I remember my gran had a SodaStream when I was a kid. You had to hold the button down on the top for as long as you needed to get the desired level of bubbles. And just like cellphones get lighter and faster, technology has caught up with SodaStream. Or is it the other way around?

Now I don’t know about you, but I have a slight soda water addiciton and I realised things were coming to a head when it was the ONLY water type I was consuming and someone alerted me to the radical (unnatural) levels of sodium I was consuming as a result. SodaStream doesn’t pose that risk, so I headed off to YuppieChef.co.za see how far Soda Stream had come.

Behold, the modern day SodaStream..

How stunning?

And you don’t have to remember how long to push any buttons down. You just look at the LED screen and press which level of fizz you want. The machine goes to work on that bottle like a hungry Herschel matriculant.

CLICK HERE to check it out at Yuppiechef.

Click here for shots of the old SodaStream.