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Iced Cuban Coffee Make sure to allow time to prepare this iced Cuban coffee. It “brews” overnight. It’s made extra delicious by sweetening with sweetened condensed milk. Ingredients: 1 cup ground coffee 5 cups water NESTLÉ LA LECHERA Sweetened Condensed Milk (squeezable bottle) Ice cubes Lowfat milk (optional) Preparation: Place coffee in large container; add water and stir to combine. Cover and allow to “brew” overnight. Using a fine mesh strainer, strain mixture into a large pitcher. Discard coffee grinds. Cover and refrigerate until chilled. To serve, squeeze 1 to 2 tablespoons sweetened condensed milk in each glass. Fill with ice; top off with coffee. Stir. Stir in milk.   Ice Brew and how it is made.

  You clean the out side of your k-cup machine. So how are you cleaning the inside...or are you?   This is just one way to help keep the inside of your coffee maker as clean as the outside.   You’ll need cleaning wipes, a paper clip, and distilled white vinegar. Use the wipes to clean the front of the machine, especially the handle. The paper clip can get those hard to reach spots inside the pod holder. Then fill the water reservoir with the vinegar. Run the machine, to flush the vinegar out. The acidity in the vinegar will kill the bacteria without harming you. Once the vinegar is out of the reservoir, let the machine sit for four hours. After four hours, fill the reservoir with water and run it about four times to flush out the rest of the vinegar.

Keurig cries uncle.  With consumers raising hell over the Keurig 2.0 scheme and sales of the new Keurig 2.0 started sinking faster than the Titanic did. Keurig gives in and says it will cave to consumers and discontinue it's practice of it's coffee makes only excepting Keurig approved K-cups.  Now what? Well Keurig has a lot of consumer anger to mollify. The Keurig scheme was nothing short of a consumer rip off  by a heartless greedy corporation. With a cost approaching $50.00 a pound in the approved K-cups. Calling it a rip off is being mild.  It is obvious that the powers that be at Keurig  see their costumers only as a    revenue source. Not as people wanting a good product at a reasonable cost. Bottom line..... drop dead Keurig. You are a day late and a dollar short.  

  The K cup controversy just keeps going and going. The halls echo with the cry's.....they are filling our land fills....they would circle the earth dozens of times.....there killing the planet!   Get a grip people. K cups, even in their billions are not filling land fills. No more than used coffee grounds are. Just look at what you thro away every day and by any measure those K cups are meaningless.   The media buzz over K cups and land fills is just one way the other makers are making trouble for Keurig and it's Keurig only K cups.  So if you are a K cup user take hart. Your not filling the land fills or killing the planet. You are just a pawn in the fight over who sells you your coffee and how.  

  One years of used K cups will more than circle the Earth is the big coffee buzz. Okay so what's the problem. This could be said of countless items we use everyday.  The world uses disposable packaging by the countless millions of pounds. With the vast majority disposed of in a proper way.  The most pressing problem with K cups is the cost, not the used K cup that goes into the trash. A cup of coffee from a K cup can be four times the cost of other methods of brewing your morning coffee.  Is a K cup easy to use and  faster? Yes. Faster and easy cost money it's a way of life.  So don't let those used K cups keep you up all night. If the environment is that big of a concern for you then buy an electric car and keep your Kreurig. .

  The waste production of the K-Cup, the non-recyclable, single-serve coffee pods that Keurig machines use, has long been noted. Keurig Green Mountain pledged to create a full recyclable version of its main product by 2020, but estimates say that the Keurig pods buried in 2014 would already circle the Earth 12 times.   Meanwhile, the Keurig’s popularity has made it ever more ubiquitous, bringing it to offices and homes across the country. The company sold a total of 9.8 billion Keurig-brewed portion packs last year, which include the new multiple-cup pods.