Does the brain trust know if this model takes the refillable cups?Would like to surprise the wife but we drink too much coffee to buy the standard cupsThanks,Mike

We have 3 different Kerig models...home, RV and office. All three take the refillable cups.

We really like our Keurig coffee maker, and the ease of making a single cup whenever we want one. After using it for over a year, and drinking at least a full pot each morning. we compared the cost of coffee. Then we got the Mr.Coffee back out and are making an entire pot, 4-5 big mugs, each day for the cost of just one medium Keurig cup. And we buy better coffee and it tastes better. Still save a LOT of money.

Since most of our camping is OFF-ROAD I normally brew my coffee from the 2KW Generator. I am able to do this when we are connected to the generator re-charging our battery banks back up to their 90% charge state each morning.I picked the CUISINART GRIND and BREW DBG-600BC Coffee maker. This brews up a 10-cup CARAFE in 5 or so minutes while running 120VAC from the generator. The coffee is brewed up into the thermos carafe and then completely shuts off not needing any additional power required.We buy the same fresh coffee beans and brand of bottled water to insure the same coffee taste no matter where we are located.With the grinding of fresh beans is utilized we can also grind the beans using a battery operated coffee grinder or low wattage 120VAC Coffee grinder from our Power Inverter setup and can pour hot water from the propane stovetop burner to drip our coffee in one of the COLEMAN 10-cup perculator coffee makers. Once the coffee is brewed we can pour it up into the thermos carafe. The coffee taste is surprisingly the same as being brewed in the Cuisinart coffee maker. A great PLAN B for making same taste coffee. The beauty of both coffee making systems is they are NOT running an electric hotplate all day long to keep the coffee hot. Only requires the use of 120VAC power for about 5 minutes to make a pot of coffee...Have never tried the KEURIG single cup method of making coffee... Have always thought of the coffee taste from one of those being a speciality taste which neither one of us would probably like. I do like the idea of a single cup at a time but wonder how that would work with my OFF-ROAD setup running from the battery banks. I probably would have to fire up my 2kw generator to make a single cup of coffee perhaps... Where we camp we seem to always be in a generator run time restriction area.Roy Ken

The 2.0 did not use the refillable cups. However, I just read that the new ones will. So check on the box. There is a hack out there that allows the 2.0 to use them. For that, check on YouTube.

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cpaulsen
Explorer
Jan 21, 2016
My Keurig.....I use the single and the larger refillable pods.
2112
Explorer II
Jan 21, 2016
edatlanta wrote:
Keurig and Community Dark Roast for me.

Enjoying one right now while catching up on RV.net but not with the Keurig. I found I had to pack the reusable cup full to get it strong enough. Community Dark Roast is a close substitute to Blue Mountain.
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Jan 21, 2016
IAMICHABOD wrote:
Always look to Youtube first

I noticed one comment at that location:
"For the regular coffee drinkers, going the K cup route will typically ended costing you $70 PER POUND OF COFFEE!!!. The reason corporations continue to **** the public is because the public welcomes it with open arms.....do the math."
myself I have a Hamilton Beach IIRC that makes single cups on one side and a pot on the other.
bumpy
2cAmerica
Explorer
Jan 21, 2016
We replaced our earlier model 78 with the Keurg 2.0. It has the fill your-own cup your post address. Great unit with many features we like.
joe_b_
Explorer II
Jan 21, 2016
I am a big Keurig fan, mainly because it allows my wife and I to have the type of coffee or tea that we each prefer. She likes coffees toward the espresso taste and I don't care for that taste at all. With a Keurig we each have what we prefer.

Cost is all relative for each of us. My brother in law was giving me a hard time about the cost of my Keurig coffee when I pointed out to him that the previous night at dinner, I had watched him drink an $8 glass of wine in the restaurant. He had two glasses, which I pointed out was more than what I spent on a week's supply of Keurig coffee.

I recently bought a 2.0 Brewer and it has some problems in that some of my older supply of teas, don't have the ring around the outside of the K cup so won't work in the 2.0 machine. See YouTube, as mentioned above for a hack to solve that problem.

As I understand it, Keurig's patents on the K cup machines are expiring or have expired. Keurig is owned by Green Mountain Coffee, a Vermont based company. Just recently I read that the large German holding company that previously purchased Peets, Seattle's Best and Caribou coffee companies, had just agree to purchase Green Mountain Coffee including the Keurig brand. The 2.0 machines appears to me to be an attempt to force users to buy K cups only from Keurig or others they have licensed to sell K cups. If the OP can fine a Keurig Brewer, that doesn't have the 2.0 as part of the model number, I sure recommend getting that model, such as a K 45 machine, which Amazon and other suppliers still have in stock.
georgelesley
Explorer
Jan 21, 2016
We get the best of both worlds by using the Hamilton Beach flex brew. We use it in the morning for making a 1/2 pot and pour it into a thermos immediately to avoid it tasting like sludge in a few minutes. That lasts the AM. If we want a single cup later or company shows up and wants anything, the single Keurig part of it does the job.

You can get them at Wally world for about 80 bucks.
IAMICHABOD
Explorer II
Jan 21, 2016
I like the little Keurig K 10 small,easy to store, and will take any brand of cup or reuseable without the hassle of the 2.0 hack to get it to work with anything you want to brew.
2gypsies1
Explorer III
Jan 21, 2016
Folks mention the high cost of a cup of Keurig coffee but don't flinch when drinking their beer, wine, liquor, smoking and even a cup of coffee in a restaurant.

We all have vices and pay for them in some way. :)
SparkDr
Explorer
Jan 21, 2016
2gypsies wrote:
Folks mention the high cost of a cup of Keurig coffee but don't flinch when drinking their beer, wine, liquor, smoking and even a cup of coffee in a restaurant.

We all have vices and pay for them in some way. :)

I couldn't agree more. I opened a bottle of Glenfiddich 21 last week and this thread prompted me to go back and do a little math. By my calculations, that's about $0.25 per milliliter for the single malt. A little more math for the conversion and I come up with $7.40 per ounce. K-cups suddenly seem less expensive and for some odd reason, I'm now thirsty. Must be all that math...
Bumpyroad
Explorer
Jan 21, 2016
2gypsies wrote:
Folks mention the high cost of a cup of Keurig coffee but don't flinch when drinking their beer, wine, liquor, smoking and even a cup of coffee in a restaurant.

We all have vices and pay for them in some way. :)

I fail to grasp this statement's application. at home I can have a 20 cent or whatever cup of coffee or a 1.00 cup of coffee. I always only order ice water at any restaurant as I find it foolish to pay the restaurant prices and I understand that a lot of the restaurants profit is via these add ons. one local chinese restaurant charged $1.50 for tea and gave me a tea bag and a cup of hot water. my bad, I "assumed" that tea came with the meal like at 99.9% of the chinese restaurants I have been at.
bumpy