Store the finished syrup in a squeeze bottle in the refrigerator for instant access. To make homemade soda, simply add syrup to a glass of ice and top off with seltzer water or club soda.

“But that is the whole point,” says Andrew Schloss, author of Homemade Soda. “It’s great to figure out how to take a commercial product and make it,” he says. And it’s easy. Take Coca-Col ...

barely bubbly homemade soda water. While many other soda makers are difficult to use, overengineered, and annoying to assemble, the OmniFizz is simple and effective. The OmniFizz also lets you ...

The OmniFizz is a manual, rather than electric, soda maker, and it has just one button to push. The more you push it, the more carbonation you get. “A soda maker is really a very simple machine ...

Hold me back! Smeg’s just launched a soda maker, and I can’t wait to get my hands on this homemade pop-making machine. It’s got me reminiscing about childhood parties when a SodaStream was ...

Albius’s discovery made commercial vanilla cultivation possible — but it didn’t make it easy ... which is what makes homemade cream soda so enticing. With little in the way of distraction ...