Keurig My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter Review.
"Great Little Product" 2007-05-21
By Big Dog (Dearborn MI. USA)
Very simple to use and no problem if you read and follow directions. Use coarse coffee for best results. Shake a regular K-cup, you can hear the grounds which means the coffee is coarse. Be gentle when you put the top on. It goes on very easily; no force required. Fill the little basket to just below the plastic rim. Cleaning is no problem. Right after the coffee brews brews rinse the lid and holder under the faucet and use the hose sprayer to clean the basket and it gets all the residue out of the mesh. I have a Kroger store near me which carries different blends of Millstone ground coffee in little 1.75oz bags for $1.59. You can pour the coffee from the little bag directly into the basket. Like others I do recommend doing this over the sink for any stray coffee grounds.
"Good coffee!" 2008-01-03
By CJ (Northeastern US)
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.
"6-Month Owner and Heavy User of "My K-Cup"" 2010-01-12
By Ronnie (Northern VA)
So I, like everyone else, bought the Keurig because it was the only unit on the market that offered the choice of either using the proprietary coffee pods or your own coffee. I am a heavy user (grad student) and would simply not be able to afford the actual k-cups all the time. I now keep them around for visiting friends or those days when I need to brew a quick cup before going somewhere (of course I splurge every now and then and have a couple of cups of Coffee People Jet Fuel or Black Tiger).
My K-Cup has saved me loads of cash and to date, it has lasted 6 months of heavy use (6 to 10 cups per day) I am not sure how folks are breaking theirs regularly. Below are some hints that I use for brewing a strong cup of coffee.
1. Best Cup of Coffee. First you must start with good coffee to brew good coffee. Max-house just isn't going to do the trick. The strongest mass-market brand I have found is Folgers Black Silk which may be good for those who like it semi-strong. I find, however, that purchasing premium coffee by the pound is still much cheaper than the branded k-cups. For real strong coffee you should experiment with "SB" Italian Roast, French Roast and Espresso Roast found in your local grocery store or here on Amazon. Not to mention if you read the coffee bag closely you will discover that an empty bag can be traded for free cup at your local SB store. I also find that if I buy the bag in whole bean and use the store's self-serve grinder to grind it down to the setting right between drip (course grind) and espresso (fine grind), I get a better brew out of the My K-cup. Be advised however, at the bottom of your coffee cup will likely have some very fine grinds in it (not at all like getting regular grounds in your coffee, these will be very fine and mostly noticeable by sight alone when all the coffee is gone).
2. Rapid Fire Use of a Single My K-cup. Now, everyone knows that when the big name coffee chain store makes your espresso, they do not wash out the little handle thing that the grounds go in. instead, they simply bang it in the trash and refill it with fresh grounds and then brew. So why would we insist on rinsing with water every time we want to make a successive cup of coffee. Instead, here is what I do: Take the filter basket over to your trash can and hold it upside down with two fingers. Now flick the plastic between the screens (all 4 of them) a time or two. Then give one final flick on the bottom and it should be clean enough to simply fill it back up again and brew another cup. For the first brew of the day, I usually do a full cleaning of My K-Cup. An additional hint is that I bought a nice stainless steel canister to hold my bulk bought coffee and I use a stainless steel teaspoon measuring spoon as my scooper. Using a teaspoon scooper allows me to get coffee into the filter basket without getting it all over the sides of My K-cup and the counter.
"Everyday Use" 2006-11-05
By Ben Trimble
I now use the reusable filters at all times.
I have found I like Tullys Coffe the best and I
can get it locally. I drink 5 to 10 cups of coffee a
day, and I its not too expensive using ground
coffee.
"Does what it is supposed to..." 2007-02-20
By Jane (Florida)
It definitely works and does what I expected it to do, and is certainly easy enough to use. However, I thought that I would use it much more to save money because those K-Cups are expensive. I found, after all, that the reason I bought the Keurig was for the ease/cleanup of the K-Cups! It is good to have though, should I run out of K-Cups or if there is a flavor I want that doesn't come in K-Cups.
By Big Dog (Dearborn MI. USA)
Very simple to use and no problem if you read and follow directions. Use coarse coffee for best results. Shake a regular K-cup, you can hear the grounds which means the coffee is coarse. Be gentle when you put the top on. It goes on very easily; no force required. Fill the little basket to just below the plastic rim. Cleaning is no problem. Right after the coffee brews brews rinse the lid and holder under the faucet and use the hose sprayer to clean the basket and it gets all the residue out of the mesh. I have a Kroger store near me which carries different blends of Millstone ground coffee in little 1.75oz bags for $1.59. You can pour the coffee from the little bag directly into the basket. Like others I do recommend doing this over the sink for any stray coffee grounds.
By CJ (Northeastern US)
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.
By Ronnie (Northern VA)
So I, like everyone else, bought the Keurig because it was the only unit on the market that offered the choice of either using the proprietary coffee pods or your own coffee. I am a heavy user (grad student) and would simply not be able to afford the actual k-cups all the time. I now keep them around for visiting friends or those days when I need to brew a quick cup before going somewhere (of course I splurge every now and then and have a couple of cups of Coffee People Jet Fuel or Black Tiger).
My K-Cup has saved me loads of cash and to date, it has lasted 6 months of heavy use (6 to 10 cups per day) I am not sure how folks are breaking theirs regularly. Below are some hints that I use for brewing a strong cup of coffee.
1. Best Cup of Coffee. First you must start with good coffee to brew good coffee. Max-house just isn't going to do the trick. The strongest mass-market brand I have found is Folgers Black Silk which may be good for those who like it semi-strong. I find, however, that purchasing premium coffee by the pound is still much cheaper than the branded k-cups. For real strong coffee you should experiment with "SB" Italian Roast, French Roast and Espresso Roast found in your local grocery store or here on Amazon. Not to mention if you read the coffee bag closely you will discover that an empty bag can be traded for free cup at your local SB store. I also find that if I buy the bag in whole bean and use the store's self-serve grinder to grind it down to the setting right between drip (course grind) and espresso (fine grind), I get a better brew out of the My K-cup. Be advised however, at the bottom of your coffee cup will likely have some very fine grinds in it (not at all like getting regular grounds in your coffee, these will be very fine and mostly noticeable by sight alone when all the coffee is gone).
2. Rapid Fire Use of a Single My K-cup. Now, everyone knows that when the big name coffee chain store makes your espresso, they do not wash out the little handle thing that the grounds go in. instead, they simply bang it in the trash and refill it with fresh grounds and then brew. So why would we insist on rinsing with water every time we want to make a successive cup of coffee. Instead, here is what I do: Take the filter basket over to your trash can and hold it upside down with two fingers. Now flick the plastic between the screens (all 4 of them) a time or two. Then give one final flick on the bottom and it should be clean enough to simply fill it back up again and brew another cup. For the first brew of the day, I usually do a full cleaning of My K-Cup. An additional hint is that I bought a nice stainless steel canister to hold my bulk bought coffee and I use a stainless steel teaspoon measuring spoon as my scooper. Using a teaspoon scooper allows me to get coffee into the filter basket without getting it all over the sides of My K-cup and the counter.
By Ben Trimble
I now use the reusable filters at all times.
I have found I like Tullys Coffe the best and I
can get it locally. I drink 5 to 10 cups of coffee a
day, and I its not too expensive using ground
coffee.
By Jane (Florida)
It definitely works and does what I expected it to do, and is certainly easy enough to use. However, I thought that I would use it much more to save money because those K-Cups are expensive. I found, after all, that the reason I bought the Keurig was for the ease/cleanup of the K-Cups! It is good to have though, should I run out of K-Cups or if there is a flavor I want that doesn't come in K-Cups.
