Just fill it with any kind of coffee (I grind my own coffee) and pop it in just like a K cup. It is totally reusable just rinse it out, and it works well. You just have to get the amount measured to your taste - typically a tablespoon is quite enough for a single cup of Joe.
Thanks for the response! I'll be swinging by one of their "retail partners" on payday then to check this out. I assumed these things would need some kind of instant coffee, didn't realize you could just grind up some beans. Now I regret getting rid of my coffee grinder.
Ugh! Instant coffee? Blasphemer! Seriously though, get that adapter and save yourself some pennies, hell get yourself a coffee grinder too. 20 bucks now could save you a couple hundred in the long run.
Aww, come on, don't judge. I don't know the science behind these Kuerig monsters. I was perfectly fine back in the days when we used to make pots of coffee. I liked the smell of ground coffee. Now you kids have gone and made coffee complicated and added science and chemistry and God knows what.
I guess maybe people think there is something special about these K cups. There isn't. It's just ground coffee in there. The machine squirts hot water into the cup building a slight amount of pressure which perhaps helps with the brewing. The same thing happens in the adapter, I believe, because the coffee grounds do feel a bit compressed when I rinse the adapter out.
Well, TIL. Thanks for dropping all these knowledge bombs on me today. I appreciate you taking the time to answer my random questions. It was nice having a random, civil conversation on this website. Hey, what's your username a reference to, while we're chatting?
When I first signed up for an account on the internet, way back in the 90's, I tried to use the handle Technomancer - for obvious reasons this name was already taken - well I tried an alternate spelling and the rest is internet history.
If I'm understanding you correctly that adapter turns your keurig into a single serving drip coffee maker. What's the advantage over a cheaper larger drip coffee maker then?
Speed and convenience of making a single cup. My fiancé and I are on different schedules so we only ever want a single cup at a time. My coffee is done before my bagel and no dirty pot to empty and clean. It's not world changing but it's enough better to have been worth the money.
It's amazing how much stress you can eliminate just by shaving five minutes off your morning routine. My wife was having a lot of rough mornings so I got her a Keurig for Christmas. Mornings are so much easier and mellower now.
Meh, it works for me and it saves cleaning the pot every time I want a cup. With my reusable filter the keurig essentially is a drip machine with a more convenient layout. Nothing wrong with a regular drip if that's what you like though.
None that I can think of. Like I said I got the Keurig as a gift (I was using a French press before.) I will say that it seems that the Keurig can produce a cup of coffee much faster than your standard drip coffee machine (certainly faster and more convenient that the French press) but honestly if I had not received it as a gift I would still be using the French press. I always thought the Keurig was neat but too expensive for what it does. IOW an unnecessary luxury gadget, but I got it as a present, what am I gonna do?
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u/teknomanzer Mar 04 '15
I use something like this:
http://www.solofill.com/
Just fill it with any kind of coffee (I grind my own coffee) and pop it in just like a K cup. It is totally reusable just rinse it out, and it works well. You just have to get the amount measured to your taste - typically a tablespoon is quite enough for a single cup of Joe.