Smeg Soda Maker SKC01 Review: Beauty and Bubbles

Installation and usage is simple. Just screw the modular 400/426-gram CO₂ cylinder into the spread successful the basal and you’re acceptable to fizz. In the UK, Smeg has partnered with a marque called CO2 You that offers cylinder refill, return, and subscription services, with prices from £25. Buy nonstop from Smeg and you volition person a escaped cylinder, but don’t expect the aforesaid from third-party retailers.

Most soda makers person handles oregon buttons, but the Smeg has a stylish metallic dial that keeps the plan lines uncluttered. The knurled metallic ringing is simply a pleasance to use, and the basal is unchangeable capable for one-handed operation, though getting the existent level of fizz into your h2o does instrumentality practice.

Busy With the Fizzy

The supplied instructions are a small excessively basic, suggesting that turning the dial once, twice, oregon 3 times volition boost your bubble level. What it doesn’t say, however, is however agelong you crook the dial for. Again, I asked Smeg, and they told maine that carbonation levels are subjective, arsenic a rule. But arsenic a rule, if you spritz for 2 seconds, you’ll get airy bubbles—leggermente frizzante, if you’re feeling Italian—four seconds for a mean fizz, and clasp for six for the afloat nine soda effect. You tin besides clasp the dial to the close until it squeaks, which indicates there’s arsenic overmuch CO₂ successful determination arsenic possible.

Obviously, the magnitude of carbonation volition interaction the fig of cylinders you volition get through. I similar my h2o fizzy, and portion rated for 13 gallons (60 liters), CO2 You estimates that I’m much apt to get 10 to 11 gallons (45 to 50 liters). It’s inactive a full batch amended than the equivalent fig of integrative bottles you’d get through.

So it’s elemental to use, effortlessly stylish, and fizzes h2o similar a charm. And surprisingly, fixed Smeg’s way record, it’s not brainsick expensive. Still, conscionable beryllium alert that you tin presently prime up a perfectly effective, but painfully boring, SodaStream Art with three CO₂ cylinders for conscionable $110.