K-cup Coffee without Electricity in our TC
We have a Keurig coffee maker in TC that we love. It is very useful to quickly make hot water when we need it and it makes great coffee. However, it is only useful when we are connected to electricity. So what I did was to cannibalize a broken Keurig machine to make a K-cup coffee maker that uses no electricity.
I was fortunate enough to find a mist making devise at a thrift store for $2. This has a pump in it that pressurized the water reservoir and forced water through a hose with a mist head on it: used to keep you cool on hot days. Anyways, I cut the mist head off the end of the hose so it would fit into the silicon tubing that was used in the Keurig.
Disassembling the Keurig was not that easy, they are made tough. However I managed to get the K-cup holder part off in one piece and used some of the tubing elsewhere in the machine to extend the tubing that lead into the holder. The black hose from the mist maker fit perfectly into the silicon tubing and does not leak.
All you have to do is to heat up water on a gas stove and pour it into the mister's reservoir, screw on the pump, and pump the hot water through the Keurig part. For us, we use two reservoir's worth of hot water to make two large cups of coffee, but we like our coffee weak. Most people will probably only need one reservoir full of hot water for their coffee.
I did a test and it worked perfectly. We are going camping this 3-day weekend and will report if it holds up to being used multiple times in 3 days.
I was fortunate enough to find a mist making devise at a thrift store for $2. This has a pump in it that pressurized the water reservoir and forced water through a hose with a mist head on it: used to keep you cool on hot days. Anyways, I cut the mist head off the end of the hose so it would fit into the silicon tubing that was used in the Keurig.
Disassembling the Keurig was not that easy, they are made tough. However I managed to get the K-cup holder part off in one piece and used some of the tubing elsewhere in the machine to extend the tubing that lead into the holder. The black hose from the mist maker fit perfectly into the silicon tubing and does not leak.
All you have to do is to heat up water on a gas stove and pour it into the mister's reservoir, screw on the pump, and pump the hot water through the Keurig part. For us, we use two reservoir's worth of hot water to make two large cups of coffee, but we like our coffee weak. Most people will probably only need one reservoir full of hot water for their coffee.
I did a test and it worked perfectly. We are going camping this 3-day weekend and will report if it holds up to being used multiple times in 3 days.
