So, I was happy enough with my Keurig mini. My wife, who doesn’t drink coffee thought I needed a fancier one and bought me a new Keurig 2.0. It has been more convenient. It has a water container attached and it holds some in preheat and delivers coffee faster. All was well until I tried to use a non-Keurig K cup. It will not allow this. There is something in the ink on the lid of Keurig k cups that trips an infrared sensor that must be done before the coffee is made.
looking around the net, I found the hack for this. Stick an Avery 5467 label to the left edge of your non-Keurig k cup and you are good to go. In the menu that pops up on the screen, select #4 for an 8 oz cup of your favorite coffee.
The patent of the standard k-cup has expired and now anyone can make them w/o royality payments (there were some alternatives before but they had to be dissimilar to the k-cups yet still comparable), so Keurig needed to come up with a different design, and they added a little more functionality and the barcode scanning seemingly to make the machine recognize and adjust brewing, but mainly to prevent copycats and to preserve the revenue stream and keeping the cost of a cup over $0.50 each.
It all starts with hacking K-cups. Pretty soon, you’ll be illegally downloading music and video and from there it’s a very short leap to injecting heroin, rape, and murder.
Seriously, the entire concept of brewing coffee one serving at a time is just alien to me. And not in a good E.T./Starman/My Favorite Martian way; in the Invasion of the Body Snatchers trendy hipster way.*
'Cos, you know, pod people.
Did you see what I did there? POD people? HAH! I slay me.
Make an 8 oz per normal, then cycle the handle without changing the cup; the machine will think it’s got a fresh cup in there. Push the [brew 4oz] button. Wait again. Drink an even larger cup of crappy coffee.
I refused to by a Keurig 2.0 when our old one died. I know there are hacks to get around their attempt at propriety cups, but the whole attitude of it hacked me off. I got an iCoffeesingle serve brewer that uses any K-style cup, or a resusable cup that I can put my own fresh ground coffee in. And I also found a grinder that can be set to fill the resuable cup, so I can go from bean to coffee one cup at a time.
No your not the only one, I am staying with a family who does that every morning, in brewing 12 cups and then shut off the heating element, so everyone except the first cup getter needs to nuke their coffee :smack:
your not the only one, I am staying with a family who does that every morning, in brewing 12 cups and then shut off the heating element, so everyone except the first cup getter needs to nuke their coffee :smack: