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A great coffee making machine. This is the latest Keurig we have bought and enjoyed. My wife is a coffee devotee and she deserves really good coffee and so I have made sure that we always have a working Keurig with good K-cups. All the machines we have owned make great coffee and all of them have little nitpicky problems. We don’t remove our water reservoir to fill it, but get water from the refrigerator dispenser so it is filtered. Doing that means we to have to pour in water through the lid and this new machine makes that very easy because it is hinged and stays open by itself. This means I no longer have to remove the entire lid. The reservoir is also much larger so it lasts a lot longer between fillings. The display is large and gives clear information about the brewing process and is very easy to modify to your own brewing style and tastes. Very nice functionality of the electronics and settings. The brew process starts very quickly once a selection is made and dispenses quickly and well. The unit we bought has functioned almost flawlessly for about two months now and we are very pleased. Now for the nitpicking… The needle can clog a little more easily than our old unit; while making non-ground coffee drinks like the Café Escapes powder drinks it not-infrequently stops up and requires a little attention. Even so, the new interface makes this easier to address too; it notifies you that you have to raise the lever and remove the k-cup instead of just stopping dispensing. The grate that the cups sit on is both handy and problematic. Handy in that it is easily removed and therefore allows you to use taller cups, problematic in that it doesn’t stay snapped in place firmly and so I am always pushing it back in place. The biggest quibble for me were the instructions that came with it for one simple reason and that is it said to run one cup of clear water through before starting to brew your coffee. I say forget that and run a whole reservoir though it first. I ran a couple of cups first and it still tasted slightly metallic and chemical so I dumped it out and ran a bunch more water through before brewing my coffee. The bottom line for me is that coffee costs a ton more than it did a few years ago, but coffee in our kitchen is a pleasure to drink and very consistent in brew characteristics.

Amit’s burned down my kitchen.
Do not leave plugged in.
Water heater did not turn off. Boiled all remaining water; it ignited while NOT in use.

My eyes sparked at the moment I received this Kuerig coffee maker. It looks fancy, has those functions of changing light color and background color of control panel, has a water filter… which are pretty cool! But, after less than a week use, it broke. As shown in my photo, it asked me to clean the needle. I did needle maintenance following the instructions with that little valve comes with the machine, I disassembled the needle part and clean each of them, make sure water is between the min and max line. Still didn’t work. This problem happened twice in a week use. I just wanted a cup of coffee but it wasted me 5 k-cups and 1 hour in the second broke. Sorry it doesn’t work for me. Returned.

This was my stepping stone from the Keurig 55 which i owned for one week and liked it so much I then upgraded to this machine 575. The convenience of this machine, and the many different flavored coffee pods that are available is awesome.
I know the pods are a little on the expensive side but i don’t care. My feelings are in the long run it ends up cheaper. If I were to go out and purchase bags of all the different flavors i believe it would cost quite a bit more. Then there is the storage problem for all those bags, the mess of the grounds, the grinding of beans, the purchase of filters (cheap I know) but still an added expense.
With the on demand water function i can make instant oatmeal in a mug, roman noodles, and hot chocolate. Throw a tea bag in a mug and choose the hot water function. I no longer have to heat up the tea kettle or wait for the microwave to heat the water.
Also…in regards to the price of the k-cups this particular machine receives all k-cups so far with no problems. I was able to purchase a couple if nice variety packs from big lots which ended up less then 32 cents a cup. Yeah!!!
If there were 10 stars available i would give this machine an 11. I love it!
Eventually i will purchase the carafe but that will have to wait until after the holidays. If you do have a K-Carafe pod it WILL NOT brew without the carafe pot attached to the machine. However, there is a way around that. All you need to do is remove the drip tray. There is a rounded concave shape at the bottom if the carafe that fits into the convex shape at the bottom of the keurig coffee maker. There is a magnet located in the convex shape on the CARAFE. All you need are a couple if small round magnets which get placed into the convex area if the keurig machine. This will allow you to put another vessel to brew carafe size pods. Or you can purchase a my k-carafe that enables you to brew your own favorite coffee. I purchased the housewares brand which as far as I’m concerned were complete crap. They added a chemical plastic smell to my coffee. The smell was so overpowering i didn’t attempt to take a drink. But, on the bright side the magnet worked. 🙂
I found a stainless steel my K-Cup that i am debating on trying but it isnt available in the carafe size.
If you purchase this machine i hope you love it as much as i love mine.

UPDATE: After my initial bragging of this machine sadly i have to change my review. After about 5 cups of coffee and couple brews of tea the machine started putting off a terrible chemical plastic smell that i didnt even want to try and drink. At first i blamed the smell on the my k-cup that i purchased to utilize my own coffee beans. Today I tried the on water demand to make instant oatmeal. It was a new brand then my normal oatmeal so I thought maybe it was the the brand. It tasted and smelled TERRIBLE. Then I decided on a cup of hot tea…the tea was so overbearing with the chemical/plastic smell i had to dump it down the drain. Through research I found this seems to be a common problem with the keurig going all the way back to 2009.
This should not be an issue. I can go to the dollar tree and buy a 10$ coffee maker and not have to drink chemical coffee. Shame on Keurig for not addressing this issue when it has BEEN and issue for several years.
Tonight I have flushed a gallon of vinegar through the tank TWICE… the smell is still there. I also read that the parts may have to air out for up to a week and to be patient. WTH…I didnt buy this coffee maker to be patient…i bought it for convenience AND to be able to make coffee the day I bring it into my home. Another site said to put a few drops if vanilla in the water vessel that the smell of the vanilla will cover up the bad chemical smell…ok…so what about the bad taste how do i cover that up?
i will be contacting amazon to find out what can be done. I am willing to try another machine because I’m in love with the concept of this machine just not in love with drinking/smelling chemicals in ANYTHING i put in my mouth.
Hopefully amazon will replace this keurig with a new one; I will cross my fingers that this machine is just a lemon and i will be back to enjoying all the wonderful things this machine has to offer.
Will keep this post updated.