Keurig coffee-maker reset switch

[gfweb]

So today, with guests coming, both of the guest Keurig pod things had no power.

 

Turns out this is a thing.  There's a thermal switch inside that shuts off current at some temp.  Why in both of two unused units...who knows?

 

Anyway you take the cowling off...not easy or designed to be done...I avoided snapping stuff off...and put a paper clip in a little hole and turned it back on.

 

Questions arise.  If a switch is there to be reset...why is it so hard to get-at. Why not mount it externally and call it a reset button? Not very German if you ask me.

[Maison Rustique]

Every Keurig I ever had got issues and had to be returned. They finally said it had happened so many times with us that they would not accept another return. I got a Ninja. No problems, but now that it is just me and I only drink about 1 1/2 cups a day, I'm going back to my Melitta pour over and/or French press.

[gfweb]

Update

The two units were dead again this morning. They had made coffee last night.

Keurig is dead to me.

[YvetteMT]

This is timely.....my Kuerig (pre 2018) is slowly giving up the ghost. There's a Ninja on sale at Costco and a Keurig.

@Maison Rustique did your Ninja use Kcups? Did you like it?  (I don't function well enough in the morning for anything difficult.  So while I LOVE pour over, I know damned well it won't be happening at 530am.  I had an ex that would make pourover for me in the morning,  was his best quality!)

[Maison Rustique]

43 minutes ago, YvetteMT said:

This is timely.....my Kuerig (pre 2018) is slowly giving up the ghost. There's a Ninja on sale at Costco and a Keurig.

@Maison Rustique did your Ninja use Kcups? Did you like it?  (I don't function well enough in the morning for anything difficult.  So while I LOVE pour over, I know damned well it won't be happening at 530am.  I had an ex that would make pourover for me in the morning,  was his best quality!)

No, I purposely got one that does not take K-cups. But you can make a single cup or a pot, so it is flexible. K-cups got too expensive for me and are not recyclable, so I didn't want them anymore.

[chromedome]

Did not know about the reset switch, so that's useful knowledge. 

I guess maybe GF and I are outliers? She got her Keurig before we were a couple, when she worked at Sears, so it dates from.. I dunno, 2012 or 2013?... and is still working fine. We use the refillable K-cups, partly because of frugality and partly because (in my case) I maintain that the factory-made K-cups (8-10g) don't hold enough coffee to make an adequate cup, even at the smallest 6oz setting. With the refillables I can use 15-18g, which is rather more adequate. 

 

I still have/use my Aeropress and French press, but I have to reset the grinder to use the French press, and both of 'em take more time in the morning than I'm willing to invest (with you on that one, Yvette), and... now that I'm stuck with decaf (medical reasons) it just doesn't seem to matter so much anymore.