The look I get from my friends when I order a soda is like I’ve just told them I’m joining a cult, but when they are done right, sodas can be just as elegant and full of flavour as any fancy cocktail, minus the hangover the next day.

The SodaStream Crystal is the epitome of sophistication and can help you convert your friends with great tasting sparkling water served with style! This kit comes with the SodaStream Crystal Black Sparkling Water Maker, a 60-litre gas cylinder and the Elegant Glass Carafe for carbonating your drink. You won’t be short on ideas, with a wide variety of drinks available from the web shop, including traditional and diet flavours - these are also stocked in high-street stores, with more information available on the website.

The SodaStream Crystal is the only sparkling water maker in the current range that allows you to use a glass bottle, giving you an untainted taste and ensuring that less plastic waste goes to landfill, unlike when you buy regular soda in bottles. Hydration is an important part of a healthy lifestyle, but plain water can become boring, so it’s great to be able to experiment with different flavours to encourage yourself to keep drinking throughout the day.

The Crystal is straightforward to use: You simply unlock the lever and the top automatically lifts up and the bottle pops out; fill the bottle up with cold water, place the bottle back into the SodaStream, close and lock the lever again. From here, you get to choose the required level of fizz by pressing the button - three presses will give you ‘standard fizz’, with additional presses making it fizzier. Once you have made your soda water, you can then choose to add your flavour or simply keep it as it is.

The SodaStream Crystal Black is super-quick and looks great. It doesn’t win points for discretion, as it does make a bit of a din, but we still love this eco-friendly soda maker. Get your creativity on and prove to your friends soda is for classy grownups too! RRP £149.99

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4.6 out of 5

Pros

Easy to use

Fast

Eco friendly

Versatile flavour combinations

Attractive glass bottle (bye bye plastic)

Cons

Loud

Large