Back several months, we had a thread about Keurig machines. I was up visiting my daughter last week, and she has a brand new one. As usual, I brought my little red reuseable plastic pod, and my own coffee blend.
Whoops, it would not work. I got a message on the display saying that was not acceptable.
Wound up with no coffee that morning, and I was NOT pleased. I looked that issue up on Google, and what a surprise. Keurig, not satisfied with taking your money up front, has engineered their new machines to not accept anything but a LICENSED Keurig pod.
Well! I sent them a rather nasty email about their business practices, and got a tongue in cheek reply from them yesterday.
They admit that making their machines operate with just their propriatary pods was a mistake. They are working on a fix, and should have a solution by...............by the Christmas shopping season!
I stopped at a local store this morning, and bought a Stanley camping steel vacuum thermos, that doubles as a French Press. Screw 'em.

I came close to buying one for the place here in Idaho. Hate using the old coffee maker.

There's a fix Mannlicher, search youtube. Something simple like putting a small piece of electrical tape somewhere, or something.....

Try this Sam. It works.



Mike

the fix involves cutting the little edge strip off a 'legal' pod, and taping that onto your pod. Too much work, and the French Press will work fine.

Yep, that's it. Remembered it was simple the first time I ran across the video...

I have the same keurig, the 2.0 or whatever it is. I have seen another fix that involves putting a small magnet inside of the area the k-cup is placed. I have not tried it though.

Not much different than auto mfrs going to $300.00 keys for their vehicles. They know people lose their keys.

the fix as a bit different though Ricky. I will just use the French Press, and buy NO pods again. Heck, I only have one cup each morning anyway.

We are on our 2nd Keurig. When the 1st one malfunctioned my wife called customer service, they determined it couldn't be fixed over the phone. A new unit arrived the next day at no charge. We like it alot. My wife likes her coffee and drinks different from mine and it gives great flexibility.

mike r

I have always stuck with the old style of keurig machine.
Love them, order from Keurig Company in fact to get the different coffees. Have a portable that I take on trips.

Next new machine is the cold machine. To make cokes and stuff like that from a pod. Not out yet, but soon.
People who like this type coffee might want to look up the companies web site and look at the hundreds of flavors of coffee. I have tried regular to stout. None of the what I call fo-fo coffee.
Waiting on an order of diet ice tea as we speak.
Take the Yeti (30oz) cup that some don't like on this site, fill it full of ice, brew 12 oz of tea, dump into Yeti, put the lid on and drink that all day long and it stays cold the whole day.

Why would people not like the Yeti cup?

I drink tea too quickly to need a Yeti cup at what, $50 bucks?

I think some people are on more of a budget than me. I guess.
Was a discussion last year, the old boy that's a guide, hunts in Mexico and is a fireman up in Colorado, got one and said how much he like it. Some got on board the thread and said it was too expensive. So heck I went to Cabala's and bought a Yeti mug just cause. Now my wife even has one, she takes it to work each morning filled with Keurig teas. Hell of a deal.

Well, I use a french press, $ 20 and a thermometer $ 10 That it! Works well and you can do other things with the press too! I have a friend who is a big EPA guy, he has one, I asked about all that plastic he is using just for a cup of coffee, He could not answer me with a straight face, then again he more or less became a communist so its no surprise to me! As for the Keurig, I would never buy one but I don't care if anybody else dose! Just as I don't care if your taste in guns are different from mine!

39.95 plus sales tax.

sam

i bring my keurigs back to bed bath and beyond whenever the ybreak and they exchange for a new one...no recepit necessary

I hear ya, and I understand. But there are some things that are worth spending a few extra coins for. If it's quality and lives up to its claims, then to me, it was a good expenditure.

And I certainly trust Drummond's word.

I have seen some just make a washer that goes on your pos and it works.

the problem is an infrared scanner in the machine, that works with special ink on the cover of the pod. Just a blank washer around the top of the pod won't work

they suck. i have yet to get a GOOD cup of coffee from one. we've went through at least 5 due to failures and the only time we use it is for the first cup in the morning while mr coffee is brewing a pot.

I've owned 2. Both have been long gone (trashed) and I'm completely happy with a $20 Mister Coffer Maker that I don't even use now.

hmmmmmm,.... thinking that the western world is thankful for that.

least I'm not a gassy, cranky old phugger like you, Denny.

Being recently retired I suppose at some point such trivia will matter...

and if it does not, you can just not read the phugging thread. Eh, Ed?

very seldom drink coffee, getting 3rd dg burns from a pot of the stuff when i was a toddler might have something to do with it.

The proprietary cuppage is in litigation. Keurig is getting beat up over it. I think I read that they admitted it was a bad idea.
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/...p-maker-violates-antitrust-laws/8028197/

I use a drip pot, to make my coffee. No pods, no electricity, nothing to go wrong. This pot aint but maybe 25-30 years old, barely broke-in.

Via

Naw Sam, they always bring at least a smirk.

Water, coffee, heat.

I'm surprised Sam uses a Keurig, considering how pissy he gets about other things, but I guess he's never looked into where a bunch of Keurig 'donation' money goes.

Keep helping the enemy Sam!

have I mentioned lately what an azz you are Scott? WTF makes you this way? I have offended you somehow?
Frankly, I am finished with you. Your pithy, inchoate, cryptic chit, and your following folks around from thread to thread, making stupid comments. Phug you, and adios.

Whatta ya mean?
He is har- poonging them by using the non standard cups.
I mean,how much more of a rebel can he be?
Next thing you know,he'll be using one of them creedmore cartridges or something.

I like ours for the bootleg hazelnut coffee.
But then,ours don't have no fancy display screen to tell you it wont work.actually,I wouldn't even know if we had bootleg coffee.
how do you tell?