As a child my cousin had one of those Soda Stream carbonaters,
popular in the late '70s and early '80s, for those unfamiliar with them the idea was you take a sugar syrup and add a little to a special bottle, add water to taste, then put it under the Soda Stream making a good tight fit, press a button, and it would force carbon dioxide from a small pressured cylinder into the drink, henceforth rendering it fizzy. This was some kid of magic to a young child.

We (me, my sisters and he) wondered what fizzy milk would be like, so with visions of revolutionising breakfast for children everywhere, we whacked it into the Soda Stream and gave it a good shot of gas.

Basically when released from the machine the milk did what milk does when it boils, except extremely violently. The contents of the bottle, that we had foolishly filled to the brim, shot up and out like a comedy cum-shot all over the ceiling, and then outwards onto all the surrounding chairs, cupboards, sugar bowl, washing, carpeting, us, and everything else within about a 6 foot radius, which was pretty much the entire kitchen.

Cue a bunch of panicked kids furiously cleaning said kitchen, and themselves, for the next few hours before their respective parents came back from the pub!

I think we got away with it, but we never did get to find out what fizzy milk on your cornflakes would be like.
( ..wil, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 11:11, 5 replies)

Bring back memories....
I tried this when I was about 13 (so many years ago), but bottled out on giving it a full shot of the beloved CO2. There was still a frantic cleaning of the kitchen, but I did have a little bit of fizzy milk left. It tasted truly awful.

To this day I still recommend fizzy milk to everyone I meet that owns a Soda Stream- but I think the wild sniggering and contorted face gives away my true intentions...
(lastagain, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 11:59, closed)

Make your own champagne!
We used to get cheap white wine, squirt through the soda stream et voila. Vile fizzy cheap white wine that you could impress girls with.

How suave is that?
(Tugnut I got them all..., Mon 28 Jul 2008, 12:41, closed)

Haha, Dr TugNutz that brings a whole new meaning to "Getting Busy with the Fizzy" =)

(Professor Kenny Martin Hmm? What?, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 16:40, closed)

*Raises hand*
Yep, I did the 'milk in the Soda Stream' thing too.
I recall mum not telling me off, cos she'd always been curious about it too.
( Sea Tramp the thinking woman's 8 Ace, Mon 28 Jul 2008, 23:19, closed)

You don't add the sugar syrup before fizzing!
Soda streams are practically impossible to clean; you're meant to fizz plain water, then add the sugar syrup. Otherwise it gets skanky and mouldy. *tsk* young people today.

You used to be able to buy a fizzy fruit milk drink. I think it lasted a couple of months on the market before everyone noticed it tasted revolting and gave you a headache.
(Skittlemcfluff ......................, Tue 29 Jul 2008, 12:32, closed)