From starting off your morning with a glass of sparkling water to ending the evening with a carbonated cocktail, the Breville InFizz Fusion soda machine has you covered. This sleek, thoughtfully designed soda machine offers excellent performance, simplicity, and cost-savings for households that love their fizzy drinks.
What’s in the box of the Breville InFizz Fusion soda machine?
There are a surprising number of components to the Breville InFizz Fusion soda machine! In the box, you’ll find a one litre plastic bottle and cap, a Breville FusionCap, a magnetic drip tray, a drip tray cover, a sieve, a funnel, a bottle brush, an instruction manual, and the InFizz Fusion itself. The InFizz also comes with a full CO2 canister (which makes 60 L of sparkling water). The CO2 canister has a standard threaded design, making it easy to replace when it runs out.
What makes the Breville InFizz stand out?
The InFizz is a machine that just makes sense. It’s beautifully designed, but more importantly, it’s thoughtfully designed. The Breville InFizz’s bottle and base are easy to rinse down in the sink. Its drip tray is smoothly sunken with no hard edges, so it wipes down and evaporates beautifully. Its carbonation lever presses down gently and smoothly, adding bubbles to your beverage in short, one-second bursts. (Press multiple times to achieve different carbonation levels without making a mess.)
When you use the InFizz, you can tell that it was designed to carbonate more than just water. Its filter and funnel sit perfectly in its bottles and don’t need to be held in place. They’re nice and wide, again without hard edges, so they’re easy to clean.
Breville FusionCap technology
The Breville InFizz Fusion is a soda machine that’s designed to carbonate both water and other beverages. Breville’s FusionCap technology is an elegant way to do so. Instead of using a fixed carbonation wand, the FusionCap comes on and off the InFizz so that it can be thoroughly washed—meaning you can carbonate water, juice, wine, cocktails, and any other beverage with the Breville InFizz.
The FusionCap features a little red toggle on its side. This pressure release valve is something that I haven’t seen in any other soda machine before. It depressurizes your beverage before opening. As a result, Breville’s 1L InFizz bottles don’t fizz over or “pop” when you open them.
InFizz ergonomics
What really makes the InFizz stand out to me is its ergonomic design. I’ve used and reviewed a lot of soda machines before, and the Breville InFizz is by far the easiest to use. Its wide lever design is easy to depress in a smooth, light motion. As a result, the InFizz feels a lot more luxurious to use than most soda machines—and it’s a better choice for kids, older people, and anyone else with limited hand or arm strength.
Should you switch from soda cans to the InFizz?
Cost effectiveness
I’ll be upfront about this: If you drink a lot of soda or sparkling water, the Breville InFizz will absolutely save you money in the long term. But, for households who don’t drink a lot of sparkling water, those savings may take a long time to be realized.
Per drink, a machine like the Breville InFizz saves you money when compared to a can of club soda or a bottle of sparkling water. Right now, a refill cylinder of CO2 typically costs $20 and makes 60 L of soda, giving you a cost per litre of $0.33. I find that soda machine soda is most comparable to smartwater or San Pellegrino sparkling water (not club soda), which typically cost $2.47 per bottle or $3.30 per litre. That means every litre of unflavoured soda you make in your InFizz costs roughly 1/10th of what you’d pay in the store, and you’ll save $2.97 per litre.
You can expect to drink about 100 litres of soda before your InFizz starts “making” you money. For some households, that might take months or even years. For mine… Well, as a single person living alone, I will “pay off” the cost of my InFizz within five months. I drink a lot of water every day, and most of it is carbonated! After that, I can expect to save at least a few hundred dollars a year in sparking water costs.
Sustainability and convenience
Small appliances like the InFizz Fusion are fantastic from a convenience and sustainability perspective. Drinking store-bought soda and sparkling water means that you go through a lot of cans and bottles. Over time, all of those things add up. Even if you take all your cans and bottles to the bottle depot, the carbon cost of transporting them to your house can be significant. (Water is heavy, and it often takes a lot of fossil fuels to transport it in can/bottle form!)
Making your soda from filtered tap water at home saves on the economic and environmental shipping costs of transporting it to your home. Most of the InFizz is recyclable or reusable, from the CO2 canisters (which work on a refill/exchange program—you can take empty CO2 canisters to your local Best Buy to get new canisters at a lower cost) to the reusable plastic bottles.
On top of that, it’s very, very convenient to make your own sparkling water at home. If you drink a lot of sparkling water, you know what a chore it is to be lugging crates of San Pellegrino home from the store every week. It is much easier to pop over to Best Buy once every couple months to swap out a CO2 container.
My experience with the Breville InFizz Fusion
Of all of the soda machines I’ve tried, the Breville InFizz Fusion is my clear favourite. It’s beautiful, easy to use, and easy to clean. There is nothing clunky or awkward about the InFizz’s carbonation lever, which is an issue that I have with most other soda machines.
I love that I can use the InFizz to carbonate juice and wine just as easily as I can carbonate water. In this review video, I made two cocktails: a simple scotch & soda and a cranberry fizz (one part lime juice, one part simple syrup, two parts vodka; top with carbonated cranberry juice and optionally garnish with cranberries, rosemary, or an orange twist). They were so easy to put together and are perfect for holiday parties.
Including prep time, making both cocktails took me under three minutes. Adding a carbonated cocktail to your evening is kind of like a cheat code. It gives your event a certain panache without adding much effort at all to your hosting duties!
Breville’s FusionCap technology is the highlight of this machine for me. It delivers effective, consistent carbonation that’s easy to customize. You can add delicate bubbles to your beverage or add extra “spice” with big bubbles. What makes the FusionCap a standout, however, isn’t the carbonation itself: I love that you can both wash and depressurize the FusionCap. With Breville’s depressurization toggle, the FusionCap will safely depressurize your beverage through its specialized vent—so you’ll never get sprayed with soda (or red wine) mid-party.
My tips for carbonating beverages
Breville makes it easy to carbonate with the InFizz, but I have a few tips for the newly-carbonating!
- Thinner liquids hold more carbonation. For big results, carbonate clear fruit juices and light-bodied wines.
- To carbonate a fruit nectar, add carbonated water and a pre-made nectar ice cube instead of carbonating the nectar itself.
- Carbonation is a form of aeration. Look at it like a super-decanting method for wine: It’ll bring out the flavours immediately, but needs to be consumed by the end of the night.
- Colder liquids carbonate better. Keep your beverages chilled to maintain carbonation.
- Remember that carbonation involves dissolving carbon dioxide gas into your liquid. As the bubbles disappear, carbonic acid is left behind, which can make your beverage taste a bit bitter and acidic. While you may notice this flavour in sparkling water that has gone flat, it is much less noticeable in flavoured or sweetened drinks.
Final thoughts on the Breville InFizz Fusion
I really love using the Breville InFizz Fusion soda machine. It’s an excellent, high-quality product that delivers great results at home. On top of that, it amounts to a considerable cost and ecological savings for households that consume a lot of soda or sparkling water.
The InFizz Fusion is a great choice for making sparkling water, carbonated cocktails, custom sodas, and more. You can find the Breville InFizz Fusion at Best Buy today.
