Keurig B30 Mini Personal Single-Serve Brewing System, Black

5 Responses to “Keurig B30 Mini Personal Single-Serve Brewing System, Black”

1. Robert DeGutis says:

   January 31, 2010 at 9:52 am

   As other reviews have said, once the hot chocolate is brewed it is bland, bland, bland. Why? Because if you look in the used k-cup, there’s the rest of it sitting in the bottom of the cup! Brainless. Better that it’s NOT in your cup because of the ARTIFICIAL SWEETENER that is NOT LISTED on the package gives it the tell-tale metallic taste. That’s inexcusable, they need to label their products has having an artificial sweetener and artificial flavor, ugh. In addition, it’s a trash creating machine, all those k-cups in landfills. Shame.
   
   Stay away.
   Rating: 2 / 5
2. Mark Michener says:

   January 31, 2010 at 11:06 am

   Here are the OBJECTIVE shortcomings of the B30 “entry level” Keurig (I cannot speak for its higher-priced brethren.)

   1) Like its rival Senseo [a MUCH more convenient machine], you need some serious vertical real estate to pop the top open. Which means sliding the machine to the front of your kitchen countertop so it can clear the cabinets above. You pour the water in, then slide it back. Fine – if you’re not using the counterspace for anything else.

   2) The Keurig B30 heats its water to a whopping 160 degrees, not even close to an adequate brewing temperature (unless you’re talking about tea.) Brew coffee into a room temperature mug, and you’ve got a 150 degree cup of coffee. Better drink it REALLY fast so it doesn’t get cold. Like to add milk, you say? Uh-uh… unless you heat the milk first.

   3) It has an operating sequence that defies logic. If you don’t follow it TO THE LETTER, the machine shuts downs, and you have to start over.

   4) The K-cups take up a LOT of cabinet space.

   Keurig is one of those darlings-of-the-month products that everyone just HAS to have. I know a LOT of folks who are all atwitter and goosebumply over these machines. But, much as I love them, most wouldn’t know a good cup of coffee from a bowl of swill. These are the kind of people we all know who simply HAVE to have all the latest cool stuff… and the credit card debt to go with it. But I digress…

   If you want REAL convenience at a low cost, and don’t mind a) a six ounce cup or b) using two pods and running the machine through two sequences for an American-sized cup, BUY A SENSEO. It’s not quite as elegant as the Keurig (unless you buy the high-end model), but it heats to an honest 180 to 185 degrees; a blind man riding a horse backward could easily see that its easier to operate than the Keurig; and you can store at least a month’s supply of pods in the space of a cereal box.
   Rating: 2 / 5
3. garciamanx says:

   January 31, 2010 at 11:17 am

   Went out an bought this at Kohl’s because I just had to have this new gimmick.
   
   1) The hot chocolate was disgusting. OK, did they taste test this product before they put it on the market? I can’t imagine someone in quality control sipping the hot chocolate and going “hmmmm delicious, the public is going to love this”. This person should be fired from his taste testing job.
   
   2) Coffee comes out very weak, very lukewarm and very unappealing. I even used cold filtered spring water thinking it would improve the taste…NOT.
   
   3) Temperamental machine. Every other 3rd or 4th brew, it would stop brewing. I would open & shut everything, turn off & on, unplug and plug back in several times while swearing like a truck driver. I also switched out the mugs/cups thinking the stupid ‘sensors’ weren’t registering. After dealing with this intermittent problem for about a month, I couldn’t take it anymore and returned it to Kohl’s. Since I possessed about 100 k-cups in my cupboard, I decided to exchange it for a new one. Well, have the new one about 2 months now and I’m experiencing the same
   
   problem but not as often as before.
   
   4)You get what you pay for….$60 is very cheap to pay for a pod coffee maker and expect a good cup of coffee.
   
   5)Cannot recommend this cheap product. Save your money and the aggravation of owning this machine…don’t buy.
   
   Rating: 1 / 5
4. beth says:

   January 31, 2010 at 1:01 pm

   this should have come with a carring case. there’s one available now but it’ll put you out $20. They also need to make a hard shell to put this thing in. I didn’t throw away the box because the box was/is designed to mold/hug the mini perfectly but is now falling apart(i.e. the box). Yes, the soft carrying case is nice but u need a hard shell if packing your car for a trip is tight. Otherwise this is a solid product
   Rating: 4 / 5
5. Chase Smith says:

   January 31, 2010 at 3:59 pm

   We have owned a Tassimo coffee maker that is still working PERFECTLY after 2 years of owning. All of the coffee it makes is 100% perfect, and it also has a reservoir that keeps the water in it so you don’t have to fill it up EVERY single time (and making a mess with it like with the Keurig Mini).

   I decided that since Keurig offers a bit more choice and is a bit more “popular”, that maybe it was more popular for a reson.

   I was wrong.

   The first “K-Cup” I made was the hot chocolate… And it was absolutely disturbing. The whole thing looked like brown water with many odd-looking particles on the top. I decided to taste it, and it tasted a TAD bit better than it looked, but that is not saying much. The hot chocolate tastes like hot chocolate flavored water. Let’s just say after a couple sips, I threw it down the drain.

   Next, I tried the “Donut shop blend” or something like that, and it tastes 100 times worse than the hot chocolate. The coffee was unbelievably weak and sour, and tastes absolutely horrible. Threw it down the drain after 1 sip.

   Then I tried the $20 “my k-cup” accessory, and it made even worse coffee. Put a little less than the recommended “2 tbsp per 8oz” as I always use less than that when I use my drip coffee maker (the unbelievably great Cuisinart Brew Central DCC-1200). And guess what? The coffee was essentially water with grounds at the bottom. And it’s unbelievably slow compared to the Tassimo as well.

   I will definitely be taking this back to the store, as it was around $200, when I would have taken it back if it were only $20.

   Let’s just hope Tassimo becomes more popular, because it is a trillion times better than the Keurig mini, and so much more.
   Rating: 1 / 5