Fizz Saver Refrigerator 2-Liter Soft Drink Dispenser

by Inventist

• Keeps drinks carbonated and dispenses just the right amount right from your fridge.
• Simply twist dispenser onto the top of a plastic 2-liter or 1-liter bottle, then invert the bottle to dispense drinks into your glass.
• Fizz will last until the bottle is empty.
• Great for use at home, office, camping, entertaining and more.

Product Details

• Product Dimensions: 550 x 550 x 320 inches ; 3 pounds
• Shipping Weight: 3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• ASIN: B001JE7HSE
• Item model number: FS
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (50 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,552 in Kitchen & Dining (See Top 100 in Kitchen & Dining)

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

129 of 132 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Works Fantastic but has a fatal flaw you must avoid March 16, 2010

By A. luis

Ok, I was very skeptical of this, having been let down by similar products over the years-including some of those that pump air into the bottles (IMHO a non-effective and tedious method, particularly when you have to pump half a liter of air into the thing each time ya open it). But I've gotten so tired of having those 2 liters go flat halfway down the bottle, I figured I would try one more gizmo, even though I gave it a 20% chance of working. However, I have had it for a few weeks, and am now on my 6th 2 liter bottle, and I am STILL thrilled to see that the drinks are staying properly carbonated to the last drop. What were the odds? This thing works so incredibly well, I'm surprised you hear so little about it. And this particular one fits nicely in the fridge, unlike the other one that makes the 2 liter bottle stand so tall, it wont fit in many fridges compartments very easily.

One thing I need to mention, the first few times you use it, after having reloaded a new bottle, the soda might not come out at all, since the carbonation has just been released when you opened the bottle, and so it may seem like a problem to you. However,once its been sitting there a little while, the carbonation has some time to build up inside the bottle and then comes out at about 100 mph. If you pour it like they do beer at the tap, with the glass close to the pour spout, it wont be a problem, and the drink will still be nicely carbonated in the glass, even though it seems like it wouldn't be since it comes out under so much pressure, that you would think it would go flat.

All you have to do is learn to open the valve slower early on into a new bottle. As liquid is dispensed and theres less carbonation inside, it starts to pour almost perfectly for the next 1/2 to 3/4 of the 2L bottle.... Then as it nears the last 1/4 of the bottle, the opposite is true; too little available CO2 to push it out, so all you have to do is squeeze the bottle a little, and it will come out, STILL almost perfectly carbonated.

I wish though, that they sold these in pairs on amazon as they do on a few shopping channels, since it would be nice to save on shipping, and since they work so well, having only one of these beauties is NOT enough, trust me.

PS. (2 weeks later) I'm editing this, because a few weeks into this love-fest with this thing, I tightened a bottle too hard, and it cracked the unit, rendering it useless. Future design needs to have a way of preventing that, since it was a little too easy to do. Otherwise, it worked great till the bitter end.

PPS.(a month later) OK...I really SHOULD remove 4 of the stars from my rating, if only for all the torment this contraption has caused me over the past month!!! After having broken 3 of these by now, and thrown $60 of plastic gizmology into the trash, I have found the reason this thing is the most expensive way to save a $1 liter of Coke ever to be designed by humanity.

BYE THE WAY...I found out that the reason this was happening is that there are about 4 different types of plastic 2 liter bottles out there, which look identical, and are only different on the lenght of the cap at the top of the bottle. The cap and the threads where the cap screws onto are almost 3 mm longer from top to bottom than the other type which fits perfect (these are usually rounded on top. They are distributed by 7up, Pepsi, and some others). Everytime I tried to save $.20 by getting a SAM's club branded soda, I ended up throwing away $18 in the trash. I would be careful to only screw it in so far, but then it would leak, and it needed to go further, and i would screw it in further, and CRACK!!! I didn't understand why, since usually it was no problem. I am sure its not just the Sam's club bottles, but all the bottles of this other type of PET bottle generation. Apparently the bottles that are not rounded off at the corners of the caps, but instead have a distinct 90 degree drop off, are a tiny bit longer (about 3 mm- almost unoticeable) than the others, and WILL crack your gizmo every time. The instructions make NO mention or warning about any of this. This gizmo was designed ONLY for the newer kind of 2 litre bottles, the ones with the shorter, rounded off and scalloped plastic caps.

Keep in mind that the theory behind this system itself WORKS great, but this particular dispenser (the REFRIGERATOR FIZZ SAVER sold by Amazon's affiliate) is flawed by cheap design. In fact, if you received what you saw on the amazon ads, a HOCKEY PUCK looking dispenser, it might be OK and this problem would never have happened (what, that would be about 5 cents more per unit to manufacture or something right? lol). But thats the problem, its not the thicker hockey puck dispenser you receive. Instead, It's this thin little piece of plastic, about 1'4 inch thick on the bottom. Any over-tightening results in you throwing $18 -including shipping- into the trash. This is after of course, spending half an hour wiping out the fridge, from where the thing leaked the soda all over the place the night before (under pressure mind you). I was looking at a competing product, FIZZ IT UP, that looked like it was much thicker plastic, and sturdier. I would get that if possible, however it seems imposible to find.

(5 months later follow-up). Once I started to only buy the 2 litre bottles that fit perfectly, this thing has worked AMAZINGLY well for me. Best thing ever invented for keeping your soda perfectly carbonated from beginning to end!!!! Read more ›

10 of 10 people found the following review helpful

2.0 out of 5 stars Item is not the black dispenser pictured!! December 15, 2011

By Jules

BEWARE! The black dispenser pictured seems to be a lot better quality than the knock off red one pictured in the customer image (second image)that is actually what I received!! It worked great the first time I used it though and I was pretty impressed. I was very careful after reading reviews to not overtighten the 2L bottle onto it and must have done something wrong because it is officially broken. One use for that price definately did not save me money compared to buying canned drinks.

Also, the red plastic is very flimsy and although it will hold up a full 2L bottle, have to be more careful when placing in the fridge. The first one pictured looks like it would be a lot more sturdy with a thicker/larger base.

Hopefully, they will update the image so people won't make the same mistake I did!

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful

4.0 out of 5 stars Good product, may take practice March 24, 2011

By CherryLynn18

Amazon Verified Purchase

I had no problem setting the thing up, it works great. The soda comes out a little fast but you get used to it. My husband on the other hand had to try a few times to figure it out (even after I showed him). So I think it may depend on the person. One word of advise... Make sure you look inside where you screw the top on and see if there is a rubber sealer. One of mine had it missing and it turned into soda all over the counter.

8 of 8 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars It would be great if it didn't leak! February 18, 2012

By A. Lasack

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought this for my soda addict husband so he didn't have to go down to the convenient store to buy a fountain drink on a nightly basis. It was great when we tried it but when I went back into the refrigerator a couple minutes later there was a giant puddle of coke! Total bummer!

6 of 6 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Terrible. January 17, 2012

By Carter

Amazon Verified Purchase

I bought the fizz saver which didn't end up working. On top of that, I saw the same exact product being sold at a dollar store for a third of what I paid.

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Garbage...Avoid Like the Plague February 9, 2012

By M. Fry

Amazon Verified Purchase

This is a terrible product. I read some decent reviews on this item, so I decided to give it a shot. It doesn't come close to working, regardless of technique.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't like this after test it. It's not working... December 20, 2012

By Javier Rojas Quesada

Amazon Verified Purchase

After receive the 2 dispensers I bought, I want to say that this is not what I was expecting to get.

First at all, when you put in the bottles, they started to dispense the liquid but at certain point it stops, then I realized the reason. It's because the bottle needs air in order keep the liquid flowing through out the dispenser and the dispenser does not has any air intake to allow the air to go inside the bottle.

This problem is the same problem you can experience when you are drinking directly from the bottle, you need to stop at certain point and allow the air to come in, in order to avoid the bottle to go wrinkled.

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Don't bother May 28, 2012

By BRIAN D GREGORY

Amazon Verified Purchase

I would love to give this a zero star rating but Amazon doesn't go that low. To begin with the product I received were poorly assembled. The spigot was aligned at an angle to vertical. Then when I tried to use it the liquid dribbled out slowly and then stopped. I tried a carbonated beverage and got foam and little drinkable liquid. This thing was poorly designed and carelessly assembled. Don't bother buying.