DisposaCup Lids - 100 Disposable Replacement Lids for Use with Any Keurig K-cup pack - BOX of 100 LIDS - FREE PRIME SHIPPING!

You bought a shiny new Keurig! You are so excited. You get sucked into the "slippidy-dippidy" quick change convenience of the single brew wonder with the sample packs that came with your machine. How smart of Keurig. Because if a consumer had to face the cost of K-Cups at the time of purchase, they may decide the cost per cup is too much.I held back on a Keurig for a long time for two reasons: The price per serving is too high. The brew did not compare to my traditional pot. I always found the Keurig to be weak (over extracting only a percentage of the grinds within a K-Cup). Then I had the Newman's Own Extra Bold! I was so impressed with the Newman's Own brew from the Keurig. I was shown that the Keurig is capable of making quality coffee with the right beans.Now I needed to find a way to resolve the 50¢ per cup hurdle. While it may sound like ONLY 50¢ it adds up very quickly if you are out to replace your traditional full time coffee pot with a Keurig. For my home, this meant potentially spending $90 or more per month on K-Cups (6 K-Cups per day * 30 days).Sure I could keep the old pot around for the morning feeding of caffeine, but I am an anti-clutter champion and strive to keep my kitchen counter real estate lean and mean. So for me it is one or the other: the old pot or the Keurig - not both.So what are the options to reduce your coffee budget under the Keurig regime? Well you could not drink as much coffee (no thanks). Use the my K-Cup. Reuse the K-Cups with these lids.The My K-Cup Method:In order for the My K-Cup to extract properly, it has to be modified. For the life of me - I just don't understand why it isn't designed with this simple modification built in. The problem is the water shoots through the middle of the filter basket, jets a hole through the center, and limits the surface area of extraction. This creates a very weak serving. Thanks to Amazon reviews I learned a simple method to resolving this: Cut the top lip of an existing K-Cup, remove the internal filter, and place the plastic cup down into the My K-Cup. This slows the water velocity giving time for better extraction. Oh and make sure your grinder is set to fine (I wish I had a dust setting - man I bet an espresso grind would work great - I just thought this and will have to try that).In reality the My K-Cup method with modification works just as well as these lids BUT without the "slippidy-dippidy" quick feel to it since you have to manually prep every serving at the time of brewing. Then when you are done with that brew, you will need to dump the basket, reload, and brew again. Then there is clean up. Sure you may get away with a weekly deep cleaning if you choose, but I would not go any longer than that.The Lid Method:Roll your sleeves up. If you have been sucked deep into the black hole of "Set-it-and-forget-it" you are in need of an intervention. Well maybe just a paradigm shift. There is work involved here, but the savings may be worth it to you.If you get the concept of the My K-Cup, then understand the usage of the lids is that but with the ability to stage a stock pile of ready to brew K-Cups. You work in a mixed up version of the My K-Cup (sort of). The basics: Brew shiny new K-Cup, remove spent cup from machine, remove foil lid while the K-Cup is still warm (it makes it come off cleaner while the adhesive is warm), rinse this in hot water flow of your sink (I have perfected this move and no longer burn my fingers - tilt away from you and roll), set them out to dry for the day or for however long you will sit and go through a reload of your K-Cups. Think of this as priming in the sense of painting!Now all you do is refill the K-Cup with coffee. Let me suggest you use a high quality coffee. I personally would suggest Community Whole Bean - Dark Roast for the budget minded who know you don't have to pay for trendy names to get AA beans. I prefer dark and even double roast beans. There is nothing that says Mmmm MMmm good like black shiny beans. If you are into names, then SB Sumatra is exceptional as well. I personally think the Keurig needs (works best with) the darker roast / bolder coffee.I use a wooden, flat pestle to help pack the fresh, fine ground coffee into the K-Cup. I fill the K-Cup to the top only to leave enough room for the lid to fit in. Oh and when you reuse the k-cup, make sure you line up the bottom puncture with the needle. Do not allow the Keurig to puncture the K-Cup in multiple spots. That will ruin the K-Cup's ability to properly limit the flow of water - causing weak brewing (HEY like the unmodified My K-Cup). It takes some practice, but you will soon be able to line up the pin with the existing hole without too much fumble.Imagine, you can prep a stock pile of about 30 or more cups in a sitting while watching TV and still have a fast and easy solution. Let me run the numbers for you:COMMUNITY DARK ROAST WHOLE BEAN 12oz BAG$4.00 after tax (on sale at local grocer)Filling up my grinder's hopper I am able to grind for multiple pots of coffee. So I thought "hey, I wonder how many K-Cups I can make with what I used to grind for a single pot of coffee". For that I was able to produce 8 K-Cups! That is impressive! So what that means is:Single pot of coffee grind = 80oz (or 64oz) of coffee from the 8 K-Cups (more efficient / stretching the extraction / potentially weaker coffee from the 10oz size so you may want to choose only the 8 oz setting for more appropriate extraction).Total fill from 12 oz of whole bean coffee = 29 K-Cups!13.7¢ per K-CupTotal prep time to grind, fill, lid, store, and clean up for 29 K-Cups - About 30 min. However, this did not take into account I at one time was emptying and washing all of these K-Cups after each use (let's say 1 minute each on the front end).What is your time worth to you? I'd say if you can just work this in with watching TV and clean your K-Cups after each use (instead of letting them build up) you won't really consider it to be too bad. It is all about coming up with your own system.Plug in your own numbers with your own coffee prices. Remember I was able to get:29 K-Cups from 12oz.That's38 K-Kups from 16oz (a pound of coffee)Oh, don't forget YOU CAN REUSE THESE LIDS over and over and over........

They work. They should be cheaper. $0.15/ea is too much (that did include Prime shipping), but so far haven't seen any alternatives. The tops are sturdy - almost too sturdy. It takes more pressure to puncture the top. Not sure if this will harm the top puncture needle. A better design would have been to make the center of the lid that gets punctured out of foil, or thinner material that would puncture easier.Can be hard to put on reused Kcups, but that isn't really a bad thing. Some go on very easily, others require a little more pressure. Occasionally,the top will come off and stick to the top part of the machine. I think it happens because when it punctures the top it requires such extra pressure, it may slightly bend the top enough to have it slip off the Kcup. This is not a big deal, but is a little messy.Great idea.... hoping someone else decides to make a better and cheaper mousetrap. Even at 15 cents each, they do save us money and I don't feel as guilty having that 3rd cup of coffee. We put the letter "D" on the lids that have decafe and the initial of the regular coffee so we know what we are drinking ("K" for Kirkland, "V" for Verona, etc.)

I read another persons review about re-using the K-cups and bought these lids and am re-using other K-cups. I have used many of them 4-5 times! Great Value! It is easiest to fill if you already have the plastic holder for the K-cup when you are refilling. I received the holder when I first purchased "Disposable Cups for Use in Keurig® Brewers - Simple Cups - 50 Cups, Lids, Filters with <Easy Close Stand> - Use Your Own Coffee in K-cups by Simple Cups $14.95". these were ok but I prefer re-using the empty K-cups.I drink the Folger's 1/2 Caff and prefer it over any other pre-made coffees, so I can still get a large container of the 1/2 Caff at a reasonable price and refill the other K-cups. I find the Tea K-cups to be some of the best to re-use. I am not drinking drinks with caffeine due to a heart problem and yet can tolerate at least 1 cup of this in the morning and then decaf after that! My husband prefers it too and he doesn't have to drink it! I also love to use the Decaf coffee from the Cracker Barrel to refill teh K-cups, really good!

I love these lids. I don't have any of the issues that have been written. Just make sure there are no grounds between the cup and the lid. I reuse the lids numerous times and the K-cups numerous times. I just wash off the lids. The lids do not have a hole in the top, so when you use them the first time the needle that punctures the top of the K-cup makes a little round tab. I don't worry about the little hole affecting the freshness as we go thru the K-cups so fast. If I make up some in advance they are used within a few days. If you worry about the freshness put a little square of scotch tape over the hole until you are ready to use it. I love these and they have made a HUGE impact on our K-cup budget. For skeptics - it really only takes a few seconds longer to fill and snap on a lid as it does to pull out a commercial K-cup and pop it into the brewer. I wash out the last one I used while I am brewing the next cup. I'm done by the time the coffee is done!CAUTION: When you reuse the K-cups there will be a little hole on the bottom. Line this up with the needle in the machine so that another hole is not made. This will prevent leaks, weak coffee, and will extend the life of the K-cup.I will continue to buy these. However, since I reuse them so much I don't know when I will need to.Thanks for making these.