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4.5
The Saturday morning started early and peaceful... Birds chirping, my tea mix just right, chilling on the net reads.Then the wife woke up and the addiction machine broke. I was pulled into panic mode and it was not pretty.Tried all the usual methods to clean the Keurig 2.0 coffee nozzle and interface. Used the standard hotwater cycle, trickle trickle ... Ran another water cycle and got half a trickle, then a warm water vinegar solution to get what I would estimate at 7.1 oz. The future was looking bright. I then tested the plastic counter space hog, I mean Keurig, with a K-cup using a flavor that nobody in the family seems to care about or would even miss.... No joy! @#%%. Took out the K-cup holder inset apparatus and soaked in warm water soap solution and brushed nozzles attached below the handle with multiple brush types and cotton swabs. Employed magnifying glasses, bright lights, precision tools... Dribble dribble ... error code .... lift handle ... power off and on... retry… continue to step 2. It felt like the early stages of an infinite loop. I wanted to go back to bed and wake up the next day, but the coffee catastrophe prevent that simple opportunity. My tea was getting cold.Upon every test phase to save the $200+ consumer appliance, it was getting closer to the trash can rather than remaining in the kitchen. During my desperate attempt to save this machine and more importantly MY WIFE, she was already searching the web for newer models at Target (Amazon didn't have 1 hour delivery on Keurigs in our area) Did I mention we were in crisis mode?I asked, even pleaded, that we could buy this Orange doohickie nozzle cleaner thing for around $5 bucks and it could be here in a few days. The addiction said NO!!!!While she bought a new Keurig version soon after the local Target store opened, I still went ahead and acquired this Orange Needle Cleaning Tool. After it came I set up the subject Keurig 2.0, filled it with water, plugged it in and went through the instructions of the needle cleaner. (Essentially up and down 5 times with the handle to have the nozzle dip into the water that is contained by the silicon globe contained in the orange needle cleaner housing.) Yeah it really is that simple, no joke! I used hot water.It WORKED! Although on the day of the crises it would have been substantially more rewarding, shelling out $100+ for a newer Keurig model subdued the excitement. Concerned that I was getting a false positive, I ran more 8 oz water cycles and each one worked. I tried K-Cups and they worked. It CONTINUED TO WORK... Now what do I do with a working Keurig that is effectively exorbitant. Off to goodwill, I guess...NOTE: As I myself don't drink coffee but do drink excessive amounts of tea using bags and a microwave, I personally only use the Keurig for others. It appears that the handle open / close process is designed, engineered and linked to K-Cups being 1- use only containers. If you ever try using one K-Cup more than once, it appears that some valve near the top of the needle allows coffee grinds to enter that region of the needle. Using the cups one time has a one way flow direction on the water. Reusing the cups allows the grinds to backflow through a second hole at the top of the K-cup and flow to parts of the needle that can plug it up or obstruct it. This process can occur overtime from normal use but would be greatly accelerated with multiple trips on the same K-cup.What I disliked about the Keurig Needle Cleaning Tool is that I didn't have it in advance before I needed it and before the wife bought a replacement....For any guys out there that may be reading this and thinking "does the wife wear the jeans in this family", let me be clear: coffee is her addiction and she is my addiction... you do the math!
