Keurig coffee makers for the RV

Funny running across this, I just bought one today for the fiver. Bought a K200 today on sale for $69, would have bought a k15 but this one was less on sale, has more features like stronger brew settings, and is pretty narrow. I have one in the house and love it. As far as not being able to drain it?, not sure yet what I'll do on that one. You can drain them but it's to much work for camping. I wonder if you run a few cups of white vinegar between trips. I'll probably put it next to my other one the the pantry (enough counter space in there) and rotate usage between the two. :B

Dan

UnSeenBean

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did not see any think that grabbed my attention
although maybe i'll try the house blend someday

The right model for RV. the cheapest. a 10.. In fact I would go even cheaper. (Read on)

Unless you full time you do not use the RV's coffee maker every day. Keurig units can not be emptied of all water.. Unlike a automatic drip coffee maker.. So you end up with stagnant water if you do not use it often and keep running fresh through it.

The cheap ones.. May self empty (not sure) Mine is from Fred's discount stores, which you find in the South East US. IT is the "Store" make, and was like 25 bucks, works as good as my 10 did, if not better, comes with a filter for regular ground as well.

currently in use is a 5 Cup auto-drip.. But then I also got some very good whole bean (From theunseanbean.com) and grind it up here. Nice and fine, in my Mr. Coffee knife mill grinder...



K-Cups are for "Emergency coffee needs" as it were.

Camping World has a single cup model that we use. Very small and basic.

We don't plan on using it on an inverter, it will be either shore power or generator. The only thing we even use the factory installed 400 watt onboard one for is the crock pot while driving or to recharge phones etc while driving

DrewE wrote:
Are you planning on using this with an inverter? If so, take a close look at the wattage of the Keurig machines. Many are up around 1500-1800 watts, which requires a pretty hefty inverter and battery bank. (Obviously they don't use that amount of power for extended periods of time, so the total energy consumption is not too extreme, but it's a big surge to deal with.)

If you're going to be running a generator or connected to shore power, that is of course a lot less of a concern.

My single cup pulls 875w per the display on my Xantrex inverter. I plug it in right at the inverter and it's wired to the batteries (2' run) with 1/0 wire. No issues making multiple cups if you have a solid battery bank. I have 2 T-105's and 300w of solar. Trimetric meter says it's pulling 73 amps....

I take along the K15 small and stores easily,when I am with out power I use One of these just heat the water on the stove and you have your Kureg coffee,they both work on the K Cups and the refillable ones.

We didn't want to have to fill water for each cup of coffee, so we did not get the K15...but it does take up the least amount of space. We have the K45 (now the K55) because we didn't want bells and whistles, we didn't want digital screen, and we didn't want the reservoir in the back (too inconvenient on our RV counter). The K55 has simple buttons with reservoir on the side.

We have a kuerig K15. Makes one cup at a time with no reservoir, so no need to dump and dry.

I like to always have a cup of coffee around to drink. When camping I make up a large 10-cup or more into a Thermos Carafe. This keeps the coffee hot all day for me.

Most often I am running my 2KW generator each morning allowing the on-board converter/charger recharge my battery back from its 50% Charge state to its 90% charge state. This is what my planning of what appliances and 12v and 120VAC items we wanted to run I the one day/night run off our batteries. STarting each day/night run off my batteries does us real good making it until 8Am the next morning when we are usually allowed to run our 2KW Generator due to most places we go to have generator run time restrictions in place.

My Cuisinart Grind and Brew Coffee maker only needs to run from my generator for around 5-mutes to brew up a full pot of fresh bean coffee... Only taking five minutes grind and brew time it is also very easy to brew up a second pot of coffee in the early evening time frame.

I am hearing alot of folks are having good luck using the Keurig single cup brewing when they need a cup of coffee. I may have to look into something like this running for a very short time period off my 90% charged state batteries...

I am having good luck with my Cuisinart grind and brew coffee making however and when using the same brand of bottle water we get our same great coffee taste we like just about anywhere we go...


My backup coffee maker is using the old Coleman Percolator over the stove top and grind up my coffee beans using a portable Mr Coffee grinder. Using the same brand bottle water all the time almost works as well using my Coleman Percolator as well...


Roy Ken