Smeg Soda Maker SKC01 Review: Beauty and Bubbles

A quick glance at the statistics makes for horrifying reading. Globally, 1 million plastic bottles are purchased every minute. Fifty billion single-use plastic bottles are bought each year in the US alone, and 35 billion are incinerated or sent to landfills. And we’ve not even touched on soda cans, where over 100 billion are sold each year. Photograph: Chris Haslam Bottled water should not be as popular—or as profitable—as it is, especially with so many fantastic reusable bottles available. It’s all the more true if you’re partial to sparkling water, given the existence of excellent home carbonation machines like Smeg’s new Soda Maker SKC01. It enters a market stuffed with quality soda makers, including our favorite options from brands including SodaStream, not to mention Aarke, Mysoda, and Ninja. But can the effortlessly stylish Italians tempt us with their bottles of sustainable, sparkling fun? Effervescent Style Photograph: Chris Haslam Part of the Smeg Collezione range of cou ... Read full article.