Our initial impressions were tepid at best. “The water is merely from-the-tap, which is silly,” we wrote in 1985, referring to an Admiral refrigerator with the feature.

Now, Samsung has partnered with SodaStream to introduce the RF31FMESBSR Four-Door Refrigerator, which comes with a built-in sparkling water dispenser for making homemade soda.

Samsung added a sparkling water option to its Samsung Chef Collection RF34H9960S4 and Samsung T9000 RF32FMQDBSR, while the dispenser on the GE Cafe CFE29TSDSS produces water that's cold or hot.

Our initial impressions were tepid at best. “The water is merely from-the-tap, which is silly,” we wrote in 1985, referring to an Admiral refrigerator with the feature.