[Electronics-Talk] likes and dislikes of my Keurig

Sat Jan 6 16:22:02 UTC 2018

Do you have a one-cup measure?  If you do, that's how you could tell. 
That's how I do it.  Measure water in that and pour it into the mug until 
the mug is full.  If you need more than eight ounces, you can fill it a 
second time, pour it in until the mug is full, and then look at how much 
water is left in the measuring cup.  Also, you will need room for milk, if 
you don't drink your coffee black.  I think my currig said the largest cup 
was 16 ounces.  I measured it; it's 12 ounces.  So I guess they figured that 
was a 16-ounce cup with room for milk.  They shouldn't do that; they should 
say the exact amount in the directions that come with it.  Mine has five 
different cup sizes, I think, but they are on the menu.  At least the menu 
doesn't go around and around; it stops at the beginning and end.  So, that's 
how you can find out where you are.  Hit the up or down, which is the right 
or left buttons a bunch of times, until you know that is at the beginning or 
the end, whichever you want to start from, then count up or down until you 
get to the right cup size.  It usually works for me, but sometimes it is 
iffy.  On mine, the menu button is in the middle, and there are left and 
right buttons on that row.  I have to hit the menu button I think six times 
to get to the menu that changes cup size.  When you are done, you hit it 
once to get out of the menu.  The menu below that is supposed to change 
temperature of water, but I haven't been able to make that work.  Nobody 
could find in the manual anything about what the other ones were.  Pam.

-----Original Message----- 
From: Danielle Ledet via Electronics-Talk
Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 10:00 PM
To: Discussion of accessible home electronics and appliances
Cc: Danielle Ledet
Subject: Re: [Electronics-Talk] likes and dislikes of my Keurig

Well I am going to get me one. Erm, another one. I had a K10, but
decided to give it as a gift. Now I just have to decide whether to buy
online or in the store. Thanks for pointing me to the accessible
models and explaining the buttons. I like cocoa and tea and flavored
coffees. Now to figure out what sized mugs I have cuz I don't
remember.

On 1/5/18, Pamela Dominguez via Electronics-Talk
<electronics-talk at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> I find the k cup coffees are stronger than the coffee when you put a scoop
> in a k cup filter.  Pam.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Sandra Streeter via Electronics-Talk
> Sent: Friday, January 05, 2018 4:00 PM
> To: electronics-talk at nfbnet.org
> Cc: Sandra Streeter
> Subject: [Electronics-Talk] likes and dislikes of my Keurig
>
> I bought mine at a reduced price from one of the home-shopping channels,
> almost 3 years ago, and it’s going great! So:
>
> ----Likes:
>
> Faster brewing than the little drip makers (which I still have one of in
> case it dies and I can’t get another right away for whatever reason, or if
> they’ve stopped making accessible models)
> ;
> Accessible, with a little orientation and training from a sighted pal; 
> just
> 2 squarish buttons, the one on the bottom being “on” and the upper, “brew”;
> you can brew up to 16 oz. at a shot, I think—I have a couple mugs that 
> hold
> like 2 cups, and often use them;
> If I want something really exotic, I can buy the K-cups; if more
> run-of-the-mill, I can buy a pkg of ground, and scoop a little into my
> personal K-cup, which I can line with little paper liners or not; most of
> the time, I buy ground, which saves on wasted plastic, and on the expense 
> of
> the K-cups.
>
> You can even make iced tea with a Keurig; often, I’ll use an iced tea mix
> plus some ice cubes in the mug, and just run the hot water. You could also
> make cocoa or soup using the machine—I like those soups in big paper cups
> that you pour hot water over, and I find that heating the water in the
> Keurig and having it discharge over the soup is faster than
> microwave-heating.
>
>
> ----Dislikes, though certainly not deal-breakers:
>
> Doesn’t do a strong black tea, because it is, by definition, 
> quick-brewing;
> if I want a strong tea, I’d have to go with the teas available as K-cups;
> so, most of the time, I nuke my teas, because I do like very strong tea;
>
> If you want your coffee to be as strong as from a dripper, you’d probably
> want to go with dark-roast or espresso, if using the Personal K-cup, so 
> that
> the fast brewing doesn’t take away from the strength. So, I have some
> Dunkin’
> Donuts Pumpkin for when I don’t want terribly strong, and some dark-roast
> with cinnamon; plus, for when I really, really need strength, I go with
> espresso.
>
>
> Sandra
>
> “If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he
> hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music he hears, however
> measured or far away.”
> (Henry David Thoreau)
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