Ninja Thirsti Drink System, Soda Maker, Create Unique Sparkling & Still Drinks, Personalize Size & Flavor, Carbonated Water Machine, 60L CO2 Cylinder & Variety of Flavored Water Drops, Gray WC999AMZ

I've been totally happy with my purchase. I've had it a few months, and the low CO2 warning just recently came on. It's in regular use by 3 people. My 12-year old probably uses it the most. It was a big hit while entertaining over the holidays! I ordered replacement canisters through Ninja on January 14th, just a couple of days after the warning light came on. They arrived the 19th. It's now the 30th, and I still haven't needed to put in a new canister. The lowest carbonation setting is just fine for me. My sample flavor pack had two vitamin flavors, one energy (caffeinated), and one hydrate with electrolytes. All are sweetened with sucralose, which I dislike. I wish it had included at least one unsweetened option. I don't think I'll be purchasing the Thirsti brand flavor cartridges. They're convenient, but I don't think they're worth the cost. The great thing about the home machine is you can truly customize. Maybe you want to get away from sugary drinks, but you're not on the soda water bandwagon. You can mix your carbonated water into fruit juice or soda to start acclimating to less sugar. It's also simple to purchase any brand of flavor drops to mix into your drink, and if you want sweetener you can use any kind and amount you like! I don't even bother with the flavoring most of the time. Just the carbonation is good enough for me! We were constantly buying bottles and cans of soda water for our household. It was taking up a lot space! I love having this machine instead. I've even reused disposable empties to take my "fizzy water" on the go. It's easy to position even a narrow bottle opening under the dispensing spout. Using cold water is recommended. The reservoir comes with a cold water indicator, which I eventually removed. It didn't seem like it was turning as blue after a couple months of use. I deemed it unnecessary anyway, and possibly a place for bacteria to grow. You can store the water reservoir in the fridge, but I don't because my refrigerator already has a water pitcher spot. Using ice works great, too.

It is super easy to use, and the drinks it produces are absolutely delicious.... With a very few exceptions. Everything I have made with this is very good, but I really don't have a liking for the 'splash' series. These are very lightly flavored. Some people may like the very light hint of fruit, but not my cup of tea. The rest of the flavors are excellent! The hydration series is delicious and provides electrolytes, the energy tastes great and provides caffeine, and the vitamins series are also delicious and provide variations of vitamin B. The machine is very easy, even for children, to use and select the options they want. I have also experimented with blending the flavors quite a bit and everything is yummy for the most part. I have also made plain carbonated water with this, and added a squeeze flavor from the grocery store and they taste great as well. I have also seen people use other vendor syrups with this machine, and have great results, but the Ninja instructions don't recommend this. Overall, this thing is easy to use, takes little counter space, and can produce sports drinks, energy drinks, mixers, sodas, and fruit drinks for home or on the go. It isn't terribly expensive, and is pretty fun to experiment with. I like it better than the Soda Stream, and other soda making clones out there, and I would recommend it to anyone without hesitation.

I bought two of these one for work and one for home . The one at work Works decent . The mixing chamber will drip a little bit but overall I'm happy with it . The one at home severely drips ! I put a paper towel under it and you can see from the photo what it does . At first I thought it might have been a defective Cola pod but it did it with root beer as well....... original review follows) took a while for Ninja to get into the carbonated water thing . I really like this better than the Sodastream. I'll see in the long run how the syrups will last though. It works with the blue SodaStream bottles as well. So I don't have to buy any new CO2 cartridges. I think the cost is a little higher than the Sodastream but the taste is definitely better and not as sweet. Overall it's a good carbonator.

It works well. Its compact. Easy to install. Easy to clean. I like the various flavors available. There are some gripes I have with it. I feel like the carbonation runs out too early and it doesn't always seem to work like it's supposed to. For instance, i liked the idea of being able to make different levels of carbonation. I was hoping level 1 would be a perrier, level 2 would be like la croix, and level 3 would be an aha / seltzer that delightfully burns my throat as it descends. But sadly it seems like they're all equal levels of aha-level bubbly. To be fair, I bought this solely because I got tired of having tons of cans to recycle often (and reducing the BPA exposure from their linings). I wanted something easy to use with any cup/ container. These expectations have been met. Initially I thought I might save some money long-term too, but I don't believe I have. Overall, it's easy to use, is compact, and minimal effort. I like it. ---------- But for those who are considering this solely to save money... I could never find a good break down of this, so maths time. I love me some sparkling water. I went through about 24x 12oz cans / week of sparkling water (~42 oz/ day or 294 oz/wk) before getting the thirsti. An 8pk is like 4 bucks, so thats $12 / wk for cans. How does this stack against the thirsti costs? First, lets talk about the CO2. A canister costs about $30 at target. It says that it can carbonate up to 60L(~2000 oz), so this should have lasted me ~10 weeks or $3/wk. However, it ran out after 3 weeks of only using carbonation level 2. Since changing the canister, I have been using carbonation level 1, so we'll see if that makes it last longer though I am doubtful as I can't tell a difference. From my experience thus far, the canister alone will continue to cost almost as much per week ($10) as the cans... For argument, let's say that it lasts 6 weeks on carbonation level 1. That's still $5/wk for CO2 alone. Then the flavorings. The flavor drops are about $20/3 or ~$6 for one. One drop bottle will give about 17x 12 oz drinks at most. Mind you, this is if you have a 12 oz cup and only use the lowest intensity of one flavor. You can quadruple the potency. Usually i just mix one serving each of two different flavors into a 12 or 18 oz drink. Using this math, if I'm fully replacing cans with this device, I'm going through about 2 flavor drop bottles per week, conservatively.... which translates to $12/week. Then there's the cost of the device itself. Given that it comes with 8 flavor pods (~$50 value) and a CO2 cannister (~$30), the true one-time cost is about $70. My total recurring costs per week for cans? $12 / wk. Total per week for the thirsti? $11 / wk for an optimistic estimate, $22 / wk for a practical estimate. A middle-road estimate shows that oz per oz, a seltzer by thirsti is more expensive than a seltzer from aha, la croix, waterloo, etc. ---- There are ways to save money which I would recommend exploring. - Flavoring. $6 for a 2.2 Fl Oz ($2.7/oz) bottle of flavor is not great. Stur and Mio have similar flavors, and they are 2.2/oz and 1.8/oz respectively. Generic flavorings can be even cheaper, about $1.5/oz. If I did this, I could reduce my weekly costs from $12 to $6. - CO2. Ninja has a CO2 refill club which allows you to mail in your spent canisters and receive new ones for 30% off. This would drop my weekly cost from $5-10 to $3-7. I could also buy generic compatible CO2 canisters for half the price, though I don't recommend it. You don't want to mess w pressurized gas. If something happens / explodes and you are using a generic CO2 canister, the fault is more likely to be placed on you instead of the manufacturer. Hopefully this helps. Here is a standardized cost estimate from my data above for anyone weighing pricing. Cans: 0.04/oz Thirsti max cost: 0.075/oz Thirsti min cost: 0.057/oz Thirsti w generic flavor: 0.045/oz Thirsti w co2 club: 0.045/oz Thirsti w both changes: 0.038/oz Not really worth the effort for cost savings alone imo

I’ve been using the Ninja Thirsti Drink System since November 2024, and it has quickly become one of my favorite kitchen gadgets. If you enjoy sparkling water or flavored drinks, this system is definitely worth considering. First, it’s incredibly convenient. With the push of a button, I can make fresh sparkling water at home—no more lugging bottles from the store or dealing with plastic waste. The flavor cartridges work really well, delivering just the right amount of taste without being overpowering or artificial. There’s also a decent variety of flavors available, and I like that I can control the intensity of both carbonation and flavor. The CO2 refills are reasonably priced and last a good while, especially if you’re mostly using the system for personal or family use. Over time, I’ve noticed I’m saving both money and time compared to buying cans and bottles regularly. That makes it not just a fun gadget, but a cost-efficient one too. Overall, the Ninja Thirsti is a great option for anyone who wants an easy, eco-friendly way to enjoy sparkling and flavored drinks at home. It delivers on what it promises and fits seamlessly into a modern kitchen routine. Highly recommend!

I got this because I like fizzy water. I like soda too but am trying to cut down on the artificial sweeteners. It's a good thing that I did not get it for the flavors because I have not found 1 that is not any better than gwad awful. Mostly I mix the fizzy water with a splash of lemon or lime juice, sometimes herbal teas, and I find the Thirsty to be very covenant. For those times when I am making diet soda I use 1 Tablespoons of Soda Stream syrup for each setting (I don't pay attention to the number of oz just 1 Tablespoon for the first size 2 for the second etc). I have at least 1 of the first size every day (usually many more) and it took me three months to empty the CO2 cylinder so I think this is a very good value. If you like fizzy water, this is great. If you like soda, Ninja does not offer soda flavors but soda is just syrup and fizzy water. The Thirsty is great at the fizzy water part. I do recommend it. I hope I don't have to buy it again but I would.

I grew up in Europe, so for me cheap sparkling water is the default. This device works and the flavors are nice, but this is a far inferior product compared to a standard Sodastream (which I bought after getting a refund for this one). On whichever sparkling setting, a CO2 cannister does not seem to last for more than ~30 (sometimes a bit more, sometimes a bit less) 12 oz glasses. That's only about 10l per cannister which doesn't break even with the average shop-bought Italian sparkling water - even at refilled cannister prices. In contrast, my new Sodastream ART device is currently at 40 bottles (!) - about 36l - on a single cannister and still going strong, I am currently at less than 50 cents per bottle and might reach 40 or 30 cents before the cannister is empty. Sodastream's mechanical lever is also better and a lot faster than the inefficient electronic system in this device. E.g. filling a whole bottle with this device takes forever. I wanted to like it, but it just doesn't fulfill its most important function, saving money on sparkling water.

Used to have SodaStream, but it was honestly a pain to use. I had 4 blue SS bottles from a sale in '22 that were sitting unused (they work on this too). This is easy, predictable, and does not force you into using their flavors. I just get water flavoring from the store, put it in a bottle with a top and let the Ninja fill it with no flavor from the Ninja pods. The carbonation is a little different than bottled/canned drinks. They use HFCS which adds thickness to the drink and the carbonation is heavier. These home soda makers (all of them) are usually just flavored water which is much lighter and has a different taste. Not bad, just different. You can always get the syrup flavorings (Pepsi is a popular one) to make it more like store sodas. Great that you can set the carbonation level, just do regular water, set the exact amount to make and select different levels of flavors from the pods, even use both at the same time. I must have used this 300+ times since buying and no issues. I use level 1 carbonation and am only on my 2nd tank. A bit expensive, but this is currently the closest you will get to a home soda fountain without getting into an actual soda fountain and large tanks. If you find yourself using a lot of CO2 then you can also check on getting the tanks refilled locally for a few bucks each (some paintball shops will refill them too).