Keurig My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter
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Kitchen and Housewares Reviews of Keurig My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter
Customer Review: Use it if you like coffee you can read a newspaper through
Summary: 2 Stars
I use my Keurig about 3 times a day, 7 days a week. One of the best things I've ever bought. K-cups are excellent but this is on the lacking side. The reason why is the whole point of this filter is re-use but honestly the point of the Keurig is making good tasting single serve drinks super convienent. This is not. Granted it's not hard to clean it but it's not easy either. The grounds don't come out easy from it since water is blasted through it. You have to rinse it and dump most of the grounds through your disposal.
Either way I didn't care because my local coffee shop has the best tasting brew around and they sell beans and wanted to brew their coffee at home. No matter how much of their dark roast I put in, even as far as packing it, it comes out weak. Like fast food coffee which I didn't exactly pay $200 to drink coffee that you could read a newspaper through. The reason why is that the water shoots through it so fast, it can't pull enough out of the grinds. It doesn't have to sit for 5 mins but you don't water shooting through grinds at 200mph either which it does. Using K-cups, the way it is designed it allows the water to sit in the K-cup for a least a short period of time. The water has to come out the small puncture hole at the bottom. This has mesh area that is probably 100 times larger and doesn't slow the stream of water at all.
Instead I get my local brew on by using the single cup filters that sit on the cup with my Keurig. So it comes out exactly like my local shop. Rich, dark and heavenly. I sit the filter on top of the cup, put in a cheap 250 for $0.89 filter with coffee and hit go. Takes a about 45 sec longer to fully drip than a k-cup but well worth it. I toss the filter with the ground in the garbage. Making the coffee is about the same amount of time, clean-up is faster and easier but most importantly the coffee is 10 times better. I spent $1.99 for the plastic filter and what, buy 2,000 filters before I get to the cost of the K-cup filter. You'll ruin the K-cup filter way before that.
So summary, if you care about using a cool attachment that's made specifically for your Keurig get this, otherwise if you want coffee you can taste, easier clean-up and cheaper cost, just use a single serve filter that sits on your coffee cup with your Keurig.
Customer Review: Good coffee!
Summary: 5 Stars
I recieved this filter with my Keurig B40 Elite Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System for Christmas this year, so I cannot review its durability. I have some worries based on the previous reviews, but I'll hope for the best. As far as the coffee this makes, it is great. Of course, it greatly depends on the coffee you use. The coffee I find myself using most in the filter is Peet's Major Dickason's Blend, but I've tried many others and they are all superb. It is hard to believe, but this produces a cup of coffee just as good as a K-Cup. It is nice to be able to fill it to the very top to get a nice strong cup, as well as use coffees not available in K Cups. It also saves a lot of money. I try to use this more than K Cups and that will keep the expense of K Cups low enough for me. Note: Many reviews specify a type of grind, but I find that a medium grind that you would find in a bag of pre-ground works great. Also, filling it to the top leaving a little room works best for me. If this lasts a reasonable amount of time, it is
certainly worth the price to replace it. UPDATE: I have already reviewed this product. I got it this Christmas with a Keurig B40. I got a "good" my k cup. I was worried by the bad reviews about it breaking. Clearly, some of these are made faulty. I found this when i bought a second so I wouldn't have to wash the first over and over. I got a "bad" one. These filters are great, unless you get a bad one. Before you use your new filter, make sure that the top EASILY tightens onto the filter. If it does, you have a good one. If it is difficult, return it go get another. If your are buying in store, check first. If you own a Keurig, you need one of these, but make sure you get the right one! (UPDATE: 6 months later; the filter still works great, but I have found that only coarsely ground coffee will work without it getting clogged. If you are using medium/fine ground coffee and it gets clogged, leaving you with little coffee, use coarsely ground. It took me a while to figure this out. Now it works every time.
Customer Review: Works Great, No Modifications Required!
Summary: 5 Stars
I've had my Keurig for 2 years, and my re-usable K-cup for 1 year. It works perfectly just as it is, as long as you don't overfill it and follow the directions.
Oh, wait...mine didn't HAVE directions.
When I first got it, I won't lie...I screwed it all up. The blasted thing didn't have directions, so I thought the cute little basket went right into the K-cup part of the Keurig. I had not a clue that the black K-cup holder part with the needle that pokes the bottom of the K-cup had to come OUT of my Keurig to put the gray part in.
I made a huge mess.
So, here are the directions for everyone else, so you don't have to be a dummy like me:
1. That place in your Keurig where K-cups normally go? Yeah, it actually comes out of the machine. Really, it does. There are three little tabs you have to push on the rim of it to pull it out. Get that thing out of there. It's not difficult, so if you're being rough with it, stop. It comes out pretty easily. Be careful you don't gouge yourself with the stabby-thingies in the machine.
2. Open up your reusable gray K-cup filter, wash it, and put about a tablespoon of coffee in there. If you like it strong like me, I suggest a finer grind. If you use Folgers, put it on a smaller cup setting or you won't get it very strong. This little bugger is made for just one cup at a time (whereas I can usually get one big cup or two little cups out of a disposable K-cup).
3. PUT THE LID BACK ON (!!!) the gray K-cup filter and put it into the spot where the regular black one usually lives (amazing, it fits!). Close it up and let 'er rip.
4. If you got coffee everywhere, you did something wrong. I know, I know...I didn't want to believe it either. Maybe you didn't put the lid on, or put the cute little basket into the machine without the gray part. Whatever. Either way, it's not the product's fault that you're dumb like me. :o) Start over, figure out what you messed up, and enjoy your coffee when you finally have that forehead-slap moment.
Customer Review: The perfect accessory for my Keurig
Summary: 5 Stars
I received one of these items with my Keurig machine which I purchased elsewhere about 2 years ago. It was an excellent addition to the coffee maker, as I soon realized that purchasing K-cups would get expensive. With the My K-cup item, I get the benefit of the single-serve coffee maker (1 cup of fresh, fast hot coffee without wasting any), and still have the freedom to choose any type of coffee I want. I can even justify buying Starbucks beans since it will still cost less than buying K-cups.
Last month I purchased an additional one on Amazon, mainly in case something happens to the first one, but it is also great for brewing 2 cups into a travel mug (I use the smaller cup size setting for stronger coffee), or just having an extra one on hand so that I don't have to wash the same one every day.
Some people have mentioned having problems with this item, but I have found most problems can be avoided by doing the following:
1)Do not pack the coffee tightly into the cup, or try to fill it completely to the top. A little space is needed at the top, to avoid ending up with a sludgy mess.
2)Make sure the plastic portion, the rim of the cup, and the outside of the cup is free of any coffee that may have spilled over.
3)Make sure the needle part is clean, as residue can affect the dispensing of the coffee (but this is true with the K-cups as well).
The original My K-cup from 2 years ago that came with my brewer (I believe brewer model B50 which I think is not made anymore) still works just fine. I have had no problems with it until a couple of weeks ago when I finally managed to chip a piece of the plastic on the rim of the bottom part....this has actually had no effect on its use, other than requiring a bit more care in putting the top on. I use it a lot, so it's pretty impressive to me that it's lasted this long. The one I ordered from Amazon is exactly the same, except that the color is gray instead of brown. So I am hoping to get a couple of good years out of this one, as well.
Customer Review: Solid build; results take some experimentation (updated 7/11/10)
Summary: 4 Stars
I purchased this immediately off of a retailer site (newegg) when I got my Keurig. This is a must have, but just be prepared to spend some time using beans just to experiment. This thing brews much differently then a k-cup, so you actually have to have a totally different bean grind and bean volume to get a similar result to a K=Cup regular.
My advice, by some cheap beans (WHOLE BEANS) .
1. Grind several different amounts at about 2-3 Tablespoons each. Write down how much time it takes to grind them.
2. Brew a cup of coffee with each different bean grind style, with about 2 tablespoons.
3. Take your favorite tasting batch, and then expirement with the volume amount on that bean grind. (Never pack it totally full, beans fly out everywhere, sort of like how you can't fill a cereal bowl full of cereal and then add milk and expect it to all be kosher)
4. Find your favorite volume and voila! You know now how to brew your own favorite cup.
5. Make sure to write down and save your instructions ;)
Reasons being, everyones grind / grinder is different, everyones taste is different, and with these small k-cups, there isn't much wiggle room for error.
For durability, never turn it on too tight, be very gentle and it will last for a long time.
My future version 2.0 my k-cup, I want it to brew like a regular k-cup!! way too much mesh filter going on here, but you don't get a choice unless you are macgyver.
(Update 7/11/10)
I have since abandoned the reusable k-cup, I still keep it for ready use but I found a much better taste in the coffee from the "Newman's Own" category of dark/medium roast. I guess the Keurig high-point is the brew & go system....and I find it a tad easier to just throw a k-cup in before I go to work as I usually don't have time literally to pour in the right measurement and then clean the filter out after brewing.
Definitely still a must-have in my opinion, but don't expect this to beat a fine tuned k-cup