Keurig Requirement for 'Officially-Licensed Coffee ONLY' Defeated by Simple Hack bwahahahahaha

[tomm2thumbs]

I don't know a soul who has one of these Keurig machines that only allows consumers to brew 'official Keurig authorized coffee', but you have to laugh at the simple fix that makes the company's 'technology' instantly obsolete. I don't imagine Keurig thought their fancy engineering 'trick' to try and horde coffee business to themselves would end up making them into a laughing stock online, but I personally can't stop laughing at this... hope those in charge of spending gobs of money engineering this state-of-the-art technology for the company are suitably rewarded.

FREEDOM TO COFFEE DRINKERS!!!!

Love the person who figured out the hack was so simple that it makes you wonder how this slipped through the Keurig corporate 'thinkers' of their company....


link to Keurig hack information



** added 2nd video with more brewing cup & drink-size options **

FUN STUFF!

[tomm2thumbs]

1. Corporate Greed getting its just desserts.... Keurig, are you mad bro?

(still laughing)

[tularetom]

2. LOL, I'm gonna try it in the morning

I'd try it right now but I don't have any of the unofficial coffee.

Actually I like the single cup coffee machine because my wife doesn't partake. So everyday I'd get up, make a whole carafe of coffee, drink one cup, decide I didn't want anymore and throw the rest in the sink. I'm spending more with the Keurig machine, but not a lot. But if I can save by using the off brand coffee, I'll do it.

[Sherman A1]

10. Just the opposite here

I get up and have probably 2 pots of coffee and perhaps a 3rd during the day. A K machine would be a real waster for me.

[Fortinbras Armstrong]

13. I use a one cup French press.

It gives me one cup of coffee, brewed from ground beans, just the way I want it.

[SCVDem]

19. I have a 4 cup Mr Coffee

I drink 2 of these before my SHORT commute to work.

The coffee is always fresh and almost as fast as a K cup type.

[tomm2thumbs]

3. wonder if there will be a class-action lawsuit as apparently it won't brew older Keurig K-cups

Especially for folks that bought a heap'n amount of official Keurig coffee k-cups (company licensed and authorized by Keurig) prior to them printing this 'magic' element on the top to allow the machine to function.

This oughta be good.

[Major Nikon]

7. My guess is there will be and here's why

The problem is the way Keurig went about marketing and selling their new brewers. If you look on the box, you'll find little to no information about compatibility with the older cups and neither will you find much in their product manuals or even on their web site. If you dig around, you'll find information about their new "cups" and allegedly how much better they are, but virtually nothing on backwards compatibility. To add insult to injury when you go to buy K-cups there's very little manufacturer's info available on whether or not they are compatible with the new brewers. Some of them publish compatibility and some don't, including those that ARE compatible with the new brewers.

My guess is that not only is Keurig going to get their asses sued, but people are going to start abandoning their brewers in favor of more compatible models.

[Thinkingabout]

16. I think some action has been taken in Canada against Keurig and green mountain.

[silverweb]

4. This delights me no end.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I hate those damned hard-pod coffee machines. So much wasteful plastic packaging of the single-serving coffee pods!

There are plenty of excellent, less expensive, less restrictive, single-serve coffee makers that use your choice of loose coffee.

So glad Kreuger lost this attempt at monopoly!

[Daemonaquila]

33. No reason to hate them.

First off, you don't have to use the single use cups for the machine. There is a generic plastic brew cup you can buy that will brew ANYTHING you want. Grind one small batch of beans, toss it in, have your coffee, rinse, reuse.

Second, Keurigs are anything but wasteful if you aren't a wasteful person. It would be extremely wasteful for me to buy coffee and brew a whole pot. I can't drink more than a cup or two per day without kind of poisoning myself, so the cups are perfect for me if I want some variety, especially the ones made by 3rd parties that are minimal plastic - just a mesh "tea bag" bottom on a rim. Or, I just have my usual coffee in a sealed jar and use the reusable cup. WAY less waste than a conventional coffee maker, the way I drink.

[silverweb]

34. The reusable brew cups make a big difference.

[font color="navy" face="Verdana"]I forgot that they were recently made available and was thinking only of the disposable ones. There are a lot of people, though, who just won't bother with something they can't use once and toss.

I agree with you about not brewing a whole pot if you're not going to drink it, but there are other good coffee pots designed for just one or two cups.

It's all about ultimate convenience for many, who have no thought for plastic waste in the environment or anything but their own immediate pleasure, and that selfishness is what makes me angry.

Anyway, thanks for the update!

[Spitfire of ATJ]

5. "FREEDOM TO COFFEE DRINKERS!!!!"

Seriously?

Try this:

[Kablooie]

6. I use a mill n brew. Miles better than the watery coffee from kcups.

I fill with water, toss in whole beans and in 5 minutes I have a pot of coffee from freshly ground beans.

[lib87]

8. Love My Keurig Reusable Cup

But I don't like them trying to force users to use keurig only k-cups. I hope the hack video goes viral.

[Thinkingabout]

17. Unfortunately the reusable cup does not work normally in 2.0, you can close the

Lid slowly and perhaps several times to get hot water and with the cup in you can get your brew but I am going to try the cut ring trick. I purchased the 2.0 because of the carafe option but did not know I could not use the reusable cups or any k-cup.

[stonecutter357]

18. you can add a rubber band just below the lid for a gasket and it won't leak.

[lib87]

24. Boom!

I hope stonecutter's hack works for you!

[SoapBox]

9. Shopping channel QVC just finished having a personal sized Keurig

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As their Today's Special Value...they sold tens of thousands.

Not that I watched or anything (cough, cough) but I did notice the lack of comment about using a "My K-cup" thing. They also were really hitting the amount of different types of coffee brands they sell.

This is very interesting after seeing all those people buy a Keurig machine.

I did watch the video and then saw how many hacking videos there are...this is also posted all over the QVC Community Forum boards in the Kitchen/Coffee area. So the word has gotten around.

[pansypoo53219]

11. pfft. i don't need no steenkin keuig.

[hobbit709]

12. Overpriced Krappy Koffee from Keurig.

I don't drink fru-fru coffee to start with. And I make a pot at a time since I drink a pot at a time.

[RoccoR5955]

14. WTF?!?!

Official Coffee.
WTF is the world coming to?
This corporate greed keeps getting worse every day.
I want out!
Maybe I can hack my way out of the US, and into a different country.
Maybe I can hack my way out of this capitalist universe, and into one where people are more reasonable.

Thanks for the hack, I'll never use it. I still use a drip pot. It's getting a bit harder these days to justify these new things. The Keurig never caught my eye any way.

[LiberalElite]

15. They use Keurig machines where I work -

I have a gift card for Macys and was really tempted to buy one but - I can's justify using those single serve cups and sending more crap to the landfill (or ocean).

[DetlefK]

20. Congratulations. Your caffeine-addiction is responsible for a new onslaught of plastic trash.

http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2014/03/coffee-k-cups-green-mountain-polystyrene-plastic

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

27. and what about the water to clean the pot, the filter etc.

these work well for me, as I only have one cup at home each morning.

[DetlefK]

30. Water gets recycled. The coffee-capsule ends up in a landfill.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

32. well, when you get people to stop using diapers, I may think about my 25 packages a month.

[packman]

21. Paid $9.79 for 12 of those cups

Coffee isn't a nickel a cup anymore. That's around 80cents a cup and I'm thinking of going back to the old drip carafe.

[pocoloco]

22. Single cup of coffee?

Hario Coffee Mill and AreoPress works for me.

[0nirevets]

23. Keurig: another spendy retail status gadget

My sister has one, pays a premium for the little cups and tosses them in the trash. She's on disability, so I don't get the cost part.

First time I ever tried Keurig at her house on Thanksgiving. Decent cup of coffee, but not better than my "old fashioned" Mr Coffee brew and one scoop of regular-grind generic coffee per cup. Filtered water (using a filter pitcher because I no longer waste plastic bottles). A can (aluminum) of coffee lasts me nearly a month plus I compost the coffee grinds (guerilla tactics, flower beds , and a package of recycled paper filters lasts almost a year. Save the planet, plus I'm saving big and not giving my money to Keurig.

I'm no saint, but as liberals/progressives we might want to rethink our own consumerism.

Peace and Love

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

25. thanks, i actually had this problem this morning. now it will not have to waste the older k-cups

[AnnieBW]

26. Just get a Make-Your-Own Basket

And fill it to use with your Keurig. Unless you have the Vue or something like that, that takes weird sized pods.

[Nobel_Twaddle_III]

28. the problem is the new version does not come with "loose coffee" basket.

that's okay there is a good old Mr. coffee on the counter for that

[indie9197]

29. FYI, you don't need a coffee maker to make coffee

I have a re-usable aluminum mesh filter that I put coffee in, put that in a sauce pot, and pour boiling water in it. I do that every day, and have no desire to "upgrade".

[roody]

31. The best coffee is made by pouring boiling

water through a cone and filter and freshly ground beans.