fruit drinks for home or on the go. It isn't terribly expensive, and is pretty fun to experiment with. I like it better than the Soda Stream, and other soda making clones out there, and I would recommend it to anyone without hesitation.

This is an awesome soda machine, I've never had another one, so can't compare, but it works really well and is well-designed. We were really glad we got it and felt like we should have done it sooner, way better than getting the cans.

It works well. Its compact. Easy to install. Easy to clean. I like the various flavors available. There are some gripes I have with it. I feel like the carbonation runs out too early and it doesn't always seem to work like it's supposed to. For instance, i liked the idea of being able to make different levels of carbonation. I was hoping level 1 would be a perrier, level 2 would be like la croix, and level 3 would be an aha / seltzer that delightfully burns my throat as it descends. But sadly it seems like they're all equal levels of aha-level bubbly. To be fair, I bought this solely because I got tired of having tons of cans to recycle often (and reducing the BPA exposure from their linings). I wanted something easy to use with any cup/ container. These expectations have been met. Initially I thought I might save some money long-term too, but I don't believe I have. Overall, it's easy to use, is compact, and minimal effort. I like it. ---------- But for those who are considering this solely to save money... I could never find a good break down of this, so maths time. I love me some sparkling water. I went through about 24x 12oz cans / week of sparkling water (~42 oz/ day or 294 oz/wk) before getting the thirsti. An 8pk is like 4 bucks, so thats $12 / wk for cans. How does this stack against the thirsti costs? First, lets talk about the CO2. A canister costs about $30 at target. It says that it can carbonate up to 60L(~2000 oz), so this should have lasted me ~10 weeks or $3/wk. However, it ran out after 3 weeks of only using carbonation level 2. Since changing the canister, I have been using carbonation level 1, so we'll see if that makes it last longer though I am doubtful as I can't tell a difference. From my experience thus far, the canister alone will continue to cost almost as much per week ($10) as the cans... For argument, let's say that it lasts 6 weeks on carbonation level 1. That's still $5/wk for CO2 alone. Then the flavorings. The flavor drops are about $20/3 or ~$6 for one. One drop bottle will give about 17x 12 oz drinks at most. Mind you, this is if you have a 12 oz cup and only use the lowest intensity of one flavor. You can quadruple the potency. Usually i just mix one serving each of two different flavors into a 12 or 18 oz drink. Using this math, if I'm fully replacing cans with this device, I'm going through about 2 flavor drop bottles per week, conservatively.... which translates to $12/week. Then there's the cost of the device itself. Given that it comes with 8 flavor pods (~$50 value) and a CO2 cannister (~$30), the true one-time cost is about $70. My total recurring costs per week for cans? $12 / wk. Total per week for the thirsti? $11 / wk for an optimistic estimate, $22 / wk for a practical estimate. A middle-road estimate shows that oz per oz, a seltzer by thirsti is more expensive than a seltzer from aha, la croix, waterloo, etc. ---- There are ways to save money which I would recommend exploring. - Flavoring. $6 for a 2.2 Fl Oz ($2.7/oz) bottle of flavor is not great. Stur and Mio have similar flavors, and they are 2.2/oz and 1.8/oz respectively. Generic flavorings can be even cheaper, about $1.5/oz. If I did this, I could reduce my weekly costs from $12 to $6. - CO2. Ninja has a CO2 refill club which allows you to mail in your spent canisters and receive new ones for 30% off. This would drop my weekly cost from $5-10 to $3-7. I could also buy generic compatible CO2 canisters for half the price, though I don't recommend it. You don't want to mess w pressurized gas. If something happens / explodes and you are using a generic CO2 canister, the fault is more likely to be placed on you instead of the manufacturer. Hopefully this helps. Here is a standardized cost estimate from my data above for anyone weighing pricing. Cans: 0.04/oz Thirsti max cost: 0.075/oz Thirsti min cost: 0.057/oz Thirsti w generic flavor: 0.045/oz Thirsti w co2 club: 0.045/oz Thirsti w both changes: 0.038/oz Not really worth the effort for cost savings alone imo

Me encanta tomar soda y con este sistema me es muy fácil y más saludable.

My partner and I were avid Bubbly drinkers until we purchased this unit. We would go through a case almost every 3 days. It became too much - storing cases of Bubbly’s, the recycle bin overflowing with cans, I had just had enough of the waste and the space that our habit was taking up. I had considered a Soda Stream but after reading mixed reviews and watching the clunkiness of it operating I decided it wasn’t for me. Then I stumbled upon Ninja’s take and I was blown away. The Thirsti arrived last week and it is a total game changer. Being able to store two different flavor pods is amazing. It’s also really fun to try mixing flavors as well! Sure, the cost of replacement CO2 is a little pricey, and the flavor pods are also a little pricey but if my calculations are correct this unit should pay for itself in about half a year. I definitely recommend this product to anyone who loves fizzy drinks as much as us!

Ça va super bien Super simple Super facile Très agréable Je suis accroc Le seul IC c'est que les saveurs ne sont pas tous trouvables et disponibles !

Sorprendido con el resultado de burbujas, desde pocas burbujas para servir de inmediato está perfecto, cuenta con 3 niveles de burbujas Me llegó con 2 muestras de sabores son buenos y no contienen azúcar Y para que su funcionamiento sea bueno hay que usar agua muy fría Esto reducirá el gasto de agua mineral en casa

I absolutely love this product, it is easy to use and it has helped me increase my water intake. The only problem I have with it is the counter space required for the machine is a bit much for what I have, but that is my problem not the company's problem.