Keurig recalls 'Mini Plus' coffee makers - burn hazard

[aceplace57]

Ouch. That wouldn’t be a nice way to greet the morning.

Anyone that owns a Mini Plus better get that repair kit ASAP.
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/keurig-recalls-mini-coffee-makers-27784464

Keurig is recalling more than 7 million of its single-serve coffee brewing machines after reports that a number of them had spewed hot liquids and injured dozens of users.

The recall is for Keurig’s Mini Plus brewers that were made between 2009 and 2014. Keurig received about 200 reports of hot liquid spraying from the brewer, including 90 reports of burn-related injuries.

Customers who own the brewers can contact the company and have a repair kit sent for free. Keurig said the kit will fix the issue. The company warned customers waiting for the kit to keep an arm’s length away from the brewers and not brew more than two cups in quick succession.

[Amateur_Barbarian]

What I find astounding about this is not that a relatively low-quality consumer appliance* that involves pressurized boiling water in a user-accessible chamber can have this flaw, but that there are seven million potentially flawed units out there.

• As opposed to a restaurant- or service-grade unit.

[TBG]

a number of them had spewed hot liquids

A number of them? Like 100%? Coffee makers are supposed to spew hot liquids. That’s their entire reason for existence.
I realize they probably meant to say something about spewing in the wrong direction or out of the wrong place or some such, but that’s not what they said. Typical shoddy 21st century journalism.

[Yookeroo]

Almost as dangerous as the Cornballer.

[Airk]

Also high danger of bad coffee.

[Amateur_Barbarian]

@Airk

Also high danger of bad coffee.

But SO convenient, and only somewhat more expensive… now with free parboiling!

[theR]

@TBG

A number of them? Like 100%? Coffee makers are supposed to spew hot liquids. That’s their entire reason for existence.
I realize they probably meant to say something about spewing in the wrong direction or out of the wrong place or some such, but that’s not what they said. Typical shoddy 21st century journalism.

Typical shoddy journalism or someone that doesn’t understand what “spew” actually means.

Single serve coffee machines are not designed to spew coffee into a cup. They usually drip, pour, stream, or some other similar verb, but certainly not spew.

It also doesn’t help your argument that you removed the rest of the sentence in your quote even though it changes the context and meaning. Even if we accept that single serve coffee machines are designed to spew coffee, which I do not, they are not designed to “spew hot liquids and injure dozens of users.” Only “a number of them” have spewed hot liquids and injured dozens of users.

Note that the third sentence of the article also provides more detail, making clear the meaning of the first sentence.