OP. I went to amazon and looked at reviews on your coffeemaker. 67 percent liked it. Seems low to me. Here is a review I saw and am sharing it.
Keurig K250
I bought this because I was under the assumption it was able to brew 9 different size cups. That's not quite true. Currently, at the time of this review, there are only options to brew coffee for 4, 6, 8, 10. Typically, at least with my old Vue brewer, I made a 12oz cup every morning. However the instructions say that FUTURE kcups will allow the machine to brew 12 and 14 oz as well. It seems this is borderline false advertising.
My second biggest issue, I knew this when I bought it, is that the engineers/managers have decided to insert an optical sensor which reads the top circumference of the K-cup and identifies it as such. This locks you into the keurig k-cup product, in lieu of a trader joe's k-cup for example. A business practice that really just makes me laugh and gives me a little project to work on. Here is how you bypass that optical sensor. It took me about 15 mins.
1. Purchase a Keurig K-cup.
2. Peel off the top foil
3. Cut out an approximate 45-90 degree portion (see picture)
4. Tape this portion to the underside of the optical sensor. Be careful to get the correct orientation. It may take several attempts. I installed the foil using tweezers with scotch tape. I'm sure with the condensation buildup it will eventually fall off, but revision two I'll make it more secure
Another review.
What I discovered after I bought it.
1. Louder by far then my old Keurig.
2. Can't turn it off between brews, unless you unplug it.
3. Had to buy new "fill your own pod" cups so that they fit.
4. Makes a very good cup of coffee.
5. Should have read more reviews, I may have not bought it.
another review
I love the concept. It's a pretty machine. But I'm not a heavy user and the needle clogs all the time. I've had it about six weeks and after about 15 cups have needed to clean it 3 times. You can't take the needle part out like other Keurig's, so you're left trying to get water to force out all the pent up grounds. I now run two or three cups of hot water after every brew to keep it from clogging. Worse is that my spouse likes tea, but not coffee, and if we aren't on top of it his tea ends up with a funky coffee taste from the clogged ground
This Keurig model seemed nice at first, but quickly showed too many problems to be deemed worth the money. The first problem is that in order to fill the reservoirs, you must remove the reservoir from the rear of the unit, which can be difficult in situations where this unit is stored under a cabinet shelf. The second major problem that I have with it is that every time I make a cup of coffee, coffee always splatters onto the area around the Keurig. This may be because the dispenser literally spits out the coffee from the unit rather than pouring out a steady stream of coffee. Finally, I believe that I remember in a previous model, I could hit a button to start brewing even if the unit was warming up, which would queue the command for execution later on. Now, if the unit is warming up (which can take about two minutes), you have to sit there and wait for it to warm up instead of giving it a set of commands that it could queue and process once the warm up was complete. In conclusion, I would not recomend this specific version; get an earlier version. While this version will perform its function, it simply does not do it well
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