Getting good coffee from Keurig

[Gamecock]

I got a Keurig 2.0 for Christmas. Love the convenience. Hate the coffee - too damn weak!

For many years, I have bought Colombian Supremo from Sam's, and ground it myself. I use a simple Mr. Coffee drip coffee maker. LOVE the coffee!

Has anyone found a source for K-cups that will make real coffee?

Another gripe, K-cups don't make enough. I have to brew TWO to get a decent cup of coffee. The brewer came with a couple of K-carafe samples, and they do indeed make a good amount of coffee. The bummer is that I have looked in at least ten stores that carry K-cups, and NONE carry K-carafe cups. I see them on Amazon.com, so I will eventually get some, after I find something I like.

Please share your Keurig experiences.

 

[armorer951]

Finally tossed my Keurig for the same reason. Ended up buying a Bona Vita drip machine after I retired. Using my freshly ground beans, it brews 10 cups at 200 degrees into a carafe in about 6 minutes.

One thing you might try is they make a re-usable basket for the Keurig called "My K-cup" . You can load this reusable basket with your own ground coffee. Tastes better, and is less expensive that buying the mass produced, one time use k-cups......plus the coffee is fresher. Who knows how long those disposable k-cups have been in storage?

I think Amazon has the K-cups....here's a link to the re-usable basket.

Keurig® My K-Cup® Reusable Coffee Filter - BedBathandBeyond.com

 

[Bill Bates]

I'm a very happy Kueirg owner. I don't own the new 2 so it is just single cups for me. My local Wally and the local grocery store I shop most both carry the carafe size K-cups.

When I go t my machine I too found the coffee a bit weak compared to what I had been brewing. It took some time to find a K-cup blends that suited my taste. I really like the Dounut House Medium Roast and Newman's Own offerings. Hint make sure you are buying Kuerig K-cups with there symbol on the box. Some cups that fit the Kuerig are just filled with instant coffee and kind of suck.

I will say that the Kuerig makes a good cup of coffee and it is the same cup each and every time.

I'm lucky my local grocer often has K-Cups on closeout so I'm buying at times under 30 cents a K-cup.

The Kuerig is a great machine if you just need a great cup of coffee fast and not a whole pot. If you are the type of person that goes through a whole pot every morning then it may not be the best option.

Also try the Green Mountain Hot Apple Cider it is great on a cold afternoon with a wee bit of cinnamon flavored whiskey (my kids showed me that one..flavored whiskey is not something I ever kept in the house)

 

[Arik]

I love my Kuerig just wish it made a bigger cup but then again it's an older model. Anyway, I bought the reusable coffee filter and buy my own coffee. I have the coffee store grid the beans and I just use that. Right now I'm going through a 5lbs bag of Turkish coffee

 

[cardguy]

We bought this at Walmart:Brew and Save Reusable Filter for Keurig. Works great.

 

[federali]

Coffee Nerves

I too scrapped a Kuerig coffee maker for the same reasons: coffee was weak and expensive to brew.

I use a Cuisinart drip coffee maker which brews a good but not great cup of coffee. The best coffee in my house comes from a Farberware electric perk. Coffee is great but the Farberware won't brew a single cup of coffee.

Here on Long Island NY, we have good water and once it reaches our house, it passes through two filters. Don't expect really good coffee with ordinary tap water.

 

[johnnyflake]

Actually, I like my K-Cup Brewer. It fast and I can get a cup anytime within a few minutes, even when it's turned off to start with. It also brews up a good cup of tea. It did take me awhile to find the K-Cup Coffees & the Tea that I like.

If you like a stronger & smoother cup of coffee, than most, the two I really like are Gevalia Dark Roast and Barista Prima French Roast. There is also one tea that works for me, Twinings English Breakfast Black Tea.

I buy online at the Keuric Site. They have well over 150 different offerings in coffee and tea. The prices are very good, usually about $14/$15 for a 24 K-Cup box. Also, if you spend over $49, you get free shipping. It's hard to beat!

 

[srsmyth]

I use a Keurig also and I like it because my wife and I can each have the coffee we like as opposed to brewing a whole pot as I did before. No weak coffee for me. I buy the Starbucks dark roast K-cups and use the large 9 oz. setting to fill my thermal mug, it's plenty strong for me and usually too strong for my guests. I bought some on sale yesterday and the cost per cup is $0.75. I also have the reusable cup but I don't use it much.
Edit to add that I buy reverse osmosis drinking water to use in the Keurig, my city water is not suitable for coffee.
Steve

 

[hoc9sw]

I use a SoloFill Cup K-3 that I found at WalMart (they have them at Bed, Bath, and Beyond). Gevalia ground in the bag is too fine (clogs up the filter, would work with a screen filter in a similar basket), but standard Community works great.

I also find the cups (even Community) to be a bit on the lacking side. And I'm not going to pay the store prices for them unless there is a serious special.

 

[rog8732]

Using only bottled water in mine; it still blinked "PURGE-PURGE-PURGE" at me one time too many !

"Run a cycle of white vinegar; rinse with a gallon of fresh water" !?! Yeah right ! Like I am going to do all that every third day.

 

[venomballistics]

there are several refillable K cups out there which I use almost exclusively.
The Keurig 2.0 is notorious for not working with them but we found a hack.
you cut the rim off of an official K cup and tape it into the machine so that its RFID reader always sees it.

 

[deadin]

I learned to drink coffee in the Navy, so I am obviously not a coffee snob. (I used to think that coffee wasn't any good unless it had a sheen of fuel oil on the surface.....)
Anyway, these days I have to drink decaf, my wife has one cup of leaded in the morning and then switches to decaf. We limit ourselves to 2 cups each per day. Before the Keurig it meant brewing two pots of coffee and then drinking re-heat for the next 4 days. (Did I mention, I'm cheap.) Around the 4th day it started to approach the Navy stuff I learned on......
THe Keurig probably is a little more expensive, but at least it's fresh (and it makes great hot chocolate....)
I've settled on a brand called "8 O'Clock' and my wife uses some kind of Kona blend.

 

[fpuhan]

Amazon sells a refillable K-cup for the 2.0 Keurig machines. Our office just bought a Keurig to replace an aging Mr. Coffee, and the first thing I did was buy one of these "Eco-Fill 2.0 Deluxe" filters ($14.99 Amazon Prime). For my coffee, I just fill my regular tablespoon of grounds (Dunkin Donuts regular, for any who care), place it in the Keurig and a moment later, coffee!

 

[hoc9sw]

Didn't mention water - I use a Pur filter pitcher for the water to cut down the minerals. I don't like that de-scaling mess either. My tap water is barely drinkable before running it through a filter of some sort.

 

[THE PILGRIM]

Don't have one- but -
Have drank coffee made with one while out visiting.
So far, haven't had a really good cup.
If I had a Keurig, I would try to use some better coffee.
A Mediocre cup of coffee is usually made with mediocre coffee.

 

[diamonback68]

Using only bottled water in mine; it still blinked "PURGE-PURGE-PURGE" at me one time too many !

"Run a cycle of white vinegar; rinse with a gallon of fresh water" !?! Yeah right ! Like I am going to do all that every third day.

I've had mine for four years now and it came with built in water filter thingy, simple to replace twice a year. I run vinegar through it about two times a year, sometimes not when I forget and I have never had and problem nor a"purge" light. You must have had a bad pot.

 

[SW MP15]

I think they are like going to McDonalds and expecting a "Good Burger"!

They are fast and easy and you get what you get!

 

[H Richard]

My wife has some similar product to make her Latte Foo-Foo type drinks, but I still use a Coffee Maker for my coffee. Since I was told to cut down on caffeine, I drink 6 cups a day, I blend 3 of my small scoops of Starbucks Italian Roast and 3 of their Verona Decaf. 6 cups of water and don't get tired of it. My Dr thinks the "half Caf" is O.K. especially with all the studies showing all the great benefits of coffee.

 

[Fishslayer]

there are several refillable K cups out there which I use almost exclusively.
The Keurig 2.0 is notorious for not working with them but we found a hack.
you cut the rim off of an official K cup and tape it into the machine so that its RFID reader always sees it.

There are now reusable cups that will work. Owners raised holey heck over the 2.0 copyright protection & Keurig realized they'd screwed the pooch.

A lot of the sort of people who buy a Keurig are also the sort to raise Cain about filling the landfill with plastic. I'm about 50/50 between that and paying for K cups.

I like mine.

 

[rags]

there are several refillable K cups out there which I use almost exclusively.
The Keurig 2.0 is notorious for not working with them but we found a hack.
you cut the rim off of an official K cup and tape it into the machine so that its RFID reader always sees it.

Google "Freedom Clip". One of the people that is suing Keurig, made it and it clips right over a hole in the top head of a 2.0. Everyone's K-Cup will work then..

EDIT: What I like about the 2.0, vs my older one, is that there's a "strong" setting which made my normal K-cups taste even better! It pulsates the water over the coffee. The more time water is on the coffee the better. Takes about 20 seconds longer than normal to make...