STOP! Don’t Buy a New Keurig Coffee Maker Before Reading This!
STOP! Don’t Buy a New Keurig Coffee Maker Before Reading This!
UPDATE: Keurig admitted defeat and ended the DRM locks in May 2015
The first thing you need to know is that before now, we were huge Keurig fans. I still prefer the old fashioned pot of coffee but my wife is a much more modest coffee drinker so being able to make one cup at a time is a great fit for her. We are on our second Keurig, having absolutely worn the first one out last year.
So when the new Keurig 2.0 was announced, I knew it was only a matter of time before we owned one. If you aren’t familiar, the new Keurig system has space to hold 4 K-Cups at once so you can make an entire pot instead of just one cup at a time. I figured this would be the thing that would finally make me throw away the old coffee maker I have had for years and make the switch over to be a fully Keurig-only family.
I am SOOOO Glad I Did Some Research!
Turns out, that would have been a disastrous decision financially. You see, Keurig name-brand K-cups are pretty expensive so we rarely buy them. Instead we buy the much cheaper bags of Starbucks coffee, (You know your prices on coffee are crazy when Starbucks can beat you) have the barista grind it really finely and then use a refillable pod to brew Dian’s coffee in the morning. It’s economical and makes a fantastic cup of coffee.
Unfortunately, Keurig didn’t like that people weren’t buying their licensed Keurig K-Cups so with the new 2.0 system, there is a DRM-style lock that makes it impossible to use an after market brand of K-Cup. This means that our current way of making coffee would not work and we would have to go with the far more expensive “official” Keurig K-Cups in order to make coffee. It get’s even crazier when you know that even older official Keurig K-Cups won’t work if they don’t have the new DRM information encoded in them. Do you have a stockpile of K-Cups? Kiss them good-bye.
That Just Isn’t Going to Happen
The worst thing about this change is that this information is not readily available on the box. There are going to be a TON of people who are going to open up up new Keurig 2.0 coffee pots this Holiday season and not be able to make a cup of coffee and have no idea why it won’t work the way they think it should.
So now you have been warned. If a new Keurig coffee pot is on your shopping list, just know that you are going to have to invest heavily in the official Keurig K-Cups in order to get it to actually make coffee. I know that there is no way this will ever happen in my house. If our existing Keurig ever goes kaput, it will be back to the old Mr. Coffee that isn’t as fancy but at least it makes coffee when I want it to.
Looks like there is a workaround if you are willing to go through the trouble. Checkout this video.
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Thanks for the heads up!
Thanks for the heads-up!
You can bypass this by cutting the lid off of the new cups and place it over the lid of the old K Cup or your pod. It’s pretty simple. I do it every day.
I was one of the idiots who bought a keurig 2.0 and absolutely hate it. It doesn’t have the travel mug size available and you can only adjust the heat if you use the more expensive Vue cups in the 2.0. The carafe equals out to 2 fair sized cups of coffee and ends up being more expensive than just using k cups. BTW the carafe has to be hand washed and does not keep coffee hot as advertised. I waited to long to complain thinking it had to me not understanding the directions before called the 800# and now can’t return the darn thing. A very expensive lesson learned.
Well I guess you could pay the real cost of the machine itself…$2000. You don’t because they make up for it in selling you the k-cups. They had to do something to keep people from cheating them out of k- cup sales.
Thanks for the info. I almost bought a new one.
I am selling k cups for 3 dollars a box of 12 for my kids school. Breakfast blend, French roast and salt Carmel
This is our 4th Keruig machine. I can’t use the box full of k-cups that won’t work. I tried the label over the pod lid but I can’t get it to work. Help, Kenyon Hopkins! What am I doing wrong?
OH Gosh, so glad I found this info. I too love “a fresh cup everytime” affect. I mostly use these cafe cups, I am pretty burned out on all that flavored stuff. Will they work in the new Keurig? Oh but I have a big collection of the other for visitors. Don’t they have other machines now that are simular to the Keurig? We liked it so much we bought a single cup one for our RV
Thanks for sharing I appreciate it!
Thanks for sharing I appreciate it!
I bought the stupid Vue! Cannot use Kcups in it nor can you find them in the store. I was ripped off!
Bed bath and beyond has the new k cups. Just saw them last week
We have the Hamilton Beach dual brew. You can brew one serving or a whole pot plus it comes with a basket so you don’t have to use the k type cups at all. We’ve had it for about 3 months and like it fairly well (it could use a couple of design improvements).
Really?? 🙁 I’m giving my babysitter the new 2.0 keurig I got free for a christmas present, now what??
good to know !!!!
Get on you tube. There is a way around that
If one has to cut and re-rig the dam cup, it defeats the whole purpose of having an efficient cup of coffee. Bad move on keyring ‘ s part all around.
Thanks so much, works great now with old k cups!!
It works with ALL keurig cups as long as it has the keurig stamp. You can also you tube it and enter a code to bypass the error
On amazon they have the refillable pod for the 2.0. Costs about $22
You can bypass this by cutting the lid off of the new cups and place it over the lid of the old K Cup or your pod. It’s pretty simple. I do it every day.
I was one of the idiots who bought a keurig 2.0 and absolutely hate it. It doesn’t have the travel mug size available and you can only adjust the heat if you use the more expensive Vue cups in the 2.0. The carafe equals out to 2 fair sized cups of coffee and ends up being more expensive than just using k cups. BTW the carafe has to be hand washed and does not keep coffee hot as advertised. I waited to long to complain thinking it had to me not understanding the directions before called the 800# and now can’t return the darn thing. A very expensive lesson learned.
Thanks for the heads up!
It works with ALL keurig cups as long as it has the keurig stamp. You can also you tube it and enter a code to bypass the error
On amazon they have the refillable pod for the 2.0. Costs about $22
If one has to cut and re-rig the dam cup, it defeats the whole purpose of having an efficient cup of coffee. Bad move on keyring ‘ s part all around.
Thanks so much, works great now with old k cups!!
Really?? 🙁 I’m giving my babysitter the new 2.0 keurig I got free for a christmas present, now what??
Get on you tube. There is a way around that
good to know !!!!
We have the Hamilton Beach dual brew. You can brew one serving or a whole pot plus it comes with a basket so you don’t have to use the k type cups at all. We’ve had it for about 3 months and like it fairly well (it could use a couple of design improvements).
Thanks for the heads-up!
OH Gosh, so glad I found this info. I too love “a fresh cup everytime” affect. I mostly use these cafe cups, I am pretty burned out on all that flavored stuff. Will they work in the new Keurig? Oh but I have a big collection of the other for visitors. Don’t they have other machines now that are simular to the Keurig? We liked it so much we bought a single cup one for our RV
This is our 4th Keruig machine. I can’t use the box full of k-cups that won’t work. I tried the label over the pod lid but I can’t get it to work. Help, Kenyon Hopkins! What am I doing wrong?
I bought the stupid Vue! Cannot use Kcups in it nor can you find them in the store. I was ripped off!
Bed bath and beyond has the new k cups. Just saw them last week
Thanks for sharing I appreciate it!
Well I guess you could pay the real cost of the machine itself…$2000. You don’t because they make up for it in selling you the k-cups. They had to do something to keep people from cheating them out of k- cup sales.
Thanks for the info. I almost bought a new one.
keurig sells a reusable pod that you can out your own coffee in or take the open up the old coffee pods nd empty the coffee into the reusable pod