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Bought a Keurig, makes terrible coffee. Suggest replacement

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My parents have an Isomac Giada.
Like anything Italian and mechnical, it's expensive, looks good, and requires extensive maintenance, if you want it to work half the time.
But when it does work, the coffee is alright, if you haven't ground it too finely.
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drebo said:
Coffee snobs are way worse than beer snobs. This thread is proof.
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I don't understand a disdain for "coffee snobs" - the ones who go crazy, refusing to step foot in certain stores or just HAVE to make their opinion known, in person, to anyone within earshot - those are the problem types. Nobody likes those types.

But many of us don't speak much of these "snob" topics outside of the internet, for one thing.
Secondly, is there nothing in life you appreciate?
I know I'll fall under two snob categories: beer snob, and coffee snob. I wouldn't call myself a snob, as I'm still imperfect about it all. 😛

But I appreciate the tools, the processes, and the finer and subtle tastes and aromas you get when you control the steps carefully and have hands-on the whole way through.

I can guarantee, as long as your basic appreciation for coffee accepted black coffee of a strong brew - you would notice and enjoy a cup brewed by someone who cared about coffee. And you'd notice the gulf between that cup and a basic drip-brew cup of some store-bought grounds.
 
Pardus said:
Had a 4-cup Mr. Coffee that died after 2-years, it was great, but most of the coffee went down the drain. Read all these amazing reviews about single serve coffee machines and decided to try one.

Picked up a Keurig B130 two weeks ago, hoping it would be good. After trying the different sample k-cups that it came with, i'm not impressed.

The coffee tasted weak and has a bad plastic taste. After the 5th time of using the machine, it malfunctioned. Had to run it though twice to get one full cup of coffee. Other times, it would spit the coffee all over the place.

Can anyone recommend a good single serve coffee machine that uses a refillable cup, not looking to buy those stupid cups, maybe i'll just get another Mr. Coffee.
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Why not return it, it seems your's has issues? Never heard anyone complain about plastic taste. Sounds like you don't even like the Keurig to begin with.

Weak coffee can be a problem if you are using more than the small size.

You can add the reusable K-Cup and brew whatever you want with it.
 
alkemyst said:
Why not return it, it seems your's has issues? Never heard anyone complain about plastic taste. Sounds like you don't even like the Keurig to begin with.

Weak coffee can be a problem if you are using more than the small size.

You can add the reusable K-Cup and brew whatever you want with it.
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We tried to return it, except we couldn't. Keurig, so far has replaced it 3 times. Was hoping for a "3rd time is a charm" event but we were both disappointed.

No one complaining about the plastic taste?

http://upinthisbrain.blogspot.com/2013/08/getting-plastic-taste-out-of-keurig.html

We tried the solutions but the taste is still there. I wish it all worked for us, but it didn't. Gave Keurig 3 chances to get us one that didn't taste like burnt plastic.
YMMV and I guess we got 3 bum machines. Like in my previous post, the machine at my wife's office doesn't have any foul taste at all like our Platinum.
 
chitwood said:
marked, the wife is talking about getting a Keurig, I may use this thread to direct her elsewhere
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I would most definitely avoid Keurig. The refillable cups work, but the hamilton beach single serve (whether just single serve or the one I mentioned) just work. And, you use whatever coffee you like.

Much cheaper and nearly as convenient. The only difference is scooping some grounds vs dropping in a k-cup, and then rinsing out the basket when done.
 
I bought one of these:
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It's 0.5 L. I just fill it up half, and then I have an excellent cup of coffee in the morning.

Or one of these:
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if you want to go.
 
I'm echoing already expressed ideas but I'll try to add a little more information.

As a very easy, cheap way to make a very good large batch of coffee, a French press is a great bet. Grind your coffee coarsely and when you're done brewing pour the coffee into a clean container and you can't go wrong.

The Aeropress is kind of amazing, too. It's particularly notable for giving you good control over many variables that contribute to the chemical composition and distribution of your coffee. You can pretty exactly copy the results of a Moka if you want, but you can also make a wide range of other styles. If you like the oils you get in a French press, for instance, you can use your Aeropress upside down with a reusable steel filter instead of the paper filters that come with it. Check Youtube for upside down tutorials and check out the surprisingly active Aeropress scene to get ideas for the effects of varying water temperature, coffee particle size, brewing time, pressure, and solids removal methods.
 
I'm not a coffee snob. I do like my french presses and burr grinder but part of what I enjoy is the ritual of grinding my beans, boiling water, pressing my grounds. But most coffee is crap I get in specialty coffee shops. I can make better at home. I have no problem with a coffee from McDonald's, Tim Horton's or White Castle in a pinch though. Plus my setup at home keeps my wife out of Starbucks, I save money!
 
I use the Cuisinart brand machine.

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It comes with a reusable filter cup that you can put any type of ground coffee into:

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My top two flavors of K Cups are "Fog Lifter" and "Rev."

I don't find either to be watered down even when I use the 10 oz setting which I use every time.

The only fault of this fine machine is that the first time you use the machine every day it gets stuck some how and you have to apply a technical tap to a certain spot on the side of the machine for the clutch to engage.

When I first got the machine I did not know where this spot was and I would be beating on the machine for minutes at a time. This lasted for a few months until I found the g spot and now a single firm side of fist hit is usually enough.

The best feature of the machine is the rinse cycle. I use it before the first cup and after the last. It flushes 4 oz of hot water through the machine with no kcup inside. I think this prevents build up of funk.
 
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chitwood said:
marked, the wife is talking about getting a Keurig, I may use this thread to direct her elsewhere
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The Keurig is about convenience. But, that comes at a cost. Look at the price per pound for those pods - 2 weeks ago, I was compelled to point out to my wife that at Walmart, those pods, for a variety of brands, were all $25-$30 per pound, for mediocre coffee. Works out to about 75 cents per cup - cheap compared to Starbucks or something, so, not really a break the bank type of purchase. But, for example, I go through about 25 pounds of ground coffee at school each year (top of my head calculation. That's $200 vs. $625 for coffee each year. Again, trivial for many people, but in the grand scheme of things, it's more than some people consider. If that's for 2 people, double it. Is the $850 extra cost at home per year, plus the extra $100 for a Keurig really worth the horrible inconvenience of making a small pot of coffee - a task that mindlessly takes me almost 30 seconds to start each morning?

Okay, so then you get the reusable pod for the Keurig and buy coffee the old-fashioned way. I ask, if you're going to clean out pods, then why the hell did you get a Keurig instead of a cheap, $10 small coffeemaker??

<-- $10 coffeemaker in classroom, $9/lb coffee, and people will often walk down the hall to my room just to smell the coffee when I'm brewing a 4 cup pot in the morning.

Re: those cheap coffeemakers "burn the coffee" - maybe those 16 cup ones, if you leave them on for an hour or so, but the coffee is in my coffee cup and consumed long before the warming plate has a chance to heat it to that point.


Data to back up my claim: http://www.walmart.com/ip/Eight-O-Clock-Original-Medium-Roast-K-Cups-Coffee-18-count/21311564 Cheapest I could find at Wallyworld; $9.38. 18 servings. Shipping weight (includes packaging) .55 pounds. So, around $20 per pound for the cheapest stuff. Compare that to Eight-o-clock coffee sold in bulk: $5.99 per pound at the grocery store. So, you're paying more than triple the cost on coffee for the sake of a trivial amount of convenience.
 
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acheron said:
My Keurig is fine. I wouldn't call it fantastic coffee but it's perfectly satisfactory for making coffee at home. I like the Tully's k-cups.

If you don't like it though, go with a French press.
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I prefer the Stark K-cups, you can smell the dire wolf.
 
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