Frequently Asked Questions

A soda maker does not need electricity to operate, so you can make fresh sparkling water anytime, anywhere. Just press the button and enjoy your drink.

Very simply – with manual soda makers you determine the degree of saturation by the number and length of button presses (1x for lightly sparkling, 2x for medium and 3x for strong sparkling. Always each press for 2-3 seconds). You can test the optimum degree of saturation yourself after the first few uses.

A saturated drink lasts approximately 2-3 days in the bottle. The advantage of soda makers is that you can prepare freshly saturated water at any time.

You cannot put any part of the soda maker, bottle or CO2 cylinder in the dishwasher. The exception is our new all stainless steel carbonated water bottle ADD117SST, which you can also buy separately

You cannot saturate sweetened, mixed or hot drinks with the soda maker.

By using our bottles repeatedly and regularly, you can save up to almost a thousand disposable plastic bottles of carbonated water per year. And they’re also cheaper than new bottles.

You can recognize a genuine filled and tested Philips CO2 cylinder by two features that are valid at the same time: 1. The packaging always contains the Philips logo. 2. The top part around the valve is wrapped with an undamaged blue seal with the expiry date.

Each cylinder has the empty weight stamped on its body (marked TARE/KG). If you weigh a new CO2 cylinder and subtract the weight of the empty CO2 cylinder, the difference is the weight of the gas cartridge. For a full CO2 cylinder it is at least 425 g.

With one CO2 cylinder you can saturate up to 60 litres of water. However, the number of litres depends on the degree of saturation you use.

Yes, our CO2 cylinder can be used with soda makers from companies such as Sodastream. However, Philips only guarantees the quality of the original filled Philips CO2 cylinder, which is the only one tested and recommended by us for use in our soda makers.