The drip tray is removable, so you can take it out to make room for your favorite travel mug up to 7 inches tall. While it didn’t score the highest spot on our Keurig machine buying guide, it still holds its own as a premier single serve coffee appliance. It takes just over two minutes for the K-Mini to warm up and brew a single cup of coffee.
Most notably, a Strength Control setting and the 12 oz reservoir is removable. After pressing the brew button, there is a 1-2 minute noisy water heating time period. The two machines may look similar, but the K-Mini Plus is the more robust of the two.
Its 5-inch design makes it perfect for studio apartments, tiny dorm rooms, and small officers. Its convenient size comes as no surprise to us, as the entire Keurig brand aims to make coffee easy and accessible to anyone. It has a single light around its large brew button to show when your machine is heating up, and, of course, it has a latch to raise the compartment that the pod slots into. You can add however much ground coffee you like to your reusable K-Cup , providing another way to play with coffee strength. Most coffee lovers find that K-Cups are under-dosed, particularly for brewing larger coffees.
Whether it is BPA-free or not, this plastic comes into direct contact with scorching hot water. As you may know by now, I am personally very concerned about using products in which boiling water touches plastic. As I was preparing the Cuisinart Coffee review, I tried to research what the product is made of. This feature is programmed to turn of the coffee maker automatically after it has been idle for 90 seconds. This helps me save energy and, in consequence, it helps me save money too.
Conveniently, it has transparent sides so that you can see how much water you’ve added. This can be a little hard to see from the front, however. The Keurig Mini is a sleek, compact machine that will fit on even the most crowded kitchen counters. It’s Hamilton Beach available in four colors, including pink and green, and operates using a single silver button on the top. With the product reviews, I post links where you can shop for those products. If you buy through those links, I will receive compensation.
As you can see from our 5/5 star rating for “ease of use,” the K Mini Plus is extremely easy to use – even if you’ve never used a standard coffee machine before. While the instructions can probably make things pretty clear, we’ll do a quick outline of the simple steps here. The temperature of the brew consistently sat between 160 and 170 F degrees.
The idea of a single-serve may be appealing to someone who lives alone, but you can’t make big batches of coffee at once to accommodate more people. In fact, you have to refill the reservoir for every cup, so you can’t even continually hit the brew button. The machine has a strong brew button for a stronger flavor.