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Keurig My K-Cup Reusable Coffee Filter | 
| Brand: Keurig
Category: Kitchen
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $12.49
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Seller: Amazon.com
Rating:  544 reviews
Sales Rank: 22
Autographed: No
Memorabilia: No
Batteries Included: No
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 3 x 3 x 5
MPN: 5048
Model: 5048
UPC: 649645050485
EAN: 0649645050485
ASIN: B000DLB2FI
Release Date: January 15, 2006
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| Features:
| • | Reusable K-Cup coffee filter exclusive to the Keurig Home Brewing System | | • | Allows users to use their own gourmet ground coffee in a Keurig brewer | | • | Works in Keurig home brewers B40 Elite, B50 Ultra, and B60 Special Edition | | • | Does not fit B100, B100P, or B2000/3 Keurig brewers | | • | Rinse clean under running water after each use |
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Product Description
Keurig 5048 K Cup
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Showing reviews 1-5 of 544
 Great Little Product May 21, 2007
Big Dog (Dearborn MI. USA)
20 out of 20 found this review helpful
Very simple to use and no problem if you read and follow directions. Use coarse coffee for best results. Shake a regular K-cup, you can hear the grounds which means the coffee is coarse. Be gentle when you put the top on. It goes on very easily; no force required. Fill the little basket to just below the plastic rim. Cleaning is no problem. Right after the coffee brews brews rinse the lid and holder under the faucet and use the hose sprayer to clean the basket and it gets all the residue out of the mesh. I have a Kroger store near me which carries different blends of Millstone ground coffee in little 1.75oz bags for $1.59. You can pour the coffee from the little bag directly into the basket. Like others I do recommend doing this over the sink for any stray coffee grounds.
Good coffee! January 3, 2008
CJ (Northeastern US)
14 out of 14 found this review helpful
I recieved this filter with my Keurig B40 Elite Gourmet Single-Cup Home-Brewing System for Christmas this year, so I cannot review its durability. I have some worries based on the previous reviews, but I'll hope for the best. As far as the coffee this makes, it is great. Of course, it greatly depends on the coffee you use. The coffee I find myself using most in the filter is Peet's Major Dickason's Blend, but I've tried many others and they are all superb. It is hard to believe, but this produces a cup of coffee just as good as a K-Cup. It is nice to be able to fill it to the very top to get a nice strong cup, as well as use coffees not available in K Cups. It also saves a lot of money. I try to use this more than K Cups and that will keep the expense of K Cups low enough for me. Note: Many reviews specify a type of grind, but I find that a medium grind that you would find in a bag of pre-ground works great. Also, filling it to the top leaving a little room works best for me. If this lasts a reasonable amount of time, it is
certainly worth the price to replace it. UPDATE: I have already reviewed this product. I got it this Christmas with a Keurig B40. I got a "good" my k cup. I was worried by the bad reviews about it breaking. Clearly, some of these are made faulty. I found this when i bought a second so I wouldn't have to wash the first over and over. I got a "bad" one. These filters are great, unless you get a bad one. Before you use your new filter, make sure that the top EASILY tightens onto the filter. If it does, you have a good one. If it is difficult, return it go get another. If your are buying in store, check first. If you own a Keurig, you need one of these, but make sure you get the right one! (UPDATE: 6 months later; the filter still works great, but I have found that only coarsely ground coffee will work without it getting clogged. If you are using medium/fine ground coffee and it gets clogged, leaving you with little coffee, use coarsely ground. It took me a while to figure this out. Now it works every time.
6-Month Owner and Heavy User of "My K-Cup" January 12, 2010
Ronnie (Northern VA)
11 out of 11 found this review helpful
So I, like everyone else, bought the Keurig because it was the only unit on the market that offered the choice of either using the proprietary coffee pods or your own coffee. I am a heavy user (grad student) and would simply not be able to afford the actual k-cups all the time. I now keep them around for visiting friends or those days when I need to brew a quick cup before going somewhere (of course I splurge every now and then and have a couple of cups of Coffee People Jet Fuel or Black Tiger).
My K-Cup has saved me loads of cash and to date, it has lasted 6 months of heavy use (6 to 10 cups per day) I am not sure how folks are breaking theirs regularly. Below are some hints that I use for brewing a strong cup of coffee.
1. Best Cup of Coffee. First you must start with good coffee to brew good coffee. Max-house just isn't going to do the trick. The strongest mass-market brand I have found is Folgers Black Silk which may be good for those who like it semi-strong. I find, however, that purchasing premium coffee by the pound is still much cheaper than the branded k-cups. For real strong coffee you should experiment with "SB" Italian Roast, French Roast and Espresso Roast found in your local grocery store or here on Amazon. Not to mention if you read the coffee bag closely you will discover that an empty bag can be traded for free cup at your local SB store. I also find that if I buy the bag in whole bean and use the store's self-serve grinder to grind it down to the setting right between drip (course grind) and espresso (fine grind), I get a better brew out of the My K-cup. Be advised however, at the bottom of your coffee cup will likely have some very fine grinds in it (not at all like getting regular grounds in your coffee, these will be very fine and mostly noticeable by sight alone when all the coffee is gone).
2. Rapid Fire Use of a Single My K-cup. Now, everyone knows that when the big name coffee chain store makes your espresso, they do not wash out the little handle thing that the grounds go in. instead, they simply bang it in the trash and refill it with fresh grounds and then brew. So why would we insist on rinsing with water every time we want to make a successive cup of coffee. Instead, here is what I do: Take the filter basket over to your trash can and hold it upside down with two fingers. Now flick the plastic between the screens (all 4 of them) a time or two. Then give one final flick on the bottom and it should be clean enough to simply fill it back up again and brew another cup. For the first brew of the day, I usually do a full cleaning of My K-Cup. An additional hint is that I bought a nice stainless steel canister to hold my bulk bought coffee and I use a stainless steel teaspoon measuring spoon as my scooper. Using a teaspoon scooper allows me to get coffee into the filter basket without getting it all over the sides of My K-cup and the counter.
Everyday Use November 5, 2006
Ben Trimble
8 out of 8 found this review helpful
I now use the reusable filters at all times.
I have found I like Tullys Coffe the best and I
can get it locally. I drink 5 to 10 cups of coffee a
day, and I its not too expensive using ground
coffee.
Works Great, No Modifications Required! August 3, 2010
C. Prutzman (Jefferson City, MO)
6 out of 6 found this review helpful
I've had my Keurig for 2 years, and my re-usable K-cup for 1 year. It works perfectly just as it is, as long as you don't overfill it and follow the directions.
Oh, wait...mine didn't HAVE directions.
When I first got it, I won't lie...I screwed it all up. The blasted thing didn't have directions, so I thought the cute little basket went right into the K-cup part of the Keurig. I had not a clue that the black K-cup holder part with the needle that pokes the bottom of the K-cup had to come OUT of my Keurig to put the gray part in.
I made a huge mess.
So, here are the directions for everyone else, so you don't have to be a dummy like me:
1. That place in your Keurig where K-cups normally go? Yeah, it actually comes out of the machine. Really, it does. There are three little tabs you have to push on the rim of it to pull it out. Get that thing out of there. It's not difficult, so if you're being rough with it, stop. It comes out pretty easily. Be careful you don't gouge yourself with the stabby-thingies in the machine.
2. Open up your reusable gray K-cup filter, wash it, and put about a tablespoon of coffee in there. If you like it strong like me, I suggest a finer grind. If you use Folgers, put it on a smaller cup setting or you won't get it very strong. This little bugger is made for just one cup at a time (whereas I can usually get one big cup or two little cups out of a disposable K-cup).
3. PUT THE LID BACK ON (!!!) the gray K-cup filter and put it into the spot where the regular black one usually lives (amazing, it fits!). Close it up and let 'er rip.
4. If you got coffee everywhere, you did something wrong. I know, I know...I didn't want to believe it either. Maybe you didn't put the lid on, or put the cute little basket into the machine without the gray part. Whatever. Either way, it's not the product's fault that you're dumb like me. :o) Start over, figure out what you messed up, and enjoy your coffee when you finally have that forehead-slap moment.
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