A review of the Caffiene Free Soda Stream Flavor

The only syrup I have bought that actually is a Soda Stream flavor is the caffiene free one. Once I actually got the machine to carbonate the way it is suppose to I have been consistently drinking fruit flavored soda water.

But I am still in the search of the perfect recipe to replace the taste of diet coke or diet soda.

 I don't like the taste of the caffiene free soda stream syrup, because they use splenda. I despise the taste of splenda which seems to be used in many generic brands of diet soda, etc Western Family and Shasta.

Anyhow, tonight, I added just a few drops of the green apple Torani syrup I have used to make a straight green apple soda, and voila, I got a soda similar to diet coke but without the Splenda spoiling taste.

I was browsing at Walmart, and the Soda Stream flavors must be selling really well. It was 8 in the evening and most of the flavors were completely out.

They have some naturally flavored one, one that claims to taste similar to Coke Zero. I have never tasted that flavor so I wonder if it is worth buying to test out. Any opinions on this in the comments section would be greatly appreciated.

In the meantime, I have some recipes to try for the real coke flavor, but it seems like the list of ingredients aren't all in my cupboard but I am slowly acquiring them one by one.

The biggest lesson I have learned about my SodaStream Machine in the week since I bought.

Well to begin with it helps to read the directions. :o(

But even the directions IMO weren't very explicit. To begin with they don't even tell you how much syrup to add, it is on the syrup bottles. I guess that is to make sure you buy their syrup and not make your own.

I had no problem with that except I do not like the taste of Splenda and all there diet flavors are sweetened with it.

The biggest lesson I learned, and it was by reading ideas for recipes from other blogs, was that I wasn't pushing hard enough on the button. You have to push it REALLY HARD. Besides seeing the bubbles you will here a LOUD hissing sound, louder than the initial one you see and hear when you start to see the bubbles.

Because of that, my first SEVERAL attempts at making a soda for myself were very disappointing to me indeed. I will make a video for youtube showing this, but as I type this I am rushing out the door to one of the kids school fall conferences so it will have to wait until I have more time.

I also have several recipes and links to other blogs saved to my pocket file on my phone which I will be adding to this blog as the weather gets worse and I am home more.