Breville has cornered the market on high-end small kitchen appliances with its top-performing countertop oven, induction burner, toaster, and immersion blender. In 2024, the brand added a sparkling water maker to that list.
What we love: The Breville Infizz Fusion is a sleek, versatile carbonator, and like the Drinkmate Ominifizz, it will carbonate more than just water. The default setting on the carbonator cap is a slow pressure release that allows carbonation of fruit juice, wine, cocktails, and even creamy drinks if you’re feeling weird. You can manually release the pressure faster if you just need a bottle of fizzy water in a hurry. Unlike the best soda makers in the $100 to $150 range, which usually have all plastic parts, the InFizz Fusion is made of durable, high-quality stainless steel, which is available in a variety of finishes, though options vary by retailer. It also comes with a handful of accessories (including a juice filter and silicone bottle brush) to enhance the experience of using and cleaning the machine and bottle.
What we’d leave: A countertop soda maker is a pretty simple gadget, and this is one of the priciest ones you can buy. If it’s worth it to you to pay for quality materials, aesthetics, and the ability to wow your dinner guests by transforming a bottle of bad rosé into something bubbly and palatable, you’ll likely be very happy with this. But do keep in mind that the base model, which is $249 at the time of publishing, doesn’t ship with a CO2 tank, so you’ll either need to buy one or spend $30 more on one that comes with the tank.
How we tested sparkling water makers
For this review, every year, we look at the most popular and highly rated countertop sparkling water makers—the kind that use standard 60-ml CO2 cylinders—taking into consideration availability, price, and customer ratings. As we unbox each, we evaluate the feel and quality of materials and the ease of use as we set up the machine. We use each to make seltzer with cold, filtered water, getting it as bubbly as the machine/manual allows. Depending on the versatility of the devices and models we’re testing, we’ll also carbonate cocktails, wine, juice, etc.
Other sparkling water makers we tested and liked
Mysoda Woody
Mysoda Woody Sparkling Water Maker
This simple, stylish carbonator is made from renewable wood composite. It’s beautiful, sturdy, and, when it comes to the level of carbonation, performs as well as any SodaStream. And if you want an aesthetically pleasing, sustainably made, budget-friendly soda maker, you’ll be very happy with this purchase. But there’s a catch to that: Most soda makers ship with a starter CO2 tank, and this one doesn’t. New tanks, not tank trade-ins, cost $30 to $40. So when you factor that into the cost, the initial investment is more than the cost of our top pick, which did perform a little better in our testing anyway. If you want to stay under $100 all-in, check out the Philips Sparkling Water Maker below.
