The Keurig K Mini Plus comes with everything you need to get started making delicious coffee. It’s the best choice of the two if you’re a fussy or first-time home brewer. It certainly is an upgrade from the Keurig Mini, offering extra features such as the strong brew option. This cleans the brewer from any liquid left from the previous pod and ensures the machine always brews great-tasting coffee, delicious drinks. With 10 different brew sizes up to 30 oz, a sizable 70 oz reservoir, and an intuitive color touch display, K400 series brewers made K-Cup coffee easy. Now discontinued, we recommend the Keurig K-Duo Plus instead.
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The Keurig K-Mini is very fast, with a full, steaming 6 oz. You have no option to control the temperature of the coffee, which is a bit of a let-down but completely understandable in such a small, discreet and simple machine. Speaking of cups, the K Mini has enough space to accommodate almost every cup size – including 7-inch tall mugs. Although, you need to remove the tray to add space for your travel mug.
The Cuisinart Coffee coffee maker packs quite a lot of detail into such a small, seemingly simple design. There was a time, a moment, in your adult life that found you standing in the small appliance aisle. Your attention was focused on the two boxes that appeared to contain the same product but had a gap in price that would imply that one is different than the other.
That’s not terrible, but it is below what experts consider the perfect brewing temperature. This temperature also gets lower if you try to brew one cup immediately after another. You can expect to have a full mug within just five minutes. This is a quick-setup, fast-acting machine that shaves valuable time off your morning routine. That being said, we do wish it had a timer option so you could set your machine the night before, but we’ll settle for the fast performance.
Enjoy a great tasting cup of coffee with our reusable k cups designed for Keurig Mini Plus devices. You’ll find more on this Keurig sale just below, but we’re rounding up plenty more Black Friday coffee maker deals further down the page as well. The two machines may look similar, but the K-Mini Plus is the more robust of the two.